The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

''STV V'-''i If- w-tr -y vy -v 'j i f' -v-- n-firox vile HnWFrr V-' EDITION ServW 4y sited frit Auocntad frets Scripps-Hovnrd Leased Win NiA Senite-United Pnss Telephoto Pictures SOttm-HOWARD ESTABLISHED ISSUE No 22271 Tennessee Monday evening October 19 1953 20 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS as Airiiirieir HIGH-SPEED CRASH Officers and spectators here peer into a wrecked car that overturned early yesterday on Tipton Station Drive killing 21 -year-old George Edward Johnson and injuring a companion' Officers said the cor was traveling at high speed Forest Fire Danger Rising Clement Says State Units Alerted To Aid in Davidson Mm Assslta4 Mbbsm NASHVILLE Oct 19-Gov Frank Clement laid today the danger of forest fires in the state are becoming worse than last year when millions of dollars worth of timber was Gemcnt in a statement at his news conference urged everyone to exercise caution because of the present fire hazards "Carelessness and thoughtlessness are poor answer to people who suffer the ravages of he added Is as Great Yesterday' the Governor alerted all available state agencies to be ready to assist in fighting a fire in Davidson County Clement said Davidson Is not one of the 53 counties participating with the state in a cooperative fire control program "When we aid a non-cooperating county such aa Davidson it actually penalizes the counties which are cooperating in the system' the Governor added State Forester Carl Peterson said fires this year atiU have not approached last year's loss although the potential is just a great Peterson said fires Jast year swept 1500000 acres in Tennessee Fire Is 4 Miles Leag A wail of fire four miles long swept over thousands of acres of parched woodlands early today in western Davidson County The Maze leaped suddenly out of thick wooda where residents said flames had been smoldering for weeks Isolated residence! were threatened by the on rushing flames but moat of the residents had succeeded in Mocking the fire from their homes FLAMING WRECKAGE A fire truck shoots foamite on the still-burning wreckage of the giant Eastern Air Lines Constellation which crashed and burned The Puerto Rico-bound airliner crashed shortly offer taking off from fog-shrouded International Airport in New York Knox Sailor KiHed as Car Rips Over George Johnson 21 Dies Instantly A young uilor on leave was crushed to death and a companion injured when their car overturned on Tip-ton Station Drive pinning the sailor beneath 1 In nine other area accidents yesterday and today 18 persona ware hurt A schoolboy pedestrian was blocked down and injured today 'Killed in the crash about 2:30 a xn yesterday was George Edward Johnson 21 son of Mr and Mrs Silas Johnson of Island Home Pike Route 9 He was the third member of the family to die violently in the past two years Companion Treated The injured companion was Joseph Pressley 23 also of Route 9 He suffered forehead and knee cuts and was treated at General' Hospital The wreck occurred as the car apparently traveling at high speed left the road struck an em bank-men and turned over county officers reported The young sailor was a brother of the late Mrs Doris Johnson Price who was fatally shot in April 1952 by her husband as he playfully twirled a pistol in his hands Seeing his bleeding wife Lynn Price immediately killed himself Car Lifted From Body This double shooting occurred in the home of the parents Mr and Mrs Albert Price Johnson Road Albert Price went to the wreck scene yesterday He said the ear apparently hit the bank and skidded 20 feet turned away from the bank and then struck it again before it turned over He said the wreck was first discovered by Mr and Mrs McGinley 4420 Clayton Road Mr McGinley with the help of nearby residents lifted the car from young Johnson's body Brother Killed in Was The sailor a graduate of Young High School came home abou Oct 1 for a 30-day leave He was a Korean war veteran He be- longed to Tarkiln Valley Baptist Church ''v-A sailor brother Eugene Johnson was killed duriftg World War Besides the parents lie leaves two brothers Silas of Detroit and Gary of Knoxville two sisters Misses Barbara and Adra Johnson of Knoxville Services will be at 2 tomorrow at chapel with the Revs A Pedigo and Roacoe Oxendine officiating Burial will be at Woodlawn Cemetery Knocked Down en Oentmf Steven Hicks 9 third-grader at Myndera School wai knocked down by a car today as he crossed Cen-tral Street near Sears Roebuck and store on the way to school The car was driven by A Carper 67 of 536 Farragut Avenue The boy was taken to General Hospital for an X-ray of an injured elbow His injuries were behaved not serious Steven la the son of Mr and Mrs gee KNOX IS Cot 1 GEORGE EDWARD JOHNSON Death ends leave 2 Die 22 Hurt as Plane Falls Into Swamp Fire Starts in Engine on Take-off Hr V'M Nw NEW YORK Oct 19 An Eastern Air Lines Constella- tion bound for Puerto