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12 Editorial The -Knoxville News-Sentinell Classified 18-20 Sports 14-18 1 Comics STROLLING WITH Bert Vincent Page 11 KNOXVILLE (2) TENNESSEE FRIDAY EVENING MAY 11 1951 RENFRO VALLEY Ky John These are no little businesses either He ex- Lair who has made his Renfro 1 Valley dream come true bor pects 250000 persons from all over the nation this year That Saturday night Barn Dance brings folks Discuss Tullahoma Problems in chartered buses in trucks and in automobiles from as far away as Indiana Ohio Virginia the Carolinas and Tennessee They come and they pay admission to the show just to see what the show been hearing over the air looks like when they are seeing it This Bam Dance is showing three times each Saturday night so as to accommodate the crowds Later it will show five times And in times past rowed $500 as starting capital here That was in 1939 only 12 years ago It would be hard today to guess how many times he could pay that $500 debt and still have plenty of money left The radio name Renfro Valley is worth plenty of money Then there is tangible property: land tourist cabins (and I was told they are filled all the time) Kefauver Looks at MacArthur Firing Senator Says More United Country Victory Over Reds Should Emerge Hopes Successes Will Answer Mac Satisfied Also Marshall Has Done Good refuting Job the big bam museum stables for riding horses and it may repeat this summer one 30-minute restaurant gift shops a filling station his own show after another goes on all night long residence or what he terms residence or what he terms By MARSHALL McNEIL Xem-hfntlnd Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON May Out of all the acrimony all I the words all the controversy surrounding the Senate in-: jvestigation of the firing of Gen Douglas MacArthur should I come eventually a stronger and more united country and ministration leaders ai I victory over the Reds in Korea to hope that our Kor of By CHARLES herlppik-Howard Siatt WASHINGTON Sen Estes Kefauver of Ten- position against Red Ke- successes more than LUCEY Writer May 11-begin i mill Ad- HOUSE TOOK THREE YEARS It took native workmen three years to build the homestead It as well as practically every building in the village is entirely hand-made by craftsmen who copied the style of the neighborhood 100 years ago Stones were quarried on old home place there Big trees were felled and hand-hewn for logs Boards were sawed from choice cuts from white-oak trees Inside paneling is of knotty pine chestnut and sassafras all planed beaded and tongue-grooved by hand using old carpenter tools in use here 100 years ago The iron used was hammered into shape by local blacksmiths His cabins and other buildings are of hand-hewn logs They look like the rough and hardy days of pioneers but the insides are as modem as your city home Yes John Lair has done pretty good both financially and in that feeling within himself that he has made a dream come true WRITES HIS OWN PROGRAMS But say he has earned every bit of it not only because of the idea that the' proper setting SANG ORIGINAL for his style of program should be right back to' I He said the tune singing to Smokey the source from where the popular ballads folk is not the original tune It is from SONGS WILL NEVER This show the cabins the eats are not all John Lair has for these folks He has a museum equal to and more interesting to me than any I have ever seen It is filled with the things the mountain pioneers used and lived by I saw the best collection of squirrel and hog rifles I imagine can be found anywhere His most unusual and valuable collection in this museum though is his folk music collection Historians and writers come from as far as England Canada and the Bahama Islands to do research on musical subjects John says there are few songs ever sung in America that be found in this music library He has faded and tattered old copies of wha he present jazzed Yp arrangement Maggie would do to the old song hurt he said the fad wears out folks win go back to singing the old words and tune The old songs favorites for so long will never die be their ov nessee said today fauver said arguments will offset Gen Doug- Sen Kefauver expressed this He pointed out that the Ad- las MacArthur massive assault view in an exclusive interview i rninistration has said that if our on present Far East policy today which amounted to a re- forces are subjected to an all-out Everybody recognizes that De- COT 3 Secretary of Ache? AEDC ADVISERS-The Industrial and Educational Advisory 1 by this fense Secretary ing a prominent part I me fodoy at U-T to work out problems connected with the cen- feeling is that when all i i ax 1 i I Vw Perl PVi ma thie i shall State Omar ter From lett Board members