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-U rrr4 1 1 S' i 1 1 'T 1 r' J-'- rf i "in1 J1- 'V 1 i i '9 I Hhe -v Served by United Prm Amcloted Press Scrippe-Howord Leased Wire Service United Pres Telephoto Pictures i iJ''ys' HV 1 i PRICE 1 5: CENTS ESTABLISHED 1 88S-1SSUE No 23260 ViV KNOXVILLE (2) TENNESSEE SUNDAY MORNING 'AUGUST 1 2'i 1 956 1 18 PAGES' mUVHH Reports of TTn-n nnwiaint IlnwPi V1 JV yje? i fc-k'V iv -is k'- -rf1-1 gix-f i Ul' ivt Vt 't MurdcrCharge Filed Against -s'' Injured Driver Ex-President Ignores -V! ini I WBIR-Tyon -Air Today i on Channel 10 -1 Si crasma riw Buetw -j CHICAGO Aug ll Harry Truman srid today he believes Gov Averell Harr im an of New York is best qualified man" to be the next President: In a news conference statement eagerly awaited by the Democrats assembled for their convention next week Mr Truman said that while there were many qualified men 4o be the candidate' Harriman is ready and equipped now to step into office Mr Truman said that if Harri-f-- and unequivocal Ho' did not mention any other candidate by name Harriman's! campsii 'manger' Carmine DeSapio immediately "This means Gov1 Harriman will be nominated and elected next November v'An- Immediately -after Mr Tru- man' televised announcement' Harriman went: to the former Presidentfothank Harriman climbed stain: to Mr- tuite just one floor above his own quartan in the hoteL 4 He had a hard time getting there because a crowd of well-wishen first pushed him to a down-bound stairway Importuning him to say something Harriman fought hia way back against1 odds and finally made it to the upward route 5 On leiving Mr Truman Ha riman held a news -conference and Mid: Truman Mid that if Harriman were elected the country would not have to risk a period id trial and error during a mounting world Must And WUl Wia'n Adlal Stevenson currently the front-runner for the nomination promptly declared that he stin expects to be the Democratic candidate He Mid -Mr action in no way lessened his admiration and respect for the former President Stevenson made this statement: 'President Trumen'a announcement in np way lower my respect end regard for him'- "I have bared my Candidacy on plain and forthright statements of what I believe "These -Views have hem endorsed by millions of Americans in' 1952 and more recently in a succession of primary contests in every section of the country "I think that is the best gouge of what the party now wants -Tm sure that we agree that "Same time lamer station apply to television in Knoxville now Today a new channel is' being added to television sets of people in a radius of about 70 miles of the city At 1:30 -m people in East Tennessee" Kentucky' and North Carolina will turn their sets to Channel 10 to see second VHP television with 316-000 radiated watts the maximum allowed for that The new station is WBIR-TV It now becomes the CBS affiliate and WTVK will soon ba the prt mary ABC affiliate Consequently- a realignment of television shows is under way here with many 'changing their -time and station'- our party must and will win in November and that only liberal Democratic leadership can re- 'EDDIE FOWLER A Knoxvillianf? Tells Fall" Into Crevasse County officers are investigating reports that four cars were involved in a double race on Maynard-ville Highway early yester-A dayr when? two men were killed Chief Deputy Lonnie Taylor said last night Tha reports which have not been sustained are that two cars were racing in one direction- and two faisthe other 'just before three crashed' leaving two driv-i era killed and another injured Chief Taylor CUIed V-r-IS-' Similar reports came from sev-Cf rl informants including teen-agers and Traffic Safety Chairman Len Brock of the Hall's Business and Professional Men's Oub Mr Brock also announced that he la calling an "emergency1 meeting of his four-man committee for 10 a tomorrow to "formulate plans' for halting car- race which --have plagued the community fat months Ho and other informants said that minutes before the crash two 1956 Chevrolet were seen racing1 toward Knoxville -and a Ford and Mercury were barreJ-ing k-a d-n toward Maynardville Baylesa Charged witk Meirder The Chevrolets were