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Allen Mater seven son of Mr and Mrs Don Mater 113 Gleason Place demonstrates the form which he expects to win a first place in the to be held Thursday night at Club playground His dog though lacking in enthusiasm is a contender in the Shaggy Dog class Allen looks as if he might be in the running for also (Story on Page 2) Community Chest Kickoff Luncheon To Draw 300- More than 300 persons will attend the 1951 Community Chest drive that officially opens with a kickoff luncheon at 12:15 pm at the YMCA Five divisions of the annual drive will get into the field following the meeting The professional division combined with the Diversified Division kick off last Friday and is already in the field Newell president of Community Chest will be master of ceremonies at the meeting Others seated at the speakers table will include Mayor Jarmes Elmore John chairman of the Labor-Management Council Sidewalk Building Program Inaugurated By Council City Council last night took the initial step toward a $250000 sidewalk building program In areas near some 30 city schools Mayor James Elmore promising a delegation from Perkins School P-TA that are going to get those sidewalks for recommended and Council concurred that a council committee determine policy regarding division of costs between property owner and the city and report at the next session 1 we will be in a position to take The five members of the General Campaign Committee will also be seated at the speakers Chairman Hoey (D-NC) said the inquiry group will call William Boyle Jr head of the Democratic National Committee to testify Thursday as to what part he played if any in influencing 5 $565000 in government loans The company a St Louis printing firm received the loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp after hiring Boyle as an attorney Boyle has denied bringing any pressure to bear on RFC Senator Hoey said the inquiry will continue even if Boyle resigns his party job: He said the same thing goes in the case of Guy Gabfielson chairman of the Republican national committee whose dealings with the RFC are also under scrutiny Some Senators have demanded that Boyle resign but Boyle told newsmen late today he will remain as party chieftain until after the Democratic National Convention in 1952 Boyle said he will testify Thurs-Continued on Page 4 CoL Allied Red Liaison Teams Confer To Resume Parleys TOKYO Wednesday Sept 26 Allied and Red liaison officers met at Kaesong today for an hour and 20: minutes for discussions looking toward resumption of the Red-suspended Korean cease-fire negotiations The Allied team returned to Munsan United Nations base camp in Western Korea southeast of Kaesong at 11:40 am (9:40 pm EST Levy On Facilities Blasted Officials Say Total 17 Per Cent Of Costs PARIS Sept 25 French authorities said today the United States is paying full French taxes on airstrips roads barracks and other installations being built by Americans in French territory for mutual defense under the North Atlantic treaty The tax was estimated at 17 per cent of the cost of the construction There is no official total of this cost available The closest approach to an estimate of the overall expense is a statement by one US Army engineer who said $500-000000 reasonable if you include Taxes on all forms of production and building are one of the chief sources of revenue for the French government When a contractor makes an estimate a French official explained he puts down sums for materials and labor and then adds on a percentage for just like a bill in a hotel or he said the tax taking the place of a service charge or sales REECE OPPOSED Rep Carroll Reece of Tennessee last week end raised the question of such tax payments from US funds but has received no reply from the defense Department A finance miitistry spokesman said taxes on a typical American-financed project would be: -Production tax about 14 per cent transaction tax one per cent local tax perhaps two per cent The local tax can be considerably higher Some American of- Continued on Page 4 CoL 2 Frazier Set For School Board Seat Candidates for two City School Board seats rose to two yesterday when incumbent Wallace Frazier was named in a qualifying petition filed with Knox County 1 i on Commission Frazier 205 Woodlawn Pike lives in the Twenty Fifth Ward and First District Only other candidate is Yard i the other board member whose term expires cannot seek re-election because of a clause in an amendment passed by the last General Assembly Frazier a furniture dealer is a native of Sevier County and attended school here He has held offices in the Tennessee Furniture Dealers Association is a member of Knoxville Chamber of Commerce a member of the advisory board of Knoxville General Hospital and member of the South Knoxville Civic Club Meanwhile backers of James Beck councilmanic candidate denounced rumors that their candidate was not running in until the last vote is spokesman told the Journal Tillie the Typist says: THE HUNT AND PICK SYSTEM may be all right on the typewriter but when job hunting consult The Knoxville Journal Want Ads Fruit Stand Raid Yields 74 Pints SpmIsI The Jurael OAK RIDGE Sept 25 Just two days to the hour after it had been raided Sunday the Elza Fruit Stand was raided again today and two cases of liquor were confiscated