A Colewell Thompsons Prod- the testimony is in there will 1 eh' that ucts Inc executive director Dr William Bollay North American be the basis for a stronger and bebl at leat we Avafion iechnca1 director Dr Brehm U-T president and better bi-partisan foreign policy lollow th Msarshal1 a Sen Kefauver said -i-f uic John Buckwalter Douglas Aircraft research and engineering vice xheyre Not Far Apart- time and he 0 0 jy Not Far Bradley and the other stars on th A ini stration's team cannot match the brilliance of a MacArthur appearance before Congress Nothing that these men say in the present inquiry by th Senate Foreign Rela- all the testimony is replied he meant essentially completed I believe it will show until we ate adequately strong that the Democrats and Repub- militarily licans are not very far apart Kefauver thinks that since that the difference is a matter Gen Marshall has begun to put tions and Armed Services Com-of timing and technique and a the story before mittees can stii the country as different view on the risks we the two investigating committees Gen MacArthur has with his side a fut- can afford to take at a particu- that the country and Congress is 0f the case even as lar beginning to realize that the ministration people contenc Sen Kefauver was asked to problem is not simply a black- good job has been done in AEDC Board Considers Link to University Question Whether TVA Can Furnish Power Enough To Operate Tullahoma Center Studied another old ballad He told me which one but I have forgotten the name He then sang for me inthe tune he said belonged to it It is more waily weepy and sad than the present tune I like to claim to be an old timer fhyself but really I like the present tune better This one more paragraph about John Lair and his dream Renfro Valley and this column is ended He came back from his ramblings after World War II and married Virginia Crawford a mountain girl who went to school with him here in the Redbud log school house They have four daughters And this log school house still stands here almost like it was when John was there barefoot sum up his views of the Mac- and-white one as appealed to ng him Arthur case on the basis of all some when MacArthur was But Administration leader-the testimony he has heard fired People are beginning to lieve that the present good some of which has been kept realize that there are two sides tunes of United Nations from the public on the grounds to the story songs and mountain music started but because of the work he has put in it himself I told him so but added jokingly though meaning every word of it that he was going to kill himself working He is a stockily built chap in his fifties His hair is graying He laughed it off by saying: I wish I had some help to do the job but I find He plans and writes all his seven weekly programs the 30-minute Saturday night program the 30-minute Sunday morning program and each of the 15-minute Country Store daily programs a killing job as any one who knows radio will tell you Also there are the other businesses of the Renfro Valley Enterprises to worry about be- for- irces Laws for Living An educational and research tie-up between U-l and that publish it now would en- Lt Gen James Van Fleet plu a Arnold Engineering Development Center at Tullahoma ap- danger national security 0ne very significant thing in devastating disproportion in the and almost like it was when father the late peared a strong possibility today as the seven-member: the the senator Gen Ke- higher number oi casualties the Thomas Burke Lair first entered as a barefoot AEDC board met at U-T to consider that and other AEDC said think that despite the fauver went on that he gave Chinese Communists are suite 1 acrimony and controvery this no encouragement to the isola- ing give them an impressive has been a good thing for Con- tionist position taken by ex- counter to Gen MacArthur gress and the public for it has President Herber Hoover and no As Administration leaders set caused us all to think about encouragement to the position the argument is this simple: problems of our defense taken by Sen Robert Taft of broken the Reds gr at Was spring offensive and driv- nf it will rnmp hp said Taft in effect wants us 0 1 ing them back Our methods air a ariflcati of our over-all i SfV" hT S3K ourselves NavT haf tea? I 1" hope that when the con- Kefauver I MacArthur supporters counter exempt There is considerable emphasis in gambling The good governor has just signed a bill allowing lawsuits by anybody who has lost money gambling illegally The guy who takes a fall from a bookie port on construction and design at the Tullahoma base Training Included It was understood the program between and AEDC would 1 should do In the second Sen troversy or a crap table may sue