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-7zr-z 1 iv i Vi i ivv 1 i i -v vX- -4 A nm I fcl 'ft a ISeds Favor ierlin Corley With JFK-Khrushchev Meeting Possible 4- v4''' 'i 'i xl I -'44 A- 5-1 VNlWSl'' i I GENEVA Doc 2 (UPI) Russia is cool to four-power talks on Berlin and would prefer to settle the issue through direct Soviet-American possibly a new Kenncdy-Khrushchev meeting Russian sources said today The Soviet sources said President Kennedy's inter view with Izvestia editor Alexi Adzhubei constituted an "opening toward a wider policy exchange between the White House and Premier Nikita (v i A GOOD These three sisters each over 80 read about The Empty i a borrowed copy of The News-Sentinel and have been assured they fine full basket for their Christmas dinner They are old sick and desti- Fund in a borrowed coi have a ina will tute and that Empty Stocking Fund dinner is right now lives Deputy's Kil er Sought Ky Hills Officers Gas Caves Call In Bloodhounds To Aid in Man Hunt SOMERSET Ky Dm 2 (LTD -An escaped convict armed with a ahotgun was sought by Slate Troopers and Pulaski County offlr cm in a wooded and hilly area of Eastern Kentucky today after he killed a deputy sheriff and wounded another deputy Beecher Burton 40 who es caped from tha Kentucky State Reformatory six weeks ago was believed to be hiding out in an area near Lake Cumberland dotted with vacant farm houses and caves State Police LL James Mayes said that Troopers were firing tear gas bombs into the caves honeycombing the area in case Burton had sought refiige there Bloodhounds to aid in the search were called in from La Follctte Tcnn Slips Fast Officers Burton slipped past officers who surrounded his home near Trimble Ky early today Deputy Douglas Hutton 37 was killed when he was struck by a 16-gauge shotgun blast in the chad Deputy Melburn Roberts was struck in the left leg by shotgun pellets but was not seriously wounded Officers hunting for Burton surrounded his home last night after receiving a tip he was in the ret Burton who had served leu than a year of a 10-year sentence for shooting into a dwelling escaped from the reformatory six weeks ago Stale Probation Officer Wood-row Pcnnycuff went to the front door and identified himself and two shots were fired from inside In answer Splinters from one of the Masts struck Pcnnycuff and Deputy Homer Wesley Asked Halt to Shota Officera returned the fire until a voice inside the house called out shoot Hutton had been standing by a tree outside the house covering a window in case Burton who was inside with his wife and children tried to escape The officer then aimed his flashlight beam into a window and was shot Pulaski County Coroner Kenneth Gibbs said Hutton died immediately Pennycuff and some of the officers went to the home of a neighbor who told them he would try to talk Burton into surrendering Slips Out Into Woods But Burton slipped out of the house and fled into the woods with his shotgun while the officers were gone When the officers returned about 30 minutes later they found Burton's wife and several children in the house Burton received a 10-year-sen-tence in 1960 for shooting into i house trailer E5F Aids All Ages To Visit 3 Elderly Sisters Three sisters whose combined ages total 233 years are to have their first Empty Stocking Christmas dinner this year The sisters living In unimaginable poverty have been promised this treat by a caseworker of the Tennessee Department of Welfare They have insufficient food Insufficient clothing and bedding and in fact insufficient everything UPlTtNptMte SINGER AND Singer Dinah Shore announced she and her husband actor George Montgomery are separating and will be divorced after almost 1 8 years of marriaae They are shown with their two children Melissa 13 and John David 7 in a 1960 photo the brightest spot in their Trucker Killed in Duel With Police Sought in Slaying of 2 Men Earlier CHERRYVILLE NC Dec 2 (It-A 42-yearoid Cherryville truck driver wanted in the slaying of two men in nearby Cleveland County earlier in the day was shot down and killed in a gun battle here tonight The man Paul Everett Hallman was taken to a Shelby hospital where he died about an hour after the battle Police said Hillman was seen sitting in his car a block off Main Street here shortly after 7:30 pm Three officers Police Chief Yates McGinnis Sgt Larry Thornburg and Patrolman A Champion approached the car Opened Fire The officera laid Hallman opened fire with a shotgun The officers scurried for cover and returned the fire with pistols