The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

A FINAL THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FINAL i 116th YEAR-No 251 MEMPHIS TENN THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 8 1955 68 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS NEW RECORDS SET Chicks Lose 6-0 Victors Tighten American Race AIDE DENIES HEAVY CUTS El Sweeping Expressway System To Criss-Cross And Loop City Wins Speedy Commission OK May Paralyze Every Port On The Atlantic And Gulf Coasts 65488000 Americans frere Working In August As Unemployment Fell Acting Secretary Robertson Says Reports Have No Factual Basis a BASEBALL Mobile blank Chick 6-0 in Southern Lrigue playoff opener Birmingham beat Chattanooga 7-5 Indiana Yank White Sox and Red Sox win as hot American League pennant fight continue Dodgers clinch tie for National flag by licking Braves 3-1 Experts pick UCLA as nation's No 1 college team for 1955 Southeastern Conference teams get down to hard scrimmages Details oa Paget 38 39 jO) HITS AT PEAK TRAVEL AIR FORCE HIT PROPOSAL US PAY RAISE -HELPED Linked To Federal Program To Be Considered By Congress Stevedore Walkout Proteiti Ban On Hirinf Men With Criminal Recordi AFL Ousted Union Plan Was Part Of Effort To Balanct Budget By Next Tear Democrats Criticised Reduction Construction In Nation Hu Reached 927100000000 For Pint Eight Mouths Of This Year (Picture oa Page S3) Uf Thf Aaotlllr Fm THE WEATHER VS MPSRTMUIT OP COMMSBCX WZATHZR BUREAU FOR MEMPHIS and Thursday fair and hot with high near 93 low near 60 Friday fair with high near 90 rtm Hwf 111 IT NEW YORK1 Sept 7-The YESTERDAY'S REPORT Highest 95 degrees at 3 pm Lowest 62 degrees at 5:30 am Mean (midway between high and low) 79 Normal mean for date 77 HOURLY RtADINCa 4 am Ban IB an 4 pm pm a pn IB Midnight an Pi a TmomlHi Tam PraripnaUM Airport iwwir Dpw point trnnBrufOtiaii tomporalprai al II pn Baronriir iwiim at 11 pm 2aa and atradjr ProriMtatian Jan I 4MI todiM which la ilH ipchta above Mima! A TSAR AGO YISTIRDAV Mailnwm imptralai SI Mauaaai TS Rainfall 0 Inch rncWlathai Jan 1-Snt 011 InchM which la 141 lachca bclnw hocaial Br Tilt Value Prw WASHINGTON SrpL 7 The Government Wednesday issued a boom report on the Nation's economy showing new records in employment personal income gnd construction A record breaking 65488000 Americana held Jobs in early August while unemployment was down to 2237000 according to the Commerce and Labor Departments Reflects August laerease The new employment record reflected the normal August increase in factory activity and a smaller decline in farm work than usually occurs at pre-har vest time In another report the Commerce Department Raid personal income in July climbed to a rate which would mean a record (304700000000 if continued for a foil year The report attributed the new income record mostly to the recent pay raise for Federal Government employe although it said expanding employment also was a factor Ceastnirtloa Boom log Construction in August totaled 33978000000 bringing the total for the first eight months of this year to a record 337100000000 according to another Commerce-Labor report Expanded private building has accounted for most of the increase In the same optimistic vein the Commerce Department reported that retailers wholesaler and manufacturers had Inventories valued at 378300000000 at the end of July This was higher than a year ago but salra have spurted even more and a a result the ratio of inventories to sate was down by about 10 per Minf cent (Map Farecattt Page tf) financed with Fadaral funds and indudas approach routes through tho county from oast end south and aspressways east-west north-south and around the city to Join with future bridge across the Mississippi River opposite Auction Mi Sit bhimi MASTER PLAN A comprahantivo aspressway plan for Memphis as part of the proposed Federal limitad access inter-state highway system was approved yesterday by the City Commission The plan recommended on the basis of a survey by Har-lend Bartholomew 9 Associates would bo TO KEEP INTEGRATI Tobcy Says Slow Expansion Of TVA Forcing City Plants TO EDGES OF CITIES Attorney Challenges Foes To Take Their Case Into Court By JOHN FINNEY toil rm suff wriwr WASHINGTON Sept 7-Act ing Defense Secretary Reuben Robertson Jr Wednesday night denied drastic ruts will be made in currently planned defense programs as a means of balancing the Federal budget between now and next summer Mr Robertson issued a special statement after two Democratic members of the Senate Appropriation Committee denounced the reported new military spending' rutbacks as "dangerous" and "unjustified" Air Ferre Balked The Air Force was said to have balked at the proposed ruts on grounds that its current plans are baaed on higher spending figures It said the economy move would force the Army to reduce its- planned strength to 027000 men by next January instead of the following June as originally intended Mr Robertson said published stories about defense cuts have caused "public confusion and misapprehension" He said the impression that drastic cuts will be made in currently approved defense programs" to get the Government out of the red by next July has "no factual The defense official recalled that last January the Administration formally forecast defense spending of 335750000000 for the fiscal year that began this July But he noted it indicated at the time it hoped to trim this about 34 billion dollars by June 10 1956 duives Stranls Protested Mr Robertson also noted that recently announced revised budget estimates showed defense spending of 35 billion dollars during the fiscal year But he added overall spending for the year "is still expected to be approximately 34 billion dollars as originally estimated" The Democratic protests were made by Chairman Dennis Chavez (D NM) of the Military Appropriations Subcommittee and Senator John Slmnis Miss) A Republican committee member Senator Charles Potter Mich) cautioned against "letting down our guard" Senator Paul If Douglaa (D III) charged that the reported Administration ptispoxal -represented a "sacrifice of national in order to "get a cam' paign talking point" for next year's presidential elections The Treasury which has aired hopes of a balanced budget before next June 30 that might allow a politically-desirsble tax cut has been reported putting pressure on the armed forces to make good the added billion dollar reduction to bring spending down to the 34 billion dollar figure California Blaze Is 'Very Real To Santa Barbara Outskirts world's greatest port was Virtually shut down Wednesday by a longkhoremen's strike that threatened paralysis to every harbor on the AUantic and Gulf Coasts from Hall fax Nova Scotia to Brownsville Texas The strike was called to protest a ban on hiring stevedores with criminal records by'the In temational Association which was ousted from the AFL for being racket ridden It came at a peak period In the 1933 record world travel boom Passengers and ship coni' pany employes were forced to rarry baggage sailings were delayed and cargoes left untouched Activity Cut To Trlrkle The ILA called the walkout at 8 am By 2:45 pm police said the port's commercial activities had been cut to a trickle' About 20000 men were Idle Only military ships were being worked by stevedores police said "If something done by Monday the whole Atlantic and Gulf Coasts-from Halifax to Brownsville will be tied warned ILA President William Bradley The 5000 ILA longshoremen in Baltimore were act to walk out Thursday August Idzik international ILA vice president there said the men would be called off their Jobs to hold a "meeting" from 8 am to 5 pm A few hours after the strike began New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel di Falco Issued a writ restraining the union from continuing the walkout The order was to become effective as soon as it was served on union officers but they were not immediately available Passengers Carry Luggage The longshoremen's walkout caught huge oftean liners with no stevedores to load or unload them The British liner Queen Mary sailed 30 minutes late with 1230 passengers whose 5000 pieces of luggage were handled by Cunard Line employes and by the travelers themselves 'Office workers helped passengers carry luggage ashore when the Lines' America docked Wednesday morning The lie de France sailed at 4 pm after 40 French Line employes helped the 83 passengers with their luggage The strike was aimed at the New York-New Jersey Waterfront Commission rather than the longshoremen's employers The bi-state commission has refused to give work permits to several stevedores who have criminal records It is at these decisions that the longshoremen's action was aimed The changing complexion of the Tennessee Valley Authority away from further expansion of generating facilities will force all larger cities of the TVA area into building their own power plants This prediction was made yesterday by Mayor Frank Tobey in a talk to the Sertoma Gub at the Peabody cities of the valley cannot depend on TVA for their future power needs" Mayor Tohey sski during a questlon-and-answer period after a brief pre- By ROBERT GRAY Approval of a 92-million-4ollaF expressway plan for Memphis and Shelby County