Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY and Cooler today and tonight High today near 60 Low tonight 40 42 De tails Page 3 VOL NO 260 Wtotfe fbfnin Published In The Heart Of The Pee Dee Richest arm Area In The Palmetto Slate LORENCE MONDAY MORNING DECEMBER 5 3955 mW READER'S TIP PLAN TO DIRECT farm price support assistance to smaller farms is under study in Washing ton Story Page 5 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c WEEKLY 35c wiste Demolishes i community fil 20 Born After Crash WrilieTTim Magnate Solves INDIANAPOLIS Dec 4 Mrs Mystery of Own Disappearance rrananl htC nrOnOSCd StOD tlCC 8 Red Boss Says British Sat said On Burmese People Necks ALRED HITCHCOCK Zfii was a house on farm where still to his brother was badly dam was delayed ot the trouble Hitch in the cable he will SINGAPORE Monday Dec 5 OT film maker Alfred Hitchcock solved the mystery of his own disappearance today He cabled that his plane had been nave ut cu avh whu jum 1 4 Lv Lrtffnn vmn hnn iucn I wnrkpf HllfiPf the Zj A i sw wk nr i iv i i i rj i vt i i i i irz rr i i KJVVKIVKIW a wndl a a UlbldUVV HUIU aiuuur nnav a wu jmvuuj i 1 chev since riday when Burmese are not going to like what 1 rench English and Germans and Bowl at New Orleans Jan 2 The Tech 1955 56 basketball schedule also might be upset Tech has signed to play in the Queen City tournament at Buffalo NY Dec 29 Jan 2 Several teams in the tournament have Negro players Over a longer period Tech and Georgia might lose some of their attraction as national football pow ers In the last 15 years Tech and Georgia have appeared in 14 ma jor bowl contests tEAKLIER STORY PAGE 5) 1 Dec 4 The Southern Railway's crack passenger train the Crescent rammed an automobile at a grade crossing near here at dusk killing six persons None of the passen gers on the train was injured Engineer London said the northbound train was going 75 pii when it smashed into the car dragging it a half mile down the track IVniANAPOIllS Thelma Kremple gave birth to a son today in an overturned auto mobile after a five car smashup halted her husband's dash to a hospital It was her 26th birthday Seven persons including Mrs Kremple suffered minor injuries but she and the baby her fifth were reported in satisfactory con dition at a hospital Dies in Crash BENNETTSVILLE Dec 4 James Elliott Hood about was killed instantly at 11 pm last night on Highway 9 about six miles north of Bennettsville according to Sheriff Weatherly The investigating officer said car struck a briage and was Hood was on his way to work at a factory in nearby Wallace and was the lone occupant of the car Of the seven passengers in the car Benny Sutton a 10 month old baby was the only survivor He suffered only minor injuries London said he saw the automo bile heading eastward approach the Waddell Road Crossing nt nearby Paris going about 10 mph He said the car proceeded onto the crossing without stopping Greenville County Sheriff Chandler Jr identified the dead TAUNG YYI Burma Dec 4 Nikita Khrushchev lashed out with the most vigorous speech of his Asian tour last night charging the British had been on the of the Burmese people The first secretary of the Soviet Communist party picked the Brit ish for his particular target in a swashbuckling attack on before leaders of important Shan State near the fron tiers of Red China ollowing Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin who made his usual speech about i friendship for the Burmese peo Khruschev summoned news paper correspondents in the tour ing party into the banquet room to hear his remarks The reporters had been waiting outside They have been kept some what at a BERLIN Dec 4 A Commu nist leader today called West Ber lin a which will surely be eliminated Alfred Neumann Communist party chief in East Berlin de clared in a speech to a rally: is the capital of the Ger man Democratic Republic The po sition of the DDR (East Germany) is unshakeable The position of the industrialists and militarists in West Berlin the NATO stronghold is based on weak foundations and am going tfi say now But I am not speaking for their satisfaction Why are they not satisifed with my speeches? I am going to say that the British were here sitting on your necks and were robbing you 'people And because this was done not for the benefit of raising the standards of civilization of your people They were sitting in your colonies to bring civilization to backward countries they say But we say lie then launched into amplifying remarks that the British were ting in your country to rob the last piece of bread from the people and that is what they (the corre spondents) like because the truth hurts Warming to his favorite subject of he added: CURIOUS KNOT of were killed yesterday at a SARANAC LAKE NY Dec 4 OT afternoon until Christmas 17A ear old Joseph Martin must march along Main Street of this Adirondack resort with a police escort and light the big community Christmas tree in the village square The public pennance was ordered by Judge Irving Edelberg of the village police court for a tree lighting prank that kept police on the jump untn the wee hours yes terday At 11 pm riday police turned off the electric lights on the 42 foot tree At midnight they found the lights on again and once more turned them off The same thing happened at 1 am and 2 a Saturday The chase finally ended about 3 when a policeman hidden in a store doorway cap tured