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f-7' I- i' 5 1 it A 1 A MMHaihji ImMMMW Mttf itfAi FINAL' THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FINAL 120th YEAR-No 298 MEMPHIS 1 TENN SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 25 1959 130 PAGES PRICE 20 CENTS Rackets Sleuths Hit Businessmen For Shady Deals Steel Sessions Resume Without Hopeful Sign Will Continue Today Court Prodding Loeb Supports Fairgrounds Rebels Crush Arkansas 28-0 As Flowers Leads In Assault Before Awed Crowd Of 32004 War Of Attrition Linked With Gangsters Labor Racketeers And Some Union Bosses As Stadium Coliseum Site HEARINGS SUMMED Uf Union And Industry Bow To Urges Intensive Efforts Ole Miss Victory Sets Up Championship Tilt With LSU Saturday Harsh Says County Ready To Do Its Part In Final Program Mayor-Elect Favors Revenue Bond Financing Senate Group Say Such Practices Make It Hard To Clean Up Corruption Attacked By LOUIS SILVER Mayor-elect Henry loeb yesterday strongly supported the present Fairgrounds as the permanent site for the Mid-South Fair and a new stadium and coliseum Stressing that he was speaking only fin: himself the outgoing public works commissioner said "Better use could be made of what we have at the Both Commissioner Loeb and David Harsh chairman of the Shelby County Commission look forward to results of a survey which may be made by By DICK WEST Unit Fran tatamttOMl Staff WASHINGTON Oct 24-The Senate Rackets Committee assailed a group of New York Chicago and Detroit businessmen Saturday for reportedly making deals with gangsters labor racketeers and shady union officials It said such practices served cide what going to do and tifle legitimate union activt then do it" ties and made it difficult to clean up labor corruption The committee also launched a new attack on President Maurice Hutcheson of the Carpenters Union who was indicted this week on contempt of Congress charges growing out of Calling the Fairgrounds "a splendid location" he said it would be cheaper to replace dilapidated buildings with new onea and retain solid structures than to start anew at another location "Things not an integral part before mittee last By A SWARTWORTH AHacUM hi Kill PITTSBURGH Oct 24 Negotiators bowed to a court edict end resumed contract talks Sat-' urday in the costly 102-day steel strike It they made any progress there wasn't a sign of it It any new proposals were laid on the table no one was saying President Eisenhower urged the negotiators to keep hammering away to get a settlement The negotiators made no comment on the but they agreed to meet here at 2 pm Sunday David McDonald president of the United Steelworkers led his four-man bargaining team 'in the talks on the 16th floor of a midtown hotel Conrad Cooper chief industry spokesman was on the opposite side of the table with three companions who have met periodically with the union since last May Lasts Nearly Three Hour The meeting lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes The industry representatives spoke for the 12 major steel companies in the nation The- negotiations Saturday came as a direct result of orders by the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia The court which has stayed an 8Way Taft-Hart-ley injunction directed that negotiation be resumed Meanwhile in Philadelphia the head of special three-man fact-finding panel denied a published report he had asked the President for the Fair executive committee That group decided Tuesday "to seriously consider an expert in Fair design to submit a plan fin: modernizing the Fairgrounds which many people have called "inadequate" for a Fair that broke a half-million attendance record tills month TO Interview Planners Fair officials will Interview exposition planners from New York Tampa Fla and Houston Texas to decide if a fi-nancially-feasible survey can be made Commissioner Harsh said yesterday consider the Fair Board one of our beat boards but until it knows what it wants to do I have no However he added "I do think we ought to get moving and pledged "We (Shelby County government) will do our part in any agreed program" Major improvement! and new buildings at the Fairgrounds are financed on the basis of 40 per cent by the county and 60 per cent by the city Commissioner Harsh told the Memphis Junior Chamber of VICTORY His overjoyed sitter Mrs Robert Stroud of St Louis swooped down on the Rebels' Charlie Rowan and made it unmistakably