Rico with 27 persons aboard crashed in flames early today seconds after taking off from I fog-shrouded International Airport Two passengers were 1 killed and 22 of the 27 aboard injured Asst Dist Atty Thomas Cullen of Queens County said at least four passengers were injured critically and several others were listed as serious The stewardess and purser -were the only ones of the crew who were injured -Airport attendants aaid the faet the fuselage of the big plane remained upright when it plummeted into a swamp at the south end of the field probably prevented a much larger death toll Cota Off Fuel One body was pulled from the burning wreckage The second victim died in a hospital leas than an hour after the crash The deed were Identified aa George Fisher of Hartford Conn and Dr Juan Bajandas of Puerto Rico Capt Cecil' FOxworth of Summit pilot of the ship said he noticed an engine waa afire aa the plane became airborne He "threw the cutting off the fuel said and the crash followed Locked ty Fawwagen Foxworth aaid be and co-pilot Engle of Great Neck walked back through the plan after the crash looking for passengers but saw none and fied the ship through the flight engineers escape hatch Other crew members were flight engineer Lawrenc Devries to Hawthorne purser Al Foil! 29 Clifton and Stewardess Ann Krause 27 Philadelphia Survivors praised the calm courage of Miss Krause and Folli who led several passengers from the flaming caMn to safety Some Thrown Clear Witnesses Mid the plane was about 25 feet in the air roaring through the fog at mors than 160 miles per hour when it suddenly veered to the right and crashed in flames in swamp at the south end of the field Some passengers were thrown clear while other scrambled from the flaming wreckage and rolled on the soggy ground In an effort to extinguish their burning China and North Korea OK Peace Talk Parley Allies Communists Clash on Limitations of Preliminary Discussions for Conference jtMriiiH hw TOKYO Oct The Communists agreed today to i UN proposal for a meeting at Panmunjom next Monday to make plans for the Korean Peace Conference but they insisted on the right to decide there what nations will take part Big 3 Asks Reds to Talk on Europe Ministers Propose Meeting on rieste The United States and its Allies have Insisted just as strongly in earlier notes that the preliminary meeting settle only the time and place of the conference A Peiping Radio broadcast heard here said the' Red signed by the leaders of Communist China and North waa sent to the 1 Police Probe on Ransom Begins Shoulders Too 111 for Questioning tTlDUIS Oct An inquiry into police reports on the Bobby Greenlease kidnaping opened here today but the policeman credited with solving the case waa reported to be too nervous to undergo questioning now The St Louis Police Board ordered the investigation following published reports discrepancies had been found in 'the police account hy the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the missing $300000 of the $600000 paid in ransom by the 6-year-old wealthy father Robert Greenleaae Ka'rfsai City Police Chief 'Jeremiah conducting the inquiry said Police Lt Louis Shoulders would not be questioned at this time because of nervous condition Shout dera waa credited with solving the case O'Connell said Shoulder's physician told him that the police Lt Shoulders officer needed rest as a result of Ms work on the case and that his health might- be affected by questioning now 'All policemen who had a part in the arrest of Carl Austin Hall and Mrs Bonnie Brown Heady confessed kidnap-tlayera are to be questioned in -the closed hearing First to be1 questioned waa Patrolman Elmer Dolan who was with Shouldera when Hall was an rested the night of Oct 6 following a tip-off by a cab driver Dolan waa to be followed by four special officers who helped pick up Mrs Heady Cites Passage af Tim The Post-Dispatch said police records showed Hall tas brought to district police station following his arrest with two suitcases filled with money but that the FBI had determined no suitcase ware brought with Hall to the station The newspaper said "mow than an hour after Hall was booked before the suitcases were brought in However Shoulders said bags with the money were delivered to the station at the same time aa the Called Rams Money Shoulders said that after Hall waa booked he (Shouldera) took the two suitcases to a small room at the station and locked the door "I can he said the money I found in apartment waa the same money I turned over to the FBI Where that money is will come out at the right time and when it does I know Eou Shoulders will be in the clear I'm not Can Account for Movements' The Globe-Democrat reported Dolan told the FBI Shouldera left the police station in his privaft car shortly after Hall was brought to the station Shoulders declining to affirm or deny the report he left the star tion saidf "I can account for every move made and the handling of that