believed to be driven by David A Padgett- 30 Crippen Road who was killed and Harold Bayless SS Route 2 Maynardville who escaped with cuts- and bruises Bayless was charged with murder Howard MeEDvutey 32 also of Crippen Road was likewise killed in the collision of his 1951 Mercury -with the Padgett and Bayless cars One witness Jim Freshour 20 told Mr Bmck that he saw a Merany and a Ford pass his vantage point traveling neck-andoeck at speeds estimated at 80 to 90 miles per hour1 It appeared Mr Brork said that the Padgett and McElhaney oars had mm about centercoad and that-Bayleas had clipped the Padgett ear on one aide Meanwhile the Ford shot past unscathed Car flipped Onto lawn The impact flipped the Padgett ear 20 feet up on his lawn said Mr Brock who lives on the highway at the crash scene Mr Brock said he -had been informed that the Ford was a 1950 or l951 model painted blue He seid hi driver had not been identified Some informants said the Ford was either red or blue-and swerved off Maynardville Highway onto Cunningham Road later turning around and returning FATHERLESS The breadwinner of this Crippen Road fomily is gone kilted in a heod-on crash wjth two racing which "trapped" him they met on Moynordville Highway Seated on their porch Is Mrs Howard Mc Elhoney I- am deeply moved by this mark of confidence by my old store America's reigning influ-l04- ence in the world end take ad- one lmoM better than he By SARAH BOOTH CONROV "I guess be easier to just go to sleep and freeze to That was the thought that came to Eddie- Fo 1 18-year-old Knaxviilian at the bottom of an 80-foot- hide- in a glacier or Canadian Rocky Mountain peak 1 looked up and saw two holes at the top I thoughC'Mike must have fallen in too That means -no one knows where we are I suppose the most painless way to go win be to just relax and go "But my side had been hurt in vantage of our great opportunity far social progress at home Harriman Overjoyed' expect to be the Democratic Family Left? Penniless by Death inWYretk Seemingly in high good humor tha'tottdowa U-burt too quipped ist the stertvof One Killed as Carl Hits Bus 5 t' 1 -V -I f-2 Companions jj Among 3 Hurt pirturi VmkAJ ou-Vr Hwhl IoMMM CINDRIDGE Auf 11 A I touAdop 1930 car (kidded bits the iHr of stopped Greyhound 'lbus a mile of here on TAsheviDe highway' this alter- noon killing one youth and in- Juring three othe persons Afterwards the dated drfver news conference: "No can say we Democrats don't have for me to even sit down So had to stand up and stay awake That Mved me -The Lord was surely with Eddie is home today with his mother bin Fowler' at 4105 Towanda Trail She flew to Banff Alberts Canada where he was hospitalized until Thun- the immense responsibilities of the Presidency That he should endorse me gives me renewed confidence and determination Open Coavestiea Favored 1 have Just -seen 'President Truman and what told him should like to repeat to your pledge to hint to the party and to the American people that will fight relentlessly fir the liberal principles which have guided his career for the better-' ment of people In remarks preliminary to stating his choice Mr Truman Mid 1 ha -realized 'his -an-' nouncement would causa disap-pointment among same end ro sentment among pthBniH-' He Mid aI he always be-lieved in a free and open paliti- eel convention where the dele-gates have the fullest opportunity to express their choice without undue haste x--: It should he said be in "open Stevenson's supporters a a -claimed 630 of the necessary 686 votes for the nomination and have been driving: for a first-ballot victory Mr Truman said -he was no believer- in bandwagon mo e-Vk ments and had no faith in polls" This was taken at an Indirect thrust at Stevenson whose back-' WTVK To Begin ARC Shows All the CBS shows formerly seen on WTVK will now be seen on WBIR-TVVBut a whole new host of ABC programs will be seen on WTVK beginning today EVen more new ABC shows will begin on VTVK after the Democratic and Republican Nations Conventions end about Aug 25 Until Sept 13 Iew ABC shows will continue to be seen on WATE WATE now has "primary contracts with both NBC and ABC though the majo of its shows are from primary affiliate -contract with ABC will end Sept 13 when WTVK'a primary affiliate contract begins WATE will continue its affiliation with NBC If a primary affiliate turns down a network program any other station in the area is privileged to buy the refused program WBIR-TY Te Have Radis Btara More than 50 CBS shows have been scheduled on WBIR-TV according to Neal Branch the program director At least 13 locally produced programs wifi be shown fay the new station Uncle Tom (Bill Sherman) will star in an hour-kmg variety show Tennessee Jamboree from to 8 Monday through Friday mornings beginning Sept 3The come a to WBIR-TV from WNOX Also starring In WBIR-TV local shows will be WBIR radio personalities Doe Johnston and Elite Moore who will be seen in the afternoons 'following the convention programs Irene Hayes Hodges Bugs Bunny Club on WBIR for 16 years will continue on television on Saturday f- 1 will see more S' fc''Sv Pro THren Page rr's'b j- v- JIUAX 6RAXGEK of llowir'd McElhaney 31 said yester5aSr that his death in a thrercar crash on Mavnardv-tlle High-way left them penniless His billfold had bulged with a week's wages of about 870 when Mr McEUuney left bit Crippen Rood homo for the last time late Friday- night' intending to visit a friend and a relative and then probably to go fishing But relatives said hit wallet after the -wreck contained only one cent Gone too was his Social Security card It was thought that both cash and card had been strewn on the toed and scooped up by the curious' Uao Drawn Names The wallet did yield one grease-stained paper which heightened speculation that Mr McElhaney might have had a premonition of death' It was carbon copy of hii payroll data -for 'the period ended Aug 3 2956 On the reverse side at the top he had penned the full name of hia wife Dorothy 39 and their mail ddreaai-Below sane printed matter on the tame aide with him But they were missing after the wierk I talked with Mrs McElhaney and Mr Sturgeon They both believe Mr McElhaney had been bound for Mr Sturgeon's May-nardvilie Highway home to cut his hair and then to go fishing when the wreck But -there 'ere about three ha between 11 p- Friday and 3 a myeterday when he nil 1 killed dining which Mr movements could not be established About 7:30 Friday Mrs McElhaney said her husband had driven her to a baby shower tearing the children with Mr baby sitter Mr Mc- Eihaney came back for his wife about and took her home wr' Take Heme Iteartne Then he left again for- the last time: First he planned to take "some to a Crippen Road neighbor Bobby Raby fo the crash scene with head- lights oft-' o' tit the car leaped from an am-' jbulance going miles an hour and -slid aksig the highway on hit atomach 'V Dead in the crash Is Robert Cecil Bellarayt'20-yearM i btheMo-be from New -Market -Injured are Jack Henry Ale-V Cbig IS of New Market driver of the car: David Martin Howard 18 of Dandridge a paa-aenger in the ear and Mrs Rou Mynattr 50 if St Petersburg FJa a passenger in the bus Vhres Maaslaaghlet Charge --Highway Patrol Trooper John Watson (aid the car regislered to Mrs N- McCoig mother of the driver lopped a hill 300 feet from where the bua was staking on two women passengers McCoig hit the brakes but the ear akidded out of control into the rear of the bus young Bellamy tiding on the outside in the front teat of the ear was killed tnstmntJy Tha Howard youth was tiding between McCoig and Bellamy jv Watson said the -car was a 4 -V hc had iTited lhelr chiidienliThen he said-ho would meet Mr Sturgeon at his home and give him the haircut he had Lany 6 David 5 and Brenda Bee TRUMAN Page Mr Truman's action however was a jolting but not necesMrfiy disastrous blow to Stevenson's chances Harriman overjoyed the support from -old boss pledged to fight for "liberal principles and for the benefit of ell the His campaign manager predicted he would win the nomination on tha second ballot at the convention opening Monday Stevenson's campaign manager James A Finnegan conceded there well be tome minor from the Stevenson bmdwagon But be said "no great damage will be He Mid there still la "strong Stevenson win score first-ballot DeSapie Predicts Victory The former President's i endorsement of Harriman