for twice his losses if he can find the bookie or the stickman and half the loot goes to the state U-T include a training program for graduate and some undergrad- uate students and a research pro- This is interesting indeed since Gov Fuller in which uT personnel Warren is under tire for a variety of alleged sins would work at the center as well Aociat'd rrcs Kefauver continued think id a way will be found that victories may he TULSA Okia May 11--With that it is unfortUnate that Gen- bv he Government to make use more of the war he Chicago all but finally chosen as eral MacArthur was dismissed in riGn great has been talking we push the site of their 1952 Presidential summarily He should have nominaUng convention Republi- been relieved in a much differ as carry on research on projects exchange between the air say good-by to troops and research center and U-T would orient Gen Matthew Ridgv ay include not only engineers and Tdie GOP National Committee his new job as MacAr thur sue-physicists but probably mathe- still had to ratify a subcommit- cessor There was no business personnel unanimous recommendation tion in my opinion for the way The overall plan calls for setting that party delegates meet in Chi- the dismissal of Gen MacArthur up similar programs with several cago the week of June 21 to pick was handled it caused bitterness universities in the area Such their candidate Many Republi- unnecessarily programs would be financed by cans think the Democratic candi- Too Federal funds date will be President Truman I think that the Power Big Problem seeking his second elective teim inquiry up to now proves The problem of supplying pow- Ratification of the subcommit- the point that a commander in squacjs shot more than 1000 anti er for the multi-million-dollar recommendation was con- one theater of operations should cMommumsts in three Chinesi them back their supply lines get shorter and make it easier for them to build up strength They push us back then we push them back as their supply lines lengthen and so on all over again They ask whether there still is any possibility of anything but a long costly stalemate if the present pattern is continued But some Administration people citing Gen testimony on the serious drain on Red military manpower are beginning to wonder if there is a possibility of a repetition in Korea of the final tactics of the Russians in the Communists in 6 cjnincsG against the commonwealth including forgetting to list some $400000 of campaign income a hunk of which stemmed from a gentleman whose interest in gambling is less than casual The Governor has also been criticized sharply for allowing his office to be perverted as assistant in the muscle-in on a bookie syndicate and for reinstating a suspect sheriff who was fired when the heat went on last winter However a compensatory bill to legalize bingo is now before the legislature The worth of a year in a Florida jail has just been formally decided by law It is $500 Some judge rather absent-mindedly sentenced a bad check passer to jail for two years forgetting that the penalty in Florida is only a year The rubber-plaster artist served two inoici cuuoi SCi vcu tyvu MIAMI Fla The state of Florida to which I have just fled in order to escape the slings and arrows of oratory from our statesmen in Washington has always fascinated me as a site of magnificent legislation It concerns itself not so much with the grander scheme such as world-destruction but grinds out intimate laws ta make living simpler We note from Tallahassee the capital that many wondrous things have transpired recently There is for instance a motion a foot to make the patent medicine Hadacol subject to tax and control "just like any other alcoholic Hadacol as you probably know by now is touted as being something like the fabled elixir which Ponce de Leon was seeking when he fared forth to find the Fountain of Youth It blandly proclaims a forecast of for the user and also states mildly that if you use it you will JUST LIKE (HIC) STIFF DRINK This meets the snide suspicion that a heady draft of Hadacol is somewhat the equivalent of taking a small shot of tigermilk to ward off the miasmas of daily strife or so says Rep Lisle Smith of Polk Coupty Rep Smith says he that the product contains 12 per cent alcohol and should be taxed just like any other alcoholic No action has been taken yet but when last seen several hundred liquor dealers were headed for Louisiana to seek the Florida franchise from HadacoFs inventor There has been a bill to protect grocers from fraud undoubtedly at the hands of Yankee transients and a more important piece of legislation designed to stamp out the Ku Klux Klan A new law makes wearing of masks by any person over 16 years of age in public places illegal" which indicates