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MEDITATIONS By Alley I STU WALT SAY DAT NEW DOCTUH AIN' BIN IN TOWN ON BUT OLKS IS 'OUA INTED WlD 'IM DOLLAR 'OeuuAR A jm tn 1 mTwK' SUNNY and cooler today Clear and cold tonight High 56 low 34 Details Page 2 Mtottfe illof nhio JffeW READER'S TIP LORENCE Yellow Jacketi Dreher meet tonight ill lower state AAA basketball tourna ment Story Page 5 VOL NO 346 LORENCE SATURDAY MORNING MARCI7 19L9 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10 Congress Leaders Three Youths Hurt in Wreck Near lorence Unify on Berlin Bi Partisan IN ALABAMA Talk with Ike Shapes Policy Pact Words Create Khrushchev ear of IA Arms Doubts War Prisoner rees Raj bin (D 4 Ex Mutual Network for the acutely de and Details Page 2 Mr city re Sergeant' Cole Partner new Await Grand Jury Action the plans of disengagement in central I Europe the kidnap thc the Lumbe THE CHIE said the men pro file the are having trouble whether the Soviet means business or is at a ferry side of the Is the princely both India and their pos to set up Detective Paulo others of the right in the explored in coming up discussed recent new drug at a meanwhile came no way dispelled of a rench West hit the at 5000 shouting at en Milligan headlines in Legislators Close Eyes to Nude Cult MONTPELIER VI (API Vcr House of RcprescntativeM riday turned down 122 J03 a bill that would have outlawed nudism in the state Chairman Ralph A oote of the Judiciary Committee said there are statutes on the lawbooks now to cover "indecency in mat ters of lewdness" He said the bill is unnecessary The committee had recommended it be defeated The only nudist colony in the stale is at Milton on Long Pond near the Canadian border It has 40 members CHIC Belle In gram 19 was identified by a bank teller in Las Vegas Nev riday as the girl who calmly fobbed the irst Na tional Bank of $2000 earlier in the day Miss Ingram was arrested on a Reno bound bus with $1761 in her pock etbook (AP Photofax) HOW A MARION Countian re deemed the family name on a bloody Virginia battlefield almost one hundred years ago is another feature you will enjoy reading in The lorence Morning News this Sunday third air high lead Olto pos boss and unified Republican said he was working for Cole and was a licensed North Carolina de tective When arrested Milligan had two badges one a special police badge issued by a North Carolina constable and the other a badge issued by an association of detec tives King said i Cole had a sergeant'e King quipped The men also had in session an application the Cole and Milligan agency in North Carolina King said By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A huge storm dumped more snow in the Midwest riday and roared into the Northeast alls that ranged up to 22 inches higher in closed hun dreds of schools shut factories and trapped buses and cars Deaths blamed on the wild weather numbered in Iowa and three in Wisconsin Michigan the storm center ri day reeled under a combination punch of wind and snow The blow was described as the roughest of a rugged winter A squall that resembled a small tornado smashed a 60 foot section of a wall in the ord Motor Co plant in Monroe Mich but the 250 workers oh duty escaped in jury Two Greyhound buses were stranded for a time one neai Cheboygan and another on State Rf' 68 between Indian River and Alanson Rescuers reached both buses The La Crosse Wis' Tribune carried a headline: Had The city was paralyzed to a large degree Several industrial plants suspenled operations for a long weekend Mail deliveries were cancelled Telephone service was on an emergency basis lowans floundered in snow left by the worst blizzard in 10 years A dozen auto travelers spent Thursday night on lounges and beds in a furniture store on the outskirts of Des Moines At the same time a busload of high school students found sanctuary in a con vent in Maple Grove Wis' and a busload ot kids from ttie Luxem burg School in Kewaunee County took shelter in a combination Res taurant tavern Bus service' was disrupted and trains ran late in southeastern Minnesota Snow stayed the mail men in their rounds in Rochester and schools were closed in that NEW' YORK (API The Mutual BioadcaMing System announced riday night that a group of New York businessmen have purchased an option to buy the radio net work and are immediately taking over its management A Mutual spokesman said final details of a complete purchase of the company are being worked out and may be completed over the weekend The unusual action of turning over immediate management