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BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS THE DOMINANT NEWSPAPER OP NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI VOL. 124 Blytheville Dally Newi Mississippi Valley Leader Blytheville Herald BLYTHEVILLE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1953 TEN PAGES East Coast Hit By Hurricane Season's First Blow Heads North; Two Dead Thus Far NORFOLK, Va. (AP) The season's first intruding hurricane smacked the North Carolina and Virginia coastal areas early today and moaned on north. The big blow packed winds of 80 miles an hour or more near Its center and spun gale winds of 40 or more to a distance of 140 miles. It was expected to hit southern New Jersey in the afternoon and have some effect on the Eastern Seaboard as far north Massachusetts by nightfall, beach resorts were battening down To the north, coastal cities and tgainst gale winds and abnor mally high tides.

Damage in North Carolina and Virginia, forewarned of the sudden blow that cooked up in the South Atlantic, appeared comparatively light on the basis of early reports. Two lives were reported lost. One was a North Carolinean blown from a pier near Wilmington, N.C., and swept out to sea. The other was a Norfolk County, Virginia, policeman, electrocuted by a downed power line. There were many reports of narrow escapes.

A Okinawa Set For Wild Typhoon 184 mph Gales Expected to Hit Island Base ginia couple seeking to escape the storm in their boat across a backwater, had to swim for it when the 22-foot craft swamped. Thej made it safely ashore. Four Flying Masonry Marines at the Cherry By'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lrage velocity was 55 miles NAHA, Okinawa hour. The hurricane itself bears Point, N. 90 mile winds were the heaviest reported slightly hurt.

And a couple fleeing from the Moorehead city yacht basin had a narrow escape when a concrete retaining wall collapsed. Plying blocks of masonry nicked their heels. To the north, police at Ocean City were advising vacationers and others who could depart to leave the resort city in the face of the impending blow. Rains and high tides were flooding some coastal roads. Most ships had been advised in time to steer clear of the storm's path.

And most small boats were snugged down in protected harbors. But the Norwegian tanker Marna. out of control was trapped in the storm's path 22 miles southeast of Cape Lookout, N. C. The Coast Guard reported, however, the 398-foot vessel apparently had weathered the blow.

Striking Norfolk at 6:00 a. the hurricane moved steadily northward and headed for southern New Jersey. Storm warnings were displayed as far north as the Mas- ichusetts coast. The Norfolk weather bureau reported shortly after 6 a. m.

that the winds had begun to diminish, dropping to an average of 35 miles per hour with top gusts of 56 miles per hour. The wind had reached te peak at Norfolk at 4:30 a. m. with an average of 53 miles per hour and a top gust of 76 miles per hour. At Cape Henry the av- per SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS PILOT CAUGHT BETWEEN 'CHUTE AND HELICOPTER A helicopter is low over the water in an attempt to rescue Ensign E.

H. Harry of Indianapolis after his Gruman plane (right) hit the sea on a takeoff from Aircraft Carter Block Island (rear). Barry is caught in a tug-of- war between the helicopter and his parachute which opened unexpectedly. Seconds later he was yanked from the rescue sling and back into the water. He finally was saved by a boat crew from the destroyer Bears from which this picture was made by a Navy photographer.

(Navy Photo via AF great American island, base dug in tonight for one of the wildest typhoons ever recorded in the Pacific, only a few hours away. The Army ordered Condition 1 Alert at 10 p. m. (7 a. m.

with the storm only about 12 hours away. The typhoon's winds were howling up to 184 miles per hour. The forward edge of howling storm, one of the wildest ever recorded in this part of the world, was about 200 miles southeast of this island and was expected to hit tomorrow morning. Already angry gusts whipped across air base runways and some B29 Superforts took off for safer airfields elsewhere in the Pacific Japan, the Philippines or Guam. Other aircraft stayed at the field, loaded with sandbags or circled by fuel trucks filled with oil to break the typhoon winds.

winds up to 80 miles per hour over a small area near the center and gales extend outwarrj 140 miles. Power, Communications Out Police reported hundreds of power lines and telephone wires and a score 01 trees were blown down. Power and communication lines were torn down, trees uprooted and Maj. Maurice R. Fowler, spokesman for the Ryukus Command, said 24 hours of emergency rations were issued.

