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12. SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY RALEIGH, N. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1953. SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY PRICE: SUNDAY DAILY FIVE FIFTEEN CENTO CENTS Lennon Leaves For Capital Soon; Says He's 'Middle -of -Roader' By The Associated Press. Alton A.

Lennon--the stands for -the nation's newest senator, said today he plans to go to Washington this week "certainly no later than Wednesday." When he arrives there, one of his first orders of business will be to present his credentials to the secretary of the Senate. His cre- Identials include a copy of ap- Does he think along the same lines pointment certified by Gov. Um- as the late senator in regards to stead, who named him yesterday McCarthyism, Communism, Forto succeed the late Democratic eign aid, and aid to displaced perSen. Willis Smith of Raleigh. described Lennon, in a himself telephone from his law interview, of- liberalism "There are varying degrees of and conservatism," fice in Wilmington.

replied. "I have tried and will Is more liberal or conservative than the man he succeeded? See LENNON, Page Six. HAPPY SENATOR, PROUD PARENTS- -Among the first to congratulate Alton A. Lennon, the new United States Senator from the East, were the Wilmington lawyer's elderly parents. Here Rosser Yates Lennon, 83, and Minnie High Lennon, 78, are pictured with their son at the Senator's Wrightsville Beach cottage shortly after the appointment from Raleigh was announced.

The elder Lennon is a retired employe of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's freight claims department. Now living in Wilmington, he and his wife originally were from Columbus County. (Staff photo by David Murray.) N. C. Press Continues Fight Against Legislative Secrecy Firm Stand Expressed As Annual Meeting Ends at New Bern ordinate bodies thereof." Protests Heard.

By J. GASKILL McDANIEL. NEW BERN, July 11-There's nothing secret about the North Carolina Press Association's continued stand against secrecy in legislative sessions. Before ending their annual threeday convention here this afternoon, members passed a resolution that pointedly expressed the group's sentiments. "Whereas," it read, "the North Carolina General Assembly at its 1953 session, recently concluded, did by a majority vote of both houses institute a system of secret sessions for some of its committees and sub-committees, thus denying to the general public their God-given right to know what their legislators are doing; and realizing as we do that a public office is a public trust, such officials bearing first, last, and all the time an obligation to conduct the people's business entirely in the open; realizing as we do that this untoward act of our general assembly marks a dangerous threat to freedom of information, therefore it is resolved that we hereby express and emphasize our unalterable opposition to the action of the general assembly in this matter, not because of any attitude of superiority on our part or of any feeling that the press should be accorded any privileges not granted others, but because as the mouthpiece of the and the guardian of their peoples we must of necessity have access to all official ings of legislative bodies or sub- Though strongly worded, the final resolution adopted was somewhat milder than a lengthier one first proposed.

A number of caustic phrases in the original draft were eliminated after several members, among them William K. Hoyt of The Winston-Salem Journal, Josh Horne of The Rocky Mount Evening Telegram, Dave Whichard of The Greenville Reflector, and Mrs. Elizabeth G. Swindell of The Wilson Times expressed vigorous disapproval. These members picked up general support for their objections.

When vote was taken on the revised, toned el resolution it passed by overwhelming majority. It was obvious that editors and publishers attending the convention were anxious to refrain from any action that a might real appear vindictive or carry or implied threat against present and legislators who uphold the secrecy. See PRESS, Page Six. Money Due You? Do you have some money you don't know about or have forgotten? The News and Observer has the names of more than 7,100 Tar Heels -tobacco farmerswho are in that fix. be published daily until the complete list has been printed.

Some of them may be found today on Page 12, Section 2. The list is made up of members of the Stabilization Corporation who have distributed checks of $5 or more which were mailed but returned, or which were not cashed. Another list will be published tomorrow. SOUTHERN STATES AGAINST WESTERN COTTON REQUESTS Say Proposals Would Give Acreage Advantages to Western Cotton States WASHINGTON, July 11 (P Southerners today blasted proposals which they said would give California, Arizona and other Western states an unearned advantage if cotton acreage quotas are imposed for 1954 as expected. The gist of their arguments before the Senate Agriculture Committee was that the Southern states had been in the cotton business for decades while in recent years Western states had jumped their cotton plantings.

