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MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 26, 1959 8 PAGES 7 CENTS On Rise In Havae 5 To Bargain With palace. Industry's Solid Broken By Kaiser sasn 7.24 Inches This Blaring sound trucks and the pro-government press and radio kept up the cry against the in truders from abroad. The government charges that two mystery planes which dropped anti-Castro leaflets on Havana in daylight last Wednesday came from the United States. As the planes flew over the city, hit-and run gangs sped through the city in cars, throwing bombs and grenades.

Two Cubans Were killed and about 50 injured, and Castro charged that the planes dropped bombs as well as leaflets. But some witnesses said the casualties resulted from the automobile 'Flying Saucers' Cold Accompanies Sunshine As Long Rainy Stretch Ends nJWst fN 1 1 iiiiaiiii Him jjj v- k-j. II 1. i i rf 'i 1 ii Bright sunshine and rather sharp cold distinguished today's weather nere. Low temperature this morning was 39 degrees, chilliest of the season thus far.

Clearing skies Saturday afternoon brought an end to this month's third rainy spell. Loud claps of thunder and brief spatters of hail marked the final shower Saturday morning. Rainfall thus far this month now is 7.24 inches, making this the wettest October in more than 20 years. Greenwood rainfall records are available here only through 1937, and that was a wet year. October then had 6.19 inches of rain and the 1937 total was 50.81 inches.

Average October rainfall is 2.53 inches. The wettest October on record for the western section of the An Army flying saucer-type vehicle scoots across the ground during a demonstration at the "Symposium on Ground Effect Phenomena" at Princeton University in New Jersey. Civilian and military scientists from all over the world gathered at Princeton to get a close look at several types of flying machines, designed to operate a few inches above the ground on a cushion of air. The cushion is created by forcing air downward at very great pressure, providing enough lift to raise the vehicle jet off the ground. Helicopter Pods Elrod Arraigned At Greenville An S-60 crane helicopter opens a new era in flight convenience by taking four men for a ride on a detachable "magic carpet" platform.

Igor I. Sikorsky (center left), 70, founder of the Sikorsky company which built the S-60, also made the pioneer flight on the open platform. An enclosed "people pod" was picked up by the craft to demonstrate at Ft. Belvoir, how troops can be transported. One of the men (right) enjoys the view from the pod.

At bottom, an artist depicts the passenger pod of the future with its streamlined design blending into an S-64. Trial Of Gangland Delegates Threatened To Be Postponed By ROBERT BERRELLEZ HAVANA (AP) Anti-American feeling mounted in Havana today as Fidel Castros supporters beat the drums to marshal a million Cubans for a rally protesting "foreign agression" against the rev olutionary regime. The Cuban Labor Confederation set the stage for the mammoth show of loyalty ordered by the prune minister to support Cuban demands that the United States prevent anti-Castro Cubans in Flo rida from frying over Cuba drop ping leaflets and arms. More than a million badges reading "against foreign aggres sion were prepared for the dem onstrators: A general work shut down was declared for noon in Havana and three neighboring provinces to bring out a huge crowd before the presidential North Central Area Has Snow; South Chilled i By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There was a little touch of win try weather in the north central region today after the season's heaviest snow falls and temperatures near freezing. Sections of the Southeast, far from the snow belt, were chilled an invasion of cold air which sent temperatures into the 40s as far south as Georgia and extreme northern Florida.

Torrential rains drenched areas New England over the weekend, causing landslides, washouts and flash floods. Heaviest snowfall was in Wis consin Rhinelander resort area, with 10 inches at Crandon. The white covering at Marquette, measured 8 inches. Light rain and snow fell this morning in parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota and showers sprin kled parts of Iowa, central Illinois and northeast Missouri. Snow measured two inches at Grand Forks, N.D.

Rain fell from lower Michigan and ndiana eastward to the Ap- and Indiana while showers sprayed scattered sections of New Eng land. Reds Announce 'Moon Photos To Be Published MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union announced today the first photographs of the far side of the moon will be published in Moscow newspapers Tuesday. The photographs were taken by the moon-circling Soviet Lunik III. The news agency Tass said the rocket took pictures of the moon's hitherto unseen dark side for 40 minutes. "A considerable number of photographs of the moon were obtained," the agency said.