Moving North "Wives were lined up at the store btiyiug flashlight batteries and supplemental food," he said. Fowler said winds of 55 miles an hour were expected to sweep the island by 2 a. m. tomorrow. "The typhoon's center is still 420 miles southwest of us," he said, "but it is 200 miies across and that puts, forward elements just 200 miles or so The typhoon is moving northwest at a speed of 10 miles per hour.

Jet fighters and smaller aircraft were to be securely tied down and New Security Standards Set for State Department By EDMOND LE BRETON WASHINGTON (AP) Hundreds of State Department employes may be screened under new security standards, even though many of them already have been investigated. Adoption of the new regulations was disclosed yesterday. They call for reopening of many old loyalty cases and full investigation of employes not already thoroughly checked. France Paralyzed; Bitter Fight Ensues PARIS (AP) France settled down today to a bitter struggle between striking economy-minded Premier Joseph Laniel. With millions off their jobs, the walkouts spread to civilian workers in the nation's arsenals, army Hospitals and quartermaster outfits.

Only 80,000 workers were in- rains flooded streets, highways and basements. Forewarned, however, residents battened down everything that could be, evacuated the most dangerous areas and braced for the blow. Damage, as a result, was relatively light. Much of the North Better Grading Consideration of Oil And Protein Content Urged at ASC Meet Need for a workable soybean grading system was cited by farm- volved. in 24-hour walkout "it She mifciiatiba.i^ljlit the'3 Department Security Officer R.

W. Scott r.lcLcod said recently he had found 2,000 cases in which there had been no investigation and 2,000 more in which he considered the investigations inadequate. The new rules give final sny to Secretary of State Dulles as to whether any employe should be fired as a security risk. Officials said the policy would be to dismiss an employe if there was a reasonable doubt whether "employment is clearly consistent with the interest of national security." Security risks are broadly de- fine.d in the new State Department dramatized the unions' determination not to stop until Laniel abandoned plans to trim government payrolls and up the retirement age for the civil service. With in sight, the nation's railroads were still paralyzed, her gas and electricity service diminished and her communication cys- ai tern tied in knots.

I ua UN Demands Reds Tell Plans for Jailed PWs U.S., Britain Stand Pat On Peace Parley Split By MAX HABRELSON UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Both the United States and Britain stood their ground today in a split over the proposed seating of India at the forthcoming Korean political conference. Indian sources conceded, however, that the United states ap peared to have the most suppor among the 16 countries trying work out a joint proposal on the composition of the conference. Britain and Canada both fee strongly that India should be among those chosen to represen the world organization at the par ley.

Most of the others were re ported either indifferent or on the side of the United States. The final decision, however, wil be made by the 60-nation U.N eneral Assembly, convening here Monday. Chief U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. brought the split Allies Accused Of Holding Chinese Illegally guide.

Officials judging the loyalty of employes are directed to into the open last night, declaring that the U.N. should be represent ed only by countries which fough for it in Korea. That would bar India, which sent only a medical unit. Lodge insisted the United States ms nothing against India, but feels the armistice agreement made it clear that the U.N should be represented by countries who had armed forces under its British Decline Comment The British declined to com- nent, but they were understood to eel strongly that both India and Russia should sit at the confer- along with those who did the 'ighting. The British reportedly believe that India, which has close contact wilh Communist China and which authored the U.N.