that either the Klansmen have to start earlier in life or else take up the use of years before it was the state owed research base is whether thebase ed a ShSts stRwere idea cities in a three-day period end- Greek ami Berlin airiifTconflicU him a year 1 would be too much of a strain on Philadelphia adherents still were place so long He gets tne iae jng May 1 official reports showed a vear- i TVA oovver sources The board Panning a contest necessarily that the whole Prob- In both cases it is contended SIGNS WILL TELL YOU will consider running the AEDC In this last-minute battle the lem of mihtarystrategy revolves mu 1 ommumsts ac or avo saMIf af(T A special bill was introduced to award him dam- pojert during houre when fac- Phielphian were countingon around unitary pWsons were executed and home consumption of assertion that a vote for Q11- and Hangchow in the showed that ag $15000 but the "frugal tory an in Nanking ai l- enn eeoti'iritv would be at the low- raero would be a vote to nominate: genius suen as ivicu-ni uiui an Have: of Anril Previc electricity would be at the low cago would be a vote to nominate i genius suen as maezu uiui iast two days of April Previous- Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio have been used in Europe for a total of 578 of the Senate Renubli- example and here at nom were reDorted executed chairman of the Senate Republi were reported executed Russian Help Lacking Administration leaders are taking hope from other factors There has been little indication and Gen testimony supported this of any important in Shanghai The Communist press said the campaign against persons opposed to the regime had been in can Policy Committee the senator con- Carroll Reece Tennessee 1 tinued under the circum-national committeeman and a stances that developed supporter of Taft was picked to report the recommendation to the national group Arthur had to be removed because of the irreconcilable conflict between him and his his pub- superiors Unquestionably tensified Reports of additional funneling of Russian arms the biggest since Mao ment recently to the Chinese Red Tze-tung assumed power were Armies Gen MacArthur said in Prof Matthews Moves to Elkmont lie statements did embarrass the expected to reach Hong Kong fact that he thought the Chinese President who under the Consti- from other Chinese areas tution is the Commander-in- Chief and the primary agent for I handling our foreign relations I rGggy IITIprOVGS i think it embarrassed the Presi- dent particularly in the cease- AftCr I ranSlUSIOnS fire negotiations with our United Nations Pretend Tiny Peggy Atkins General 1 Knox Mercy Fund patient was they Think they should be gVitnig Free-Lodgers his time was worth only 500 skins or a little over $40 a month He was not charged however es Wli' meet for the free board and lodging he received with TVA officials tomorrow Every time you ride down a sizable stretch of morning road you come upon a busted bridge or a torn-up i Col Moore vice corn-section of road The warning sign bears a touching mander of the Air Engineering postscript Under it will say or Development Division which is Under Then it says: sign doing initial work at AEDC said of progress under Gov Fuller several major projects are in the But the people who clamor for Gov designing stage now impeachment are of the mind that progress can Concrete Forms Being Built even in such an advanced state forms are already being set for the high altitude wind Col Moore said This is one of three tunnels planned The other tunnels will be used to test large model aircraft jet engines guided missiles and supersonic air machines fied Dawson who turned out to be a handsome The area for the tunnel now guy in a Bob Hope-like way were told it under construction is about 400 was complimentary This is not unusual in hotels by 600 feet the vice commander of this said The AEDC is presently mean hotels with RFC demanded building a dam on Elk River to Sen Fuibright provide water for a huge cooling I mean resort replied Dawson system for the tunnel give free rooms to folks with publicity The water will be pumped to Ooops! you have publicity the senator inquired consider that I Dawson said you go back to the Saxony do you expect free lodging Sen asked don't expect to go Dawson said a secondary reservoir run through the tunnel system then pumped back into the main lake Col Moore said Some 1200 workers are busy in installations on the 40000-acre center he said Prof (Red) Matthews University of first cheerleader and until his retire- tn lrnProving today after two blood from Russia? ment an engineering professor Then Kefauver in to transfusions and a new djet stiU another factor cited bv has moved with his family to questions turned to the oasic Today Peggys doctor said