"The processing of the films exposure and fixing was automatically carried out on board the interplanetary station." Only Two At Start two, and the situation demanded shock action. After using the two bombs against Japan, there would be nothing in reserve." until the awesome power of the bomb became known, it had been planned to use nine of them in an invasion of Japan, Marshall said. Tne invasion was set for Sept. 23, 1943. Japan surrendered on Aug.

14. eight days after the first A-bomb was dropped on Jones Gets 15-Year Term For Holdup Nathaniel Jones was sentenced In Federal Court In Greenville this morning to 15 years in a federal prison for the armed robbery of the Ninety Six Branch of the State Bank and Trust Co. Sept. 17. Jones pleaded guilty to the bank robbery charge.

He was represented by Ed Bowen, court-appointed attorney, named at the time of Jones' indictment in gangs and from the fire et.inaf personnel shooting wildly at the planes. Since then individual light planes have slipped through Cuban air force patrols' several times to drop anti-Castro leaflets on the capital or its suburbs. The fiery prime minister has repeatedly denounced the United States for giving refuge to Cuba enemies of his revolutionary regime whom he has branded as war criminals. A group of 73 professional, civic and religious organizations sent a cable to the U.S. Congress protesting the air activity and urging deportation of Cuban counter-revolutionaries in the United States, Demonstrated poena to produce the records tnd they planned to protest.

Elrod was an outstanding civic leader when the case against him broke last February after the bank asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into "some apparent discrepancies" involving possibly $100,000. The warrant under which Elrod was arrested accuses him of writing the sum of $70,735 on blank note signed by Durwood Scurry, Greenville businessman. Elrod Is free under $50,000 bond. The warrant alleges the blank note was filled in without Scurry's knowledge or consent to pay off notes due the bank. WAIT UNTIL 1980 Dr.

W. P. Turner was eliminated early in the Greenwood Country Club Golf tournament, but is optimistic about next year. He feels he is the potential 1960 winner if he can Ret past Dusty Rhodes and Hord Stubblefield, two men he barely eliminated this year. Russian Hopes To Give Human Second Heart MOSCOW (AP) -Ji Soviet doctor says he hopes to give a human a second heart to help out in aa emergency.

Dr. Vladimir Demikhov, an experimental specialist in Moscow's Medical Institute, says he has successfully planted hearts in two dogs. He showed the dogs to newsmen Sunday. Each had a patch on the left side where, he said, the new hearts had been attached and were functioning inside effectively. The second heart, he said, took half the work load off the original heart.

The 43-year-old doctor said he hopes to try grafting a supplemental heart on a human being before the end of the year. The plan is to use the heart of a person who has died. The heart can be revived by electrical shock as long as 112 hours after death. he said. Demikhov said he also plans in (he near future to transplant a leg to a woman who lost one recently in a train accident.

He said he had grafted a leg to a dog and that it wa working well until the leg was nccidentally burned under X-ray treatment and the limb died. Court Decision mim Tuesday PHILADELPHIA (AP) The decision by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals on whether the striking United Steelworkers Un- ion must return to work under a latt-Hartley law injunction, or may continue their walkout will be -rtflfr WimUUJtsMwu, -if HMMfefelilill.niillijJ (the Steelworkers Month state, which includes Greenwood, was in 1929 when the month's rainfall averaged 9.38 inches in this section. Ranking second was October 1932 when the section averaged 7.82 inches of rain. Rain has fallen on 12 days this month.

Largest amount in any 24-hour period was 1.54 inches reported at 7:30 a.m. Oct 22. Rainfall since Jan. 1 is 44.60 inches. Average through October is 39.56 inches and through November 4124 inches.

Annual average here is 46.37 inches. The driest October on record here was in 1953 when only 0.34 of an inch or rain fell in two showers that month. Driest month in recent years was May 1951 with 0.32 of an inch. Wettest in recent times was March 1952 with 9.63 inches of rain, and the heaviest amount for selecting a jury from an 800-person panel when attorneys for Bonnano told newsmen their client suffered a heart attack in Brooklyn. The lawyers said Bon nano was rushed to St Cather ine's Hospital, where he was placed in an oxygen tent.