resolution on which the Korean armistice was based, would be a constructive. consider behavior and associations I fc'-'ce in the parley, 'file Briton that tend to show "the individua is not reliable or trustworthy" and to consider such factors as: Hearing Guaranteed Criminal, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct; habitual drunkeness; drug addicition; sex- Employes in these and other gov- ers in an Agriculture Service soybean marki at Arkansas State College, Jones- al perversion; membership in or "sympathetic association" with (Fascist. Communist, totalitarian or eminent services, more than a mil- subversive groups, or sympathetic lion workers were out for an in- i assoc'ition with individuals in such ''Extension i dcflmte Period. Their ranks were categories or with secret agents of Carolina area swept by the storm is sparsely populated. Houston Jernigan, 46 year old Dunn, N.

department store owner, was blown off a fishing pier by fringe winds at Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington, and carried out to sea. 90-Mile Winds Boatswain's Mate 1-C Dudley Lewis, skipper of a Coast Guard picket boat trying to rescue Jernigan, was thrown by the churning waters through his boat's windshield and had to be hospitalized. Four Marines at the Cherry Point Marine air base slightly injured. The strongest an were reported estimated 90 miles an hour struck Cape Hatteras and Cherry Point. Elsewhere 70 miles was reported near the peak.

The 398-foot Norwegian tanker, Marna, was out of control and directly in the storm's path some 22 miles southeast of Cape Look- protected from the winds as much I out But a Coast Guard offi- as possible. The Air force retracts ccr reported later the vessel ap- the landing gear of storm-bound aircraft and they ride out a blow on their bellies. Multi-engined aircraft letf here will be tied down, but not rigidly. Crews man the planes during the storm, running the engines into the wind to keep the plane from being swept away. Dependent housing on Okinawa has been "typhoonized" with heavy cables running over rooftops and sunk deep into the ground.

"The main thing in typhoon will be discomfort," a spokesman said, "the lights will go out and people will be eating their emergency rations and whatever else they have." Athletic Booster Club Planned An organizational meeting for the purpose of promoting a new booster club to back the high school athletic program will be held at the Dixie Pig tonight at 7:30 according to Herb Childs, organizer of the meeting. aim of the new organization will be to promote good citizenship, character and fair play among the participants of all the sports Included In the high school athletic proRram, Mr. Childs said. parently weathered the storm. Called Barbara for the second letter of the alphabet, the storm was discovered only Wednesday 325 miles east of Daytona Beach, marketing clinic' swelletl yesterday by more than three million others in numerous and The meeting was attended by 20 men of this area and was conducted by District Extension Agent J.

M. Thomason. Principal speaker was George M. Strayer, sec tary of the American Soybean Association. quit for 24 hours to support civil "servants' demands.

foreign nations. Administration of (he security program is the responsibility of the IMcLeod, assisted by John W. Sipes. who is assigned in the new post of But yesterday's response to the strike call was only partially ef- fective, indicating the wave might have reached its peak. Banks arid insurance companies remain open, as did department stores.

The stock market functioned. So did most other private businesses, though all have been slowed by the lack of communications. Only Research is being caried on to i in the metal working industries perfect a simple grading system to i was the strike generally effective. "We are operating under a grading system." Mr. Strayer told the farmers, "which does not consider two of the most important factors in beans oil and protein content.

determine oil content, he reported. Premiums Asked Mr. Strayer called for a grading No End in Sight i There still was no sign of any system which would award prem-jmove to end the walkouts. The ad- iums for top quality producers and amant unions already have penalties for producers of lower I widened their demands to include quality beans. The present system, he said, does not do this.

Participating in a call for a general wage increase. And Laniel, a hard-headed multi- security counsel. An accused employe Is entitled to a hearing by a board of three pei-sons. who must not be officials of the State Department. The accused has a right to his own lawyer, to introduce evidence and to have witnesses cross-examined if they appear.

But information from confidential sources may be withheld from the accused person. The board would then make its recommendation to the secretary of state, whose decision can be questioned only in the courts. Tlie rules were worked over by various officials for nearly four months and finally approved by the Justice Department this week. They were drafted in compliance with President Eisenhower's order England's Future Not Bright, Exchange Student Tells Rotary millionaire textile manufacturer, i nf panel discus- insisted he would not be pressured A 1 21 on secunty sion were Paul Hughes, manager into revoking his cost-cutting de-' government agencies and of Blytheville's Farmers Soybean crces The govern ment made no Uel ln 5 me rcs ects the la "Corporation, and C. H.

