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No. 71 22 Pages Today Raleigh, N. Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1958 Phone TE 2-4411 Daily 5c, Sunday 15c Three Prison Guards Fired For Helping Escape Plot By BOB LYNCH. Five convicts were set to go, but three guards went instead. But the three guards may be back in a different role.

State Prisons Director W. F. Bailey gave details Tuesday of the firing of three guards at Central Prison on charges they were involved in an escape plot with the prisoners. Bailey said he has called in the SBI for a full investigation with a copy of the SBI report to be turned to District Solicitor Lester paver Chalmers. The prison director indicated that the three guards may come back to State Prison, but as inmates instead of guards.

$15,000 Bribe. A $15,000 bribe that was never paid in full figured prominently in the breakout plot. The three guards fired Monday by Warden K. B. Bailey following a conference' with the prisons director are: Jesse B.

Lee, sergeant of the guard, H. W. King and Herman Taylor. Lee, 30, of Four Oaks, Route 3, went to work for the Prison Department as a guard August 15, 1955; King, 24, of Faison, Route 1, October 1, 1956 and Taylor, 24, Turkey, Route 1, on December 24, 1956. According to Prisons Director Bailey, word leaked of an escape planned before Christmas.

That out escape didn't come off. Then the word got out there was to be a break last Sunday. The word was the men were going to break their way through the concrete walls of a service tunnel into a storm drain that DEPUTY WARDEN L. R. TEMPLE AT BREAKOUT POINT.

(Staff Photo by Bob Lynch.) passed under the east wall and out through a barred opening over the storm drain. But the break was reportedly called off when their plan had sprung another leak. According to the prisons director, hero is how the plan was to have been put into action: Sergeant of the Guard Lee was promised $15,000 if he would help the prisoners escape. But the $15,000 was not in Raleigh at the time the first break was planned. Lee and his friend, Guard King, went to Georgia where the See GUARDS, Page Two.

MEARS C. SMITH J. SMITH KILBOURNE M. SMITH Lee Trial Testimony Continues By JACK CROSSWELL. SANFORD -The State attempted Tuesday to weave threads of evidence into a noose for New York gunman Frank Edward Wetzel.

Testimony offered by technical experts sought to forge stronger links between the handsome defendant and the fatal shooting of Highway Patrolman J. T. Brown near here last Nov. 5. Fingerprints.

Wetzel's fingerprints were identified by the FBI as those found on articles left in a black 1957 Oldsmobile which was abandoned in Chattanooga, the night after Brown and Highway Patrolman Wister Lee Reece were slain. The 36-year-old native Seneca Falls, N. was reported to have registered for a room at a Chattanooga tourist home. He signed the register as "Paul Cameron, the same name he gave officers when he was picked up by police at Bakersfield, Calif. Fred B.

Silvey of Harriman, who was a guest at the tourist home, told the jury in Lee County Superior Court: man who looked like Wetzel got a room for the night. The FBI said the handwriting on the register matched that of Wetzel. Clothing. See WETZEL, Page Two. night.

said Administration Director Paul See DOME, Page Six. young OUT OF GAS -New Yorker Freling Smith had run out of gas before, but never Melbourne, were unhurt. The same couldn't be said for their pretty in his airplane. When his four-passenger Belanca coughed up the last drop plane. A faulty gauge caused them to run out of fuel, Mrs.

Smith said. Tuesday near Knightdale, Smith had to set her down in a tobacco field at Smith said he reckoned he'd have to dismantle his craft to get it out of R. H. Peebles' store. Smith and his wife, en route from Albany, N.

to the tobacco patch. (Photo by Jewel Hardison.) JOBLESS REPORT SPURS MOVES TO WHIP RECESSION 5,173,000 Now Unemployed; Ike Sets Meet With Economic Advisers WASHINGTON (P) A report showing 5,173,000 unemployed set off new arguments Tuesday on whether to cut taxes, and spurred other moves to combat the recession. Proposals for job-creating public works vied with tax cutting as a favorite weapon. Eisenhower was reported, after a White House conference with GOP congressional leaders, to have decided to delay any administration tax cut proposal for at least a month. However, he, set up a meeting Wednesday with his economic advisers which the White House said would deal with tax suggestions as well as other means for overcoming the slump.