The attorneys said they planned to submit to the court an affi davit supporting their claim that Bonnano was ill and would ask for an adjournment of 30 to days. The government has charged that the defendants conspired to give federal grand juries ana other investigative agencies false information about the nature of the Nov. 14, 1957, meeting at the htfme of the late Joseph Barbara Sr. Milton R. Wessel, special assist ant to the U.S.

attorney general, has marshaled more than 100 witnesses. U.S. Dist Judge Irving R. Kaufman will preside at the trial, which is expected to take 7 to 14 weeks. Kaufman has dismissed 90 pre trial motions by the defense and has made it clear he expects to start selection of a jury today.

There are 17 separate groups of defense lawyers. Sixty-three men attended the Apalachin conclave, which was raided by state police. All tne men were released after1 questioning, but the raid set off intensive investigations by state and federal grand juries, the U.S. attorney general's group to prosecute organized crime, and the State In- Waiting Room Laws Ignored At Greenville GREENVILLE. C.

(AP) Former major league baseball star Jackie Robinson backed up a plea for integration in South Carolina Sunday by using the white waiting Toom at the Green ville airport. Robinson flew in for the final session of a state Rally of the South Carolina branch of the National Assn. for the Advance ment of Colored People. Usine the white waiting room, and ignoring a request from the airport manager to use the colored waiting room, were Robinson and two state NAACP leaders, Billy Fleming of Manning and the Rev. P.

Sharper of Florence. Fleming told an auditorium crowd gathered to hear Robinson that the airport manager said "we could not sit there." The state NAACP executive committee chairman said the Rev. Mr. Sharper, first vice president of the NAACP, "informed the manager that he was comfortable where he. was.

Robinson urged his race to work together through the NAACP. He told the crowd of ,1,700 that by 1963 "I hope that we can walk in the airport and sit down and enjoy ourselves." He said 1963 is the NAACP target date for what he called "complete freedom." He said Negroes should measure their progress by "how much farther we have to go." Robinson also gave credit to "a great mimber of liberal white people" and said "lots of people in South Carolina are ashamed" of the way Negroes art treated. Steel Front PITTSBURGH (AP) KT.SSnSX.JIS? wide negotiations in thejl 104-day steel strike and announced it would bargain separately with the United Steelworkers Un ion. Edgar F. Kaiser, board chairman, made the announcement in Washington only hours after the industry had announced that Kaiser had reached a separate agreement with the union.

Union negotiators were scheduled to meet separately today with 95 other strike-idled steel firms. The announcement that Kaiser, the ifation's 12th largest steel producer, had reached agreement with the union was signed by the 11 other major steel firms. It did not say, however, that the agreement had been signed. Kaiser had been a member of the 12 steel firms bargaining as a unit. By itself.

Kaiser's statement did not deny that Kaiser had reached agreement, but instead explained why he had, decided to bargain separately. Later, Norman Nicholoson, assistant to Kaiser, agreed to clarify the situation further. He denied that any agreement had been reached and added that negotiations would begin in Washington today. Others of the industry said Kaiser's boh from the ranks would not alter theii position to resist what they called an inflationary wage increase. Kaiser, which employes 10,615 of the half-millior United Steelwork ers, produces nearly 1,500,000 ingot tons of steel a year two per cent of the national output "We believe the decision to bar gain separately with the union is the only responsible step we can take in the face of mounting na tional emergency caused by this 104-day strike," Kaiser said in his statement.

The surprise move came as the big producers, who have been co ordinating negotiations efforts, were reported today to make new money concessions to settle the stnke. Kaiser had been included in the coordinating group. Top negotiating teams for the industry and the USW planned to resume peace efforts shortly after the separate meetings got under way. Thirteen of the separate meetings were scheduled for Pitts burgh. The remainder were set up in scores of cities all across the nation.