dear how she felt bout Mississippi's 28-0 victory over Ar kansas in Crump Stadium yasterday Mrs Stroud oddly enough attended the University of Arkansas Rowars and Bobby Craspino (canter) playad stellar rolas in tha afternoon gama -aunmoto aefent wuiiu (Color Picture on Page One Sports Section Memphis State Nosed Out By Mississippi State" 28-23 Gridiron Giants Uphold Records With Victories of the Fair should be moved more land available right around such as 10 acres of Public Works Department property to the that could be used for parking Parking Is Necessary "Blacktop parking is a must for a stadium coliseum and the Fair All thjye are related" Both the Fair and MSU could make use of both the coliseum and stadium he said The mayor-elect proposed moving softball diamonds from the Fairgrounds to Tobey Park on the other (north) side of Central and other parks and using the apace for permanent parking areas' He also noted that Southern one of the Fairgrounds' border streets has been widened and that the City Commission let bids Tuesday for a bridge over Lamar at Southern has to be done on Southern and hoping that the Public Works Department will keep on to improve Southern (via Mo Lemore to the Mississippi River)" Commissioner Loeb printed to the State Fair of Texas in Dallas tiie nation's largest as a good example of where a fair stadium (Cotton Bowl) and coliseum occupy the same site with mutual benefit Lawmaker Commended Referring to a proposal last week by state Senator Thomas Mitchell that the site of Mallory Air Force Depot at 3300 slated to be closed In be converted Into a new fair-criiaeum-atadium location Commissioner Harsh said: 1 doubt if we want to accept ai a final decision that Mallory ia going to move But By CHARLES LOVE Stitt Writer STATE COLLEGE Miss Oct 24-Mississippi State scored three touchdowns in the first quarter Saturday and then had to fight for its life and a 28-23 football victory over Memphis State There were precious few among the 16000 Homecoming Day fans at Scott Field who expected to see anything like this after the Maroons barged Into a 21-0 lead But after the first quarter Memphis State was tiie superior team The first quarter and what year U58 Hearings Summarized These were the highlights of a new report issued by the Select Committee on Improper Labor-Management Activities summarizing its 1958 hearings Previous reports dealt mostly with wrongdoing on the labor side In this volume the committee directed some sharp criticism at certain managerial practices It named in this connection the Chicago Restaurant Association some overall supply firms in Detroit and big New York contractors who figured in the hearings on the Carpenters Union The report also included a section on the Philadelphia Teamsters It charged a group of "greedy and unscrupulous" men headed by Raymond Cohen a Teamster international trustee obtained control in Philadelphia and to drain the union's treasury of large amounts of cash" The committee said the Detroit overall industry provided "another example of gangster infiltration into business enterprises" It said one firm Star Coverall Supply Co was backed by such notorious Detroit underworld figures as Angelo MeU Santo Perrone Pete licavoli and Joe Bommarito Carpenter Chief Rapped In its report on the carpenter the committee said Hutcheson involved with a shrewd confidence man in Maxwell who also was indicted on contempt charges this week Hutcheson it said used Rad-dock as a ui an effort to avoid indictment in an Indiana land scandal case It said Raddock received some 5519000 from union funds part for a publication called tiie Trade Union Courier and part for a biography of father the late William Hutcheson permission to resume mediation Commerce Thursday that he efforts feels a new stadium should be Dr George Taylor laidbuilt on the expressway loop only that he had been in touch so Arkansas and Mississippi visitors would not have to drive in Memphis traffic' Such a stadium probably could be built with general revenue bonds he said Although feeling a stadium should be located at the Fairgrounds "where it will best serve the people of our city and county" Commissioner Loeb also leans toward a revenue bond type of but only wherever economically sound" Ticket Options Suggested He speculated that a plan such as Dallas and Baton Rouge employed could be that financing is partially financing a new the final yard on a sneak Buoni passed