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mix. Deathless Days City County 519 122 Alcohol and gasoline do not KINGSPORT NEWS VOL. XIV--NO. 251 KINGSPORT, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956 Mltl 19 PAfJFS L6 fAUth, 5 The Weather Tennesiee: Motlly cloudy u4 scattered tb'underitorms Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Virginia: Fair and rather high in today.

Wednesday! Cloudy aad cool. HIGH COURT BANS BUS SEGREGATION 'Don't Shake Reds Boast Of H-Bomb Missile BIRMINGHAM, England, April 23 ijF--Nikita Khrushchev told th world today Soviet Russia soon will have hydrogen-bomb guided missiles "which can hit every point in the world." And to those who belittle or Jeer the Soviet Union, the Communist party boss declared: "nev- shake your fist at a Russian." Khrushchev's face reddened and his voice rose in a speech before a Chamber of Commerce luncheon. He had just been through a whirlwind tour of Birmingham, Britain's Pittsburgh, In which he and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin were met by heckling demonstra- tors and banners saying "Down with Moscow." He and Bulganin were guests of honor at the luncheon on this sixth day of their 10-day visit to Britain, which they call a good-will mission. The guided missile reference came as Khrushchev tried to illustrate that the Soviet Union is geared to compete on any level with the Allied West. He spoke extemporaneously and in Russian through an interpreter.

"The point. I want to make is that restrictions of trade do not prevent us in any way from making advances in armament." he told the civic leaders in the heart of Britain's industrial belt. Khrushchev's delivered in a talk, shout. sometimes seemed a mixture of appeals to British trade instincts and an effort to exhibit the Soviet Union in its most competitive light. He pictured trade as a true route to friendly relations.

It was obvious to listeners that the derision displayed to the two Russians by many Britons had stung. "We have seen fists shaken at us," Khrushchev said. "I would remind the man with the fist that a have been made pre- viously to speak to us in that manner. Never shake your fist at a Russian. "Is it now time that we became more intelligent and not shake our fists at each other? As a matter of fact this fighting requires much less brains than trading does." Although he referred to "the man with the fist," Khrushchev was plainly using him as an example to all those Britons who may be belligerent in their approach to the Soviet Union.

Khrushchev said the Soviet Union had already exploded an It- bomb from a plane, and then as- serted that thus far the Unite States has only set off H-boml from ground installations. He paid tribute to Britain's ne turbo-jet passenger plane, then said Soviet Designer Andrei Ti polev was working on a simil craft which would carry no pa sengersa--as opposed to the Vis count's 47. Tupelov said earlier the day in London the plane wou carry 150 passengers. Commenting on his talks wi British officials, Khrushchev sa he felt the visit would be ben ficial. "We are engaged in serious talk with the government," he sale U.

S. Silent On Red Claim By ELTON C. FAT AP Military Reporter I WASHINGTON, April 23 ijB--Sec- retary of the Air Force Queries took calm view today of Russia's latest claim--that the Soviets will soon have a hvdrogen-headed missile. Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist party boss now touring Eng- i land, said he was "quite sure that we will quickly have a guided missile with a hydrogen bomb that can fall anywhere in the world." Asked about that, Quarles said that last February he had told a House committee he thought that "manned bombers clearly will be the preferred means of delivery (for atomic weapons! for the next five years and that they undoubt- EK Sales Set Mark Reported Highest In Firm's History First quarter sales and earnings Of Eastman Kodak Company were better than in any previous firs Quarter, it was reported yesterday mport Dt for next by Thomas J. Hargrave, chairman ten years.