and a submachine gun The car in which Hallman was sitting was riddled with bullets The fugitive badly wounded surrendered The battle took place half a block from the police station Officers laid they found a machine gun and a 45-caUber pistol in Hallman's ear They said there apparently was no ammunition for the submachine gun None of die officers involved was hurt Obtained Warrants Cleveland County Sheriff Haywood Alim had obtained murder warrants against Hallman shortly after noon in the slaying of Samuel Gunnells 24 and James Wade Bagwell 22 both of Kings Mountain Their bodies were discovered in an area west of here early today Both had been riddled with 45-caliber bullets Chief McGinnis said he and the other two officers were patrolling in a police car when they noticed the Hallman car stopped for a traffic signal at the intersection of South Mountain and Acadony Sts Hit Several Times McGinnis said he stopped the police car and walked toward laUman's car He said Hallmin fired at him with a shotgun The blast ripped through the roof of car and narrowly missed McGinnis The officers then jumped out of the police car and opened fire riddling the car Hospital attaches at Kings Mountain said Hallman was hit several times The countryside had swarmed with officers after AUen signed the warrant charging Hallman with the Gunnells and Bagwell killing Jealousy Believed Motive Allen and State Bureau of Investigation Agent John Vander-ford said jealon-y apparently was the motive Alim said it is believed that either Gunnells or Bagwell had been dating wife Hallman who has been working in Florida returned to Cherryville recently the officers See TRUCKER Page A-2 Coming Dec 17 fsJjZ0? 5m 40 'i'mv International Business Machines Carp Mrs Barringer memory ef my father 4 Beam" Mr and Mrs Sidney Everett L00 Anonymous LOO Mrs Moser LOO Neighbors Club of North HUb L00 Mr and Mrs McMillan 2LN The Melrose Foundation Ine Jennie Brewnlow Getty babel Ashe Bonayman II Rose McDonald Gettyi George Gordon Bewnynnn Jr Catherine Ashe Gettys Anne Berry Boonyman Mary Bresnlhaa Gettys Jane Brownlow Malay Edward Ashe Maloy Alexander Ashe Bomyman Geraldine Ann Maloy Anne Latlcia Gettys James Gavin Malay Jr Mr and Mrs AUen Mr and Mrs Frank Lockett Leslie Karen Witt Bristol Ya 0 OlOltMM Mrs Miller Rosens Colusa Charlene Leslie and Mark Tennessee Optical Co Hugh Courtney Burke Lambert Bros Division Vulcan Materials Co Central High Key Club To make someone's Christmas more Joyful" Pilot Club of Knoxville Tim Bailey LOO Terry Bailey LOO Hr and Mrs Sullivan Jr 1000 Howard Butler Rock wood LOO TOTAL 8U9L27 THANK YOU 2100 MOO LOO LOO LOO LOO LOO LM LOO LOO LOO LOO LM LM LM 10M 10M LM IMS 10M LM 2LM 10M MM Let's Rub Out S-c-r-o-o-g-e F150L27 So Far For Empty Stocking Fund Transcript Inside On Pages A-l and A-l The News Sentinel presents the White House transcript of the interview that President Kennedy granted to Alexi Adzho bei editor of Izvestia Inasmuch as the interview has resulted ta considerable comment eu both skies of the Iran Curtain nnd wlU doubtless be i bub for further reaction The News-Sentinel feels that Its many Sunday readen will be Interested in having the complete text die Allied policy differences then the United States backed fay Britain would agree to talk directly with Moscow before Ivoadcr four-power talks are held The Communist sources uid it wu increasingly clear that unleu 'some basic ia reached between Moscow and Washington on the broad aspects of East-West relations then the chances of accord on a nuclear test ban Berlin or other major Cold War Issues are extremely slim A-Baa Plan to UN As for the Ceneva nuclear test ban talks diplomatic sources uid Russia plan to by-pau the three-power talks here and take its plan for a ban without controls direct to the United Nations The Soviets apparently hope to win tiie majority backing for their plana from testoreary neutral and uncommitted nations The United States and Britain have tuned down Russia's approach" proposal ai unacceptable and un-negotlaMe Diplomats laid Russia already was beginning a major propaganda campaign to exploit the revived UN clamor 'or an end to nuclear testa and wu anxious to recoup from the propaganda setback of its series of test explosions in the rtmosphere (In Paris Soviet Ambassador Serge Vinogradov called today on De Gaulle It was understood Vinogradov gave De Gaulle a copy of a Soviet statement on the question of banning testa Russia has wanted France to join the test talks) Jo Jo Says: It May Drizzle 1 wap thee wrtvp AWTtSTXC