by Lively Oliver Springs constable A total of 74 half pints and one pint of whisky was trucked off formal he declared Council also voted to have drawn for conideration at its next session a resolution calling for referendum on a bond issue to finance a sewage disposal plant WHAT COUNCIL DID Took the first step toward a $250000 sidewalk construction program near city schools to provide safe routes for school children Voted to consider at its next meeting a resolution which would authorize a referendum on a bond issue for a sewage disposal plant to cost an estimated $5500000 Named the new riverfront highway paralleling Fort Loudoun Lake in honor of University of Tennessee Coach and Athletic Director Robert Neyland Reappointed George Tate to the City Planning Commission of which he is now Chairman Voted to enter into a contract with Tennessee Bureau of Aeronautics which is footing the bill for $10000 in hangar improvements at McGhee Tyson Airport Cost was estimated at $5500000 A survey made several years ago put the cost at $3700000 but Service Director Mynatt in making the new estimate pointed out that material costs have skyrocketed Councilman John made the proposal Councilman Cas Walker called for discussion and full presentation of facts before any action is taken is no he declared said recently that the situation is backers of this he Continued on Page 19 Col 4 Boston In Run Off BOSTON Sept 25 Indomitable James Michael Curley famed political battler for a half-century won a run-off spot in non-partisan primary tonight for another chance to become mayor of "New largest city for the fifth time With 200 out of 362 precincts reporting the golden-voiced of had 44635 votes while Mayor John Hynes led the four-man field with 58624 Former Police Commissioner Joseph Timilty running a poor third with 8419 votes conceded the primary Political Neophyte Thomas The vote assured the 76-year-old Curley one of the last of the old-time big city political bosses that he would oppose Hynes in run-off OhioFamily Badly Hurt In Accident By BILL ANDERSON An Ohio father half dazed and stunned after the automobile carrying his wife and three children plunged down an 180-foot embankment in the Smoky Mountains yesterday afternoon carried two of his small children back to the roadside and then collapsed All five occupants of the car were injured two of them seriously The accident occurred about ten miles from the Ranger Station near Gatlinburg on US 71 Three of the injured were pulled from the very rough and steep mountainside by park rangers who extended a rope rescue line In Baptist Hospital here were the father Sherman Burnette 28 his wife Mrs Vertife Burnette 25 and a daughter Sheran two The daughter was believed to be the most seriously injured She suffered a possible fractured skull and other undetermined injuries The father said she was still unconscious late last night Mrs Burnette received a possible broken back and cuts and bruises from the accident Burnette was to be dismissed from the hospital today He was admitted Continued on Page 10 Col 3 King George VI Believed Better LONbON Sept 25 King George VI was rallying tonight from critical lung operation and was able to some But his anxious staff of physicians watched the 55-year-old monarch closely for any sign of infection or other complications which might require additional surgery His daylong progress gave rise to cautious hope that the worst of the crisis has been weathered (Picture page 9) by the constable' accompanied by Garvin Walls justice of the peace of Oliver Springs raid brought in a bigger haul then junket Watts manager of the fruit stand who out to Sunday night was in the fruitless store amidst his hardy stock and two jars of pickled pigs feet Claude Jones whoa said yesterday he was of the Continued on Page 10 Col 4 Three Chest tours will leave the YMCA at 1:50 pm today Tour One will visit the Home the Club playground and Beverly Hills Sanitarium Tour Two will include the Salvation Army YMCA Cansler Branch Moses School Nursery and Dale Settlement house Tour three will be YWCA Phillis Wheatley Branch Youth Service Bureau and William Henson Home for Boys table They are Ben Martin Sr McMillan Joe Anderson Riggins and Howard Preston Those divisions who will participate in luncheon include Industrial Commercial Public Employes National Firms and Public Service with a combined goal of $224450 The city will be covered geographically Friday and Saturday by some 300 Boy Scouts who will distribute 25000 pamphlets and ring door bells in an effort to get donors to the Chest drive A Labor-Management Advisory Council newly organized to aid in the drive has recommended half of a pay from member groups as a donation to the drive The Chest is asking $296603 in its campaign for 18 welfare andt character-building agencies Blanc Critical Henry Blanc retired businessman and prominent Baptist was in critical condition at East Tennessee Baptist Hospital last night with respiratory and heart ailments attendants reported The neighbor testified: used to see 'Mr Neal washing his socks ana underwear at Miss house also saw Miss Payton sunbathing in her patio in her birthday suit I know she was nude above her waist I know exactly about the rest of her all I could see would be stripped down to his trunks exercising with his also said that he had a ringside seat for the