of the firm to the group headed by Malcolm Smith was to "quiet the rumors that have been going around about the said the spokesman The Securities and Exchange Commission recently suspended trading in stock of the Jacobs Co which formerly con trolled the network The Jacobs company until recently was con trolled by Alexander Gutcrma who has been charged with fraud ulent practices by both the SEC and the BI The Mutual spokesman' said the network is now wholly owned by the Scranton Corp a Jacobs af filiate and that there has been no SEC action against the Scranton Corp Mutual has 453 affiliated radio stations throughout the country which it provides with news sports and special features The network however does not own the stations By DEW JAMES Morning News Slate Editor The Rev Janjes (Catfish) Cole and a partner charged with pos ing as private detectives without a license were bound over for grand jury action in a homing before lorence Magistiale Peter Hy man yesterday Drug Shows Mental Aid extensive farm allon does the big Sunday EDGEWOOD Md CAP) pcrimcnls with more than 2000 patients show that fl new ding may have distinct advantages in treating the mentally ill a Uni versity of Maryland scientist said riday Dr John Krantz one of the developers of the chemical "jn said use of the drug chminalbs many of the undesir able effects associated with elec tric phock treatments Shock many years has been used treatment of Area Deaths Mrs Rosa Tyson Matheson Cheraw Paul Allen Lnlla Keith Crowley Hartsville Paul Hodges Hartsville Beniamin Brigman Bennetts rille Walter Reeder Columbia A HARDSHIP case heart of lorence is the big Sunday issue No Pull Permit HONG KONG Two Nor wegian seamen were fined $20 each alter hring arrested while pulling a rickshaw The charge: no license SOUTH PITTSBURG Tenn The BI riday threw its resources into a huge manhunt for an Alabama fugitive who held four persons in terror for 14 hours while making his freedom bid The object of the search is William Smothers 38 who was serving sentences totaling 160 years on six robbery convictions when he overpowered an Alabama highway patrolman Thursday and took his service revolver Smothers is a small cigar smok ing man who boasted he would not be He was described as extremely dangerous It was believed he was trying to reach Chattanooga about 35 miles east of here where he has relatives The posse included at least 50 Tennessee Alabama and Georgia highway patrolmen and numerous county officers They were using bloodhounds and a Tennessee pa trol helicopter The search area is the Tennes see River Valley where the three states meet Surrounding moun tains contain several large caves in which a desperado could hole up Smothers turned out hos tages unhurt early riday on a road near lat Rock Ala about 25 miles south of here saying he did not want to take them across a state line that carries a death The hostages were Alabama pa trolman Otto Dees Mr and Mrs Noel Keith of near Birmingham and Tod Eastey a trusty convict serving 25 years on a murder con viction at Mobile Ala Easley was driving patrol car to Birmingham from Kilby Prison at Montgomery when Smothers used a homemade key to free himself of handcuffs and chains was in the back seat and I was in the Dees said "He got a stranglehold on me and held a piece of steel against me and took my The automobile was taken when they were kidnaped at their Before leaving with his hostages Smothers made the Keiths feed him The car was found abandoned before dawn riday landing on the other river from here irst indication of ing came from a neighbor who had called Mrs Keith and was intrigued by the strange conversa tion She called police Mrs Keith said Smothers had pointed the re volver at her during the phone conversation By WATSON SIMS NEW DELHI India (P) The omission of the key word Ji'oiii the Bed Pakistan mili tary created tears here riday it might be invoked India in some future row with Pakistan Washington otlicials and tho US Embassy in New Delhi em phasized that the pact signed In Tm key Thursday was directed against Communist aggression Pakistan apparently took a dif ferent view A oreign Ministry spokesman In Karachi said Pakis tan would invoke the pact "in the event o( any aggression from any LEIPZIG East Germany (AP) Premier Nikita Khrush chev told a group of foreign busi nessmen riday: believe tlrrc will be no war and then the pos sibilities of peaceful expansion of trade will be still While Khrushchev was putting (lie accent on peace on his dav al the Leipzig Trade another official indicated a level meeting of