incomplete trying for a two-pointer all the Tigers could do in the third quarter but a minute deep In the fourth period Kaplan drove over from the one putting the payoff on another 73-yard push pitchout to Wimpee failed In another two-point bid Mississippi State blunted the next Memphis State drive but may well have been a mistake in tactics therein cost Memphis State its chance for its first victory against a Southeastern Conference team in 29 games The Tiger mistake was underestimating its ability to move the ball against the heavier Maroons As it developed Memphis State ran only six plays from scrimmage in the first period Die first time the Dgers got with Joseph Finnegan chief of the Federal Mediation Service The Third Circuit Court is studying the appeal from a Taft-Hartiey injunction directing the 500000 strikers to return to their Jobe for 80 days Government attorneys obtained the injunction in United States District Court here Wednesday But its enforcement was delayed by the Appellate Court pending disposition of the union appeal Longest Steel Shutdown 1 Under Taft-Hartiey both sides are required to continue negotiations with help of Federal mediators during the life of the injunction If tiie strike ban la By DAVID BLOOM Ole Miss used a battering Arkansan to spearhead a war of attrition against Arkansas yesterday and smashed the Porkers 28-0 before 32004 at Crump Stadium Charlie Flowers of Marianna running with deadly purpose cored two of the touchdowns in the process of surging through tiie smaller stubborn Arkansans for 65 yards But the dominating Influence of a devastating Ole Miss team had friends and foes alike sitting In awestruck admiration Both Undefeated Untied The Rebel victory coupled with Louisiana 80 triumph over Florida set up a national championship game In Baton Rouge Saturday night The Bayou Dgers No 1 and the Reba No 4 are unbeaten and untied Flowers scored with 21 seconds to go in the first quarter and when the second was only 3:12 old both on short plunges Another fullback Janies derson socked the game but outmanned Porkers for the third score in the second quarter and Ole Miss knocked off after Jake Gibbs had wheeled around end for the fourth in the third period Bob Khayat added tout extra points Flowers started the 14-play 80-yard drive that provided Ola Miss with Its first touchdown as well as finishing it The Reba with the 15-mile wind in their faces had a little trouble getting started But Bobby Franklin back as starting quarterback threw a 35-yard pass to Cowboy Woodruff to get out of the hole and the Reba went churning on tha sturdy legs the rest of tha way from their 40 Next Reasonably Simple Lance Alworth a Mississippi an from Brookhaven dropped the ball on a projected punt picked it up tried to run waa hotly pursued and finally kicked on the run out of bounds on tha 20 This happened to be one yard back of the line of scrimmage Flowers carried on three of the five plays needed and went over from the two -Ole Miss made it firm and bold eight minutes later A Jim Monroe pass was batted in the air by tackle Bob Benton and intercepted by end Johnny Brewer on the Ole Mia 42 Billy Brewer threw to Dewey Partridge for eight and Gibba connected to the same halfback for 13 to give the drive an air lift Then Anderson whacked at tackle and at guard Gibba threw another to Partridge and Arkansas was backed up on Its seven Anderson went over the pile from the one The Porks helped Ole Miss on the last touchdown too after Gibba had whipped a pass to Brewer at the 28 A penalty an 18-yard bolt by Anderson and rollout over the left side made the 51-yard foray pay off Some Sturdy Barriers Arkansas appearing somewhat less effective than it did against Texas the previous week nevertheless threw up some pretty sturdy barriers particularly by guard Billy Luplow of Parkin and center Barry Switzer But the Pigs had rooted no closer than the Ole Miss 42 until a last ditch which made it all the more impressive The Reba had set up a defense fra the magnificent Jim Mooty and contained him with 45 yards of gain A Doug El-more fumble at the Arkansas nine put the Porks in possession on a Darrell Williams re-covery A pass interference ruling on the Arkansas 33 put them in business running a throw from George McKinney to Lea Letsinger for 23 yards and a Reb roughing penalty brought the ball to the 12 Alworth trying hia beat to vindicate himself against hia fellow starters flipped