He added to newsmen: "I still hold this is trye." As for the Russians getting the new weapon said: Quarles and Albert K. Chapman, president, Consolidated sales of the company's United States establishments for the 12-week period ending March IB, 1950, were $154,744,604, up four per cent over the S149, "Anything as terrible as that 174,688 for the corresponding 1955 will seem quick no matter when (period. they get it. Whether it will Net earnings after taxes for the quick in our definition of the word. I first quarter were 516,998,185 an he fKhrushchevi doesn't reveal toiincrease of 15 per cent over' the us earned in the first quar- Asked whether the United States I ter a year ago.

could attain a hydrogen missile The previous first quarter high Quarles replied that he did not want to comment directly for sales and earnings was set in 1955. on that. He added that "I see no i Quarterly earnings were equal to reason to distinguish" between cents a share on 18,277260 corn- Russian and American problems mon shares outstanding compared in developing long-range atomic with 84 cents a share on 17 403 168 missiles. 17,403,168 common shares outstanding at the Khrushchev also said Russia is end of the 1955 first quarter. Com- the first nation to explode an H-1 mon shares were increased by pay- bomb from a plane and that thelment of a five per cent stock divi- Umted States is "only now intend-jdend in the second quarter of 1955 ing to do this." Earnings before taxes were S37 Sen.

Symington (D-Mo), now conducting a Senate investigation of U. S. air power as compared with Russia, had this to say of the Soviet missile claim: "If true, It is a significant and terrible Warning to the American people and the free world." Sen. Jp.ckson ID-Wash) who, like Symington, has been critical of America's defense development, commented: "I must assume that the Soviets have the capability of building ballistic missile with a hydroge bomb warhead. To assume other wise would jeopardize our secur ity." American officials, in the ad ministration and in Congress, hav been saying for months that Rus sia is launched on an all-out pro gram to build inter-continenta ballistic missies which would bi armed with nuclear warheads.

But the Defense Department ha Insisted that the United States accelerated its program for ICBfy and intermediate-range missile de velopment in a series of contract, with companies. Unofficial speculation on the time needed for American devel opment of the long-range, hydro gen-armed missiles has ranged up ward from two or three years Khrushchev's broadly worded ref erence to developing such a mis sile "quickly" did not appear to add any specific new information to estimates here of the time re quired for Soviet production ol ocean-spanning rockets. Heavy Vote In Pa. Is Sought PHILADELPHIA, April 23 major parties made a last- minute drive today to encourage a heavy "popularity contest" vote for President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in Pennsylvania's primary election tomorrow. Republican and Democratic state organizations urged county lenders to push the preference balloting for their respective presidential favorites.

Eisenhower, in effect, was unopposed on the GOP ballot. The name of Sen. William P. Knowland of California appeared only because he was unable to withdraw it before the deadline. Stevenson's will be the only presidential candidate name on the Democratic ballot, with Sen.

Estea Kefauvcr of Tennessee avoiding any outward attempt to gain a write-in vote In the state. In the 1052 presidential election Eisenhower curried Pennsylvania by a 260,520 margin over Stevenson-- 426,048, up 13 per cent over the 333.246,604 in the first quarter of 1955. Dividends declared in the first quarter were SI.50 on preferred and 60 cents on common shares. They totalled $11,058,841. The balance of net earnings after dividends amounted to S5.939.344 and was retained, for use in the business.

Fake Passport Ring Broken With Arrests NEW YORK, April 23 A federal official claimed today tha thousands of criminal and misfi Latin A i a have beei brought to this country as slave of a vice ring. Faked, passport. County GOP Sets May 12 Gibson Girl and Escorts Over The Coffee Clip By BILL FREEHOFF The Gibson Girl is dead. for selection of delegates is May 8 A generation ago, the serene, carl H. Trent and Ward Gardner beautiful countenance of a brunet- se ek endorsement in the sher.

te with a high hair-do, a starched ff race T. M. Carter and H. O. shin-waist and black skirt, ard will be seeking the nomina- The executive committee of Sullivan County Republican Partj set May 12 as the data for the nomination convention.

The committee met last night a jie Civic Auditorium and selected Blountville as the site and p.m. as the time. A total of 621 delegates to the convention will select candidates the contested races for sheriff and superinendent of schools. Delegates will be selected precinct mass meetings. Deadline America's favorite pin-up.

The Gibson Girl was the crea- of the late, great Charles Dana Gibson and his model was his wife Irene Langhorne Gibson of Virginia. Now she is dead. tion in the superintendent's race. Unopposed in the three races are: Paris Pendleton for tax assessor; Tom Still, highway commissioner; and trustee. The Sullivan H.