Should Take Bigger Cut. As a result, the Southerners contended, the West should take a much bigger cut in acreage planted next year, if the acreage quotas go into effect, to hold down a growing supply of cotton. Rep. Abernethy -Miss) told the committee that a "gigantic lobby" was trying to pressure Congress into giving the Western states an unearned advantage. H.

L. Wingate, president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation and a member of the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said he was opposed to the plan proposed by the National Farm Bureau. The Southerners want this: Use of the present the book to make the cuts in acreage by using a five-year base period (in allow working a out minimum of formula million but acres for cotton in 1954. The five years to be used would be 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951 and 1952. Excluded would be 1949, the last time acreage allotments were put into effect.

Abandoned Kuchel Bill. The Westerners yesterday abandoned a bill by Sen. Kuchel (R- Calif) and other Western senators to alter the present law figuring state shares of the national totalbut adopted instead the plan proposed by the National Farm Bureau Federation. The Farm Bureau plan would: Set the national allotment for 1954 at million acres plus some 500,000 acres adjustments to prevent any Western states from receiving a cut of more than per cent. Southern states would not be cut more than per cent under the Farm Bureau plan.

See COTTON, Page Six. Die In Crash SAVANNAH, July 11 (P) -Ten airmen from nearby Hunter Air Force base died in the thunderous crash of a B29 bomber tangled, mucky tideland marsh last night. The big plane, on a training mission. was shattered to bits. possibly by an explosion, as it slammed into the mush alongRock Fish Creek.

side. wreck Hunter's sixth, with a total of 52 fatalities, since the base was reactivated in 1949. The wreckage was near the mouth of turgid, slow-moving Ogeechee River. It was found early today by a helicopter, a unit in a massive search organized when the bomber failed to return to the base last night. Some of the bodies were brought to the Air Force crash boat base at Thunderbolt later in the day for transfer to Hunter Hospital for an attempt at identification.

America and South Korea Reach An Understanding On Armistice Joint Statement Does Not Specifically Say That South Korea Will Join Or Even Cooperate In Korean War Truce, But Eisenhower Envoy Declares United States Has Assurance of President Rhee's Collaboration; Just How Communists Will React to American South Korean Understanding Remains to Be Seen WEED MARKETING WARNING SOUNDED Greenville Tobacconist Says Inadequate Buying Power Can Mean Loss to Farmer GREENVILLE, July 11-Tobacco growers today were warned that financial loss may result if markets are opened before maximum buying power is available. J. Lanier of Greenville, general 1 counsel for the Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association, sounded the warning in a statement supporting the market opening dates recently set by the Bright Belt Warehouse Association. A new system of having the dates set by persons representing growers, warehousemen and buying companies was used this year instead of the old method of having a committee of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association set the dates. Cannot Be Sustained.

"Many statements were made which are totally unjustified and cannot be sustained," Lanier said. "The damage to the producers and to the industry arises when warehouses in several areas, according to reports, are preparing to open auction variance with scheduled openings." Five markets of the Sandhills have withdrawn from the Bright Belt Association and announced an earlier opening date. In setting the earlier, opening, they the had been Sandhills assured by the U. S. Department of Agriculture that government graders would be on hand for their opening Aug.

27. "Should each market attempt to become a law unto itself, all trying to open on the same Lanier declared, "it is certain that the results will be not only confusion, disorderly marketings and waste, heavy losses to the producer." He explained that should any market open and begin to sell before a full complement of buyers See TOBACCO, Page Six. WNA0-TV On Air Today; Opening Ceremonies Slated WNAO-TV will hold formal (ing ceremonies and go on the air this afternoon at 5:25 o'clock-thus becoming the first Raleigh TV station to begin operation. Dignitaries who are expected to be present for the opening will include Mayor Fred B. Wheeler of Raleigh; Mrs.