Communist ers will be held in East Berlin In a few days East German Premier Grotewohl said it Is that Polish Communist Wladyslaw Gomulka and Czecho slovak President and parly boss Antonin Novotny will meet there with Grotewohl and Khrushchev Grotewohl did not say what such talks would be about but there was little doubt they would concern a Soviet proposal that Po land and Czechoslovakia be rep resented at a foreign conference on the German ques tion Western political observers also believed the Soviet Premier might want to give weight to his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany Khrushchev in his trade and peace comments praised a British exhibitor at the Leipzig fair for making blue plastic bathtubs in stead of rockcis He also drank a cognac toast Io Alfred Krupp once Germany's biggest munitions maker It was as if Khrushchev was determined Io Jive up to the slogan posted at the fair upon his arrival: "The visit of the Soviet delegation is the symbol of peace ful "We must ban war" Khrush chev told the foreign businessmen who were visiting lhe Soviet pavilion "Peaceful trade is the well of life not armamenta" Khrushchev himself proposed the toast to Krupp West many's biggest steelmaker one of its wealthiest men "1 wish good health tn Krupp and send him my persona! the Soviet leader said as he drained his cognac from a sled cup manufactured by a Krupp firm "Production for peace is better than Khrushchev told Dr Carl Ilundhausen one of the Krupp lircclors Krupp himself is not at the fair Replied Ilundhausen: "We gave up making cannon long ago The Krupp firm has a contract to build a chemical plant in Soviet Union winter wise city for the first time within memory Roads in most of the storm areas were closed by drifts up to four feet deep Wind and rain struck hard in some places butside the broad storm zone Michigan Ave was blocked off at the Shera ton Cadillac Hotel A 45 mph wind loosenod a 30 story outside elevator shaft used in repair work Winds up to 53 mp wrecked a golf club shop and driving range of Indianapolis Ind' Three persons were injured slightly when a tree was blown over on a car io the Indianapolis area Winds with gusts up to 72 ph raked Cleveland Ohio High winds "also buffeted the shoreline of North Carolina The Charleston C' airport was doused by 6 63 inches of rain in 24 hours Apalachicola la was soaked by 751 inches in the same period duced credentials which they por poi led to be their detective papers Lt James Wise of the lor ence Police Dept testified the pair was first picked up after a complaint was received from a girl wot king in a soft ice cream establishment on Palmetto St The lieutenant said the girl call ed police headquarters and report ed two men "were aggravating" her and "she was afraid to close up to go Mr Wise said he and Sgt IT lower were approached by a Mr Lee while checking out lhe complaint Lee said Cole and Mil ligan had been "following him the lieutenant said Mr Lee identified a passing car as one occupied by the two men Lt Wise said He said the car was stopped and Cole and Milli gan taken to police headquarters where Chief Adams told them to discontinue their detective work Colin King agent of the State Law Enforcement Division testi fied he asked lorence police to arrest Cole and Milligan after he conducted an investigation into complaints about the two men THE SLED agent said he inter viewed the two the morning fol lowing their arrest and Milligan quarter including India or Kash The latter state claimed by Pakistan 1 he issue nicnl wheie mantled an will take such appropriate including use ot armed as may be mulally and as envisaged in the joint resolution Io pitunole peace and stability in the Middle East" The joint resolution on the Mid dle East is known as the Eisen hower Doctrine and provides for calling in US foiccs only in cases of Communist aggression Parlia Coinmunisls dc imnicdiate debate Prime Minister Nehru said US Ambassador Ellswoilli Bunker as sured him the pact applied only tn Communist aggression Nehru said that in his view Washington sincerely believes (hr pledge involves no commitment against India but he was con cerned that Pakistan might be lieve and act differently In view of concern he said he would ask for further assur ances horn Washington American officials said the key article in the pact was worded this way: "In cw of aggression against Pakistan the government ol the United Stales in accoi dance with the Constitution of the United States action forces WHAT HAS happened to a Pee Dee girl since she returned from New York 'City