Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 1

CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC UBRARX CUATTAKQOGA, 2TT "To Give the News Impartially, Without Fear or Favor" Weather CHI-Mr nd cool today, fair ae vtnmr tomorrow, TtWNESSES Pmrtly cloudy, coot. GEORGIA Pilr and cool. ALABAMA tod. cool. a WmUict JUvort Ptn II.

1 ifil i Tjn iHnrniq vjRjrrlT CHATTANOOGA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1954. PRICE: 5 CENTS Kntrd at th F-ostofflet at Chattasoota, Turn, 8econd-ClaM 1411 14 tier HAZEL CA USES THS; LASHES YORK; LEA VES WASHINGTON, vol; lxxxv. no. 305. FARMERS'AID: FOR ELECTION He Predicts Improvement If They'll Reject 'Partisan Politics' Government CAROLINAS TRAIL OF RUIN 2 BIG PROBLEMS NOTED Bis 'Heart Truly Goes Out to Unemployed 15 Steps Listed as Progressive By WILLIAM H.

BLAIR Ntw York Timet Servic. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 15 President Eisenhower appealed to farmers tonight to help maintain a Republican Congress and as- sure peacetime prosperity and the building of a "lasting peace." His partisan -plea to the great Midwestern farm belt that in the past has had a tradition of fierce isolationism and pocketbook voting centered on peace and prosperity and the need for continuing to ''free our farmers from the dead hand of bureaucratic control." He reviewed 15 "botOr progressive steps" taken by the GOP-controlled 83rd Congress in farm policy and foresaw opportunities ahead for improvement if farmers rejected a government of "partisan politics." He spoke In Butler University Field House in this farm-belt city, and to the country by radio, in the stepped-up effort to bolster the party's chances in the Nov. 2 congressional elections. He also was carried by television into the homes of farmers and industrial workers in 15 farm-belt states. Slump Inevitable The forum for his partisan plea was nonpartisan, although many leaders of the National Institute of Animal Agriculture, which sponsored the meeting, are stanch supporters of the administration's farm Some institute leaders have been advisers on administration legislative actions that have reversed policies supported for; two decades by the Democratic administrations and the bipartisan farm block In Congress.

FURY-r-Thls picture ahows a section of cottages on the north end Hurricane Hazel The view Is toward the Ocean Forest Hotel. Holder Denies Race DR. JOHN H. RACE Dr. John H.

Race, who changed the name of U. S. Grant University to the University of Chattanooga In 1907 and as its president from 1897 to 1913 was credited with initiating the college's modern, progressive era, died yesterday in New York The Methodist minister, who also reopening of the university's liberal arts branch in 1904, was 92. Dr. Race was asked to become president of Uv S.

Grant University at a time when it had branches at Chattanooga and at Athens, and when the small, struggling institution was torn by strife. In a letter asking Dr. Race to take the position in September of 1897, Dr. J. W.

Hamil- Bee Page Eleven, Column One ADLAI ASSAILS POWERPOLICY He Hits Administration. for Attempts at 'Giveaway' in Electricity Fields By LAWRENCE E. DAVIES Aim York tiu Strvic, ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.i Oct.

15 Adlai Stevenson warned tonight that monstrous; new and government-blessed private' monopoly" fs looming in the pow er rieiu 'While President EiseiW flower "flails at the pubiio power serpent wmcft would devour tne The Democratic uartv's titular leader, in a speech rally here in the state where tha world's first atomic, bomb was accused the Republicans of trying to set up a "private game preserve" for a few hig corporations in the atomic energy field. The pattern followed by the administration was the same. he declared, in all parts of the country: The Columbia River basin of the Pacific Northwest, where gee Page Wine, Column Fonr Crump in' Coma; Called A 'Terminal Situation MEMPHIS, Oct 15 UP) E. H. Crump, gravely ill leader of the Memphis political organization, lapsed into a coma today, bis' physician said, The 80-year-old political leader has been critically ill at his home here since Oct.

