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The Knoxville Served by United Press, Associated Press, Scripps-Howard HOWARD ESTABLISHED 1886-ISSUE No. 23,396 KNOXVILLE (2), Seven Seized 15 Safe, 9 Die as Airliner Hits Swamp Near Miami Panama-Bound Craft Goes Down 'Like a Rock' HOWARD MIAMI, March 25 (P) -A Braniff Airlines plane, bound for Panama, crashed moments after a e-off early today with an explosion seen 1 for miles. Nine persons were killed and 15 survived, many of them injured badly. The fo r-engined DC-7C had been airborne less than a minute before watchers on the ground saw fire spurt from an engine. A night watchman on duty at a city dump near the swampy scene of crash saw the plane gO down "like a It fell miles north of Miami International Airport.

Used The dead, dying and injured lay in the wreckage or in ankledeep mud and water. Rescuers had to push their way through dense brush which 1 kept firetrucks and ambulances away from the scene, Helicopters were used to carry the injured to a hospital where a parking lot was pressed into service as a landing port. The big plane, which would have gone to Lima, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from Panama, broke cleanly in two, The and gas tanks landed engines, yards from the rear section of the fuselage. Longest 20 Minutes' Flames still were roaring into the sky hours after the crash. Traffic was backed up for miles along roads leading to the area.

R. H. Sandes, the dump watchman who summoned help, but was prevented by the sawgrass and underbrush from forcing his way to the scene himself, said it was about 20 minutes before rescue crews arrived. were the longest 20 See AIRLINER, Page Caughorn's 'Wife' Sues Real Mate Mrs. Kathryn Louise Underwood Sensing, 29-year-old Fountain City woman who first said she was the wife of prison escapee Lonas Ray Caughorn, seeks a divorce from James William Sensing, 26.

She charged in Chancery Court today that Mr. Sensing deserted her Jan. 2 and returned to hisi former home in Detroit. They were married Dec. 17, 1957, in Sevier County, her bill said.

It was her third marriage a and his second. She also charged nonsupport. When she was picked up in Atlanta March 6 with Caughorn, the red-haired Adair Drive woman told officers she was Mrs. Caughorn. Mr.

Sensing, then at her home here, told The News-Sentinel that he was the legal husband of the woman. Mr. Sensing said he had returned here for a visit and found her gone. Caughorn, before returning to a Georgia prison, admitted he was married to another woman and not to Mrs. Sensing.

She asks for return of her maiden name, Kathryn Louise Underwood. Championship Fight on WNOX Tonight's middleweight championship fight between titlist Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson will be broadcast in Knoxville by WNOX, 990 kc, beginning at 11 o'clock. Could You Flee City in Half-Hour? IF YOU KNEW you had but 30 minutes to evacuate Knoxville because of an impending nuclear attack, where would you go? The third in a series summarizing the ALKOR Survival Operation Plan is offered on Page 9. The plan tells of, moving Government officials and citizens to predetermined quarters. THE WORLD TODAY.

Page 8. EDITORIALS. Page 10. WOMEN'S NEWS. Pages 6-7.

SPORTS. Pages 12-14. SHOWS, RADIO TV. Page 11. OBITUARIES.

Page 17. Leased Wire, NEA Service, United Press Telephoto Pictures TENNESSEE, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1958 in Bearden Plane Crashes Racket Probe Report Assails Knox Police Call Reasons for 'Lethargy' Feeble in Teamster Cases WASHINGTON, March 25 Knoxville police officials offered "feeble and implausible" reasons for in pursuing cases of Teamster Union violence, the Senate Rackets Committee said here in reporting on its year-long investigation of questionable (labor-management practices throughout the nation. The committee said it concluded from its two-week airing of Tennessee Teamster violence late last year that "law enforcement agencies at every level in Tennessee have been "shockingly derelict in their duty toward Teamster malefactions." These agencies "accorded Teamster criminals this scandalous immunity from prosecution because of an underlying and Teamster Union the widespread fear of tangling, with committee found. Kimsey Testimony Cited "The committee," the report said, "was compelled to endure the degrading sight of key police officials testifying to a policy of complete laissez faire toward Teamster wrongdoing." Reportling specifically on testimony of Knoxville police officials, the committee said. "Knoxville police authorities, while not so explicit on the underlying causes of their lethargy, advanced reasons for which the committee regards as feeble and implausible.