TASYH TO B6WPPED APART VfTYttSUBOEN HASYB Past C-i KNOXVILLE OAK RIDGE AND MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE: Considerable cloudiness and mild today with a few periods of occasional light rain Outlook for tomorrow little change Winds light from the southwest Hitfi today 58 low tonight 43 high yesterday 47 predicted overnight low 42 Station barometric pressure 2122 (rising) at 8:30 pm TENNESSEE: Ow to Bartfy douM midi mwiw w-m HgM mu ar in eartwn early May I we amt aara Mar sn today to 74 KENTUCKY: Partty cMudy and md ewauga togM gN IkWi any SO to 00 VRGIN'A: VanoM daudnOH MoV ana Mn-yM au-a a cftanca at a i-n-a ra ae todov High today JOk MONTH CAROLINA: Cl-Wdntl croud wd ia We moamamo aawnroa Mrauglt torngM ConMt-ltn todoy SS to 2 toe etow-e-ao ana ia toe Me LAKE STASIS laa STATION a Loudoun (at 000 Ow-ata too Nt I Douywt tor Itoll tor d-1 yi Bor too Va I ttt Jr oa mi ten 3t mi ni HI TloS toil Vtl Corner H-t tor They gave strong indications Khrushchev himself might reply to the interview and that the Kremlin might put out feelers for new top level exchange! of views The Communist diplomats said they felt chances of direct Moscow -Washington contacts were promising Western Firmness Cited The Russian sources said above all the Kremlin did not want a four power foreign ministers conference to try to resolve the Berlin crisis but would prefer that any direct US-Soviet talks follow an "advance reached through diplomatic channels in Moscow or Washington Western firmness on Berlin and known differences among the Allies on whether and what to negotiate appear to have caused second thoughts in the Kremlin Previously the Russians have wanted four-power negotiations Accord Vital One factor appeared to be the fact the United Sates and Britain appeared willing to negotiate but President Charles de Gaulle has stated repeatedly he would not negotiate under pressure The Kremlin feeling now appeared to be that if the West fails to recon- Man 99 Missing in NC Hills MOUNT ZION Cp Dec i (UPI) Residents of this mountain hamlet searched the hills and hollows today far Wilson (Pa) a 99-yeir-dd who set out on a hike last Monday and hasn't been seen since Before he left he told his 71-yesr-old daughter Mary he waa for a walk down along the This didn't surprise her wu a restless she uid forever talking about going somewhere used to walk to Kentucky when I was a and he'd be gone lot a Mount Zion about 20 miles west of North Wilkes bora 1-40 Traffic Is Without Incident A heavy flow of traffic moved over the newly opened Interstate 40 expressway between Knoxville and Kingston yesterday without incident Patrol LL Michell Moody reported The Highway Patrol had five cruisers working traffic on the new highway during most of the day Much Knoxville-bound traffic was reported in the morning hours but the flow became more two-way as the day lengthened There were no arrests and no traffic accidents reported on the expressway Lt Moody said The Interstate opened officially for traffic yesterday morning TWO SAILORS KILLED BOWLING GREEN Ky Dec 3 Two sailors from the Memphis Naval Air Station at Millington Tenn were killed in head-on collision on US 68 near here last night They were Stephen Ennis Jr II Louisville and Dwayne Owens 20 whose father ta stationed at Fort Knox State Police uid the driver of the other car Oma Cropper 45 of near Auburn Ky was listed in fair condition at a hospital here Oleander Is Christmas Comic Meet Oleander an angry hungry cat Oleander to the star of our Christmas strip starting tomorrow in The News-SentineL He lives in a snow-covered cottage with a family of five and ta determined to ruin Christmas for all of them His Christmas Eve adventures with vanta Claus and his introduction to the magic of Chntt-' mas make enchanting bouday reading for youngsters Oleander story starts tomor- row in Th Nws-Sntin! Dinah Shore To Seek Divorce HOLLYWOOD Dec 2 (UPD-Dinsh Shore said today the will seek a divorce from her actor-husband George Montgomery who already has moved out of the couple's Beverly Hills mansion Immediately after making the announcement Miss Shore went into seclusion refusing to discuss her broken marriage with anyone The couple would have celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary Tuesday Dec Friends Not Surprised Friends of the Montgomerys were not surprised by news of the impending divorce The couple had grown apart during the past year However the break-up wu not disclosed until today A friend of both Montgomery and Miss Shore said was so