waa fiat vsj w'a Corwention5j-News Inside The Newa-Seatiael la bestia at ell mr-sitt ceeveHtton news Help li summary ef kuMe cries today concerning the Democratic National Convention opening Monday to Chicago: Angry Southerners rise up la Platform Commlttet themselves against ehnrges of regnrding Qvil Bights Pngs A-6 i Credentials subesmmittee dis-salssas contests filed hy Missis stppi and South ChraBnn dele cations Pags A -I The Demucratfe platform win tncinde a strong ntomto energy plunk Slarshall McNeil News-Sentinel Washingtoi correspondent writes Page Text of termer President statement endorsing Gov Averell Hmrrlmaa of New York PagoA-8 Sirs Frank Cfement is is Chi-esgn but shs hit tslfcing about poUtirv Pago A-T Edward Smith's Mervlew with Gov Ctemest Fogs C-4 Chicogo Calling Pags C-l promised -f-It developed afterward that Mr Raby had not returned from day They fiew beck Friday Eddie with Michael Greeley end Albert Laws were on their way home sight-seeing along the way from summer jobs at Day-ton Wash The other two Knoxville boys haven't come home yeLfV- '-V'-v Eddie Tells Story the way Eddie teilf his story "Mike and decided to walk from our hotel about six miles up to Mount lower glacier It's about 600 feet deep No one at the hotel spoke of it being dangerous end: we -saw no signs of warning as we went up following a ski trail We ate lunch end then started to take some pictures Lake Louise is between the mountain end our hoteL I started to take a picture of "the hotel reflected in the lake stepped forward' "The next thing knew I was climbing up narrow thin ledges of ice trying to get out of an 80-foot hole got within about-20 feet of the top and could go no further the sides were slipping '5: Hug On 1 hang on the ledge where I was because it was fast melting So I climbed back down to the bottom of the hide "Insofar as I know I was unconscious the entire time I was falling from the top end I suppose pert of the time I was climbing up The hole was about a yard wide There bad been as they -ceil it over the top which I had broken through' '-y "It waa three hours later- three hours in which I just stood up with my tegs shaking and my hands feeling like wooden blocks I mw the people leaning over the top of the hole and throwing a rope with three loops in ittome "Mike had gone for help teav- Jo Jo Says: Look for Showers See ONE Page It AFTWVIKWlNa A TfeOTSALLGAME LAST --WHC IT MAKR VOU MSAL1ZT THAT RUMMER AimiMMAfTVCAUV SNOKtH Mr Brock in announcing meeting Mid chib preaident'Francis Unde 11 has agreed to call a full membership meeting tomorrow night the Brock group thinks one is needed Charged Within IS Honrs Besides Mr Brock the committee includes Clarence Bay less operator of a boat store where the meeting win be held Han's High School Principal Joe Palmer and Rex Wilson Hall's service station operator The murder charge against Harold Bayleas was placed at the request of the attorney general's office less than 13 hours after the thunderous crash near Broadway Speedway Authorities Isolated Even though Mr: McElhaney father of three also resided oni Ckippen Road his family said' he had known Padgett only casually Mr relatives believe he was an "innocent 'v i -f Ordinarily a defendant In a traffic death ease is charged with manslaughter But authorities insisted that Bayless be charged with murder Bayless after questioning which brought an admission of racing waa allowed to post 83000 See MURDER Page 13 ALCOA Union OK He bad then drawn a fine beneath the full names of the children and at the very bottom of the sheet had written "Larry and a fadeaway scrawl: Motive Uadermeared The- billfold' taken from his body at a funeral home also contained a warranty for spair of electric hair clippers which were as much a source of pride as the fishing gear he always carried in his car Somehow the warranty underscored the motive he evidently had had for climbing into his car and heading toward Union County only to be killed In a pileup with two oncoming cars less than two miles from home Hair (Tippers Misaiag Mr McElhaney bad promised hia wife's uncle Lee Sturgeon a few hours before that he would drive to the Sturgeon home near a favorite fishing spot and