Martin In court yesterday Martin plead ed guilty to disorderly conduct Edelberg fined him $25 and put him on probation for six months Then the judge suspended the fine but ordered Martin to report at village police headquarters at 3:45 as James Brooks 37 his wife Mrs Louise Brooks 26 Holland Benny Sutton 29 wife Mrs Rosa Lee Sutton 23 and their 3 year old daughter Wanda Sutton all of Greenville The sixth victim a woman was' not identi The sheriff said the car belonged to Brooks and that Mrs Brooks was driving will not last The policy of the cold war will Neumann's reference to Berlin as the capital of East Germany followed a pattern set last week when the Soviet commandant Maj Gen A Dibrova exploded his bombshell about the Western sectors of the divided four power city Replying to an American protest over the detention of two US con gressmen at gunpoint in East Ber lin last Sunday because tire two way radio in their military car allegedly violated East German laws Dibrova asserted the sov ereignty of East Germany over the Eastern sector In effect he de nied its four power position and thus placed in question the rights of the West here as defined by four power agreements The Communists thus laid the legal foundation to their own satis faction for a return to the block ade conditions of 1943 1949 if they desire Their wish apparently is to drive a hard bargain for some form of recognition of the East German government by the West a recognition that would harden the division of Germany In a further step the Russians have handed over to the East Germans control of barge traffic linking the isolated city with West Germany The East Germans are insisting that the matter of per mits for traffic on the canals be handled between the transport ministries of East and West Ger many Determined to avoid any semblance of recognition of the East German regime the West wants the matter handled on a lower technical level Tom HAD AVRecK SiSTiDDY TO Hit GiT A CROVP o' LOA? ERS T' LooK1 Mayor Ignorant Of Klan Parade ELLOREE Dec 4 OT City officials Mayor Deer em phasized tonight that Knights of the Ku KluX Klan had planned a Saturday night pa rade through city streets first I knew of the parade and the mayor declared when I came back from Or angeburg 1 was in Orangeburg visiting my wife when the Klan staged its parade The mayor pointed out the Klans men merely paraded through El loree The conclave was held out side the city limits A tall cross ignited by robed Klansmen pro vided light for the rally MEDITATIONS By Alley Glenn Martin Dies of Stroke BALTIMORE Dec 4 OT Glenn Martin aviation pioneer whose career ranged from production of 25 cent box kites to fantastic man made earth satellites died hue tonight He was 69 He was striken by a cerebral hemorrhage this morning at his farm between Centreville and Rok Hall on Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay Taken to University of Maryland hospital he died there at 825 pm Martin whose namesake compa ny recently was awarded the pri mary Defense Department contract to build and launch earth satel lites had been ill since late Octo ber Storm Chops 1 Mile Swathe Through County pm each until Christmas and in th? company of a policeman walk the block to the Christmas tree Martin started paying the penal ty yesterday afternoon 3 Georgia Tech Board MaJack Governor ATLANTA Dec 4 OT The play Pittsburgh which has a Ne Board of Regents may deny Govlgro on the squad in the Sugar The issue could become acute around the new year when many permits expire The barges carry vitually all coal and about one third of its other supplies However West Berlin already has enough coal on hand for the winter to supply its homes and industries shield with debris Lad's Punishment Must Light Tree Until Yule See Power Bid LONDON Dec 4 OT rRumblings of a shakeup brewing inside the Soviet Union reached the diplo matic colony here today Some an alysts of Russian affairs predicted a new struggle within the Kremlin with Communist parly boss Nikita Khrushchev possibly ready to make a bid for supreme power crruix nN THE TOM O'NEAL farm near Brownsville last night showed where a twister had passed through (Above) what is left of O'Neal's tool and equipment shed where several tractors were severly damaged At left ranklin Nick (left) and Charley Lee Bracy check on the food that was left in the icebox in Nick's home on the O'Neal place Nick and his wife were visitinq friends when the storm struck the Marlboro County Morntny newi piuiu uy Marvin Griffith's request that Georgia athletic teams be pro hibited from playing opponents who do not maintain segregation Chairman Robert Arnold indi cated tonight very hopeful the whole is sue will be resolved and the situ ation will quiet down to re said talked to a good many board members and wtat makes me Arnold already has declared him seb against such an athletic poli cy pointing out that it was not an for Georgia teams to play against teams with Negromembers The 15 member Board of Regents is scheduled to meet tomorrow to act on the request which brought sharp reaction from many people and led to rioting by Georgia Tech students Arnold will not vole unless there is a dead lock The decision could affect the athletic programs of the state sup ported institutions Immediately at stake is whether Georgia football team will be permitted to held up in Bangkok by engine trouble Hitchcock was expected here Saturday and local