he Gen Marshan is the inevitably differences 1 Administration was £oin8 to trY mixing a little weakened morale among the Chi- He has sold his home on Scenic thur and the Administration cereal lots of miJt He nese as their hospitals fill with Drive to Mr and Mrs DeWtt whose side has far been ex- thought perhaps she could re- battle-wounded When he was Jr' Plained to the two investigating tain this food better than plain asked how the Korean War ever The Shepards in turn sold their committees by Gen George milk could be ended the general an- $19400 home at 200 Westover Marshall the Secretary of De- beieve our 35-day-old ba- swered first with six lines of Drive Bearden to Squire and tense Kefau- is t0 the pedia- censored testimony But at the Mrs George Montgomery The In the iinal analysis efaH trician said would have to end of the deletions he was talk-Montgomerys plan to move from ver said I beiieve i that tnere is be mighty strong to survive the ing about the losses their present home 601 Hillview not a Iremendous difference be two serious operations Civilian Unrest Cited Street in Bearden soon Mr tween Marshall and MacArthur peggy is jn Fort Sanders Hos- 1 1 Montgomery a few days ago was Gen MacArthur admitted that he Ditai they renew the attack and i nrnKInm frnm tnP from the meet the same results that came is not a problem at Tullahoma now but we expect it to be when the first wind tunnel is Col Moore said Plans now call for the first tunnel to be in operation next spring he said from their attack of the last two weeks we will almost have dc- looked at the problem mandPcrnaiid0he Woma Two Men Held named city trial attorney Office Workers Sought for Capital Army Work The Army has put out an urgent call for stenographers and typists to work in Washington to work in Washington WASHINGTON Ideal way lor the anonymous young men of the White House to cease being that way is to live on the cuff in a Miami Beach luxury hotel Particularly when same is owned by a punehboard king who has borrowed Sl-500000 from the Government to build it Anonymity then turns into senatorial inquiries big black headlines photo flash $-bulbs television appearances and crimsoned ears As of the moment I guess the best-known free-lodgers in America are the Messrs David Niles and Donald Dawson of the White House secretariat They're the gents who stayed while on Florida vacations in S30-a-day rooms' facing the ocean high up in the ultra-modern Saxony Hotel This lush hostelry was built by George Sax the Chicagoan who made his pile selling punchboards The trouble was he didn't make quite enough He had to borrow a million and a half from the Reconstruction Finance Corp Though repaid since in full this loan struck Sen William Fuibright (D Ark) and Co of the Banking subcommittee as a peculiarly odd place to sink the money Odd too they thought was the fact that Presidential functionary Dawson stayed there for free last year and the year before STAYED AT SAXONY THREE TIMES Three times Dawson said he took his ease in the Saxony On his first free visit there he said he was accompanied by his small daughter and his wife who functions as chief file clerk of the RFC Only he didn't know it was free Not until he went down to pay his bill clerk said there wasn't any testi- ASK ABOUT RATE thought you were one of the anonymous the senator said David Niles (a veteran anonymous one of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) stay there he Dawson said He went on to say that he didn't know there -(nur RnWin was a Government loan on the hotel and that noun aaiOIOien he went there because Niles recommended it The home of Floyd Haun ou "Did he kind of whisper in your ear that Topside Road was broken into get a free inquired Sen Allen Frear i today and a small radio stolen (D- Del) county officers reported Mrs snapped Dawson By now his ears Haun had left the house a short portance of our relationships jn Cervj-e Stnfinn Thpf I stroYed a8ain or rtiined the fight- with our Allies in Europe He -1 Jiarion I neiT ing power of some I think it is 34 did not profess to be an expert A husband and wife and an- new Gen Marshall either on that European situa-! other man charged with break- said tion or on the progress of our 1 mg into a Chapman Highway Behind these auguries which re-armament program here at service station have been bound the Administration views favor- home including the manpower to the grand jury in Sessions ably there are also the stories of state employment service Court civilian unrest and guerilla action ive typing and steno- Qn be 0ther hand Gen Mar- The three Charles Shinlever throughout large areas of China graphic tests at 518 Union Ave- has said that if Asia were and Mrs Shinlever 1015 Wal- It is as Gen nue Army interviewers will be ony