Clay Vaughn, County precinct But the Gibson Girl will live on, committee will meet one hour he the carefully treasured illustrations of her creator. The lowly sandwich was named after a British nobleman Earl the were used. U. S. Atty.

Paul W. William said the ring operated at profit, of half a million dollars a year in Cuba, Haiti, the Domonican Re public, Venezuela and Peru. Fake passports were peddled a $250 to 51,200 apiece, Williams said, and 80 per cent of them fel into the hands of criminals and the rest went to mental and physical defectives. He added: "There Is no doubt that many ol hem were and are the abject slaves of the ring, and we know- hat men and women alike were orced into the criminal fields of n'ostltution and dope and that hey were made to act as sponsors or other criminals coming into he country." A special federal grand jury vas put on the trnil of the ring fter the arrest of an nlleged kingpin and four members. Williams named as American cingpin of the Arturo Arrocha-Lopez, 45, New York.

Arrested Friday, he is held hi $25,000 iond on immigration law charges. Also under bond here are Dr. Octavio Diaz, 46; his wife, Teresa, Erasmo Ramos, 30, and Fran- Isco Perez Perez--all of New York and all Cubans. Williams said the big man at he Cuban end of the ring Is Ramon Garrlga, who advertises In icwspapers there: "If you want to go to the United itates I will help you." Garrlga jumped $1,000 bond last Williams added, and fled the ounlry. News Conference WASHINGTON, A i 23 -'resident Elsenhower will hold a rws conference At 10:30 a.m., 5ST, Wednesday, But only recently have civil servants in Britain's Home Office and Works Ministry been allowed ti much sandwiches in the common 'ooms.

It all came about when the Civi Service chiefs refused employe lo eat sandwiches at their desks The union leaders insisted that ac commodations should then be made. Six Children In 13 Months NEW YORK, April 23 tf--The vife of a S4Q-a-week: Bronx ma hinist gave birth to quadruplets oday, bringing to six the number children she has had. in less ban 13 months. The mother, Mrs. Carmen Me ina, 25.

bore twins just a year nd 10 days ago. She had expectec wins again this time. Instead she ad two boys and two girls. Told of the quadruple birth, the ather, Ciprian, 28, gasped: "I think I'd better earn more oney, I can't believe it. I was xpecting twins." All four babies were put in in- ubators.

The smallest, a boy, eighed two pounds and five ounces. The largest, also a boy, weighed three pounds, three ounces. The four arrived four minutes apart. "both mother and children seem to be doing very well," reported a spokesman at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital. The mother is 5 feet 2 and weighs only 96 pounds.

The father is three inches taller and weighs only 115. They live in a $4Q-a- month walkup apartment. The couple married in their native Puerto Rico in 1947 and came icre three years ago. Tempera Lures lallon High T.OP: Station High Low sheville 63 36 i a i 83 67 tlitnta 73 47 iMpls-st. Paul 41 20 oston 44 34 Orleans "5 5(5 lilcago 46 28 New York 50 38 convention in Blountville.

At this meeting this committee has the power to nominate any candidate for the ticket. There is speculation a candidate for the County Judge race will be picked at this meeting. Gets Sentence And Fine On ABC Charge From T-N VIrrInU BareiD WISE, Va. An Appalachian man was fined a total of S150 and costs and 90 days in jail after being convicted in Circuit Court here Monday of ABC Law violation. A five man jury convicted Cecil Harris of illegal sale of whiskey, possessing whiskey around a res- turant, and creating a common nuisance.

He was fined S50 and given 30 days on each charge. Judge Joseph L. Cantwell Jr. suspended execution for 45 days on a motion of the defense attorney pending a possible appeal. Harris operated a small diner in Appalachia at the time of the arrest by ABC and ATU officers.

He did not take the stand. In other cases Monday, on the misdemeanor appeal docket, Robert Williams was fined and costs and given 6 months in jail after pleading guilty to an assault and battery charge. This was the same sentence handed down earl- er in Trial Justice Court. Charles Chambler, formerly Big Stone Gap and now living in Bristol, was fined $50 and 30 days "or contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and S20 and 30 days or petty larceny. Chambler pleaded guilty to both charges.