sacred to Dinah and she is such a moral person she could have made her decision to get a divorce only after long deliberation It would take something earthshattering for Dinah to make such a drastic Montgomery's name had been inked romantically with other parties in recent months Montgomery's Career Dwindled Other friends said Dinah's enormously successful career had overshadowed that of her husband When they first met the blonde TV star waa a recording artist and Montgomery a promising movie hero In the past 10 years Dinah's popularity continued to grow while Montgomery's appearances in pictures dwindled to occasional roles Miss Shore 44 and Montgomery 43 are the parents of a daughter Melissa 13 and an adopted son John David 7 Miss Shore a native of Winchester Tenn won the first female personality television award in 1957 and again toe following year She was the first female singer to win an Emmy in 1955 Yols Glass Finish Season in Tennessee's Vols and senior tailback Glenn (Red) Glass both dosed out the 1961 season in a Maze" yesterday the Vol: romping to a 41-7 conquest of Vanderbilt and Glass returning a kickoff 13 yards for a touchdown The victory gave Tennessee a 4-3 conference record and a tic for fourth place with Georgia Tech In other top games Alabama Masted Auburn 54-6 and accepted a bid to the Sugar Bowl: Ole Miss rolled ever Mississippi State 37-7 and moved into the Cotton Bowl and Navy used Greg Mather's field goals to take a 13-7 victory over Army as President Kennedy and 101006 other fans watched at Philadelphia Two former Tennessee players will be the opposing coaches ta the Rose BoL Minnesota coached by Murray Warmath yesterday accepted a invitation for its second straight trip to Pasadena The opponent will be UCLA coached by ex-Yol end KSy Barnes See the Spoils Section for complete coverage ef football action ia yesterday's 1961 finale Trujillo Son Tied to Revenge Plot Ambush Story Fatso Dominican Declares SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic Dec 3 Six men held in the assassination of dictator Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo have themselves been assassinated the government declared Saturday night The attorney office said two dose associates of Gen Rafael Trujillo Jr son of the late dictator gave the order that led to the mysterious disappearance of the six Nov IB An official statement given few days after the men disappeared said they had escaped after a bus carrying them to scheduled re-enactment of the killing of Trujillo May 30 was am bushed by unidentified assailants Three police guards were said to have been killed in the ambush A communique issued by Atty Gen Porfirio Soria said an investigation showed the purported ambush was a question of escape as has been pretended but an assassination wherein the victims were not only the detainees but those acting as guards" Report Called Screen Friends and relatives of the missing men have charged that the reported ambush was a screen for the slaughter of the six in a parting act of brutality by Trujillos who have been forced to leave the country The communique said the order for the six to be taken from the national prison to the assassination scene came from the office of Rafael Jr a day after the government announced he had Ml this island nation He is now in Paris The order was handed personally to Police Chief Marco Antonio Jorge Morena by Col Luis Jose Leon Estevez a brother-in-law of Rafael Jr and Col Gil-berto Sanchez RuMrosa the statement said President Joaquin Balagucr attend the investigation after cries were raised that the disappearance of tire six wu an act of revenge by the Trujillos Balagucr Caned Dictator The attorney general's report may take some of the opposition pressure off Balagucr However earlier in the day Viriato A Fi-allo National Civic Union leader charged that Balaguer's regime is nothing but a military dictatorship and a continuation of the Trujillo regime The president of the chief opposition movement made die charge to newsmen at his home as a general strike showed additional signs of weakening after paralyzing the country for four days in an effort to topple Balagucr Business far the heart of Santo Domingo and at Santiago where the opposition is strongest wu still closed down completely Balagucr government ta a continuation of the Trujillo regime It ta supported by the same reactionaries Balagucr has repudiated ta the said Hallo FiaRo uid die Chic Union te standing on its demand that the government he taken over by a fire-man provisional junta