6. He was stricken with a heart ailment and his condition has become progressively worse. The doctor described the current crisis as a "terminal situation his pulse is much weaker. Ha is getting medication by hypodermic but is not responding at all." Crump's condition is "mighty bad," the doctor adding that the white-haired politico now is in an oxygen tent on a round-the-clock basis. RIBB0NISG0T UrailKlibfAH FORVEHICLES Bridge Atop Dam Hailed as Milestone in Dedication Rites at River Site THRASHER GETS CREDIT Project Called Key Link of Expressway Which will Tie to Major Routes By FRED SCHNEIDER The new highway bridge across Chickamauga Dam waa described as "a magnificent and awe-inspiring structure" and a "milestone in the progress" of Chattanooga, Hamilton County and the area at dedication exercises yesterday.

Speakers declared that but for the untiring efforts of County juoge Wilkes T. Thrasher the midge would not today be a reality. Clarence Kolwyck. presi dent of the Chattanooga Automobile T- Club, announced that the club has set in motion the machinery to get tha structure named the "Wilkes Thrasher Bridge" in honor of the Judge. "This occasion is one of the happiest moments of my life be cause tne completion or this magnificent bridge is a fulfill ment of one of our most cherished dreams," declared Judge Thrasher in an address just before he cut the ribbon that marked the opening of the span.

The dedication program was conducted by the Chattanooga unamoer. of Commerce streets and highways committee, with J. Gilbert Stein, the commit tee's chairman, serving as master or ceremonies and introducing special guests and the speakers who represented various agencies and organizations that had a part in tne project. 400-500 Attend The exercises were held at the south (powerhouse) and of the bridge. Out on the bridge, the Central High School band gave a concert just prior to the start of tha exercises.

An estimated 400, 500 per-l sons attended the From 250 to 300 can formed a motorcade a crossed the brldgn after-the opening-. Lead ing the motorcade war two high way patrol cars followed by open automobiles in which those tak ing part in the ceremonies and special guests rode. Stein announced la tha course of the program that about U0 days of work will be required to get tha south approach of the bridge in shape and for that rea son -in bridge will be open to traffic only through Sunday. Then tha bridge will be again closed to complete the approach grade work and placing crushed stone to form a temporary pave ment. The ceremonies were opened following tha playing of the National Anthem by the band and the, invocation by the Rev.

Charles E. Gammon, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church. In his opening remarks. Stein said that the bridge, which can be widened to four lanes, is the key link in a new four-lane ex pressway planned and partially built to intersect and tie U.S. Highways 11, 27, 41 and 64 and State Highway 58.

"The opening of this bridge will mark a new era In the growth of tha whole area," Stein asserted. "No longer will Hamil ton county have a split per sonality half of our people liv ing on tne north and half on tne south of beautiful Chickamauga Lake, which instead of pulling us together, has kept us apart with families, living only a few See Page Eleven, Column Six To Bus Owned by Miller Winford H. Holder, director of transportation for the county school system; denied flatly yesterday that he ever held title to a bus secretly owned by Wallace S. Miller chairman of the board of education. Submitting figures intended to show, that he lost money last year tm the bus Miller has been accused of owning.

Holder said it "would be ridiculous for me to ine resident recognized the two big problems of the farm beltf Falling commodity prices ana unemployment tB tha Wiein- 33 DEA HavingTitle iuga price ot a pus, a i gave WIOimEMER CIO, AFL Conventions to Ratify Pjan Expected In a Few Months WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 UP) AFL and CIO leaders agreed today to put aside organizing rivalries for the time being and work out a merger of the two big labor groups as "fast as possible." Presidents George Meany or the AFL and Walter Reuther of the CIO talked optimistically of completing an actual merger plan within the next few montns. They said special AFL and CIO ratifying conventions may, then be called, followed ny a joint AFL-CIO convention to complete the proposed amalgamation. Reuther conceded, however, that, "We still have a great deal of work to do." But both ha and Meany maintained the AFL and CIO leadership is determined to go ahead with the merger. It would 'Bring neany 10 million union members under a sin- rle banner, with tha idea of strengthening union labor's economic and political power.

2 Decisions Made Two decisions were made to day by nine-man committees rep resenting tne two organizations: 1. Each is to name a three- member subcommittee to work out a proposed new constitution for the merged setup. This should Include machinery for settling rivalries over which union should represent various types of workers. 2. Such existing organizing rivalries will be held in abeyance until after the merger.