movie execu tives were baffled when he failed to show up as scheduled But to day Paul Yue manager for Para mount ilms of Malaya Inc said he had received a telegram saying the plane Because cock rlnn horn and cancer nis pivpusvu rup fly straight to Hong Kong The message did not say when he ex pected to leave Thailand capital Yue said plane also was delayed 20 hours in Calcutta by engine trouble before it left for Bangkok Loke Van Tho millionaire film magnate who was to have been host here said earlier he was by the failure of his guest toarrive A cocktail party for the movie maker was held Saturday without him and a dinner last night was canceled In Hollywood both Hitchcocks actress daughter Pat and a close business associate were puzzled by the apparent disappear ance The daughter wife of business mui Joseph said Hitch cock and his wife Alma left liere last in October and attended a command showing to his film Catch a before the royal family in London rom there the daughter said they planned to fly to Paris Rome Cairo Bombay New Delhi Cal cutta Singapore and Tokyo The plans call for her to fly to Honolulu to meet her parents there Dec 17 It has been a combined business and pleasure trip for Hitchcock I In Sweden rance and Italy he saw to the foreign language dub bing of one of his latest filmsThe Trouble With Harry" East German Red Leader Hints West Berliners To eel Squeeze I know what it means to work for somebody else and 1 fully appre ciate your joy at biggest daily newspaper the Indian Express of Bombay in an editorial for the Monday edition said Khruschev and Bulganin were causing to their hosts in India and Burma by some of their speeches people of India are ma ture enough to discriminate be tween truth and propaganda whether they come from colonial ists or said the Ex press may be provocation enough for them (Khrushchev anil Bulganin) to say what they feel about others but the place and time to say it might be chosen with a little more The editorial adder! pointedly that Indian Prime Minister Nehru did not in partisan pronagan while on Soviet soil during his tour of a few months ago Ry Morning News Staff Writers BROWNSVILLE Dec A baby sized tornado rippedwo farms near this Marlboro County tonight demolishing three dwellings and badly damaging two others The twister roared in about dusk cutting a swathe approximately 200 yards wide and two miles long through the rural commun ity Miraculously nobody was hurt In every case resi dents of the affected homes were out when the storm burst out of the Pee Dee swamps Most of the damage was done on the farm of Tom who had a total of 10 buildings damaged on his property along with livestock and equipment wife and some guests were in the home shortly before the winds hit hollered comes a tornado or Mrs said we all jumped in the car and went up the road I We saw it go by and when we I got back it was so dark we could n't see anything and didn't know any damage had been done until (somebody came and told us a tenant house had been blown The tenant house served as home for ranklin Nick and his wife but they were away visiting rela tives Another tenant house on the O'Neal farm was demolished along with seven barns and a house belonging Charley aged Also destroyed the Hood another and several outbuildings were damaged The only casualty so far as is known was one of four mules which was pinned beneath his stable and several tons of hay Neighbors heard the mule groan ing and shot it Another neighbor reported later that he had corraled the other three mules Also extensively damaged was farm machinery The winds tore down his storage shed and battered tractors with beams and sheet metal The exhaust of one tractor was blown away when the gust tore the threads out of place who had insurance only for fire said he could not begin to estimate the damage until he had had an opportunity to make an inventory tomorrow Although most homes along the highway still had the convenience of electricity telephone lines were out for several miles In addition automobile was pretty badly damaged It had broken down on him at the barns yesterday and he had to leave it there The twister push ed it about 100 feet from where he had left it shattering the wind passersby gathered around wreckage of this car in which six passengers 11 4 zt Iz I nrndn rrftin(l npfir tifPPnVI me CQf WUb ruinmcu uy vius passenger train of the Southern Railway Only a 10 month old baby in the car survived (AP Wirephoto) authorities became displeased at their questioning of the Commu nist leader concerning Soviet in the Baltic states Khruschev had chosen the sacred precincts of the Shwe Dagon golden pagoda for off the cuff remarks about Burmese temples outdating British civiliza tion and the Western reporters quoted him as adding yet they (the British) call you savages and Pravda in Mos cow has since given a different account omitting the quote about savages and barbarians and attrib uting to a Burmese diplomat the remark about Burmese civilization antedating Britain as a nation Khruschev referred indirectly to this controversy last night are some correspondents hrro whn am not nuite satisfied with what I said in India nor far as 1 am concerned I am one Six Killed Near Greenville Passenger rain Rams Auto 3 Hom im mijUIUMIIIL IB JHlWMWrQPtMTjnnOM bnbub I BBHHmwlilBJBi 5 V'x i i wWBMB' fl '1 shSI Mb 9S gjMk Bht? 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