in which neither Balagucr nor Cine Union officials would have a place what the people are he said government ta not ta die national palace ta hi dm streets where 'the people are Their plight wai called to the attention of a State Welfare Department caseworker a few weeks ago' and she arranged for them to be examined at University Hospitsl and for them to have later care as needed AH are anemic one is a semi-invalid Back at home the three sisters heat their two rooms and cook their food on a small two-burner laundry stove They buy a sack of coal every other day The burden Of housework and cooking falls on the 89-year-old sister who seems to be the strongest of the group Do you think these three almost helpless sisters need an Empty Stocking Fund Christmis basket? Well The Empty Stocking Fund thinks so too and hopes win be enough money to supply this and easee much less critical The Fund hopes to furnish 1700 baskets There will be about 4000 toys too as Christmis is a time for children to be made happy The three sisters also need many things The Empty Stocking Fund supply The caseworker who has taken them under her wing hopes to be able to move than to new lodgings soon and there they badly need a bed (wo one of the sisters is sleeping on bare bed springs at two sets of springs a refrigerator and a stove Maybe The Empty Stocking Fund and Old Santa can share their Christmas spirit on this case Honey for The Empty Stocking Fund win be gratefully received at The News-Sentinel office 204 Church Ave Each donation is acknowledged in the new columns with thanks EMPTY STOCKING FUND Dec 2 1961 Previously acknowledged I117L27 Doug tnd Susan Benton Gbuy Beit and Cindy Mrs William CL Nagel Tennessee YaHey Bank In memory ef Anne McCargt Kegas Brothers Inc LOO LOO LOO 2LOO L0I 1100 How Does JFK Stand Today? WHAT has happened to President Kennedy's popularity during thopast few months? Is it up or down? The Gallup Poll has the answer to this interesting question on Page F-L SOMETIMES the actual taking of license plates and driving permits from car owners when the revocation has been ordered by the state not an easy Job Come along with a State Trooper and Reporter Leon Powell as they work on Page F-L A GUIDE for future city zoning las been written by the Metropolitan Planning Commission In the first of a series of articles Canon Brewer takes a look at the guide on Page C-L TAKE THE Holiday House tour for Christmas decorating ideas Set Christine Anderson's story with pictures Page E-L THE WORLD TODAY Page A-1L- PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Page A-18 SECTION SECTION a I SBCN-V IMS I Ew (Ml MV Mar 4 7 MNN I Ell SMO PV IE SECTION 0 SECTION Taw SiWr 1 JN I ki MOW Nu ImM a hm VOWMlMWI IMMI 4 MMCWW 8 8 Anfuso Sees Man-in-Space Shot Dec 20 NEW YORK Dec 3 (UPD-Rep Victor Anfuso a ranking member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics predicted today the United States wiO try to mbit a man around the earth on Dec 30 The New York Democrat made the prediction on a local television program taped Thursday for broadcast today have received pretty reliable information from Washington that we will attempt to make an orbital shot with a man on Dec 20 1961" Anhiso said if that comes about it will certainly be a wonderful Christmas present" Anfuso said his information was based on results of the orbital trip made by Enos the chimp last Wednesday think that the scientists far the national Administration now feel confident that weather conditions permitting we can in the next few weeks put up a man Into space" Anfuso said the sales season ends to January Bank dearingi and debits ta those towns and a quickening of business mid commerce ta general ten file tale that the leaf auctions are on The magic leaf pays off farm and home mortgages and buys new machinery furniture clothing Christmas toys college educations and a variety of ether way-of-Bfe tatpnve-mentsL Tha NewvSentind Means Busmesa" section wiff ten yon an about It In pictures news stories and advertising I N-S To Have Section on Burley Industry Stories ea hurley markets an Page C-L Tobacco Means Business! That area axiom will be qielled out hilly and interestingly in a special hurley industry section that The News-Sentinel will bring out on Dec 17 Yon will learn just to what extent our many-miUiondotlar barley markets prime our general economy There are some dozen area towns which have one to a half-dozen such tobacco auction centers The KnaxriEe market alone probably will pay fanners 17 JO rn to £000000 ta cash before.