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Barwell Hill 21 of Troy 0 died around 11 a yesterday near the top of Clinch Mountain in Grainger County Young Hill had taken off from Morristown Municipal Airport to return to his home and apparently became lost in the fog and mist over the mountains Members of the search party barely discernible through the fog at right The fog which caused the fatal crash also hampered Staff Photographer A1 Roberts (Another picture on Page 14) Israel To Keep Troops In Gaza Despite UN Vote By WILLIAM OATIS UNITED NATIONS Feb 3 UP) Cabinet decided today to keep troops in the Gaza Strip and on the Gulf of Aqaba for the present despite a General Assembly resolution calling a sixth time for their withdrawal An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman in Jerusalem said the Cabinet took its firm stand because guarantees have been obtained yet for definite stoppage of belligerency and sea Slockade of Israel also stuck to its own plan for peace in both occupied areas in the face of a second resolution More ET Back Legislators Teacher Pay Raise Plan By JOHN ALLEM A fire of undetermined origin took the life of a 10-month-old boy yesterday while heroic efforts of his father and a neighbor failed to save him as the blaze destroyed the Maryland Avenue dwelling within minutes after it started Robert Edward Hutton was burned to death while his father Roscoe and a neighbor tried valiantly to reach him through a wall of flames The boy was asleep in the i front room of the three-room house at 1323 Maryland Ave- 5 nue when the 'fire started around 12:30 The mother and four other children also ca al though a daugh-" ter suffered HUTTON first degree burns in the blaze Roscoe Hutton 37 father of the five children home at the time had to jump from a his hair on after trying in vain to reach his baby son A daughter Linda Sue two and one-half suffered severe burns after she ran back into the flames from the yard She and her father were both admitted to University Hospital with first degree burns Surviving the blaze which destroyed the home in minutes were: the father and mother four children Betty Ruth 6 Artie 5 Walter Roscoe Jrt 4 and Linda Sue 2 bit of everything we had is said Juanita Hutton the mother in a state of shock at the hospital after the tragedy The home belonged to the couple as well as two more small homes on the same lot CAUSE UNKNOWN Cause of the fire is unknown Fire Capt Ted Ramsey said The home was heated by a $coal stove in the front room where the baby crib was and an electric stove was in the kitchen the mother said always been afraid of that coal she noted chimney pipe runs up to the chimney close to the ceiling and I think the paper must have gotten hot and caught Mrs Hutton said she had put some coal on the fire then gone outside onto the front porch with a couple of the children Artie had gone to a home to play for a minute but the rest were there The father was Continued on Page 2 Col 6 Chicago Analyst To Give Views On Foreign Aid A commentary on this national foreign aid program will be given by Dean Clarence Man-ion a Chicago columnstV tonight on WKGN The radio commentator will compare demands of the government on the taxpayer with regard to the preparing of forms and records then pose a question as to whether spending of the government is as meticulously controlled A discussion of the ways US money has been spent in Iran since 1951 will be brought to light by the lecturer at 6:45 pm Reports of congressional subcommittees dealing with the foreign spending of the government will be quoted and warnings as to the future of program will be issued Obituaries Charles Ovaley Edward Lnttrell Robert Edward Hatton Mrs Rnssio Carlisle Ott Carroll Roberta Mrs Mae Bradshaw Mrs Train Fackler a (Frank) Haneack Mrs Lille Wilson Uriah Brendle Chris Allen Williams Jack Depew (Bill) Gilbert Geerfs Hadrins Albert Aaynstes (Gns) Fortenberry LYNCH Robert Taylor Johnson TEN Walter LeKey (Bey) Mitchell OAK Thomas Hayward Lenf Mrs Laara Capa MARYVILLE Laars French Mlae Mary Baeen Mrs Martha Melts barter Mrs Maade Treat Ebb Worley (COLORED) Harold Warren OBITUARIES ON PAGE 11 By JOE COLLINS Journal Reporter RUTLEDGE Feb 21-year-old man was here today when his plane crashed on shrouded Clinch Mountain A searching party which at times numbered more than 100 people found the body of Ken- neth Barwell Hill of 1102 South Crawford Street Troy shortly before 2 He crashed his two place Piper Cub about 200 feet from the top of the 2500-foot untain around 11 a Young Hill a drive-in operator in the Ohio town left Morristown Municipal Airport early this morning to return to his home He apparently became lost in the fog and mist and crashed a few miles away in Grainger County APPEARED LOST Tom McCullough one of the searchers who combed the slopes of the