Mary Trent, mayor pro-tem of Durham; an official representative of the State of North Carolina: the Rev. Thomas Collins, secretary of the Raleigh Ministerial Association; John English, president of WNA0-AM and TV; and Frank Daniels, vice-president. WNAO-TV Manager Charles Stone will serve as master of ceremonies, and Byron Davis, program manlager, make and Hal brief Stanley, appearances. news editor, A 10-minute film, "People and Places in and Around Raleigh," will be shown, with Mike Silver doing the narration. The first commercial TV show to go on the air will be CBS-TV's "Top with a special -salute to WNAO-TV.

at 5:45 o'clock this afternoon. The show is spon- RHEE HONORS EIGHTH took time out from truce on Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Eighth ARMY CHIEF--South Korean conferences at Seoul to pin the South Army commander. (AP President Syngman Rhee Korean presidential citation Wirephoto via Radio from Tokyo.) Kremlin Turns Down Offer Of Food For East Germany FATHERS TO FACE UNIFORM SERVICE Eisenhower Issues Order Subjecting Fathers to Selective Service Calls WASHINGTON, July 11 ident Eisenhower today made fathers subject to the draft unless they can prove fatherhood before Aug. 25, 1953, or show "extreme hardship and privation." Men already deferred as fathers are not affected.

Eisenhower's order, amending draft regulations, permits men deferred on dependency grounds to remain that status so long as they maintain bona fide family relationship in their home." Not After August 25. But a selective service registrant not deferred for fatherhood can not claim exemption on that basus unless he can prove, before Aug. 25, See FATHERS, Page Six. Tar Heel Lion Honored CHICAGO, July 11 (P S. A.

Dodge of Detroit today was elected president of the International Association of Lions Clubs on the closing day of the group's 36th annual convention. Dodge and most other candidates for top offices were unopposed. The big contest was for the third vice presidency. John L. (Jack) Stickley Charlotte, N.

topped two other nominees for the stepping stone position which customarily leads to the presidency. Two Officials Advance. Succeeding Dodge as first vice president was Monroe L. Nute of Kenneth Square, Pa. Humberto Valenzuela of Santiago, Chile, moved up from third to second vice president.

See LIONS, Page Six. JOHN L. (JACK) STICKLEY Under the Dome the LENNON- -The dispatch came to state desks of North Carolina's city dailies datelined Wilmington, June 26. Willis Smith was dead barely 12 hours. "A move to have Gov.

William B. Umstead appoint local attorney Alton Lennon to the late Sen. Willis Smith's U. S. Senate post," read the news item, "began in Wilmington today and a local political figure said Lennon was 'highly regarded, both personally' and for his ability, by the Governor "Lennon said today 'any man would be highly honored to be appointed as Senator from North "Lennon is president of the Wilmington Bar Association and managed the Governor's campaign in this section last year BEGINNING -That was the beginning.

With what seemed a sin- (Calls American Propaganda Maneuver; Blames West For Rioting LONDON, Sunday, July 12 (P- The Kremlin today turned down President Eisenhower's offer of 15 million dollars worth of food to the Soviet Union for hungry East Germans. The note, broadMoscow labeled official, offer a propaganda maneuver. The note signed Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov.

The broadcast said it had been delivered to the U. S. in Moscow yesterday. Besides spurning the Blames Riotserican offer, the note laid the blame for the June 17 East Berlin riots on the West. President Eisenhower in a note delivered to the Soviet government in Moscow Friday, asked the Russians to accept the multimillion-dollar food supplies to "allevlate in the "distressed" German East zone.

See FOOD. Page Two. AMERICAN TROOPS HALT HILL BATTLE Withdraw From Porkchop Position After Five Days of Fierce Fighting SEOUL. Sunday, July 12 (P-U. S.