to Darrell William at the two The aroused Reba swarmed McKinney for a six-yard loss Alworth got some back but on fourth down pass into the end zone fell Incomplete Ole Miss ran up 299 yards of total gain against 159 for the Porkers They were mad at some people and you can guess who (Pictures on Pages One Two 8I and Bight Sports Section Carter booted a field goal with the ball they quick-kicked on Hm Steoetated Pnm With Louisiana State and Northwestern leading the way the bigwigs of college football thundered past the halfway point of the season yesterday LSU whipped Florida 9-0 and Northwestern downed Notre Dame 3024 Texas routed Rice 28-6 Southern California rallied for 30-28 victory -over Stanford Oregon was tumbled from unbeaten ranks by Washington 1812 Syracuse crushed West Virginia 44-0 while Penn State cut down Illinois 20-9 Yale the only undefeated untied unscared-on major team in the country kept its record intact with a 21-0 triumph over Colgate Penn tied Navy 2822 Purdue dropped Iowa 14-7 while Wisconsin scored its first victory over Ohio State in 13 years 12-3 Georgia Tech outlasted Tulane 21-13 Army sewed a 25-6 triumph over Colorado State while Oklahoma squeezed past Kansas 7-6 Other major results: TCTJ 13 Pitt 3 Holy Cross 34 Columbia 0 Brown 6 Rhode Island 0 Dartmouth 9 Harvard 0 Princeton 20 Cornell 0 VPI 24 Villanova 14 SOUTH-Duke 17 North Carolina State 15 Tennessee 23 Chattanooga 0 Vanderbilt 33 Virginia 0 Georgia 14 Kentucky 7 North Carolina 21 Wake Forest 19 VMI 34 Davidson 7 1 Michigan State 14 Indiana 6 Michigan 14 Minnesota 6 Missouri 9 Nebraska 0 Tulsa 21 Detroit 6 Iowa State 36 Kansas State 0 SMU 21 Texas Tech 13 Baylor 13 Texas A and 0 FAR WEST Wyoming 21 Utah 7 Oregon State 24 California 20 Washington State 27 Idaho 5 Utah State 22 Montana State 13 stadium by "selling options for I want to commend Tom the right to buy tickets for heav Mitchell and any other citizen and barring further legal road- fly attended stadium events! for proposing anything that Finnegan must Initiate But tickets also will have tobe looks good on the surface We it against well and see how it must match known facta works out" sold producing more revenue" Expert advice will be needed he said Mr Loeb favors starting with about 40000 seats in the stadium "Then that could be increased as Memphis State University gets into big time football He stressed too "Now Is the time to get Into tiie thing (improving the Fairgrounds) de- mediation action The strike started July 15 and has become the longest industrywide shutdown in steel history Both aides have softened their original positions somewhat But basic issues remain the same: Union demands for wage-benefit improvements and industry insistence on contract changes regarding local plant work rules Income Tax Men Will Mechanize To Spot Flaws US Aid Series Runs Tomorrow the ball spotted on the 23-yard line and Memphis State was within range at 21-15 And the Tigers forced a punt out of the Maroons but Kaplan was stopped with five yards in two tries and Buoni'a third-down pass was batted down The Dgers punted and Mississippi State rambled 65 yards to Ice the game Hill was the big boy running 22 yards to the Tiger 18 and then the final 10 for his second touchdown Suggs again converted to make it 28-15 with 2:35 left This was not enough time for Memphis State to win but it was enough time for Memphis State to give the crowd one more thrill It came on a pass from Carter to Jerry Reese who took the ball in the middle of the Maroon secondary pulled away from two defenders at the 15 and completed a 39-yard scoring play Kaplan ran for two points There was time for only kickoff and one play after that and nothing worthy of notice happened on these There just wasn't much of anything left to happen (Pictures and Additional Story on Page Sports Sec) Inside The Commercial Appeal $800 Prizewords Pot the lure to the interesting word game this week The new puzzle along with the solution to last week's toughie A Washington newsman bo Investigated foreign aid expenditures to see if American money la going down the drain gives his report tomorrow John Hoover foreign news editor of tiie Washington Daily News said Americana are guilty of alienating friends in some Instances But for the moat part the outlook is bright His findings are In a four-part series Not So Ugly American" on United Tim intenuUaul WASHINGTON Oct The Internal Revenue Service ia making