In another petty larceny case, Johnny Mason was fined $20 for Dealing gas from a truck in Big Stone Gap. He was tried by a jury, his absence. A jury returned a not-guilty Denver lacknonvllle -oiilsvllle 49 31 Philadelphia 52 42 75 56 Pittsburgh 42 32 41 33 i fi4 43 8fi 4B St. Louis 50 33 H5 51 Snn Francisco f9 48 35 SH J.i seamc 61 .17 62 Washington 54 serious injury. erdict in the reckless driving case gainst Lewis Andy Fox.

The harges grew out of a wreck near Big Stone Gap last September in which two people were killed. W. L. Horton and his wife were killed in the Wildcat section, after their car collided with a truck driven by Fox. Two small Horton girls who were in the car, escaped Bristol Fire Destroys Five Businesses BRISTOL, April 23 -Five business firms two stores a loan office, a dress shop and a barber shop were destroyed to nigrt by a fire which ranged out control in downtown Bristol for nearly two hours.

Fire Chief W. A. Buckles Bristol, estimated the loss would run well in excess of $100,000. There were no injuries reported but one fireman was temporarily overcome by smoke as the fire eaped from one one-story brick establishment to another along Bristol's heavily traveled State Street. First reports said the blaze apparently started about 6:30 p.m.

a the rear of a loan shop on the corner of 7th and State Streets but il could not be determined immediately how the blaze originated. The roofs of all five buildings caved in and virtually all merchandise and other equipment they contained was destroyed. Body Of Va. Man Is Found Near Norton Times-News Virginia Ri NORTON, Va. The body of a lamsey father of nine children was found in Guest River here, late Monday afternoon, some three hundred yards from where the man vas last seen Easter Sunday.

Lying face down in the water, IS or 20 feet from shore. Worley Turner, 43, had apparently washed down the river and had edged on a sandbar near the middle of the stream. Nearly half the was above water," from the lips to the shoulders, and was ilearly visible from the bank. Ellis Posey. 49.

found the miss- ng; man about 5:35, when he walfc- over near the edge of the river dump some garbage. Posey lives in a trailer at Ramsey, between the river and the highway, near where the body was found. Since Turner vanished 23 days ago, hundreds of people have combed the area around where he was last seen about 9 p.m. Volunteer firemen, police, life saving crews, and others have dragged and probed the whole area but found nothing. Chief Deputy Sheriff, Harold Picked On Me' Boy Practiced Before Slayings MANSFIELD, April 23, boy explained, seeking to erase Professional shock from the faces of the --and amateurs among his neigh- ors-and schoolmates puzzled oday over the case of 11-year-old 3obhy Curgenven, the "dull, slow oy" with a deep-seated feeling or hate and revenge who calmly hot to death his mother, fathei nd brother.

It was no puzzle to Bobby "They picked on me," was Us simple answer. And just to nuke sure he killed them all, he arefully told state police, he prac- ced for a week with the family 12 rifle nd birds ood." "My one eye isn't so good," the shooting at tin cans "to make me shoot Carr To Be Demo Choice In Judge Race BLOUNTVILLE, April 23 Hal arr, Blountville attorney, will be ic Democratic nominee for coun- judge in the August general ection. Carr was the only candidate to le with the Democratic party be- ire the deadline at noon Monday. At a meeting here last night, arr was cerlified as the nominee nd the county election commission as so informed. A county judge will be elected August to complete two years an eight year term.

Howard oston, elected county judge six ears ago. resigned April 1, another position. adults asking him questions. But after a week of "squinting" over the sights with his "best eye" he was pretty sure he could hit what he aimed at. Ana on Saturday night last, cer tain of his aim and with his 11 venr-old mind made up, he bagai by shooting his brother Richard 14.

found him in the barn ai told him I was going to shoot him. The first bullet hit Richard in the hand. The next one in the stomach the third in the head. Richarc died.) "It was about 5:30." Bobby said. Then he went up to the house.