now historic fight between Neal and Tone The neighbor declared: really a fight going on over there Neal did all the Continued Page 4 CoL 3 Nick McHan Qualified For Council Race A petition to qualify Nicholson (Nick) McHan whqlesale grocery official as a candidate for City Council from the Fourth District was filed yesterday by his friends with the Election Commission office The Fourth District has no reprei entative now on CounciL Me friends are urging him to make the race but they said he was undecided yes ter-day He has never sought office before Active in civic and church work McHan who lives at 3 715 North Broadway is past president of the North Knoxville Business Club and is a pnember of Arlington Baptist Church He was a member of the Tri States Road Committee that worked to get the highway from here to Tazewell and Middlesboro Ky improved McHan is married and has two married daughters Mrs Ted Beeler and Mrs Baskette Jr Continued on Page 4 CoL Tuesday) There was no immediate report on results of the meeting which lasted only slightly longer than stormy one The Reds who walked angrily out of meeting were prodded by the patient but persistent Allies into accepting a third session only a few hours before meeting opened Allied representatives made two roundtrips from Munsan United Nations advance base to Kaesong once last night to propose the meeting again this morning to get the affirmative reply Then the liaison team took off A dispatch from Munsan said the meeting opened at am (8:01 pm EST Tuesday) After all the last minute flurry the meeting thus got under way about the same hour as the other two But there was no indication of any bridging of the gap between the insistence on merely deciding on a date for negotiations to Continued on Page 4 Col 6 Jets Wage Biggest Fight Over Korea US EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS Wednesday Sept 26 (JP) Thirty-seven US sabre jets battled 100 Russian-built MIG-15 jets over northwest Korea Tuesday in biggest and longest all-jet sky fight The American pilots reported they shot down five MIGs and damaged five more without loss to themselves during the 35-minute action which swirled upward -to six miles However the Allies admitted that one US F-86 was damaged although the sabre jet made it back home Today Far East Air Force headquarters in Tokyo boosted the previous estimate of 80 Red jets to 100 Last April 12 one hundred US Jets and 65 MIGs tangled over Continued on Page 4 CoL 3 Chuckle Remember when it used to be compliment to be told that you were as sound as a dollar? The Pis Una Neal Hefted Barbell As Barbara Lolled In tide Neighbor Tells Police Of Hollywood Shenanigans Which Preceded Bloody Fight UT Opener To Feature Governors Band Show Tennessee-Mississippi Slate Game Due To Be Colorful Spectacle With Big Crowd tional Conference af Gatlinburg have been invited to attend the game as guests of UT and Governor Gordon Browning Seven have accepted the invitation and more are expected Among those present will be Governors Forrest Smith of Missouri Edward Am Kansas Gordon Persons Alabama Theodore McKeldin Maryland Bracken Lee Utah Norman Brunsdale North Dakota and Walter Kohler Wisconsin The Knoxville police with Capt JoeEdington in charge of traffic arrangements are making plans to handle the expected crowd Governors University of famous band and an enthusiastic crowd will make one of the great shows at Shields-Watkins Saturday Of course there is the argument on the field between the UT and Mississippi State football teams an added attraction to the colorful spectacle in the making A sellout crowd is not anticipated Mrs Edna Calloway of the UT Athletic Association reported yesterday although there has been a greatly increased rush for tickets in the past few days Seats will be available in the south (Horseshoe) stand until game time she Baker Treated For Virus Ailment Rep Howard Baker is in the Naval Hospital Bethesda Md recovering from a virus infection in the respiratory tract His office in Washington reported yesterday that he was showing some improvement and was expected to be discharged from the hospital within a few days Cloudy Mild Mostly cloudy and mild weather is in store for Knoxville today and tonight the Weather Bureau forecast yesterday A few scattered showers or thunderstorms are predicted high will be 78 one degree lower than the maximum temperature yesterday Low today vjill be 64 Jow was 63 I HOLLYWOOD Sept 25 (INS) Barbara next-door neighbor told police today that Hollywood shenanigans preceding the bloody Franchot Tone-Tom Neal love fight included semi-nude sun bathing by the actress while Neal exercised unconcernedly with huge barbells The neighbor Judson told officials investigating charges that the actor was feloniously assaulted by Neal that he was continually fascinated by events at the Payton manse related that he frequently saw the actress lolling on a sun divan her birthday while the husky ex-golden glover Neal worked' out with the weights opposite her said eraors attending the Na- Obituaries Hrs Harriet HelferS Shea Mrs Mary Graee Kiar Kebert Cl ward Clabeach Cal Leek William Me re Tibbs MARYVILLE Msry Cex James Tewastn Jr lafsal Haskey Sblrley rarreU Mrs Jeba Grser ROGERSVILLE Mrs Laara Msrrisea CUat Williams GHEE NEVILLE Mrs Shaltea NEWPORT Obis Hill (COLORED) Jsha A Heary Us MNn aaciia1 4 o5 I.