long-range dans to arm itself by 1967 with electronic machines that win check every income tax return and expose any wrong ones Officials expect the program which coat about 100 million dollars to net billions in additional revenue been behind the times in our processing of returns one official explained la such a terrific something like 300 million related returns' a 4hat human beings handle it going to have to mechanize" The result eventually would be (canning of all tax returns by electronic machines instead of the existing spot-check volume of me out of every 30 returns As a further check of the figures the machines would be supplied with information on normal income and expenses of professional and other categories Here too non-conforming returns would be rejected by the machine Page 2 Section Hole In Old The Beds are making economic hay in Latin America despite the guardianship of the 136-year-old Monroe Doctrine An absorbing report on happening South of the Border on Page I Section IV Assignment Memphis Kind-Hearted Assist Gives Old Tale New Twist second down and Mississippi State drove 73 yards to score Walter Flowers getting the points on a three-yard slant Kickoff Goes Awry At this point came a play that may have been the decisive one Because Walter Suggs' kickoff flipped off -the side of his foot and Lee Welch tiie former Memphis East High boy playing halfback for Mississippi State recovered it at the Memphis State 43 Maroon quarterback Biliy Hill went Into the end zone eight plays later from the 17 Now Mississippi State had two touchdowns and Memphis State had run wily two plays a line pliinge and a quick kick And after the Tigers ran only four more Mississippi State scored again This touchdown following Bobby Bethune's interception of a Nick Buoni pass came on the final play of the period on a 38-yard pass from John Gorrero to Ned Brooks On the play Memphis State defender Jim Lovelace was partially screened by back Judge Morris Katz who got between Lovelace and Brooks Waiter Suggs kicked an extra point here as he had done after the first two Maroon touchdowns and the score was a comfortable 21-0 Tigers Turned Tough When Memphis State lined up to accept the kickoff James Earl Wright who has not played since the Tigers' opening game because of an ankle Injury was In the deep position Memphis State was a different team from this point on Wright and freshman fullback Lennie Kaplan put life into the club The second time the Tigers got the ball in the second period they drove to a first down on the Maroon two This drive was stopped as was one that ended on the 10 just before the end of the half So MiMiHippl State still held its 21-0 lead but somehow it as Mg a lead as it had been after the first quarter Because Memphis State was knocking Wright received a severely cut hand on the second-half kickoff and from there on Buoni and Jack Carter directed the Tiger attack that was made up in a large part by Kaplan The Dgers drove 73 yards with the second half kickoff Buoni going Benson Is Ailing Abdomen Studied By LYDEL SIMS A tantalizing new touch was added to the old wrong-car story out at Municipal Airport the other day The added dash of misdirected genius was provided by an out-of-town friend of Mr and Mrs Jim Hayward of 1064 East Michelle Mn Hayward was telling me about It yesterday Their friend la John Temple of Chattanooga a man who Mrs Hayward tells me will go to great lengths to be helpful This ia important Agricultural Secretary In Satisfactory Condition Advice For Small goblins will be on the prowl Saturday Halloween And safety tipa that give accidents a ghost of a chance are detailed on Page 4 Section II Index SECTION I General News Your Zoo Page 4 Backdrop Page 5 Editorials Page 6 SPORTS SECTION SECTION IV Weekly Review Page Letters to Editor Page Letters from State and Taking Pictures Page 4 Billy Graham The Weather a HnsmsT or wnitf BUBBAU FOR MEMPHIS and Vicinity Fair and cool Sunday and Sunday night High 65 Winds from northwest at 10-15 miles per hour Low near 45 Monday partly cloudy and warmer aw rut aic mi ku YESTERDAY'S REPORT Highest 63 degrees at 4 pm Lowest 51 degrees at 5 am Mean (midway between high and low) 57 Normal mean for date 60 WASHINGTON Oct 24 Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday with what hia office described as "abdominal He was to undergo observation and diagnosis his office Mid Hospital officials Mid hia condition was