Tha "In tegrity" of each union under the merged arrangement would be guaranteed. This was explained to mean that no ahl. or uiu union would lose part of its pres ent membership. "We don't contemplate trying to resolve the conflicts that now exist," Reuther said. "What we are going to do is work out ma See Psge Two, Coliimw Eight CIA Silent on Bid For Stringfellow WASHINGTON.

Oct. 15 UP Central Intelligence Agency of ficials tonight said Director Al len Dulles' office will have no comment on appeals for release of its files on Rep. Douglas R. StrinsrfeUow (R-Utah) to verify the1 congressman's accounts of his exploits behind German lines in World War II. The appeals had coma from Stringfellow and from the Utah state Democratic party after the Army Times here questioned his accounts of being dropped Behind German lines on a secret mission in 1944.

Stringfellow termed the article In the Army Times which is not connected See Page Two, Column One NEW LEAMj FROM of dustrial eenterathat dot a qsart or ini rflrn mir tha skvw nomie dislocation and individual hardships were "the Inevitable aftermath of war and Inflation," he asserted. i Pledging to continue efforts to "build enduring economic strength," he served with his words a reminder of the political furor this week over the dogs-and-unemployment1 blooper by his secretary of defense, Charles E. Wilson. "My heart truly goes out to every one of our citizens who wants work and has no job, or who, in other ways, suffers these hardships," he said. Significantly, he avoided mentioning the administration's flexible HURRICANE STROKES WITH almost completely destroyed by COOLIEATHER WILLCONTINUE Low of 45 Predicted Today and High of 65 Warm Trend Due Monday y.

Several weeks of prolonged summer weather finally gave way here yesterday to much lower, autumn A drop to 54 degrees was recorded during the morning, with a high of 83 following. Tha forecast ten today Is fair and continued cool weather. iv Weather Bureau said the mercury would fail to aegrees tnis morning, rising eiowiy thraiicrhmit the dav to reach, an afternoon high of 65 degrees. -An extended forecast for Tennessee and Kentucky calls for a cool weekend, warmer weather M6n-I day ni Tuesday and cooler weather Wednesday. few showers are likely Tuesday.

Comes in Early The cool weather drifted over the city early yesterday morning with a cold front moving southeastward from Canada. The 12:30 a.m. reading was 71. de grees and an hour later the temperature had dropped 6 de grees to es. Another hour saw another 5-degree drop.

There was almost a 20-degree fall between 12:30 a.m. and 7:30 ajn. SNOWFALL REPORTED NEAR ROAN MOUNTAIN JOHNSON CITY, Oct 15 The first snow of the season wss reported on Hampton Creek near Roan Mountain this morning as upper East Tennes see braced for tempera tures. A drop In temperature to near freezing has been forecast for tonight. a a- '-t Most of the mountainous area was.

obscured by cloudy skies but snow was believed to have fallen on most of the other areas near Roan Mountain. $4,500,000 Bridge AN ERRATIC STORU Center Swings to West of Capital 93-Mile Winds at Airport DIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Training Ship Set Adrift at Annapolis Gales at 100 M.P.H. In New York By ARTHUR EVERETT Auoeufi rrtu Staff WrtUr. NEW YORK, Oct 15 Hurrt. cane Hazel, one of the century's most dangerously erratic storms, rocked New York with 100-mUe-per-hour winds tonight.

But it was a dying gesture on the part or tha big storm. The worst is over," was tha weatherman's cheering word as the Barometer began to rise in mid-evening. Far to the west of the city. tha hurricane spent its waning strength against the Immovable barrier of Pennsylvania's moun tains. Then it died and Its force was absorbed in part by a new storm center in anuthweatera New York.

1 Hazel's death toU stood at 33 in continental United States. It swept into the Carolina's from sea early today, battering its way into tha northeastern states after grazing Washington with unsurpassed fury. Six oersons were killed In North Carolina, six in Virsrlnia. V4a aas. a eiuioj a tuui Alsa Delaware, six in Maryland, two in Washington, D.C., two In New Jersey and four in New York.