and success on a national television quiz program makes for reading you will not want to miss this weekend MARVIN TYNDALL Marion at torney and magistrate was legal counsel for Cote and Cole rocketed into January 1953 when a Klan ha was conducting put Indians at Pembroke NC on the warpath The Marion Klansman was con victed of inciting a riot Tift con viction was appealed to the Supreme Court 4 Cole a part time minister re cently closed his church in Mar ion a converted filling station However he how has a church at Rains identified on a church brochure as Rains irst Baptist Church The pastor is listed as Dr James Cole Dr Krantz studies of the meeting of scientists at the Army Chemical Center here Be is a professor of pharmacology al the School of Medicine Many mental patients are ap prehensive over the use of shock ireaHnenls he said because of possible emotional stress and borr fractures which often result "We have found that indoklon has greater patient acceptability and causes less emotional trauma afterward Uian electric he said The new drug normally Is ad ministered by inhalation through a face mask Dr Krantz said but University of Maryland scientists are currently attempting to devel op a method of applying it through intravenous injection This would be an improvement because "some palicnfc ohjcct to the mask and since it provides an all around simpler procedure" he added Storm Chokes Midd le West Cities Cold Snow Cause Thirteen Deaths Mob Storms To Protest Crackdown RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil (AP) mob rioted in Goiania and tried to invade the state gover nor's palace riday in protest against a harsh police crackdown on a student demonsrtation Thurs day Dispatches from the central Brazil area said the ermy broke up the latest outbursts without in jury to anyone but the mained tense The crowd estimated surged into the streets protests against club swinging tac tics used by police Thursday night to break up a band of students demonstrating against a round of tuition increases A student identified as Afonso was killed and 14 were reported injured One injured was reported to be a prov incial legislator? The army took over patroling after Gov Jose Seliciano ordered police confined to barracks Party Eludes BI Manhunt Auto Kills Pedestrian On Palmetto A 52 ycnr oId Negro man who lived on National Cwnclcry road was fatally injured last night when struck hy a car al Eust Pal metto and Kempt streets The victim was identified Washington Howe by Coroner Billy Eaddy Bowe died about an hour and one half after the 3 pm accident of internal injuries said Mr addy said Howe apparent ly stepped from a center islaifd into the path of a car driven by Willie Rushing of lorence Rushing was driving west Two witnesses James Broach and Donald Welch of Effingham who were going through the inter section in the opposite direction said Howe starlcd to cross in front of them then back tracked the coroner said Investigating hesidrs the coro ner were Highway Ptlm I Gamble and Lt Jimmy Wise and Ptlm Robert Bellamy of the City Police Dept one has been appointed io take their place Johnson threw the government's suit out of court on the grounds 1 That Livingston and State Rep Grady Rogers had a right to quit their jobs as regis trars despite the Justice Depart contention that they could not legally resign 2 Neither the board of regis trars nor the stale of Alabama can be held responsible under Civil Rights Act under which government suit was filed Johnson agreed with totneys that the federal law acted in 1957 gives the Justice De partment only the right to take action against "persons" respon sible for voter registration He upheld the stale's contention that neither the board of regis trars nor the state is a "person" under the law The complaint which asked for an injunction to prohibit future discrimination charged that Ne groes for many years have been denied the right to vote solely be cause of their race 'Although Negroes outnumber white residents of the county near ly 6 1 the government said there are twice as many white men and women as Negroes on the voting list' '7' The complaint listed 20 Negroes who allegedly were qualified to vote but were turned down Most of them were college graduates Some were college instructors Johnson was asked for an in junction prohibiting registration officials from taking any action to keep qualified Negro applicants from voting Three lorence tcrn agcri were admitted to a local hospital and I wo others were treated and re leased after the car in which they were riding