was voiced yesterday hy member of the Gty Commission The proposed routes crossing the city north-south and east west with a loop around the present city limits were recommended by lari and Bartholomew Associates following a atudy begun last January The plan was presented to the officials tor Ihe first time yesterday afternoon In the Mayor's office Mayor Frank Tohey and the four city cominiiaionrvs laid they would formally approve the plan by resolution at the regular Gty Commission meeting Tuesday The County Commission Is expected to take similar action I Miles For Memphis The plan Is phased into the proposed Federal Inter-state highway system which presently would allot 68 milea of limited-aceesa routes to the Memphis urban area Actual start of constructing the entire plan nr any part la contingent on adoption of the national program by Congress and the appropriation of funds to cover the cost Determination of the program and Us financing will he before the next Congress which convenes In January However the Mayor and come missioned were informed yesterday by Gty Engineer Will Fowler that the Tennessee Highway Department through Chief Engineer Herbert Bates has made a commitment to survey the proposed loop expressway and that Federal-state money is available for purchasing the right-of-way upon aproval hy Ihe Federal Bureau of Fublie Roads Application Filed Mr Bates haa filed an application for approval to acquire the property for this route which would run from Thomas eastward on the north aide of Wolf River south along the eastern city limlta to Nonconnah Geek and westward along the north aide of Nonconnah to Highway 51 South Completion of thia survey and acquisition of right-of-way would pave the way for constructing this part of the expressway ays-tem immediately upon Federal funds being allocated The Bartholomew survey which was explained to the Mayor and city commissioners long with Mr Fowler and County Commissioner Dsn Mitchell yesterday hy William Pollard engineer for the planning Arm Is separated into six phases The first phase nr "Study Route is the master plan for the urban expressway plan as integrated with thq Federal system This study includes a limited-access highway which would enter Shelby County from the east Just south of Arlington run The employment report said the Job total rose 500000 between July and August The Jobless total dropped by almost 230000 pared talk Chattanooga and other major dtlea of the area will be for red into the same decision that Memphis had to going shad with plana to huild its owipower plant Mr Tobey said Congress Reheard Faad He pointed out that the last Congress refused to make appropriations for TVA to expand generating facilities and that a similar altitude in Washington can be expected during the present administration Mr Tobey reminded that TVA Chairman llerbert Vogel "cannot be called friendly toward TVA" and pointed out that one AEC IS STILL TRYING TO END D-Y CONTRACT Talks 2 Months After Order Th CjWWIil Sppwl WiWilnitoa Baraui Spirit! 0 Tha Oamaitrrial Appaal HOXIE Ark Sept 7-Pubiic schools here which were Integrated during the summer term will remain integrated when they are opened in November Speaking for the Ifoxie School Board Bill Penix attorney for the hoard said Wednesday night the board has decided to keep the Integrated system Forced July Closing Ife challenged the patrons of the sclfooi who forced the school to close during July by withdrawing the students to take their rase to court "A Little Rock attorney and other speaking for an organization ealled White America Inc have threatened ua many times with court action challenging the legality of integration" Mr Penix said now have said they will see to it that not a single white child will attend if classes are integrated "From the legal opinion of private council and the public opinion of the attorney general of Arkansas we know that our actions with regard to integration are in accordance with the letter and spirit of the supreme law of the nation Only Legal Method "However since the Little Rock attorney of White America persists in challenging the legality of our order we now caU upon them to present their claim in the only legal method avail able We have advised White America that we are ready and willing to meet them in any proper local state or Federal court" he said School was suspended in July after a group of white residents headed by Herbert Brewer local farmer filed a petition protesting the mixing of races in the classroom In Little Rock Tuesday night Mr Brewer said: "There will be no mixed rlasses at Hoxie' of the oilier two directors who