satisfactory and hia pulse temperature and respiration normal The secretary who was 60 on Aug 4 returned Oct 9 from a tour of Russian and European farms Benson one of the original members of President Eisenhower's Cabinet has enjoyed apparent good health since he took office Last December however he fell while ice skating and dislocated his left shoulder The secretary has been the center of considerable controversy because of hia farm policies Democrats have criticized him bitterly and even some Republiena from farm belt states have demanded hia resignation Eisenhower has backed up Benson all the way however and In recent montbftthe criticism has died down Well Mr Temple flew over here cm a business trip and rented a car at the Airport They didn't have Just what he wanted but they said he could come rack later In the day and wap it fra another one So later he returned approached the lady at the car-rental agency and asked If the model he preferred had turned up She said sorry but not yet The man In line behind him spoke up He had rented the kind of car Mr Temple wanted he laid and he was Just preparing to turn It in and leave on the flight to Washington Why not take his? All hands agreed to this happy suggestion The Washington-bound gentleman departed for the loading gates the agency lady described the car to Mr Temple and told him where he would find it and he went hia way rejoicing Sure enough the car was there with the key in the ignition as promised After a brief delay occasioned by his helpful and accommodating nature he settled himself started the engine and began to pull away from tha curb an irate voice cried are you going with my Mr Temple turned and raw stranger approaching on the run "This isn't your car" he replied reasonably in the finest wrong-car tradition Just rented it" "Oh no you didn't" Mid the man ia my car That must be the rental car over there" Mr Temple looked and there was another car Just like the one he was In As he prepared to apologize a chilling thought truck him Was that your hat and briefcase on the seat?" he managed to ask The stranger noting the past tense blanched and nodded said Mr Temple huskily thought they belonged to the man who Just turned in the car I sent a porter out to put them on the Washington flight" The stranger7 after one stricken look turned and sprinted toward the runways Even as ha ran the flight for Washington departed 2 3 Capitals Sunday School Lesson and To Your Health Page 5 Amusements Pages 6-8 Adventures Into Art Page 8 Television Guide Young Mid- -Southerners Crossword Puzzle Page 9 Books New Recordings For Federal Employes and Jumble Page 10 Television and Radio Page 11 SECTION Society Newa Youth Parade Bridge and Education Today Page 12 Resort and Travel Newa and Garden Scrapbook Page 13 Fashions and Secret of Charm Page 14 Trends In Living Page 15 Ann Landers and Etiquette Page 16 Ticket Scalping Not Profitable HOURLY UA DINGS Sports Pages 1-7 Pictures Page 8 SECTION General News West Memphis Roundup Page 2 Deaths Pages 3 6 Weather Map and River Bulletin Page 7 Cotton Comment and Business and Finance Page 8 Markets Pages 8-9 Real Estate Pages 10-11 SECTION in General Newa Gallup Poll Page 5 Your Social Security Page 6 Inside Labor Page 7 Classified Ads Pages 8-23 Yesterday and Today in Memphi8 Page 8 WaafiMNial Vahm Fraternal News 23 in BI i a I ln I PM IS ite Bm MranliM a it 1 Pm TMapanturt I II Pm PnniHlillan it Airport trie Dawnniirt leaiHteimtim Imparitum it ktnlrhl bammnrr mdiite it piM- Police arrested a Mississippi dentist at Crump stadium yesterday for "scalping" two tickets to the Mississippl-Ar-kansas game LX Story took Dr Thomas Orris Massey 43 of Waynesboro Into custody Just 35 minutes before game time after he had sold two tickets for 510 each Regular price waa 55 each Jttft filling taimldlii Af per amt A 41)1 Jan' lo-t A 41) IkI BVr-llIUi'ln whldi it 145 tochn abovi normal OopsI HULTSFRED Sweden Ort (UPI) Highway workers Saturday began the Job they started Friday They had torn up two miles of track from an abandoned station when they suddenly realized they had left a perfectly good locomotive stranded therg The track had to be relaid A YEAH AGO Y(STSRDAY Mulmirn tenipartuin Blntmm rainfall pom PrieUHIallnn Jan I-Ort 4T1 Phkti SU Mriw abort normal on Page (Mop Nd Ft Seven Sec Massey paid 526 forfeit on a disorderly conduct charged Page DU I Ai VSfSi A.

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