mountain found the badly wrecked aircraft The body was brought down the steep hill to the Smith Funeral Home in Rutledge The crash scene was about a mile and one-half from US Highway 11W Staley of Avondale Community said he heard the plane flying over his house and that it circled for more than an hour Another Avondale man Johnny Hixon apparently was the last person to see the ill-fated aircraft before it crashed He said the plane came down out of the fog and just barely cleared a tree- near his house The pilot then gunned his plane and it climbed back into the fog and seconds later crashed near the summit of the mountain TOLD OF WEATHER Mrs Evellyn Bryan operator of Morristown Flying Service said young Hill first flew into the airport about a week ago He said he stored his plane and then continued on by bus to visit a friend in LaFollette Mrs Bryan said she learned Continued on Page 2 Col 3 First Snowfall Breaks Up Fete 70-Day Drouth TOKYO Feb 3 Traditional bean-throwing ceremonies to mark the coming of spring under the lunar calendar were disrupted today as Tokyo experienced its first big snowfall of the year More than a million persons were expected to turn out at shrines and temples to attend the ceremonies But because of the bitter cold most of the people stayed indoors and the 5000 Tokyo police mobilized to handle this crowd stood idle The snow later turned to rain and broke an unprecedented dry spell which ha dlasted 70 days Droodles By ROGER PRICE "TUNNEL DUG BY MOLE WITH THE This Droodle suggested by Mary Wiley of Santa Ana Calif reminds me that just last year my colleague Dr Schwine at-tempted to bacd a Giant Mole He figured he could sell it to some small time contractor who was looking for a cheap way to build tunnels After thousands of breeding re-breeding and re-rebreeding experiments Dr Schwine finally got results a Mole the size of a Hippopotamus But like all Moles it see good and last week while digging a practice tunnel in Dr back yard accidentally made a wrong turn and wound up on the tracks of the Seventh Avenue Subway What happened after that is too gruesome for me to tell so if interested in all the gory details contact Dr Schwine For the next 30 days you can reach him at the 67th Street Police Station New York City -v- yCy-v 4 vvs $300 and $100 will be introduced this week Comments of the four yesterday: REP DELMAS TRENT: have always been for the pay in- Continned on Page 2 Col 5 25 Years Of Nudes Reviewed LONDON Feb 3 A theater devoted to the bare beauty of nude young ladies is all dressed up for its 25th birthday tomorrow For a quarter-century the Windmill Theater has done for London what the Folies Bergere has done for Paris but at cheaper prices and certainly with less subtlety is a strange said owner Vivian Van Damm a London businessman run this place like a have Van understudy is his daughter Sheila who gave up a successful career as an automobile racing driver two years ago to help at the theater The general manager is a woman Annie Mi-telle A woman directs the dance productions Another is in charge of the wardrobe where the clothes the girls take off are kept and two more women manage the downstairs bar and lounge One popular innovation is the theater girls are Continued on Page 2 Col 3 Such merry by-play contrasts sharply with a nauseating tale of two virtual children tounng honky-tonks and $2-a-night flop houses on a week-long binge with Skid-Row drunks Yet both accounts were told to investigators striving to get to the bottom of a myrtery arising Gang of youthful toughs sought in Grimes death case as new clues come to light but no solution in sight Page 3 when the nude bodies of Barbara Grimes 15 and her 13-year-old sister Patricia were found beside a country road Jan 22 A 14-page related by a 21-year-old from Paris Tenn Edward (Bennie) Bedwell raised hopes that the case was solved But it was such a sordid account that the mother called him a liar And Bennie himself eventp-j ally repudiated the story as hei V-' 'll 'f endorsing Secretary General Dag rival plan Hammarskjold sent Egypt and Israel copies of both resolutions adopted late last night He invited members of the Israeli delegation to meet with him tomorrow But he was understood to be marking time on concrete steps to cany out his plan until Israel withdraws An informed Arab source said he believes Egypt eventually will accept suggestion that observers be stationed on the Gulf of Aqaba to prevent clashes This would forestall at least temporarily the renewal of blockade of Israeli shipping there Israel demands that its shipping not be intercepted before pulling its troops from the western shore of the gulf Israeli troops were still in the Gaza Strip and in the Sharm elj Sheikh area on the Gulf of Aqaba where Egyptian coastal guns long prevented shipping from passing between the Red Sea and