have supported further expansion of TVA (Harry A Curtis) probably will not he reappointed when hia term expires in 1937 ir the present Administration is till in power (Present estimates are that TVA will be out of surplus puw er by January 1959 even if II purchases the surplus of Ihe proposed Memphis plant) Mr Tohey said thd proposed Memphis plant will be of sufficient capacity to serve the for-seeable needs of Memphli and Shelby County and that power will be furnished to surrounding res "if possible and practical" Legal Questioae Hera Asked if the plant may be located at Fulton the Mayor ask! there probably will be legal questions involved and the city meanwhile is awaiting the site recommended by engineers He said the atudy will be completed in about 60 days" Mr Tobey reiterated that power generated by Ihe municipal plant will be sold at the existing rates and said electricity generated ran he marketed by the Light Gas Water Division profitably as power purchased from TVA He assured Sertoma members and guests that the city would encounlpr no difficulty in financing the proposed Memphis plant through the sale of revenue bonds ALABAMA MISS WINS FIRST TALENT VFNT (3 lap os Page Sight) Tha SaacliM Pm SAN FRANCISCO Sept 7-Huge forest and brush fires roared within sight of two California cities Wednesday night posing "a very real threat' to the outskirts of Santa Barbara on the south coast hut "no Immediate threat" to Yreka Just south of the Oregon border The fire were tha largest of more than a score roaring over quarter million acres of hot dry California Backfire Is With flames from a 50000-acre brush blaze creeping on a broad front within seven miles of Santa Barbara Supervisor Robert Jones of the Los Padres National Forest said the fire was "a very real threat to the outskirts" of the city-in the extreme North weary fire fighters set a 13 miles long backfire between Yreka and the 65000-acre "Hayatck Fire" of the Klamath National Forest The town was in no Immediate danger said Harry Crebbin spokesman for Klamath National Forest Six Miles From Yreka The forest fire was about six miles west of the town of 3500 It had been as close as four miles The backfire had run almost to within three milea of the city Residents of Yreka were ordered to keep their garden hoses ready to put out sparks the wind might toss into the smoke-filled city Ash lay on rooftops and streets like a gray frost In the area of Santa Barbara a city of 50000 20 families were advised to evacuate Rosario Park as sparks fell in the San Marcos Pass Trucks stood by to evacuate 40 cither families from the San Marcos TVout Club community Highway 130 was dosed US Highway 101 main North-South coastal highway was reopened but wax dosed again 125 milea north of Santa Barbara New blazes kept popping up as crews fought to control the huge fires raging near Santa Barbara and Yreka And Hawaii Beauty Takes Bathing Suit Honors DASHES HOPES OF REVEALING PLANS almost parallel to Highway 70 Snyder Says President Break His Silence WASHINGTON Sept 7-The Atomic Energy Commission reported Wednesday it is still trying to free Itself of the Dixon-Yales contract Negotiations aimed at a settlement of the half-billion-doUar obligation were started soon after President announcement of July 11 that the contract would be terminated Wednesday nearly two months later the AEC reported are proceeding" There was no indication when a final decision will he reached A Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Estes Kefauver (D Tenn) is expected to resume its inquiry on the contract about Oct 1 Demands for information relative to the statua of the negotiations are expected at that time Edgar If Dixon principal partner of the Dixon-Yate combine is registered at a Washington hotel and presumably is participating in the contract termination talks The Securities and Exchange Commission recently requested the United States Circuit Court of Appeals to remand the equity financing case to the SEC "for further rensideration" in the light of the President's termina tinn order The SEC approved the equity financing but opponents appealed to the court The case is still before the court Please Tuns tha Page) New Day A-Coming NEW YORK Sept 7-lUP)-History is due to be made in New York City Wednesday The first air-conditioned subway car ever to roll under Ihe streets will be put through test run Transit Authority Chairman Charles Patterson said the car' proves satisfactory the city's whole vast subway system may be air-conditioned The test run will come Just 15 days before the official end of one of New York's hottest summers on record Passing