All of the peace efforts are go ing on against a background realization that a Taft-Hartley injunctionpresently inactive because of a union appeal could go into effect anytime and end the strike at least for 80 days. The U.S. Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia is studying the union appeal. A decision could come anytime this week most likely today or tomorrow. The U.S.

District Court in Pittsburgh issued ihe injunction last week. Once before, USW President David J. McDonald succeeded in getting negotiations broken djwn to the company level. That was in New York nearly a month ago and nothing came of it. The latest company-by-company contract talks were arranged by McDonald nearly 48 hours before the Kaiser development Both the union and the industry are under a circuit court directive to keep negotiations going.

There are unconfirmed reports that at least one other of the "Big 12" companies is considering signing a separate labor agreement. (Commenting on the Kaiser development, a statement signed by the other 11 firms said: and breaking, entering and lar ceny. Stewart entered prison in October, 1954, and Christy in April, 1953. Prisons Director William F. Bailey said he fired three guards for major custodial negligence In connection with the escape.

He said all three admitted seeing the convicts scale the 12-fcot wall using small bed ladders taped to gether, but "they just didn't stop them." The guards were T. D. Wilkins, William H. Emory and W. T.

Jones, all of whom were posted outside in the prison yard when the escapees sawed the bars from their third floor hospital window and out using bed sheets. -Bailey said Stewart fend Chris ty, the 15th and 16th men to flee the prison since 1937, were "des-perata and hardened i 1 Red China Says 7 Policemen Are Being Held As Prisoners in a 24-hour period was 3.92 inches on March 4, 1952. Last year was dry with a total rainfall of 37.24 inches. Rain in October 195 was 2.17 inches, and in November a year ago, 0.68 of an inch. September 1959 was another wet month with 6.85 inches, more than twice the average of 3.24 inches, and the year's largest amount in 24 hours was the 2.5 inches reported Sept.

30. Another "watery statistic" gleaned from the records shows that Greenwood had 7.11 inches of rain in four days, Sept. 24-27, 1956 when Hurricane Flossy lashed this area. Total that month was 7.87 inches. The cold weather is about on schedule, a low of 38 degrees was recorded here last Oct.

28, and the year before on Oct. 20. vestigation Commission. For the most part, the conven tion delegates told each investiga tive agency the same story. They said they were either there to at tend a party or to pay their re spects to Barbara, who they said was sick.

Barbara, 53, died after a heart attack last June 18. Authorities have said the meet ing was arranged to discuss rac kets in narcotics, certain labor unions and industries. Last May 22, a federal grand jury returned the conspiracy in dictment against 27 defendants. The 36 other delegates were named as co-conspirators. Four of those named defendants have not been found.

The 23 defendants are free in bail ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 except for one, Mike Miranda, who was jailed Aug. 15, 1958, for contempt resulting from his refusal to answer questions before the State Investigation Com mission. Conviction carries a penalty up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Magazine Reports U.S. Had A-Bombs WASHINGTON (AP) America had only two atomic bombs when the decision was made to drop them on Japan in World War II.

according to a posthumuously published interview with Gen George Marshall. The magazine U.S. News World Report, in a copyrighted article today, said Marshall granted the interview to one of Its editors, John P. Sutherland, in 1954 and 1955 with the understanding it would not be published until after his death. The soldier-diplomat died 16.

Marshall said in the Interview that America's military leaders had no idea of the destructive power of the A-bomb until one was exploded in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Even after that, he said, there was no clear-cut on how to use the new weapon. "When we got the bombs we had to use them in the best possible way to save American lives," he said. heard all kinds of discussions on how we should use the first one. Some wanted to drop it on the Sea of Japan.

But didn't know how it would work in water. It might be a dud, or get out of control. We just didn't know "Others wanted to drop it in a rice paddy to save the lives of the Japanese. But we only had WEATHER South Carolina: Mostly sunny this afternoon, highest 67 to 73 Partly cloudy and not so cold tonight, lowest 47 to SI Tuesday partly cloudy, cooler In west portion and turning cooler in east portion by afternoon or evening. Greenwood For '24 hours ending at 7:30 a.m.

today: High 58, low 39, sunrise 6:43 a.m., sunset 5:43 p.m.; for 24 hours ending at 7:30 a.m. Sunday: High 65, low 45, rainfall 0.10 inch. by in Spartanburg last month. Sentence was passed by Judge Wilson Warlich of AshviUe, N. presiding at the Greenville court term.