7th Division troops last night pulled off Porkchop Hill on the Western Front, ending temporarily at least a savage five day battle with Chinese Reds, and today U. S. artillery raked the abandoned height with devastating fire. An Eighth Army briefing officer said it was not known immediately if the Communists forward to ocuppy the hill, 40 miles north of Seoul. The spokesman said the position See KOREA, Page Two.

Arkansas Democrat Spurns Republican Peace Overture WASHINGTON, July 11 (P-Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) today rebuffed TO a Republican overture that he and two Democratic colleagues reconsider their walk-out from Sen. Carthy's investigations subcommittee. "So far as I am concerned." McClellan told newsmen, "it's a closed issue." He added that what happens to the investigations subcommittee now "is up to the publican Sen. Knowland of California, the SEOUL, Sunday, July 12 (P--The United States and South Korea today issued a joint statement sayling the two countries had reached an agreement that has "gone far toward achieving mutual understanding on the troubled questions which have arisen in connection arrangements for an armistice." U.

S. Envoy Walter S. Robertson went beyond the formal paper, telling newsmen "we could not make the statement if we had not had assurance that President Syngman Rhee would collaborate in the armistice." Not Stated Specifically. However, there was nothing in 300-word statement that specifically said the South Korean President would join or even cooperate in a truce. In Washington, an Eisenhower administration leader said the two nations had reached complete agreement and only acceptance by the Communists was needed for a cease fire.

Previously Rhee had balked at any truce that left the country divided with one million Chinese Red troops on Korean One hour after the collatement was released at 10 a. m. (8 p. m. Saturday, EST) Allied and Communist truce negotiators were meet again at the Panmunjom conference table.

Remains To Be Seen. Just what reaction the Red delegation would make to the South Korean accord remained to be seen. The Communists have demanded solid assurances from the U. N. that Rhee would honor the terms of the truce.

The text of the joint RheeRobertson announcement was couched in general terms but i it indicated: 1. Rhee promised not to turn loose the remaining 8,000 anti-Communist North Korean prisoners until they had been interviewed by representatives of Neutral nations as the armistice terms specified. 2. Rhee promised to abide by the terms of the armistice at least until a "post-armistice" period had been reached. It didn't say specifically long that might be.

3. The United States agreed to a mutual defense pact. The drafts have already been exchanged for such a treaty. Discussed Collaboration. 4.

The United States discussed collaboration along political, economic and defense lines It said wide area of agreement" had been reached in these matters and that the U. S. and the Republic of Korea wanted to emphasize their determination to work together for the realization" of a "free, independent and unified Korea." The announcement was handed to newsmen Saturday night. Robertson said the talks with Rhee finished and that he was returning to Washington by way of There he will for two days with Gen. Clark, confect Far East U.

N. commander. Robertson spent 16 days negotiating with Rhee, trying to get the stubborn old President to promise he would respect-if not sign-an armistice. He arrived in Korea shortly after Rhee had released 27.000 Communist North Korean war prisoners and threatened to turn loose the last 8,000 before he would turn hem over to Communist nation representatives to be interviewed. The WEIMER JONES President.

In Brief Marchioness Weds. LISKEARD, England, July 11 up The Marchioness of Bath was married today Maj. Alexander Fielding, 36-year-old author and wartime resistance hero. Korean Casualties. WASHINGTON, July 11 (P) The Defense Department today identified 78 Korean War casualties.

The new list (No. 852) reported 21 killed, 53 wounded and four injured. Accepts Resignation, WASHINGTON, July 11 President Eisenhower today accepted the resignation of Joseph C. Green, American ambassador to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, effective July 21. Press officer James Hagerty at the White House in announcing this said the President has not yet See BRIEFS, Page Two.

acting GOP Senate leader. declined comment on the resignations of McClellan and Senators Symington (Mo) and Jackson (Wash) from the subcommittee. The Democratic trio quit the group yesterday after the four Republican members, on a straight party-line vote, gave Chairman McCarthy (R-Wis) the right to hire and fire subcommittee employes without consulting the minority members. See DEMOCRATS. Page Two.