money whenever I'm called upon to do so and it will be only to the proper the police hoard or the and lt will not be the newspapers or the- 1 llnitml Pun TrlrphoU CAPT FOXWORT1I Moves through crav'd bint Strengthens New Roads Ruling Requires Subdividers To Use Blacktopping County Court today strengthened its regulation requiring blacktopping of subdivision roads by establishing minimum standards for the roads The -court turned down the request of several Knox subdividers to delay- enforcement of the regulation pending "further study" The regulation was passed June 13 Hie county will not assume future maintenance of subdivision roads unless they are Wacktopped Attorney Clyde Buhl representing subdividers said the Mack top requirement will make "undue on the aubdividera by forcing them to add the cost of blacktopping to the price of the property He said there be any new subdivisions because of the requirement Subdivider Henry- Brandau predicted that 'the county waa "killing the goose that lays the golden if egg Squire George Montgomery aid however the court must think of what la good for the entire county He said the "direct bene (the home owners) should pay the coat of blacktopping and not all taxpayers The minimum standard resolution listed in The News-Sentinel Sunday passed 13 to 6 A second resolution to delay enforcement pending "further waa tabled 10 to 6 Cbunty Judge Howard Bozeman reported that the court later today would be asked to rescind a resolution passedt several months ago authorizing a referendum Nov for a min tax for county library purposes Schools Supt'-Mildred Doyle said an appraisal committee recommends payment of $6800 for 68 acres of property adjoining Galbraith Elementary School She said the owner Sam Horne however wanta to sen only two acres She said County School Board ia recommending that the county purchase aU the property or condemn it for future school expansion Fur-ther action was expected late today The court elected a new county Court Upholds State Lawson 'Fair Trade' rrwMiU f- WASHINGTON Oct 19-The Supreme Court today refused to disturb state "foir laws which permit manufacturers to fix retail prices on brand name good In an action expected to have a far-reaching effect on the nation's trade- patterns the high bench refused to examine a challenge to Louisiana's fair trade statute The law' ha been upheld in a lower Federal court action was in the form of a brief order There waa no opinion Store Appealed 'The case waa appealed by Sch-wegman Brothers Giant Supermarket a New Orleans store the same one which obtained fair trade ruling by the high bench in May 195L So-called "fair laws are in effect in 45 atates-all except Missouri Texas Vermont and the District of Columbia They permit producers of trade-marked merchandise such aa electrical appliances liquor and drug! to make agreements with retailers as to minimum selling prices Derision (dree invested The controversial feature of the statutes lies in a clause wMch binds all retailers to the agreement whether they have signed or not In 1937 Congress passed the Miller-Tyding Act exempting the agreements from the Federal anti-trust laws In lta 1951' decision the Supreme Court interpreted Mlller-Tydings to mean that retailers who don't sign up do not have to adhere to the fixed price There followed a price war in trademarked goods Congress then passed the McGuire Act to circumvent the court decision Subsequently a rash of lawsuits were filed throughout the country by manufacturers' who wanted to stop price cutting and get the laws enforced Polk County IPs i Hold to Tie Vote Sweden New PrepoMl Reported The Red noie came as ther were reports from London that the Western Foreign Ministers had agreed secretely on a new and entirely different proposal for the conference the Big Five and North and South Korea Under thia plan Red China rather than Nationalist China would be -Included among the-Big Five The others are the United States Britain France and Russia The earlier Allied proposal for the conference called for only the with Russia sitting in on the Communist side if invited by the Reds Oct Is Deadline The Reds had asked for a round-taMe meeting with five Russia India Pakistan Thailand sitting In aa neutrals The Korean armistice terms set Oct 28 aa a deadline for the con-ferenco to begin Channel 26 Reception Good Reports today were that first telecasting was a success Good reception for UHF Channel 26 was reported yesterday in the city and surrounding area WTSK expects to be on from 5:45 daily with both live and filmed shows Earlier It had been reported that WROL-TV had a newa telecast However WRQL officials said that report waa in error They said the first live beaming over VHF Channel 6 will be weather and news reports tonight on Fnge IS Mnri rm DtaesifSts LONDON Oct 19 The Big Three Foreign Ministers have invited Russia to meet with them next month to discuss Germany Austria and European security Winding up a three-day