Jones took $11,577 from the Ninety Six bank at pistol-point. He was arrested at bis home here the following day by agents of the FBI and SLED and a county officer. AO but $8 of the loot was recovered at his home. troops have moved. The Chinese claimed the Indians were the aggressors.

The Chinese attack drew sharp criticism Sunday from a Commu nist member of the Indian Parlia ment, A. K. Goplan. Goplan warned Peiping that if such incidents continued China would lose completely the friend ship of the Indian people. He asked an immediate end to the attacks.

Violence Takes Three Lives During Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violence took at least three lives in South Carolina during the weekend. A Williamsburg County Negro, Samuel L. Farrell, 30. was shot to death at a barbecue. Officers ques tioned another Negro.

The battered body of Buford Jackson of near Moore was found in a ditch by a Spartanburg County road. He apparently was hit by a vehicle mat failed to stop. A North Carolina girl, Gloria Jean Grainger, 24, of Tabor City, was hit and killed as she walked in the rain along a highway in Horry County. GREENVILLE, C. (AP) Luther Clay Elrod former Greenville bank official, was ar raigned in Federal District Court here today on 34 counts of fed eral banking law violations.

Judge Wilson Warlick overruled a deiense motion tor continuance of the case and placed it on the docket for Tuesday. Elrod, formerly a vice president of the South Carolina National Bank here, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Spartanburg Oct. 12 on 34 counts growing out of fund shortages at the Green ville branch of the bank. Judge Warlick also ruled that the bank must produce records involved in the 34 counts of the indictment and quashed a notion that other bank records demand ed by the defense be produced. The defense based its motion for continuance on grounds that it needed additional time to study bank records.

Elrod was first charged in the case in February. The bank has protested some of the defense requests for docu ments and records as unreason able and oppressive." Bank offi cials have been served with a sub Legion Head Plans Showdown With 40 And 8 SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Amer- ican Legion Commander Martin B. McKneally says he will press for a legal showdown within 30 days on whether the 40 and should admit Negroes. 40 And 8 is the Legion's fun making auxiliary. "The use of the word 'white in tne 40 and 8 eligibility re quirements is offensive and Ille gal," the New -York lawyer told interviewers Sunday.

He said the Legion's lawyers fail to persuade the 40 and 8 to eliminate the discriminatory language and bring their eligibility into line with that of the Legion within 30 days, the Legion has "certain available remedies." "One of these is to revoke their license to use the name 'Ameri can Legion' he said. "Or we could go to court seeking a declaratory judgment. The Swedish Academy of Sci ences, which awards the prizes provided by the inventor of dyn mite, the late Alfred Nobel, said the discovery of the American nu clear physicists was one of cosmic implications. Using the giSnt atom-smashing bevatron at Berkeley, they found that by clashing their newlv discovered anti-proton and a pro ton together, both dissolved into light The awarding body said the anti-proton the nega tive mirror image jf the proton. or hydrogen nucleus had been predicted 30 years ago by Paul Dirac of Britain, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize with Erwin Schroedinger of Berlin University.

The discovery by Segre and; Chamberlain of the anti-proton was, heralded as an important step toward introducing some order into the bewildering micro-world ol some 30 odd ub-atomic parricie known to scientists todav. The two physicists published their findings in. the fall of 1955. NEW YORK (AP)-The trial of delegates to the Apalachin, N. crime convention was threatened with postponement today when one of the chief defendants was reported to have suffered a heart attack.

Stricken Sunday night was Jo seph Bonnano, one of the 23 delegates scheduled for trial in fed eral court on charges of giving evasive answers about the con clave. All preparations had been made Hair Raising Actress Allison Hayes snows the latest hair style, the "Rocket" hairdo. It is reminiscent of the days of Louis XIV when women wore mountainous coiffures. With an "orbit" hairdo taking first prize at the annual showing of the Los Angeles and Hollywood, Coiffure Guild, hair trend in Hollywood is definitely "way out." He said Stewart was in the hos pital for a hand injury and Chris ty was being treated for foot trouble. Stewart's injury was thought to be connected with a recent outbreak of self mutilation at the Ivy Bluff camp.