Eisenhower also arranged a discussion of the whole tax picture next Tuesday with Cabinet members sitting in with the party leaders in Congress. In other developments: 1. Two Democratic leaders in the House, Reps. McCormack of Massachusetts and Harris of Kansas, introduced legislation to liberalize unemployment compensation benefits. Their bill would have the federal government finance payments for 16 weeks after regular jobless benefits are exhausted.

Generally speaking, these benefits under the federal-state systems last no longer than 26 weeks. The 16-week extension previously had been under study by the Republicans but McCormack and Harris got in ahead. 2. The Senate Public Committee approved a resolution by Democratic Leader Johnson of Texas urging a speedup in civil public works already appropriated for. A similar resolution covering military works is pending.

3. Sen. Chavez (D-NM) introduced legislation authorizing a five-year public works program to cost $14,219,000,000. It would irrigation and power. emphasize dams go for flood control, The vote on Johnson's resolution was 9-1, after it had been amended by Sen.

Francis Case (R-SD) to include the following sentence: "The Congress commends the President and the executive agencies for such action as they have taken to accelerate the programs." Sen. Cotton (R-NH) cast the "no" vote. He opposes pump priming on the grounds it might drive construction costs higher, The White House meeting Tuesday followed by one day. the declaration by Vice President Nixon that there should be substantial tax cuts if the economy fails to improve soon. Today's Index Dr.

James Danieley Takes Oath As Elon President COLLEGE, Elon ColTuesday inaugurated Earl Danieley as its sixth The 33-year-old Elon thus becomes one of the youngest college presi- Danieley told an inaugural which included representatives from 50 institutions of higher learning that he would dedicate himself to carrying on the traditions and successes of the school's past. and to the strengthening the foundations of DANIELEY the future. DANIELEY is much to be done in the' presidency of Elon said. "I recognize are many responsibiliproblems and almost Rioting ELON (lege James president. graduate nation's dents.

Dr. audience "There assuming that there ties, many PETROS, Tenn. (A) Guards fired a fullisade of shots at rioting Brushy Mountain prisoners Tuesday night to put down a renewed outburst of violence. One prisoner suffered a shotgun wound in a cheek and was taken to nearby Oak Ridge Hospital. "The prisoners returned to their cellblock after the prisoner was wounded," said prison cashier C.

T. Davis. "We think all 1 of them are back. At least, they've quieted down." The prisoners gave no indication as to what prompted the rioting, which lasted an hour tonight and five hours Monday Gov. Hodges Criticizes Eastern Housing Group Says Wrong To Convene In Secrecy By BOB BROOKS GREGG HOME IS SHOWN AFTER NUCLEAR BOMB HIT IN GARDEN.

Six Hurt In S. C. Air Force Accidentally Drops Nuclear Weapon FLORENCE, S.C. (P) An Force B47 accidentally dropped an unarmed nuclear weapon in a small community near here Tuesday. There was no nuclear explosion but TNT in it blasted a big hole, damaged six houses and church.

The Air Force said the nuclear bomb was complete except for the warhead. A threat of possible radioactive contamination in the immediate area was raised, but no general evcuation was ordered. It was announced later there was no radition danger. The explosion area was cordoned off until experts could check it. 114-Year-Old Kills Father Aiding Mom A 14-year-old boy shot and killed his father here Tuesday night in an apparent effort to protect his mother, police reported.

Julius Baker, 34, of 116. Plainview St. in Belvidere Park, was hit in the chest by the blast from a ,12 gauge shotgun and died instantly, Coroner Marshall Bennett said. His son, Larry, told officers he grabbed the gun and fired when he found his mother calling for help. He said his father was choking his mother when he fired.

Police Sgt. Levi Wilkerson quoted the youth as saying his father warned him, "If you come in here I'll kill you, too." Baker worked out of Charlotte for Norfolk Southern Railway as a conductor. He had a week's leave, having just completed five weeks of duty. The shooting took place around 11:35, lice said. Mrs.

Baker works as a school safety patrol woman. They had been married about 16 years. Everett Jackson, a brother of Mrs. Baker, said the youth "knew how to handle a gun." The blast hit Baker in the "area of the heart," Bennett said. Officers said the victim had been drinking during the evening.