Through PLAINFIELD Sept Mrs Katie Williams 40 haa received a police summons for speeding in a parking lot Police said she drove into a lot hit a mattress chest cabinet sofa and fireplace stacked in the rear of a furniture store and collided with two parked cars causing total damage of 3402 Mrs Williams told officers her brake failed No Questions Asked FRANKFURT Germany Sept The car of a Frankfurt Judge specializing on automobile theft cases was stolen Tuesday night Fallow Judges immediately bet It would be returned as soon as the thief learned about the owner's identity They were right: It was returned Wednesday Assignment: Lady Tenderfoot Encounters Perils Of Camping Trip Night DENVER Sept 7-AP)-The White House Wednesday dashed the hopes of any Republican leaders who had felt President Eisenhower might disclose this week end whether he will seek a second term Murray Snyder assistant press secretary told newsmen at the President's vacation headquarters that Mr Eisenhower definitely will not break hit silence on that matter at a Saturday conference here with the GOP chairmen from all 48 stales The chairmen now are attending a clinic in Washington on party organization and will fly to Denver Friday night for the meeting with the President to msp strategy for the 1956 campaign wars The state leaders almost certainly will urgtf the President to run again (Pictura os Page Bt) ATLANTIC GTY Sept Miss Hawaii and Miss Alabama Wednesday night won the swim suit and talent competition respectively in 1 the first preliminary contest of the Miss America pageant Miss Hawaii (Barbara Mamo Vieira) a tall tanned 22-year-old hula dancer from Honolulu won the swim suit contest in tight white suit She is 5-feet-8 weighs 130 pounds Site has 36-inch bust 24-inch waist and 36-lnch hips Miss Alahams (Patricia Byrd Huddleston of Gantonl a silvery voiced Southern beauty won the talent contest The hazel-eyed 21-year-old Uni' vereity of Alabama coed was voted the winner for her theme of "Pace Pace Mio Djo" an aria from Verdi's opera "La Forza Del Destino" Patricia a soprano has studied voice for six years She wants to study in Europe Forty-nine beautiful girls began the battle Wednesday night for the crown of Miss America 1956 The beauties representing 43 stales Chicago District of Columbia Hawaii and Canada were divided into three groups for swimsuit evening gown and talent competition Two other preliminaries follow on Thursday and Friday nights On all three preliminary nights the Judges announce only the winners in swimsuit and talent events Evening gown results are kept aecret to build up suspense Ten semifinalists will he chosen early Saturday night During the final round of competition the field wilt be narrowed to five girls About midnight the winner will be tapped from among the final five State To Ask Chicago Mother To Assist In Murder Trial Flora Remains On Sea Course Hilda Brewing? By LYDEL SIMS Conversation with your coffee Fate can be fiendish at best But sometimes it sets new records in deviltry Consider the plight of a lady tenderfoot on a camping trip tossing bravely but perilously in a borrowed 'jungle hammock Bad huh? But wait! Now suppose this ladv in the hammock gets a spell of hay fever and starts sneezing Awful huh? But wait again Let us say this poor creature sneezing and swaying in thejflies or glowworms are all GG SENT TO MILWAUKEE Polio Outbreak Reaches Sptcwl I Tkt CMUMItlll SMl HERNANDO Miss Sept 7-Dit Alty Gerald Chatham said Wednesday night he will ask the mother of a slain Chicago Negro to come to Mississippi for the trial of two white meitf indicted in his death The district attorney said he plans to send a telegram to Mamie Bradley of Chicago after a trial date is set probably Friday "In the telegram I plan to express my personal regret and the regret of the state conrem-" Epidemic Stage MILWAUKEE Wis Sept The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Wedne day 700000 shots stilly night tries to unzip thejbeetles mosquito netting so she can get fact a matter of glum Glowworm are all Index gamma obulin to Milwaukee County to fight a polio outbreak which has reached epidemic proportion Gty health officials said 600-000 shots would be given to Mil- for inoculations of chit- between the ages of 1 and MIAMI Sept Hurricane Flora headed for the cold shipping lanes in the North Atlantic and oblivion Wednesday but Miami forecasters watched their inatrumenta closely to see if Hilda was developing right over their heads A low pressure trough developed in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and drifted slowly northeastward across peninsular Florida