Stewart, once declared an "it-law by a Superior Court judge, threatened Lt. L. E. Sikes and Lt. M.

W. Jeffords, two veteran Wilmington police officers. He was arrested in May, 1954 but before he could stand trial on charges of sparking a large safe crafiking and burglary operation, he faked illness and escaped. Later. Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens declared him an outlaw, an official designation meaning he can be shot at any time.

He then was arrested for robbing a supermarket of $4,000 jfV i If I- Mu hi NEW DELHI, India (AP)- Seven of 17 Indian policemen reported killed in a border clash with Red Chinese troops are alive and prisoners of the Communists, the Peiping government has informed India. A new Chinese note, delivered over the weekend, bodies of nine Indian policemen had been recovered after the clash Wednesday in the Ladakh area of Kashmir state. The 17th policeman now Is presumed missing. The Indian government said the note also spoke of some Chinese casualties but did not say how many. The Chinese also reported they are holding three Indians captured last Tuesday in the Ladakh area.

Apparently these are two policemen and a porter who failed to return from a patrol that day. India claimed that the police patrol was ambushed Wednesday by Chinese troops 40 miles inside the Ladakh sector, one of two frontier regions claimed by both countries into which Chinese New Penicillin To Be Ready Within Weeks SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) The first lyntnenc penicillin, more deadly to germs but safer for hu mans than natural penicillin. should be in doctors' hands in a few weeks. It was announced to day.

The new penicillin apparently destroys germs which have become resistant to the old penicillin and causes fewer dangerous re action. It can be taken by mouth and is so powerful that it promises make penicillin shots obsolete, reported Dr. Amel R. Menotti, vice president and scientific director of Bristol Laboratories. The new product, called Syncil-lin, is a stripped down version of natural penicillin with a new chemical body style.

Preliminary evidence indicates the drug does not produce as many dangerous side effects as shots of the natural penicillin. Menotti made the announcement of the new penicillin at the dedication of a new 1-million-dollar research facility of the Bristol Myers Co. subsidiary. He said further scientific reports would be made at the seventh annual symposium on antibiotics in Washing-' tan. Nov.

4-8. 2 U.S. Scientists Win Physics Prize Two Tough Convicts Sought After Break At N.C. Prison STOCKHOLM (AP)-Two Amer ican atomic scientists today were awarded the 1959 Nobel physics prize for the discovery of the anti-proton, proving that matter exists in two forms, as particles and anti-particles. The physics winners are Italian- born Emilio Segre, 54, and Dr.

Owen Chamberlain, 39, born in San Franpisco. Both are attached to the University of California at Berkeley. The chemistry prize this year was awarded to Prof. Jaroslaw Heyrovsky, 68, a Czech. It was the first Nobel award ever to Czechoslovakia.

Heyrovsky was honored for developing the polarographic method of rapidly analyzing the precise chemical composition of compli cated substances. It has been particularly valuable in the field of metallurgy. 'Segre and Chamberlain are the 17th and 18th Americans to win the Nobel physics award. They Will divide $42,606. RALEIGH (AP)-Law enforce ment officers today sought two convicts, described as "desperate and hardened criminals," who fled Central Prison in a bold pro-dawn break early Sunday.

Normally confined at the tough Ivy Bluff jcamp for ipcorrigibles, me two were in Kaieign 10 unoer go treatment at the Central Prison Hospital They utilized bed sheets and small ladders in their escape from the grim, high-walled prison. One, 52 year old Charles Stewart of Wilmington, serving 25 years for armed robbery and high way robbery, threatened revenge against two Wilmington police officers who helped arrest him. His partner, James Edward Christy. 28, of Concord, was serv ing 19-25 years for manslaughter given at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The court clerk made the announcement today on behall of Judges- Big Jrr-WilHtm H. Hastie and Herbert Goodrich. The three-judge court heard arguments last Thursday. at gunpoint.