problem then Mac- nut Street and Johnny Berrier Marshall pointed out this week at the Department of Employ- Arthur was right But as has Locust Street were found guilty that trying to guess next ment Security office 518 Union cieariy pointed out we yesterday of taking $235 worth step is out of the quosion Russia were a magnificent shade of pink but he still in- time earlier and was returning Avenue tomorrow through Oobai problem sisted he had done nothing wrong He said yes up her driveway and apparently Wednesday The Army will help 1 he stayed in a S30-a-day room but that was about frightened the thief away offi- qualified applicants find suitable will win in We Will Win cers said I living quarters in Washington STRICTLY BUSINESS By McFeatters the cheapest rate in Miami Beach you registered and you even inquire about the insisted the incredulous Sen Wallace Bennett (R- Utah) Dawson said he asked no questions he was all ready to pay whatever the charge are a brave man to do that in a place like Miami Beach and a hotel like the said the senator than I AO A LOAN CO NO QUESTIONS ASKED CARNIVAL by Dick Turner Horse Sense By George Crane See answers on Comic Page) of tires and tubes from Bob and could do a turnabout tomorrow Wayne Gulf Station on April 3 and begin to pour in heavy sup Korea Bonds foj shinlever and Ber pljes to the Chinese Communists you get right down to rier were $1000 each Mrs But for today in the Administi a the 16 points described in the bond was set at $500 tion hope famous document of last Jan 12 i it can be seen that all but three of these points have been car- ried out some other a 1 1 rs about which Gen Marshall has been required by security to dis- i cuss in confidence with the committees show that even further Two loop routes one within The inner loop would speed agreement is in effect But this and the other around the flow of traffic inside the cannot be made public now central business district are un- central district think that under the Mar- der consideration by City Plan- The general plan also urge: shall Plan for operation in the ning Commission provision of adequate parking Far East we will win the war The commission at a special and unloading space including in Korea Kefauver asserted sessjon yesterday gave prelim- i turnouts for bus loading It ree-I will have to follow Gen jnary approval to a general cen- ommends open spaces such as Marshall p-a business district plan which i the proposed Blount Park project Still With features the two-loop scheme beautify the central business As regards the controversy be- The outer loop eventually would district tween Marshall and MacArthur be via Henley Street Magnolia Building Moving Out about the prospects of Red Russia Avenue the new Lakefront High- Planning Engineer Robert I joining the war directly if our way and the proposed Central Stuari told the commission traf- i 1 Man street expressway Route of the fic is now strangling the central inner loop is as yet undetermined district He said about four Shows 50000 Cars Daily The outer loop would by-pass through traffic around the busi-there is a that ness district A recent State Red Russia would step into the Highway Department traffic conflict He mentioned the count indicates some 50000 treaties between Russia and through automobiles flow into the erty jn the first six wards hn China under which the Soviet central business district daily ost 60 per cent of its assessed Union in certain circumstances is Drivers stop to shop and valuation or $47000000 obligated to help China they clog up moving traffic lanes The planning engineer said 500 1 Which one of the following processes is most suggestive of sailors? Knitting crocheting tattooing tatting 2 Which one of these American phrases is most suggestive of an aviator? Put out konk out strike out knock out 3 A broiler made which characteristic sound while on the hoof? Quack moo ba-a cluck 4 The Great Wall should make one think pri- marily of Mexico South America Russia China? 5 Which one of the following terms includes I the other three? Clay soil muck loam 6 The five terms in the left-hand column below refer to corresponding items in the right- hand column all of which can be associated with a dinner party Try to match them appropriately Rolls Ham Coffee Music Steak Parkerhouse Manor House Limehouse Porterhouse Smokehouse upset you so Pet? 1 only told Junior that if I could down a whole plateful of dinner he ought to be able to manage a couple cd for the 36000 other cars per day more spaces are needed for short-that have a central business dis- time parkers and 1000 more for trict destination 1 long-tirrie parkers I think that our present position and strategy will result in strengthening the United Nations Hush! You need $500 That's all we need to.