He sighted his gun at his mother Beatrice, 41, through a window. shouted something when she looked up," Bobby said. "It sounded like His first shot her. just above the heart.) Then Bobby, reloaded a second was ready for his father, Richard, 42. who came running oul of the house.

yelled, 'Give me that The boy "squinted" over the rifle again and caught father coming. The bullet lodged in the head and death ap- Caroliua, which was directly involved today, have laws which require segregation within their borders. Others are Alabama, Geor- ded sia, North Carolina, Mississippi, got Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Plor- da, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia. Montgomery. has experienced prolonged turmoil in recent weeks because of a boycott of bus transportation by Negres protest- "ng segregatin on the city's Fleming, said someone reportedly hooked an object under driftwood and logs Sunday but the hold lulled out and they were unable to find the object again.

The officers theorized that possibly It was the body and it had loated down to the sand-bar after had been pulled loose. Every- me seemed sure the body had not icen where short time. it was found but a fke To Vote In Pa. Today WASHINGTON, April 23 WI -President Eisenhower will vote a Gettysburg tomorrow in the Pcnr sylvania presidential primary pit him against Democrat Adla Stevenson in a popularity contest The President drove tonight tc lis farm home on the edge of Get tysburg. He plans to vote at 7 a.m vhen the polling place opens, thei immediately to Washington Eisenhower is a legal resident of Pennsylvania, having ransferred from New York Stale Isince the 1952 election.

Dixie Attorneys-General Brands Order As 'Unwarranted Invasion 9 OLD POINT COMPORT, Va. ipril 23 Ml--The attorneys-general Virginia, South Carolina, and "exas today branded the U. S. iuprcme Court bus de-segrcgatlon rder as "another unwarranted nvnslon of Ignis." and municipal Attys. Gen.

Lindsay Almond r. of Virginia, T. C. Calllson of South Carolina in whose state the bus case originated, and John Ben Shcpperd of Texas issued joint slalemenl, They said they Issued tho statement as Individuals. The three are among a group of attorneys general attending southern regional meeting of the National Assn.

of Attorneys-generals. Sheppard Is president of the association. Their statement: "We are not surprised at the action of the Supreme Court today In view of the trend of the court's rulings In recent years. It Is another unwarranted Invasion of stale and municipal rights. It simply means now Hint the stales and cities cannol determine the type of vehicles a operate over their streets, the inrmnpr of their opera i or, Hint based upon the nls.

that separation of the races Is a proper exercise of the traditional police power of a state. "The next logical step will be for the Supreme Court to determine the speed limits, lengths and width of buses, how many sents may be placed in them, what lype of cover may be used on the seats; and the eventual end of this type of logic Is for the Supreme Court lo set Itsell up as the final nulhor- lly to grant franchises In the various cities of the United Slnlcs." At the State Capitol In Richmond (actors ol health, safety, and Thomas B. Stanley told re- porters he considered the Supreme Court's a ction "Just another vasion of states' rights which has been so evident in recent court decisions and recently proposed legislation In congress." The latter was a reference to the administration's civil rights program. seems to be more apparent a ever," said Stanley, "the Supreme Court is detenu.ned to every states' right power to hike within thrir through i brought before them." aarently was instantaneous.) Tonight Bobby, having told his story once to police and matrons was telling it again to doctors ai Norwich State Hospital. His only worry, when ordered to the hos- pitial for a week of mental examination, was that he'd get "fresh milk." The more Bobby and his friends and neighbors talked, the more of a riddle the fifth grader became.

"He was a "normal" boy from a 'hard working" family. Those were the facts. Neighbors of the Curgenven family not only didn't understand the boy but they doubted his "motive." His father and mother, he said, spanked him for no reason at all. And his brother Richard, "Picked on me," and "hit me," when Bobby wanted (o use his older brother's things. "They were good to their children." was the town's reaction.

And Bobby, no one, tonight, knew. Authorities didn't know how lie could be prosecuted and were seeking a court ruling on the legality of Connecticut's juvenile code which prohibits the prosecution of youths under 16. The boy's clear and emotionles itory of cold-blooded killing be led the very different impression" if him by relatives and neighbors Kerwiu, his materna grandfather, called him a "Per ect kid." John E. Powers, the University Conn. Placement officer, to 'honi Bobby first revealed the hootings, thought him to be a perfectly normal boy." R.