"Joseph Kimsey, police chief of Knoxville, a city of more than 125,000 population, described his department as a country with no money or equipment to cope with demands on it. 173 Acts Tallied "Police Lt. (Will) Swanner tried to explain away his failure to question Teamster Local 621's President William Reynolds in the (B. Powers Supermarket dynamiting (Sept, 6, 1956) with incredible statement that if charges, against the police Reynolds might had up, have been targets of a civil suit for false imprisonment, if the charges had held up, and a case against Reynolds had been civil authorities would then won, have had to face such problems as the hiring of lawyers and court reporters and providing a transcript, and such possible added headaches as fighting Reynolds' appeals to higher The committee said the 173 acts of violence perpretated by Tennessee Teamsters "resulted in a loss or more than $2.000,000 in damage to property and, reduced profits to employers." "Staggering though this sum may be," the report continued, committee believes that the damage done by this union to the citizens and to the proud traditions of Tennessee has been far greater-an injury of incalculable proportions." Other committee findings included: 1. "Topmost Teamster officers in Tennessee themselves actively See RACKETS, Page 2 GIRLS QUESTIONED -These teen-aged girls were among those questioned by county detectives today in connection with the ice cream parlor beating.

From left are Sandra Smith, 15, Mary Dunlap, 17, and her sister, Delores Dunlap, 15, who is in the car. CHARLES DUNLAP MAX NICELY Freedom is fleeting Cited as witness New Gay Street Parking Lot Planned Brownlow Firm Negotiating To Lease Space Between Wall and Commerce for 86 Cars See map on Page 3 frontage on Gay Street. Wider Alley Planned A move to provide considerably: more parking lot it is much needed in the Gay Street area space between where, and Commerce Avenues was announed today. George Fritts, of the J. B.

W. G. Brownlow real estate firm, said his firm is negotiating to lease space for 60 cars to the Safety Park Co. In the same parking setup would be space for an additional 26 cars in property owned by the Fitzgerald estate. Mr.

Fritts said Mayor Jack Dance has agreed to recommend just across the alley from the to City Council the widening of Sullivan estate property where which runs through the the building now stands which an alley parking facility. It is housed Askin Marine Credit Credit projected the east-west alley between Gay Clothing and Dailey's Market Streets. The portion Clothing. Those two stores are which. would be widened is the closed now and the building half-block-long section from Gay would be razed.

north-south alley. This would give the lot 72 feet west to a Would Raze Stores The lot would front on Gay. It would occupy the vacant space owned by presents Sullivan estate, immediately north of Grant's department store. It formerly was part the old George's Building. That portion of the old George's Building fell while the other portion was being razed to make way for Grant's.

It also would occupy the tract 'Jesus Loved Them' Now in Book Form The News-Sentinel is happy announce that its current preEaster series, Jesus Loved Them, is now available in book form. Many compliments have come our readers about this inspiring feature. The panels, featuring the most important people in Christ's life, combine wellwritten text and beautiful drawings, of And now all of the panels have been bound into a handsome volume. Containing 44 pages, the book a big 9 by 12 inches in size. The cover in printed in scarlet, gold and black, Fine white paper is used and the book is bound in heavyweight stock.

It is a book you will be proud to own, Students of the Bible will find the drawings and text most useful in their studies. The book may be purchased at the business office of The NewsSentinel for 75 cents per copy. If ordering by mail, readers are requested to add 10 cents extra, or 85 cents per copy, to' include sales tax and postage. Business Office, The News-Sentinel, 204 W. Church, Knoxville, Tenn.

Please send me copies of the book Jesus Loved Them at 85 cents each. Name Street or Route No. City State el HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS 20 PAGES Beating 3 Girls Quizzed, Man Is Charged S-H Writer Finds U. S. Hiding in Cyclone Cellar The picture of America today is at once grim and still reassuring.

The fear and foreboding that shadow the land admittedly are out of all proportion to the reality of the situation. So finds Scripps-Howard's Charles Lucey, now on a pulsefeeling swing crisscrossing, westward through the country. A "cyclone-cellar he calls it as he reviews both the bad and the good. At Chicago Mr. Lucey pauses for the summation below.

He will have others later- hard-factual accounts as he talks to people from board chairmen to the hard-put family heads desperately looking for work, and still EDITOR. By CHARLES LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, March 25-The smoke in the mill valleys is thinner, the hurt of unemployment touches millions and across the land today hard times deepen as end-of-winter bleakness. Yet there's none of the stark desperation of 1930s. Nobody I talked with in a swing from the Eastern Seaboard into the Pennsylvania coal and steel areas, through the Midwest car industry area and on into the black soil richness of the prairies, believes those days are coming back. There remains, however, a kind of cyclone-cellar psychology and a feeling that something has happened to American audacity.

It is true that in this nation of basic plenty, able men today are for the first time in years turning to Government surplus food handouts to help maintain their families. whatever for thousands seeking work, Wives are being forced Employment offices admit being almost without any jobs, into an already overcrowded labor market to augment shriveled family income. 'HAVEN'T HIT BOTTOM YET' Cars sit idle because there is no money for gasoline or new license plates. Many a homeowner worries about holding off the mortgage It's tough, One of Detroit's best-known car executives says: "I don't think we've quite hit bottom yet." There seems no great clamor for a tax cut. "I don't hear a soul say he wans taxes reduced." a Toledan over to the Government, but I make a good living and I feel a said.