conference last night they also took dramatic tepa to deal with all other major tensions threatening the world The three Secretary of State John Foster Dulles British Foreign' Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister George also invited Italy and Yugoslavia to a five-nation meeting on the Balkan powder keg issue of Trieste- Italy Given Terms (An Italian foreign ministry spokesman in Rome said Italy would not be prepared to join such conference unless the administration of Zone A is first handed over to Italy (From Belgrade the Yugoslav Tan jug news agency said any five-power conference on Trieste which accepted the Anglo-American plan to cede their occupied znoe to Italy would not be acceptable to Yugoslavia) i Conference Plan Reported During these intensive meetings the top Western diplomats also discussed Korea the possibility of a later meeting of the Western chiefs of state with Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov the turbulent Middle East questions llh emphasis on the latest Israeli-Jordan border flare-up and5 seven-year war against the Reds in Indo-Chiiuu' The three were reported also to have agreed secretly on a new Korean Peace Conference plan aimed at ending the present deadlock over Its make-up There waa ho official confirma- See RUSSIA 1 Col 4 a ss T4 NOI IUT TKMPKBATrnS 13: a S3 a 1:10 i Si a a SS MM a nw SS 1 4:30 a S3 m- a S3 0:30 a -Uaotftdal a ia Navy Plane With 9 Aboard Crashes in Sea IhuMmI Pims REYKJAVIK Iceland Ort 19-A 5 Navy plane crash-landed in the stormy North Atlantic shortly after take-off from Kefiafik Airport here yesterday 'and 'rescuers abandoned all hope of finding the crew of nine alive The plane had radioed to Kefiafik that it waa down In the sea with engine trouble south of the Vestmana Islands Four rescue planes went out immediately but soon afterward abandoned the search The Navy said four survivors were sighted one aboard a raft hut apparently drowned before they could ta rescued Rescue planes droning through extremely weather and low visibility sighted four men on a raft a few hours after the crash the Navy reported but lost sight of them When the raft was seen again it had capsized and there were no men in it Bad Brakes Lights Cause Lane Rejects Faulty brakes and headlights continued today as the major reasons for vehicles' failure to pass second -half inspection at the Safety Lane Traffic Coordinator Joe Ed-ington said The lane was uncrowded today with sporadic lulls of "no for inspectors Fifty-three vehicles of the 322 Inspected Saturday morning were rejected Jo Jo Says: Drier Still The traffic death yesterday was the YSrd oa Knox County roads (outside the city) this yen It (isli the mmoty death toll for the en- tire year of last At this time last year there bad been eouety traffic deaths Re tar eight per-mmm have died la traffic sect Scats on city streets this year There had bees IS city deaths at this time yast year rrs NOT THE FEATURES OP TV SETS THAT MAkCE US UNDECIDED ITS THE MOKE shr See KNOX 9 Col 8 Victory-Happy Iowa Students Riot Demanding Holiday Pushing Man Into Ball Doesn't Count IF A football player is pushed or blocked by an opponent into touching the baU he ia not considered to have touched the ball Red Grange aaya In his column "The Page 15 THE WORLD TODAY Page 5 EDITORIALS Page 12 NEWS Pages 6-8 8PORTS Pages 14-16 RADIO AND SHOW HOURS Page 13 What County Court Did Set up minimum requirements for Macktopping of new subdivision rOads before county will assume maintenance upkeep Elected I ABHlipa county surveyor and Wayne Smith as assistant surveyor Elected the Rev Luther Rule and Mrs Ida Wheeler -to the 7-member County Library Board Authorized construction of a $14-900 dairy barn at George Maloney Home for exclusive use of John Tarleton Institute' Approved four zoning changes denied one and deferred a sixth an unsuccessful effort to break up the demonstration When tear gaa sheila were tossed however the students simply dispersed until the Erickson summoned help from Divorce Law counties and from the state 3 Drivers Charged Three persons were charged at City Jail with driving while drunk over the week end They are George Kitchen of 515 Patterson Street Douglas McGhee 1012 East Church Avenue and Le-land Nelson 1718 Vermont Avenue Nelson was-also charged with having no license hum) WmtkfV Mm hn IS KNOXVILLE OAK RIDGE AND MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE: Clear to occasionally partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow Little change in temperature Low tonight 50 to 53 high tomorrow 84 to 88 high yesterday S5 low this morning 50 Mountain temperatures at 3000 feet: Low tonight 44 to 48 high tomorrow 7S to 82 Station barometric pleasure 2926 inches (rising) and ret- ative humidity 85 per cent at 7:30 a MT IB CONTE: Hlsh ymtcitlar this momUtf TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY! Pair Nl Soma HW 9 -Year-Old Boy Suffocates in Icebox in' Vacant Trailer Mf