Buchanan stcp to even negotiate gunge of that order. of Wilson. I Among those attending the meet-! Armv Air Force units ing from this area were: Er.rl in Prance set up their own "Oper- i J7J jVtOTG Vifit Wildy, Vance Dixon, Jim Smother-1 ation Strike" to cope with (he man, Charles Moore, Pete Mill-j hcaval. They iiung their own net- A-RQVS yard, John Bearden. John Bearden, work of planes and buses across Ross Hughes.

Ernest nation, keeping food mail and chest x-rays were made of 305 Haynes, Ben Henderson, Matt; personnel movinc to fill crsons yesterday during the fourth Scruggs, J. O. Edwards, C. C. forces' needs of a clinic being conducted here by the Tuberculosis Associ- Convoys of American vehicles I atlon and the State Health De- brought in fresh milk and other pa rtment.

perishables from Holland and! This makes a total of 3.166 per- Germany. Army buses and Air! sons x-rayed in North Mississippi ai-o feel that exclusion of Russia would be "unrealistic." Lodge said he had no objection to Russia attending the conference if they sat on the side of the Communist" Red China and North and not with the U.N. representative. Lodge acknowledged that the United States and its 15 allies hnd reached no definite decisions in their two long private sessions Wednesday night and Thursday. He said they would meet again Saturday morning U.S.

Proposal Diplomatic officials in Washington disclosed that the United States has tentatively proposed a seven- nation delegation to represent the U.N.— the United States, Briain, France, Canada. The Philippines, Thailand and Colombia. Thse sources said he Americans are willing to add such countries as Australia and Turkey, which sent troops to Korea, but want no more than 12 nations on the U.N. delegation. India's U.N.

delegate, V. K. Krishna Menon, apparently annoyed by the fight, told newsmen that India is no "candidate" for membership in the conference. "This is not like a race for office," he said. He maintained that, under terms of the armistice Communists are any countries to side.

Russia's views on the versy remained a secret. agreement, the free to -rhoose represent their Base Work Awaits Okay Of Gas Pact Awarding of contracts for air base reactivation work is awaiting Air Force approval a natural gas contract with Arkansas-Missouri Power the Corps of Engineers district office in Little Rock said today. Contracts were originally scheduled to be let July 29 and 30 for a wing headquarters building and a guardhouse, but awarding of them was postponed pending negotiation of a fuel agreement with Ark-Mo. Negotiations of this contract were completed and signed by utility officials last Friday. The contract was sent to the Air Force for its approval.

The Corps of Engineers said new bid dates for the two buildings will be set when the approved contract is received from the Air Force. Advertising for bids on other construction work also is due to follow the contract approval, the Engineers said. contro- Councille and Clyde Gaines. Faced with dwindling food supplies, coal production and world trade, Great Britain's future is Aside When Battling Par MARVIV Force planes hauled stranded sol- County since th diers and mails to France, Britain began Aug. 4.

Eisenhower's knack of shunting state I roblcms temporarily into one and Germany. New walkouts threatened. News- cialistic experiments as something needed to put the nation back on jiuu u.iv. ui un jviunuay. ine ite JS! Trades Union met paper workers were ordered out for 24 hours on Monday.

The Com- i Registrars yesterday were Miss r-faxine Halstead, Miss Sally Trie- EChmann, Mrs. Marshall Blackard, not one to inspire hope, "They realize that private enter-1 0 di, ou Onnnther. i a stri Guenther, recently-returned Rotary prize has been infinitely more suc- membcrs. fellowship student from United'states and 1 lmions continued a tieup of Kings College, told members of, are not surprized that most of our i "'''P way and bus system Blytheville's Rotary club yesterday, people loath socialism. They just;" 110 lts day.