give the gray-haired man a haircut He had taken his hair clippers ball game by the time Mr McElhaney -arrived fhere Mrs McElhaney supposes that her husband then "went on down the where she I does not know -i She was not disturbed though White he doted on his children and liked to tend chickens' his favorite -pastime was fishing Often an weekends he would spend the night on the lake she Mid '-i Smpirioe Confirmed Mrs McElhaney told of a report thatt her husband might have been racing too commented: just can't believe that I've never kpown him to race and I've never heard of him racing any She had said earlier that she considered him a careful driver Mrs McElhaney wai asleep Sea McELHANET Page It Clement Tells of Keynote 'Address EDWARD SMITH' News-1 Sentinel political columnist has talked to Gov Frank Clement In Chicago on the eve of the Democratic Convention Naturally Mr Smith and Gov Clement discussed the Governor's keynote address Monday night Read what the Governor says Page AS A WARM-UP for its wide coverage of the convention next week read Chicago Calling a round-up of events in Chicago as the Democrats gather to choose their 1956 nominee Page C4 ing his canteen to mark the spot ft 'k 4 4 6ln5 gee FOWLER- Page-13 1 -v' VMwaH WmlWr Mae a Fisa B-f KNOVILLE OAK JUDGE AND MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE: Partly cloudy with little change in temperatures today end tonight Widely scattered afemoon end evening thundershowers High today 92 low tonight 71 high yesterday 93 low this morning 70 Outlook for Monday little change KENTUCKY TENNESSEE: Vartte rtoudy aa conUniad wana klar an tamonaw A tear taoUttd lata altar-bom an cvwuns llwndariliowara VIRGINIA: Soma doudtnaw an can-jniad warm with wMalr aeattmg aftaraoaa tlwnSwahaarara Hlsh M-SS S)itM III SwsMM ALCOA Aug U-The Aluminum Co America and United Steelworkers Local 309 made a joint announcement at 7 tonight of a settlement of differences on reopening of the ALCOA installation here A company spokesman Mid it is working out a detailed wok schedule to be announced within tha next few days- -i Some of the men may start beck to work tomorrow he said John Broome president-of Local 309 Mid both company end union concurred in the decision to reopen "as soon as There are 11 potlines at the smelting division Broome said "It will take 15 to 27 days to reactivate ail 11 lines in full force Broome went on to My that the union realized they "could not reap the benefits of -their new working agreement if we are not on the Union members stand to gain 820000000 from ALCOA during the next three-year period under the new Brootne Mid Union local end company negotiators entered a meeting at 4 this afternoon and this continued without obvious interruption until the joint announcement wee issued- The pickets here were bevrr removed after the nationwide strike against ALCpA ended on Thursday because tha loeil like the back-towork schedule offered by the company for activating the potltnes NORTH CAROLINA: Farttr today and tomorrow with widely aet-tarad thuadarahowara' moatly aftar-na aad aaom( Hot today and to-arrow with hah today odddto Sun 1 aMUBUlno and SS-SS abawhara LAAK STAGES yradWad Ti ataira for Saturday Ft Loudoun Knoxvdla S12 suo Page 7 Radio Log Charohaa haadwatan OeufUahw iV) snuo mss W1 lTOS lores to iii IWTt 10HS 7S ISM ino4 10U30 tell 4TOTf Tit MM 3e TM Your Lawn and Garden Page 8 SECTION Around in Circle Page Fashions Page Fuhiona 1 Page- 8 Stag Lines Page 8 Why Grow OM? i fPege 8 We the -Womea Paie I Molly MeyfieM Pile 8 Santaatlahhw Nontahw Watt Sarhw Watausa hw South HalMeukw Wall Croak hw Data Hallow hw 't Cantor Hill hw- 1 OliCCTS OF Scores of curious' fnany of tftitm teen-agers gatfinl er around fo view the twisted wreckage of what once hod been two automobiles in volved in yesterday's thundering three-car crash on Moynordville Highway At far left con be seen the remains of a 1951 Mercury In which Howard Mctlhaney father of three was killed os helmet two roeing automobiles both )956tnadels One of the '-Kf J- CftRadPmaaTtiaphata GO TO IT AVI Former President Harry Tru- man oins New York's Gov Averell Harriman in a hearty handshake after endorsing hiqt for the Democratic I.