Tha Coast Guard reported tha tug Indian sank tonight" in tha turbulent James River between Bachelor's Point and Milton Point about BO miles northwest of Nor folk. Tha tug Dutch Gap reported It haa rescued four members -of tha Indian's crew and that four others were) missing. Causa Not Give A Coast Guard spokesman aeM tha sinking "presumably" waa an aftermath of Hurricane Hasel'a passage through the area thlt afternoon. But he said tha Dutch Gap gave no indication as to tha causa of the sinking in its radio message. The hurricane was "even mora intense" over tha James between Bachelor's Point and Milton Point than in tha Norfolk vicinity where winds reached better than 100 ntp.h., tha Coast Guard said.

Ashore and at sea millions cringed before its awesome might Ship frantically changed course. Airplanes fled like game birds be fore a forest fire. Men pitted their puny strength in a frantic battle to blunt its destructlveness. The storm gathered the momen-' turn ot an express train at times. Behind it thousands were left home less.

I Wickedly Menacing Even in death, tha hurricane) wss wickedly menacing as galea and dangerous tidal swells un gered on throughout tha Bight Great waves lashed tne Atlantle shoreline of Long Island. In Near York harbor, rive persona nar rowly escaped death as they scrambled away from a wave that washed over a Staten Island ferry. It was the third hurricane to hit the Northeast in six weeks. Hazel, weather experts said. held its overland power longer than most hurricanes because it built up great energy during its lnnr leisurely Bassate across tha When it roared past York.

its tremendous winds had fallen off sharply from tha 130-mlle-per-hour peak that ravaged tha Caro-Unas. And its rains slackened far below tha nearly five inches that poured on Winston-Salem In six hours. The storm greatest strength was felt here at p.m. wnen registering meters clocked 100-mile-per-hour gusts tha highest Sea Page Two, Column Two One Man on Raft Crosses Pacific PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, Oct 15 William Willis one man against the sea reached his goal of Samoa today after 115 days on a 35-foot raft during which his water and stove gave out ana he lived on raw fish. The 61-year-old New Yorker, weathered by the long battle against the elements on a drifting voyage from Peru, was healthy and leaped briskly to the dock when his raft was towed In early To 600 cheering samoans ana Americans who met him at tha dock, the -mariner declared: "The trip at sea was fantastic and it was also a nightmare and yet was Just a dream which changed from day to day.

"I have had some pleasant and unpleasant experiences. I had ta live on sea water, tor two momns ago my water cans rusted out and when I checked them there was no water and my stove also went bad." And so he lived on raw fish mainly dolphin, which ha said were, easy to catch and the sur- Sea Page Two, Comma Six obligate myself Ky pay the alls the money nbacic Miller In "taxpayers' suit" rued by seven bus drivers Thursday, It waa barged that Miller secret ly received tha revenue from at least two buses during tha past two years. IUler said yesterday that "I do not now own and have never wwned any school buses I am perfectly aware of the provision which prohibits an official from having personal interest in con tracts." I The bus drivers had aaked the ouster of Miller and tha return of almost $6,000 they claimed he had received from buses operated in the names of other persons. Holder was listed as the dummy owner of two buses on various occasions. Holder yesterday displayed an income tax form, bill of sale, receipts for gasoline purchases and repairs, and added that he vaid "SsO per month for a driver." ail of which indicated that he lost about 8195 on the operation of the bus for the 1953-54 school year.

That doesn leave much left for me to give to Wallace Miller, even if I had an arrangement with him," said Holder. TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE 23,400 Walk Out in Jersey, Downstate New York NEW YORK. Oct. 16, Saturday; Iffy Some 23,400 truck drivers serving downstate New Tor: and northern New Jersey struck at one min ute past midnight today to back up demands for a wage increase. Across Dam Myrtle Beach, 8.C., that waa Aaoci.ud Pru wiwphow.