AinltlW PfM AMES Ia Oct 19-A foot tall victory riot at approximately 4000 Iowa State College students wore itself out early today after 80 police officers tried in vain with tear gas to put down the demonstration Traffic on the transcontinental Lincoln Highway CU 30) had to be detoured for more than an hour after the students threw a roadblock of drainage tile across it- Demands Not Met The students celebrating a-lM homecoming football victory over Missouri Saturday began demonstrating after their demandi for a Monday holiday from classes were not met Dr James Hilton president of the college was out of town when the students marched on Ms home chanting "No There were about 300 in the group The student a then marched through the sorority fraternity and dormitory areas gathering reinforcements After a second trip to Hilton's home again produced no response a aitdown strike on the highway followed Police Chief Orville Erickson aid ha used up all hip tear gai in Sparial Ta Tkt Vm-antM BENTON Oct 19-The 5-5 tie vote deadlock in Polk County Court remained unbroken today The court met for its quarterly session but waa unable to elect officers or consider $500000 school bond Issue Reports ft county officials were heard and three notaries named The only business transacted by the court in recent months whs adoption of a budget so that schools could operate That waa made possible two months ago when Broughton Campbell a Democratic member -voted along with the Good Government League members to adopt the budget and set a tax rate Court was due to elect a schools superintendent and chairman last January but has never been able to break the tie vote tor those offices Newman of Ducktoww continues aa chairman and Ishanr1 Lyle as school superintendent AH 10 members were present today The five Democrats on one side are Campbell Joe Ben May-field Rogers Elmo Lyle and Hammonds The five in the GGL faction are Wilson Kimsey A Dalton Maughan and Newman in nearby highway patrol Officers did not use their night sticks One policeman waa hit by on egg At about 2-JO a the demonstration "just ran out of and moat of the students went to their rooms police Mid The demonstration lasted about four hours There were no injuries Ringleader Held One student described by police as a was held President Hilton meantime was reached by telephone He Mid students had Friday and Saturday off and he thought that should ta enough are Dr Hilton ujd of the demonstration He Mid sorry I h-M about riot and added that a few students "did things for which be sorry later" During the blockade of 30 state patrolmen routed traffic over a gravel road detour two miles south of the college town 23000 I AwrtatrS hm PHILADELPHIA Oct 19-The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in an important 4-3 decision has ruled that the Virgin Islands has no jurisdiction to give divorces to who do not live there It struck down arf unconstitutional two sections of the divorce law holding them "arbitrary and The decision last week upheld the District Court of the Virgin Islands division of St Thomas and St John which had invalidated divorce granted to Mrs Sonia Herrup Alton of West Hartford Conn: last March -Lawyers th islands are considering an appeal to the Supreme Court in an effort to upset the circuit court opinion which would have the effect they Mid of ending the lucrative divorce business and upset the islands' economy which ia hinged on divorce and tourist trade Modernize Our Constitution The pay of members of the 34 a day was fixed back in 1834 nearly 120 years ago The second of eight pnv posed amendments to the Constitution which voters will pass upon Nov 3 would boost the pay to $15 And to meet economic conditions in the future this amendment also would permit any two Legislatures to agree on another increase or any one Legislature to reduce the pay the new rate in either ease to become effective with the fok lowing Legislature LAKE STAGES 7 MMstSM nrtsnrmM explain why I looked OROVILLE Calif Oct he said "but -there yearold Thomas Kiely suffocated wu in tiie icebox of a vacant house- BaUJ her son hsbit- trailer last night bringlng 27 uaUy off himself to brood the number of children who have lince hia falher year died In such tragedies over the Mr -n UbM Nellie Kiely said she had not seen her son all afternoon and assumed vcnt about weu' he was at a home 1 watching television Later In the A compilation made recently by evening she sent her eldest son the Refrigeratforf Service John 14 to look for the boy neere Society jitowed atttchd-John looked in the bailer andjdren have died in abandoned ice-then opened the imkll icebox "Lboxea in the past five yean 3 fall 14 riaa 4 fall It Ml AT faH fall 3 Ml 13 Has 1 Lmdnufi Knoxville DU ChMBhm hemdwatan 10033 iGOa --ilTMiT M6 (I Watts Bar Me T33 Watausa hw 1MG3 Snath HolsUm hw 1 1M1 Wall Cnvk hw MAS Dal Hoi taw hw cn4 Cfntfr Hill hw KI33 Gnat rallibw TT4 I 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