Adlai Stevenson Faces Red Tommygun BERLIN, July 11 (P) Adlai E. Stevenson looked down the muzzle Russian tommygun in the hands of a trigger-happy East Berlin people's army soldier today. The soldier meant business. "You move and I shoot," he said in English. The incident occurred as Stevenson, 1952 Democratic presidential candidate, and his party were touren- ing East Berlin, restless and tense and since last month's riots.

He and his party were held up for 20 man minutes and the films they had home taken behind the Iron Curtain were what confiscated. race. Telling about the gun episode aftFront erward, Stevenson said with a Lennon smile: man know, curiously, I didn't nothing move." He and his party of seven persons were clambering around the ruins of the bunker on Wilhelmlong strasse where Hitler is believed to It have committed suicide. Several of of the group started snapping pictures of Stevenson. battle Suddenly about 10 police and soldiers appeared.

One car pulled in and behind Stevenson's car, another in front of it, blocking escape. They ordered the Americans to stop taking pictures. See TRUCE, Page Two. The group included Cecil B. Lyon, Berlin director for the U.

S. High Commission, U. S. Maj. Edwin Lumpkin of Athens, Ernest Ives of Chicago, Stevenson's sored by Chesterfield and is the summertime, Chesterfield replacement of the sponsored Perry Como show.

Other shows on tonight's pro gram lineup are as follows: Hopalong News Cassidy, 6 p. Weeks in Review, 7 p. Weeks Sports in Review, 7:15 p. Your Playtime, 7:30 p. Toast of the Town, 8 p.

TV Theater, 9 p. The Web, 10 p. Headline News and Sports, 10:30 p. Sunday Masterpieces, 10:30 p. m.

until 11:45 p. when the station signs off. WNAO-TV may be seen over Channel 28 and regular programs, including some of the nation's top shows, will be telecast from 5 p. m. until midnight seven days a week.

The station's principal affiliation is with the CBS-TV network, and its a supplementaries are NBC, ABC and Dumont networks. Test patterns will continue for some time to come, although the schedule is somewhat indefinite at present. gular lack of both fanfare and thusiasm, the name of a young and untested tide water lawyer, a man almost unknown outside his home precincts, was inserted into what turned out to be a cut-throat race. There was a bit of talk on Street. A local politico thought Lennon "highly regarded" by the man in the Mansion.

Only that and nothing more. The Lennon "boom" sprouting fast, seemed to die just as quickly. The name was added to the list in the gubernatorial office. It popped up in the first rounds of press speculation. Then it seemed to fade away as the sounds of battle swirled about John Larkins, Fred Royster, Harold Cooley and a few others of the prominently placed.

See DOME, Page Six. brother-in-law, and Stevenson's assistants William Blair and William Attwood and Mrs. Attwood. When the Americans started to get back into their cars an East German soldier wearing a khaki uniform of Russian style and carrying a Russian tommy gun, stepped forward menacingly. "You move and I shoot," he said gruffly.

When the police refused to let them leave, Lyon demanded to see the Russian ambassador. After about 20 minutes some officialsnot the ambassador-showed up. The officials confiscated the party's films and ordered them to proceed on their tour. The Russians only opened up East Berlin to Westerners two days ago for the first time since the June 17 workers revolt. Martial law is to be lifted at midnight but was still in effect at the time of Stevenson's visit.

Under the rules of martial law, "agents and provacateurs" could be court martialed by the Soviet Army and shot by a Russian firing squad. The Communists who "forbade Stevenson's companions to take pictures seemed honestly surprised at the Westerner's reaction. "Why, See STEVENSON, Pane Ewe, ADLAI E. STEVENSON..