One independent Mr. Guenther who makes his, felt lh at their production capacities! kcd a lhe continence and corner of his mind while he concentrates on golf or trout fishing is a side of his personality which shall Blackard, doesn't often show in Washington. Miss Frances At his vacation headquarters lead, here, that ability to relax in the Rus-1 face of the tremendous strain of sell E. Riales, Mrs. Joe E.

Thomas! the presidency Is the subject of and Mrs. L. E. Ga Miss Elizabeth Mrs. Maurice Sanders, Mrj im home In Little Rock, has just COL.

pleted a year's study on a fellow- Ishlp awarded by Rotary's 200th i District, of which the Blytheville The meeting will be open to the resources. make." Bright spots on the ecr club is a member. front, he said, include the ovor- "It seems tragic," Mr Guenther low of sc cntlfic tnl nt 8nd the said, "that a nation with the 8 scie: should be faced with the prospect. of never being able to fullv ita- Industrialization boom. Some IU Sla 000 British Immigrated to Cam.da last year, he pointed out.

Rotarlan U. S. Branson Introduced Mr. Guenther. Guests at yesterday's meeting Included Walter Marble.

needed drastic overhauling whicM a few ibway trains operated. But private enterprise was reluctant to Parisians had to depend mostly on I taxicab: nee of technical, engineering and tlon large ln sur nce companies, entitle skill which Is Britain's'. rltlsh skllls he sald hnve con mid be faced with the orosnect. 'ributed much to Canada's current its economy." Advancement in aircraft designs and manufacture and other highly technical skllls, he said, constitutes the country's most valuable and nearly 1,000 army about the city. DWI Case Continued T.

Merrlwenther pleaded RUll- ty In Municipal Court this morn- Ing to the charge of driving while Intoxicated and the case was continued until tomorrow set at $121.75, with bond publio. Englishmen look their m- ol Frnscr of McCrory and Ben Brock charged Darry EdRinon and Max ol with speeding, tack 'artly cloudy this widely scattered afternoon ihun- rtershowers. not much change in temperatures. Maximum Minimum Sunatt Sunrise Precipitation last 24 hours to 6:30 m. temperature (midway bftwccn high and Precipitation Jun.

1 to 32 This Dale I.JIM Year Minimum yesterday- Maximum yesterday-M. r-risclpiutlon January 1 to into-- much conversation. On Monday, for example, he discussed one of the most serious problems with Secretary of State Idea of American retaliation if the Chinese Communists and the North Korean Reds refuse to release some U.S. prisoners of war, hour la.ter, Eisenhower was battling par on the Denver Cherry Hills course with the Intensity of a professional whose income depended on the outcome of the golf fiamo. The next day It was the way.

Adm. Arthur W. Radford, the Incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, gave the President an Important briefing on the world military KlUiallon. A bit later, Eisenhower wu on I Tax Change Tops Congressional Slafe, Reed Says Ways and Means Chairman Wants Drastic Reduction By B. L.

LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON Daniel Reed (R-NYi said today a comprehensive revision of Income tax aws, giving a break to millions ot axpayers, will be the first order if business for House tax writers it ihe Jan. 6 session of Congress. Reed, chairman of the tax-wrung Ways and Means Committee, leclarcd; "We want to drastically reduce he many unfair restrictions which he present tax laws impose on ur taxpayers." Two tentative decisions already iave been reached which would iave wide affect. Reed said. One would help out fathers whose hildren work at parttime jobs, he aid, and the other would simplify he system of declaring estimated ncome tax liability.

Reed salo a cnange in the law planned which would allow chil- ren. especially those of college to earn more than S600 a yenr ithout costing parents their in- ome tax dependency credit. Streamlining the present compli- ated system of filing declarations estimated tax due, Reed assert- would remove many penalties he called unfair. He said it would also relieve about a million taxpay- jpatriated in the early days of the See TAXES on I'IIRC 3 (exchange started for the United i States and home. A plane with 11 American repatriates aboard stopped for the iiisht in Honolulu on the trip from Tokyo to Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco.