port of Eilat It was problematical whether they would pull out Before voting against the first resolution and abstaining on the second last nigfyt Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban said Israel still stood by its Jan 23 proposals that it be allowed to go on running the Gaza Strip and that forces guard freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba But Israeli circles hailed passage of the two resolutions together as a clear victory for a principle of plus related One diplomat involved in- spon-soring both said this gave for some that Israel would withdraw The 80-nation Assembly acted Continued on Page 2 CoL 3 had a previous befogging the case further During 26 days from Dec 28 when they left home until their bodies were found the sisters were listed as runaways Their mother Mrs Loretta Grimes 48-year-old divorcee with five children insisted all along that they were kidnaped Detectives launched a door-to-door quiz trying to figure out whether the girls were forced into an automobile for a death ride or were enticed into it for a joy ride Thirteen-year-old Dora Fisher describing herself as one of Patricia's best friends told them that as he Grimes girl was called never would get into a car with strangers voluntarily In fact Dora related that she was with both Petey and Barbara on Dec 27 when four high Continued on Page 2 CoL 3 Death Ups Flood Toll ToEighteen (Weather Details Page 11) Drowning of a 25-year-old newlywed in Perry County Ky yesterday brought the Appalachian flood toll to 18 Jack Reynolds Millstone Ky (Letcher County) lost his life when an automobile he was driving plunged into swollen Fork Creek at Happy A companion Allan Evans 20 also of Letcher County saved himself by leaping from the car just before it left the highway and disappeared beneath the swiftly flowing waters with Reynolds body was recovered MIDDLE EAST Meat-ly cldy and mild with intermittent rain drizzle throach Monday niiht Hirh LOWER EAST Clondy and mild Intermittent raia drizzle Hirh 4 TRI-CITIES Intermittent rain drizzle threagh Monday night Can-tinned clondy and mild High SO CROSS Mostly clandy and mild with intermittent rain drixzle continuing through tonight after about three hours rescue operations The flood victim was enroute to Hazard where federal state and county officials gathered yesterday to map out relief for stricken southeast Kentucky southwest Virginia and West Virginia flood sufferers Reynolds recently married after completing four years army service He reenlisted and was stationed at Fort Knox He was on leave visiting his bride As weather conditions continued uncertain Tennessee Valley Authority yesterday began trimming tributary reservoirs to be in readiness against new emergencies Sluicing of the backed up waters began yesterday about noon at Norris Douglas and Cherokee the purpose being to get the -waters back to a level behind the dams One sluice was opened at noon at Norris followed by a second at 6 pm A third gate will be opened at 6 this morning At Douglas two gates were half-opened at noon followed by two others at nightfall One gate was opened at noon at Cherokee Another is to be opened today The outflow was being precisely governed so that water at Chattanooga 16 feet above its 30-foot flood level was still falling according to last reports TVA operations were to move on Continued on Page 2 Col 2 Hungarian Reds Announce New Student Arrests BUDAPEST Feb 3 Communist Hungary announced new arrests of students today on the eve of the reopening of Budapest University where the October revolt against Russia began It looked as if the regime was afraid trouble might start again No figure was given on the number in prison The latest group of several students is accused of taking' part in counterrevolutionary organizations and crimes against the Police said a search in university dormatories brought to light tommy guns pistols and ammunition as well as anti-Communist leaflets material records and looted iectures are due to start tomorrow MARMADUKE By BRAD ANDERSON Hey drop Four more East Tennessee legislators said yesterday they favored giving the teachers pay increases of $300 this year and $100 next year as they requested and as recommended in the Tennessee Education Association two-point program The four joining 19 who Saturday said they favored the increase were: Rep John Purdy of Oak Ridge Sen Ernest Guffey of Athens Rep Harry Lee Senter of Bristol and Rep Del-mas Trent of Morristown The four yesterday brought to 23 of 29 ET legislators who favor the TEA increase and not the $100 and $50 hike proposed by Gov Frank Clement BOWLES SILENT Sen Bowles of Knoxville is the only ET legislator who declined to comment on the legislation The other five ET legislators could not be reached Reps Paul Puckett of Elizabethton and Edgar Wolfe of Treadway do not