The Baker's minister, the Rev. L. D. Holt, pastor of Emanuel Baptist Church, told officers that young Larry "was a very Six persons, including four chil-1 dren, were hurt, none seriously. One youngster was hospitalized for treatment of deep cuts on the head.

Others suffered less serious cuts from flying debris. Capt. James Brady, Strategic Air Command public information officer said at Omaha, headquarters there was no danger of an atomic explosion. Brady added there was "potential danger of possible contamination of a small area if the high explosive charge completely destroys the weapon." In Washington, an Air Force spokesman said that if there is contamination in the area it would be small and could be cleaned up by a "simple washing procedure." Expert ordnance personnel were ordered to the scene and Maj. Gen.

Charles B. Dougher, 38th Air Division commander, SAC, was sent to the area to direct the investigation. The announcement that. there was no radiation danger came from SAC headquarters. The weapon landed in a garden about 100 yards in the rear of the home of Walter (Bill) Gregg in the Mars Bluff community, 10 miles east of.

Florence. The home is about 500 yards from U.S. Highway 301, a major New YorkMiami route. The Gregg house was virtually destroyed. Only a collapsing shell remained.

Mrs. Gregg was alone in the See BOMB, Page Two. Klan Leader's Trial Is Begun In Robeson By CHARLES CRAVEN. LUMBERTON Lean jawed Rev. James (Catfish) Cole went on trial Tuesday and the Sheriff of Robeson County testified that he warned Cole that the Robeson County Indians were inflamed over Cole's plan to hold a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton.

The rally was attempted and a yelling horde of Indians routed the Klan. Cole was indicted by the Grand Jury for inciting a riot. Robeson County Sheriff Malcolm McLeod was the only State's witness to testify Tuesday. An all-white, all-male jury was empaneled in the morning and tsetimony began in the afternoon. Four Indians were dismissed from the panel of jurors, two these by Judge Clawson Williams for cause and two by the defense.

The defense also excused one Negro. Sheriff McLeod was called to the stand and, under direct examination by Solicitor Maurice Bras- Governor Hodges scolded the Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority Tuesday for planning a secret meeting and suggested, in no uncertain terms, that it get on with the business of firing its executive director. He had heard, the Governor said, that some members of the Housing Authority had been invited to a "private meeting" Wednesday at Goldsboro, a short while before the Authority will meet to consider the report of a committee, which investigated a proposed $1 million deal for Seymour Johnson Homes. A Mistake. "It is my firm opinion," Governor Hodges said, "that it would be a great mistake for the members of this Authority, or some of them, to meet in secret session in an apparent effort to reach agreement on official matters having to do with the Regional Housing Authority.

"The Authority, in my view, should meet in an open and public session to discuss the recommendation of the Investigating Committee and other pertinent matters." An 11-man investigating mittee recommended the firing of H. Emmett Powell of Clinton, executive director of the Housing Authority, and his assistant, N. E. Mohn of Goldsboro. It was Powell who headed a group which acquired the Seymour Johnson Homes property at Goldsboro for $39,000 and proposed to sell it to the Housing Authority for $1,165,000.

Governor Hodges lashed out at the housing agency after he called in a new appointee to the Authority, Martin L. Black, for a conference late Tuesday. In a prepared statement, the Governor said he told Black "that it seemed to me the Authority members would be willing and anxious" (1) to fire Powell and Mohn, (2) make immediate arrangements to have a thorough audit of its financial records on Seymour Johnson Homes and a housing project near Camp. Lejeune, and (3) take immediate action to claim full ownership of the land and buildings at Seymour Johnson Homes. Powell and his associates, who owned the land underlying the Seymour Johnson development, also claimed ownership of a the houses after the Authority's lease on the property ran out.

The wartime housing development was financed by eral Government, which later turned the property over to the Housing Authority, but with the stipulation that it couldn't be sold to private citizens. Claim Disputed. At a public hearing on the Seymour Johnson Homes deal, federal housing officials disputed the claims of Powell's group that it now owned the houses as well as the land. The Housing Authority is scheduled to meet at 3 o'clock to look into the investigating committee's report. Governor Hodges said he had heard the "private" session was to be held before the scheduled meeting.

Black, a professor in accountSee HOUSING, Page Two. unlimited opportunities." Dr. Danieley succeeded Dr. L. E.