near the city went out of control and turned over several times late yesterday afternoon urman lowers 15 driver of the 1953 Chevrolet belonging to his mother was admitted to Mc Leod Infirmary for observation Billy Tanner 15 901 Adams Ave Is described as being In fair con dition with a head injury and pos sible concussion nnd Lynwood McElveen 15 Pamplico Highway is in fnir condition with severe back inturiex Paul Pridgen to 1515 Madison Ave and Steve Lee tn Cedar St were treated for injuries and released The car in which the hoys were apparently pleasure riding skid ded and turned over 700 foet when it left the rnad connceling Highway 30 and 51 near Howe Springs south of lorence The accident was investigated by Cpl Webb and Ptlm owler of the Stale High way Patrol The patrolmen said the car was traveling at a high speed Sold to Party Ot Businessmen CAR IN WHICH IVE YOUTHS WERE INJURED skidded and rolled 700 feet yesterday (Morning News Photo) THE MAGISTRATE continued bonds of $1000 each for Col and his partner James ranklin Milligan The bonds were signed by Sallie Rogers of Marion County Cole self styled leader of the Ku Klux Klan in the Carolinas and Milligan were arrested in lorence Jan 31 after complaints were received that they were "fol lowing persons around" officers reported Chief of Police Melvin Adams testified that he warned Cole and his accomplice two or three days before they were charged to discontinue their "de levlive in I'lorence i He said thu! when the men were brought in the first time they said they were private detectives and "were watching a house and a divorced man and divorced wom an in lorence" Judge Refuses Bid To Push Negro Vote MONTGOMERY Ala G0 Dist Judge rank Johnson Jr riday turned down the Justice Depart request for a court order to prexent denial of Negro voting rights in Macon County He ruled mere is no one to get an injunction against since there is no functioning voter registra tion board in the county The last two remaining board members resigned Dec 10 and no WASHINGTON (z?) The four men who lead Congress met for 90 minutes with' Eisenhower Thurs day and promptly proclaimed bipartisan backing of his stand against Red threats to Berlin "The Communists will discover that this country and our free al lies are determined to picservc the free world" Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas said "We are unified we have any parties in this thing" Speaker of the House Sam Tex) said "A common Senate Leader Everett Dirksen of Illi nois added House Republican Leader Charles A Halleck of Indiana em phasized that this did not mean a firmness which barred a nego tiated settlement "Every honorable avenue for peace will be constantly explored and anything that can he done with honor will be done to main tain the Halleck said The Uhife House session cainc as a patent part of campaign to impress upon the Kremlin that the West refuses to be pushed out Berlin It followed by three hour a White House announcement that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and oreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd will confer witli Eisenhower in Washington on March 20 They are due to arrive March 19 after a one day consulta tion with Canadian Primo Minis ter John Dieffenbaker in Ottawa purpose in coming here officials said is to give Eisenhower a fill in on his 10 day visit to Moscow and to nail down a unified Allied position Reports are gaining currency that the Al lied chiefs agreeing on Union really bluffing Sen Johnson tolj a news con ference after returning to Capitol Hill that the approaching Berlin crisis "sharpens the necessity' for military preparedness "Both parlies are uniting to evolve a strong foreign he said "one that will be equal to any Johnson announced the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles will be invited before the Senate Preparedness subcommittee probably next week to review the military situa tion Johnson is chairman of the sub committee rom Bonnword which in Jhe impression German axis which favors a very tough reaction to Soviet moves A Bonn government spokesman said rench President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer agreed at their recent meeting to oppose all Shave or Else TUXTLA GUTIERREZ Mexico The mayor of this pro vincial capital has ordered all his cops Io shave hoards or be fired He gave no reason Another Edition eature Packed The Pee Dec 'Mari of the Week is a Master armer from down Marion way who extended a be trothal gift into holdings Eugene word portrait in Morning News WE vi 1 I I 'Ji 3 ax.