Showers and thundershowers with winds up to 35 miles per hour pounded the entire state except for the Tsllshassee-Pensa-cola panhandle section is a weak cyclonic circulation in the trough" hut-jricane forecaster Gilbert Clark Amusements 41 Births 51 Comics 42 Cotton Comment Crossword Puzzle out before she capsizes What females: they belong to a family happens? in which the males can fly but Why of course! The zipper can't glow and the females can sticks glow but can't fly And did This last straw landed the'you know fireflies can night on the tempest-tossedjehronize their flashes? Some-hack of a Raleigh Jady who pre- times thousands of them will go fers not to be named (it was a on and off in perfect unison and borrowed hammock remember) Ijust what do you think of THAT? Rocked buffeted and thwarted Deaths 43-469 with 100000 shots going to Dorothy Dix 34'Milwaukee suburbs Editorial 6j There have been 39 polio Inside Labor 26-deaths in Milwaukee County so Markets 44-45 far thia year including 18 city Night Desk 6'residenU and 21 from other com- Radio and Television There have been 402 ous and he expects to be hack on the bench by Friday He is expected to set the trial date that day Trial of Bryant and Milam indicted Wednesday by a Tallahatchie Cbunty Grand Jury on counts of murder and kidnaping is expected to held during the current court term which haa more than two weeks to run' Bath la Good Spirits Bryant and Milam were lodged in the Tallahatchie County Jail at nearby Charleston Wednesday and Sheriff If Strider Sr aid both ape pared to be good apirita" Officers said Till was taken from his uncle's home the morning of Aug 28 after he "wolf whistled' and made "some remarks' to Roy Bryant's wife an attractive 21-year-dd mother at the Bryant Store (Sea Story on Page it) by the hideous combination ofj nns OLD WORLD is foil of hammock hay fever and zipper probiems Why can no summer she was beginning to deapwrip without some young man when fate tired of its cruel joke in the trffice returning mus-Just as her fingers closed ached from vacation? uny around the zipper tab for the fail to (unction fint chool ends? than all the rest shook the ham- hat can be done about rhythm and blues music? mock from stem to stern Her ing the unfortunate death of her son will tell her that I think it is important to the case that she appear and certain evidence ihe can give would be very important" the district attorney said Mr Chatham said he would promise the mother of Emmett Till any reasonable protection she might feel that she needs Delayed By Illness scheduled meeting at Sumner a trial date for Roy 24-year-oid storekeeper Miss and of Glendora his half-brother wax postponed due to of Circuit Judge Curtis Swango The meeting was been held at 9 Thursday Swango confined to his Sardis with a slight his illness is not ten River Bulletin 42pol cases so far already aur-i Secret! of Charm 37passing the total for 1931 de''p Society 32-33-34-35-37jWas the worst previous year in torm Sports 38-39-40 the city's history Today In Memphis 51 Want Ads 46-47-48-49-50-51 Weather Map 43 Austrian Army hand gave a mighty involuntary yank the zipper surrendered and cur heroine fell out landing headfirst on a box of Kleenex How Ya Gonna Keep HONGKONG Sept Chinese Communists were reported Wednesday to be forcing peasants at gunpoint to give up life in the city and to return to their farms Recent arrivals from Shanghai laid the Reds as a last resort to atop the influx of farmers to the Yangtze metropolis are evacuating hundreds of thousands of peasants jhome at by force A to set Bryant of Money Milam 36 the illness to have morning Judge me at cold said a hurricane after it drifts into the Atlantic Ocean Thursday Hurricanes don't develop fully over land Flora was placed 630 miles east-northeast of Bermuda It was heading northeast into t)ie Approved VIENNA Sept 7-IUP)-Parliamenl voted the fledgling Austrian Army into being But Jack Gark 8-year-old son of Jerry Gark of Collierville stumbled upon a particularly puzzling problem the other night A 16-page tabloid in connection with Sean Roebuck and Compa to ny's 69th anniversary tale is in FASCINATING FACTS left when his father promised over from yesterday's research take him jugfishing Come to Job on fireflies: these of it what DOES a jug-call them lightning bugs fire-ifish taste like? hy an overwhelming eluded in your 68-page copy oflmargin Only four communists The Commercial Appeal thialand 14 extreme right-wing depu-'blow itself out without ever morning 'ties voted against the bill touching land cold shipping lanes at 16 miles per hour Flora apparently will 0 01.