All but one were sick or wounded. An earlier plane, bearing 17 tne golf course, giving as much seriously ill repatriates, landed at attention to whether to use an 8 Travis Wednesday morning. or a iron to avoid that trap around And at the South of the green as he had shortly before Inchon, 303 Americans boarded the By WIILIAM C. BARNARD PANMUNJOM (AP) The U. N.

Command asked the Communists officially today if the Reds plan to hold back any Allied prisoners "Sentenced to.confinement for any reason" from the Korean War prisoner exchange. Returning Allied POWs have said others were left behind, jailed on Phony charges. There has been no official report of the number. The U. N.

C. made its first official demand for an answer In a meeting of the joint U. Repatriation Commission at Panmun- jom. The Reds gave no Immediate answer. Col.

Louis C. Friedersdorff, chief Allied representative, asked confirmation that the Reds would send back all prisoners who Insist on repatriation. As the commission met, 84 Americans and 322 other Allied captives rode eagerly from Red captivity to freedom at the exchange point here. Both Reds and'H. N.

accused the other of holding back prisoners entitled to go home. And on the Allied side, there was an apparent conflict between Korean and Washington sources whether all eligible Chinese POWs already had been freed Returning Allied POWs have said some left behind were jailed on phony Red charges. There has been no official report of the number. Reds Shout "Blackmail" U. s.

Secretary of state John Foster Dulles warned the Reds to send back every Allied, prisoner and threatened to hold back eome Communist POWs as a safeguard against any Red holdouts. The Reds' Peiping radio to turn charged Dulles with "blackmail" and accused the Allies of illegally holding out 120 Chinese, Peiping said it has a right under the Geneva Convention to hold back any prisoners charged with an "indictable offense." But the U. S. State Department denied the Red charge, and said the truce agreement specified that ail POWs who want to return must be sent back with no exceptions. The tense debate was snarled further by conflicting reports whether all Chinese who want to RO home have been returned to the Reds at Panmunjom.

The U. N. Command said day that its shipment of 222 Chinese that day was the last delivery of 5,405 Chinese scheduled to return. However, Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens stepped from his plane in Washington after a Korean visit and said 250 Chinese Reds involved In crimes during their captivity might be held back.

He said he understood that not all eligible Chinese POWs haj repatriated. Asked to explain the apparent conflict, a N. N. C. spokesman said the POW situation and ail related matters have been reported to "high authority in Washington." He said any comment would have to come from Washington.

New Plane Meanwhile, more Americans re- to Radford's report. transport Gen. W. P. Hase for San The next day he signed 20 pieces or Seattle It was sched- of legislation into law, and aides i ulcd to sail by Saturday, reported that he studied each mca- I The transport Gen.

Nelson M. of them of secondary Walker left Inchon Tuesday with thoroughly as he 1328 repatriates for the two-week does the most Important bills. Then he set out for the Colorado Rockies and had the time of his uletl to be freed at Panmunjom in trout. Watching i Saturday's exchange, along with trip to San Francisco. Fifth more Americans are sched- life casting for him there In th trout stream, an 50 British and 300 South Koreans.

aide wondered just how Eisenhower did It. "I know he's Just as deeply concerned now as he was a couple hours ago." said the aide, "but ne has a wonderful knack of storing the problem away as he fishes, as he is and then coming up with the answer when be gets back to his desk." Last niRht, It was business again. The President had dinner with two aides who flew In from Washington during the afternoon Counsel Bernard M. ihanley, and Robert .1. Cutler.

Vhlte House liaison man wllh the National Security Council, Tlle Americans who returned Friday brought the U. S. total freed in 10 days of the exchange to 907 I See TOW'S on PIIKC 3 Inside Today's Courier News World Scries may be token affair sports page Editorials Church news Page 4 Comics Vtgc. 9.