Smith, who retired last July 1 after 26 years as president. Dr. Danieley, a 1946 graduate of the Christian Church Institution, was named acting president and then selected as president. A native of Alamance County, Dr. Danieley holds MA and Ph degrees from the University of North Carolina.

He was named dean of the college in 1954. Dr. Danieley said he will emphasize a progressive program aimed at detailed instruction for students, academic freedom and full support of guidance and service. Moncure Woman Clings To Home 22 Carolina Scene 12 Amusements 17 Comics 16 Charles Page 22 Earl Wilson Page 17 Deaths Funerals. Page 19 Editorials Page 4 Farm Observer 19 Financial 18-19 Puzzle 16 Horoscope Page 10 Radio-TV 17 Sports Pages 13-15 Wants Ads 20-21 Goings On Page 17 Women's News.

Pages 10-11 Tar Heel Glimpses. Page 9 Under the Dome SCHOOL--Every morning week, a group of department heads, assistants and budget officers on Capitol Hill are ing to school. It's a "mechanized data processing school," set up by the Department of Administration. Main purpose of the school, well, recounted the events at the rally at which the Indians routed the Klan with gunfire, Sheriff McLeod said the Klan had come to the scene heavily armed. McLeod testified a couple of days prior to the rally he and Captain C.

R. Williams and Sgt. G. D. Dodson, both of the State Highway Patrol, visited Cole at his South Carolina home and warned him that the Indians were inflamed over the announced rally and there would be danger should the rally be held.

The sheriff said he again warned Cole at the scene of the rally a few minutes before the Indians swept forward. McLeod said he had attended three or four previous meetings at which Cole, the self-styled Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, made speeches. The sheriff said on these occasions Cole castigated Negroes, Indians, Jews and Catholics. The sheriff said that prior to the rally he had told Cole that he See TRIAL, Page Two. District Solicitor W.

Jack Hooks, who is expected to wind up his case Wednesday, displayed the bloody clothes which were worn by Patrolman Brown when he was hit in the lower belly by pistol fire. A bumper from the Oldsmobile was matched with the bumper Johnston, is to familiarize agency heads with the techniques and developments in the use of electronic computing equipment. Some of the old heads on the Hill have been grumbling about the school. They claim it's a waste of time--a sales pitch for International Business Machines. Patton's Move Surprised Him, Too By CHARLES CLAY.

Count Attorney General George Patton among those who are surfine prised that he wound up a candidate for resident Superior Court judge of the 30th District this time. Judge Dan K. Moore's announcement Saturday that he would step down caught Patton by surprise while he was at home in Franklin for the weekend, the attorney general said Tuesday. Patton indicated he had given no thought to running against Judge Moore. "I made up my mind I on Saturday, last after hearding of Moore's plans, Patton told newsmen here.

Because of the way things developed, Governor Hodges learned of it Sunday. Patton said after a conference with the Governor Tuesday morning that there will be no decision on whether he will resign until after the March 21 filing deadline. At the same time Patton gave notice he'd run for judge, veteran District Solicitor Thad Bryson of Bryson City also announced. Patton went by the State Board of Elections Tuesday and paid his $120 filing fee. He was assured of opposition when Bryson revealed that he had mailed a check to the Elections Board to cover his filing fee.

After the filing deadline Patton "If I have to put on a campaign, I'll have to put one on," Judge Patton said. If it developed that he had no opposition in the May primary, it could be that he would stay on as attorney general for some months, possibly until the election. Loves The Bench. Of the surprise his announcement created, Judge Patton said to the reporters: "I've told everyone of you at one time or another that I love the Superior Court bench better than anything I've ever done in my life." Questioned as to the State's position in the school segregation crisis, Patton said he was "very gratified with the situation in that Patton has made a considerable number of changes in his staff al in August, "I think as of since he became, attorney generthis minute that I have a mighty fine working organization," he said. In the event of Patton's resignation, the Governor would narne his successor to serve until the fall elections and the State Democratic Executive Committee would select the party's nominee to serve the remainder of Patton's four-year term.

Paper and Fibre Company announced at Asheville Tuesday that Judge Moore would join the firm as legal counsel. GEORGE PATTON will meet again with the Gover- nor to determine his future status as attorney general..