have telephones Reps Omar Robinson of Rogersville Ted Morris of Johnson City and George Terry of Oneida were unavailable It also came to light yesterday that some 40 legislators had signed an amendment to proposal and that the amendment calling for the Chuckle The lady gave Tommy an orange What do you say to the lady Tommy?" asked his mother 4Peel it" said Tommy i BABY BROTHER IS Surviving children of the Maryland Avenue fire yesterday are shown with relatives and neighbors following the blaze which claimed the life of their ten-month-old brother At left Walter Roscoe Hutton Jr four is being held by a neighbor Ramsey Jeffers who tried to get into the burning home to rescue Robert Edward Hutton who died Older sisters in front are Betty Ruth six and Artie five Behind is their uncle Roy Lamb and at right is Mrs Artie Hutton their grandmother (Another picture on Page 11) Long Out Of District Squire Hickam Quits By BART PITTMAN Squire Roy Hickam has announced he is resigning after it was brought to light that since last June he has represented the Third District in County Court while living in the Seventh District was advised that it was said Hickam who also serves as county coroner Solicitor Earl Ailor knew it and so did County Judge Howard Bozeman but I was advised to go on until somebody brought the question Ailor questioned by The Knoxville Journal Saturday night said he thought under the circumstances that office should be vacated under the law The solicitor said it was his opinion that Judge Bozeman should declare the seat vacant It is the county responsibility to declare a court seat vacant under such circumstances regardless of whether the member has submitted an official resignation the solicitor added job is to determine the Ailor said not my place to raise the County Court has been in session at least three times since June but no mention of the change in residence has been made by Bozeman Hickam said the solicitor told him Saturday night got no alternative but to Hickam confronted earlier Saturday night with the report that he had moved hedged from answer to The Journal and not say whether he would have been thinking obtu the coroner 6aid only reason I have stayed was try to get something done John Tarleton But later In the night Hickam said yesterday thought it over and decided announce his resignation story in the paper emphasized disgust of fellow squires lack action on John Tarleton but played down the that it has been months since squire moved from his district Hickam said he took the up with Ailor shortly he moved from 206 Haynes in the Third District to Continued on Page 2 Col Davis Clarifies Statement On Teacher Pay Former Rep Thomas Jefferson Davis legislative council said he was on one point the story in Knoxville Journal concerning Gov interference in action on the teacher raise recommendations an would resign to about Squire he to afternoon of Institute fact the matter after Place 4216 1 member or of Frank pay Davis was quoted as saying: But in my honest opinion not one penny of the one-cent increase has gone into salaries The increase in the number of items to be taxed has produced enough revenue out of two cents of the tax to provide sufficient revenue for what the teachers got two years Davis said yesterday this is what he said: my judgment the increase in salaries as provided by the 1952 legislature has not taken one cent from the money taken from the one-cent sales tax My belief is the extra money provided by adding new items to the two-cent sales tax has provided enough revenue to pay all the increase the teachers have Grimes Sister Mystery Revolves Around Tivo Conflicting Stories With gruesome depravity con-flicting with ice cream and music-loving adolescence in accounts of the slain Grimes last days parents everywhere are wondering if teenager is capable of being a Jekyll-Hyde split personality Following is the picture pieced together by investigators trying to find the baffling steps leading to the double slaying By JOHN BARROW CHICAGO Feb 3 Two giggling bobbysoxers seen walking home after an Elvis Presley movie were making the cold dreary hike seem shorter by playing games One would race ahead of the other in the darkness step into a doorway of a building and leap out with a when the other came abreast Their laughter rang weirdly against the cold brick of the darkened buildings lining the lonely Chicago street INSIDE TIPS Tivo Reach Hall Of Fame HALL OF FAME Former skipper of the New York Yankees and an oldtime power hitter have been named to the baseball hall of fame Page 8 BARBERS If you think barbers only talk and listen to their customers you are mistaken Read Home Folks Page 10 Jumble 2 Sports 78 Editorials 4 Farm Page TV Radio Obituaries 11 Theaters Classified 1112 Society 6 Comics 13.

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