CASE'SSISTER ISMADEISSUE Person 'Of Same Name as GOP Candidate's Sister Linked to Communists NEWARK, NX, Oct. 15 The headquarters at Clifford P. Case announced today that the Republican candidate for U.S Seaate la vreparing a ruu state ment and television Broadcast in connection, with a newspaper atory mentioning his slater, Miss The brief headquarters an nouncement did not say when or where the statement would be made, nor when the television broadcast is scheduled. Case, In his first campaign appearance since ha canceled three speeches last Bight, touched only briefly today on 'tha subject of his sister in a luncheon address to the Essex County Women's Republican Club. He said at the start of his speech; "AH of you have heard stones about my sister.

I don't Intend to deal with it piecemeal. We are getting to the bottom of this. As as soon as wa get television time, I will maka tha statement all of you are entitled to, and all the people of New Jersey are entitled to." Tha crowd, which newsmen estimated at about 850 persons, gave him a. loud, standing ova tion as ha ended the remarks. He then went on to discuss issues of tha campaign.

Caae had a full schedule of campaign appearances today and tonight in Essex County. The candidate has been in a round of conferences with top GOP officials Ance Wednesday night. Continued efforts to reach Miss Case for comment have been un successful. However, In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Mrs. Clifford P.

Case, mother of the Republican senatorial nominee and Adelaide, said she did not believe her daughter was affiliated in any way with Communist party members. She said that Adelaide had been away from Poughkeepsie for about 20 years except for visits. Mrs. Plerson S. Phelps of Hyde Park, N.Y., a sister of Adelaide Case, said that' Adelaide had never given the family any rea son to believe that she traveled with Communists or had any tie with them.

In its Thursday editions, the Newark Star-Ledger quoted Bella V. Dodd as saying she once knew an Adelaide Case in several groups which purportedly were Communist fronts. Miss Dodd waa further quoted by the Bee Psge Six, Column One RUSSIA ACCUSES U.S. Viihinsky, Lodge Exchange Bitter Words in U.N. Bt fork timtt Hm Mtrvic: UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct 15 Tha Soviet Union asked the U.N.

General Assembly today to take up charges that the United States had committed acts of aggression against Communist China. In requesting that the new charges be put on the Assembly agenda for this ninth session, Andrei Y. Vlshlnsky accused tha United States of converting the srea around the island of For mosa Into a "breeding ground for a new war." Henry Cabot Lodge chief U.S. delegate, promptly branded the allegation as a "plain lie, County-Judge's-Eye View of price-support system that was enacted by whipping the bipartisan farm bloc and which many farm belt Republicans even now are worried will causa a detection of tha farm vote. Program Discussed The flexible supports will become effective on Jan.

1. They will re place the rigid supports that the administration blames for the great stocks of surpluses now in federal storage. They will be applied to the big Midwestern crops of corn and wheat, which also will be under the most severe production con trols in history. The administration farm program, he said, attacks "our farm problem on both crucial fronts-markets and production." The gram, he went on, was "geared not to war, but to peace. It will begin," he asserted, the movement toward "that full parity in the mar ket place" which ha recalled he pledged to farmers at Kasson, in the 1952 campaign.

He noted that the program pro vides for price supports and "they, are, of course, absolutely essential." They are, however, he continued, "only one o( many steps essential to a prosperous agricul ture Blaming the Democrats for a sag in farmers buying power, he said the parity 'ratio, tha relation of prices paid to prices received dropped 19 points in the two years before the administration took of fice. He did not mention a 4 per cent drop in farm income this year and during 1952 or the fact that the parity index stands at Its lowest level since 194JL 1 I As an illustration of the "loss in buying power," he said that in 1917, 800 bushels of com would buy a tractor, whereas by the end of See Page Twelve. Colnmn One In Today's Times Page Amusements Church News Classified Ads Comics 20 4 17-19 1C 1 Crossword Puzzle Editorials Financial News .15 Legal Records 1J Local News 8 Obituaries 11 Radio and TV Pro grama 20 Society and Clubs Sports News Tristate New Weather Repor oman's Page County Judge Wilkes T. Thrasher la shows enjoying the view from the new bridge across Chickamauga Dam Just after he cut the ribbon at" dedication ceremonies yesterday. Ha waa givea major credit for completion of the project Tiaei sutt riwto Bob 4.