C. Briges, superintendent of le Starrs Grammar School, where obby was a fifth grader, said he a "dull boy, slow in school but ot disciplinary problem." Bobby's teacher, Ignatius Lnm- ardo, said he had "come a long nnd was "beginning lo feel Is onIs." The ruddy-faced boy, 'bespec- aclcd nnd 75 spoke I nsslvely ns he related to police list of nlleged grievances against is family, grievances which po ce termed "normal childhood dis- pllne." They Included spanking by his inthi'r yenr ago (the last time hit him few by brother for such things as pulling his sled across gravel, and a series nt spankings by his father because he failed to turn out his bedroom light after repeatedly warnings, Dismisses Appeal As Frivolous Voids Segregation In Any Public Transportation By KARL R. BAUMAV WASHINGTON, April 23 Ifh- The Supreme Court today extended its ban on racial segregation to, public transportation within the borders of a state. It did so by dismissing as frivolous an appeal from a U. S.

Court of Appeals decision in Richmond, that segregation on intrastate buses violates the federal constitution. The court's action means that segregation in any form in public transportation, whether entirely within a state or between states, is now unlawful. Only 10 words were used in the court's order, including citation of a case decided in 1929. A search of the court's records showed that the cited case involved dismissal of an appeal as iiled "without any authority of law," and which "needlessly consumed our time." The ban on intrastate segrega- ion came 10 years after the court struck down compulsory separa- of the -races by state low in uses crossing state lines. In the 1946 decision the court said segregation on buses was an unconstitu- ional burden on interstate commerce.

Today's action, coupled with car- er decisions and an Interstate Commerce Commission order in November, 1955, directing that egregation be ended on interstate rains and buses and in waiting ooms used by interstate travel- rs. covers all conceivable angles public transportation. The Court of Appeals ruling last uly 14 said the Supreme Court's 196 decision laying down the his- iric "separate but equal" doc- ine "can no longer be regarded 5 a correct statement of law." The 1896 decision, in varying de- rees, remained the law of the nd until the 1951, Supreme Court ecisions striking down segrega- lon in public schools. The Court of Appeals decision, vritten by Chief Judge John J. Parker, said that the Supreme Court's public school decisions "leave no doubt that the separate but.

equal doctrine approved in 1896 has been repudiated." Judge Parker wrote that the principle applied, in the school cases quite clearly should be applied in cases involving transpor- including South tation. Thirteen states, The Richmond Court of Appeals earlier ruled racial segregation in public parks and recreation areas violates the U. S. Constitution. The Supreme Court last Nov.

7 unanimously affirmed this decision. In addition to these various the Supreme Court also has ruled out segregation on golf curses supported by tax money. The appeal, which the court said, in effect, was frivolous was filed by the South Carolina Electric It Gas Co. The case arose in Columbia, where the company oper- ites public bus lines. It started brough the courts when Sarah Vlae Plemming, a Negro, filed suit or 52,000 damages for alleged vi- ilatlon of civil rights because bus driver for the company en- orced against her a South Carona law requiring segregation In Urnstate buses.

Montgomery Bus Line Follows Order Of Court MONTGOMERY, April 33 i.Ti--The Montgomery city bus lines tonight ordered an end to segregated seating on buses tomorrow A notice on the company bulletin board said the desegregation order was the result of the Supreme Court's ruling today holding segregated seating unconstitutional. The notice was signed by Bus Company Manager J. Baglev Bagley's family said he was not available to confirm the desegregation decree. Indian Springs Boy Is Wounded A 15-year-old Indian Springs bov was released from Holston Valley Community yesterday evening aft. er receiving treatment for hot wound.

WB! Port gun- In good condition by hospital officials fter receiving treatment for a wound in the right font Young Mowdy reported to the lospltal at 6:40 p.m. and told hos- i a officials he shot himself idenlally with a .32 cal. rUl. while his Uonie..