"I don't want my taxes cut. I don't like to turn, everything responsibility to the country." Yet nobody talks now of early recovery miracle. Official surveys of midwest factories show little trend toward more jobs in the next two months. The men who make the big decisions in industry say conditions may be a shade better during late spring and summer, but look to September or later for any real upturn. MANY DECIDE TO PLAY SAFE The figures say this isn't a patch on the bad days of 20 years ago.

Pittsburgh's steel valleys show nearly 100,000 out of work, but 800,000 still draw paychecks. The Cleveland area counts 65,000 jobless, with 700,000 at work. Toledo, 19,000 jobless and 184,000 employed. In the Detroit area one man in six is altogether. In Illinois the newest reports show unemployment compensation claims, now at 183,000, down for the second straight week.

But people with jobs and money have adopted the counsel of caution. All across the country you hear something about like this: "I ought to be buying a car now. Got the money for it, too. But I think I'll play it safe for a while. That's what my friends are doing, too." 'YOU AUTO BUY NOW' In Cleveland, Board Chairman Charles M.

White of Republic Steel, the nation's third largest steel producer, put it this way: "Everyone scared. It's a little like this new sack dress it's the fashion hold back and save. What this country needs is a dose of confidence to buy things. I don't think this thing has the marks of the 1930s at all." Bank deposits have held high in most cities. It's true that hundreds of thousands of families are hard pressed now, but generally speaking, purchasing power has held up better than factory output and employment.

Pretty good proof that many people still have money to spend showed up in Cleveland. In late February Cleveland car dealers, admitting business was terrible, launched a noisy promotional campaign to boost sales- You auto buy now" was the unblushing slogan- -newspapers, radio and TV pulled out all the stops. IKE'S PRESTIGE SLIPS SHARPLY It worked. Cleveland dealers sold 3300 new cars, 3500 used cars in the one special week, more than in the three previous weeks, and sales since then have held up well. Now Chicago is taking it up.

The car industry is helping to spread the idea across the country. There seems little anger in the national mood today. There is no question President Eisenhower's prestige has slipped sharply in recent months and basically friendly to him voice doubt in his ability to lead. They say things like these: "Ike's thoroughly honest and was a good general, but he doesn't seem to be much an administrator seems to me some other Republicans hare making the decisions and Mr. Eisenhower just goes with them I don't think either Ike or Congress knows get this recession turned about." alone, 'THING HAS CUT SO DEEPLY' The shadow of the new industry labor negotiations, opening today in Detroit, falls far across this Midwest land.

Businessmen either a strike which paralyzes the thousands of automotive parts plants feeding Detroit, or a settlement with Walter Reuther which drives costs and prices higher and stirs even more inflation and makes things harder to sell, In this recession, as always, the unskilled worker is hardest hit and first laid off. Yet even skilled and semi-skilled craftsmen with many years of seniority are out on the pavements today. employment agency official said: "This thing has cut so deeply you could start a brand-new industrial company here today and fill every place with qualified men-from president and vice president down through such skills as tool and diemakers you haven't been able to hire for 10 years. Not long ago you couldn't find engineers; now many are out of TOLEDO BUILDS GREATER TRANSPORT CENTER Everywhere unemployment compensation is a tremendous boon the nation didn't have in the 1930s. But unless there's economic improvement a crisis will come in late spring or summer when jobless pay periods, usually running from 26 to 30 weeks, expire.

it Those expirations are rising each week in city after city; for many means turning to city or county poor relief agencies to get the barest necessities. A few cities are beginning to talk of public works as programs; many business companies are pushing new promotional campaigns to get more business and create jobs. Even presidents and board members of some of the biggest firms in America are hitting the road to to drum up business. Along the Great Lakes there's much hope in new port development that goes with the St. Lawrence Seaway now being built.

Toledo is moving imaginatively with a planned expenditure of several millions to become a greater transport center; new industries have settled in the Cleveland area with a view to cheaper water transport costs overseas. But the only real and lasting hope, businessmen everywhere say, is for a return of confidence among all the people that tomorrow is not something to be afraid of. Until this happens the going will be rough. County detectives today the Bearden ice cream parlor and then charged one, a Workhouse in another beating Charles Dunlap, 22, with felonious assault today being identified by the victim was fixed at $1000 for Sessions No charges were placed tioned today. Two, Charles' brother, David Dunlap, 20, and Max Nicely, 20, West Clinch Avenue, were cited as material witnesses.

The victim, Booth Street brickmason, said those two were in the ice cream parlor group, but were not among his attackers, Accompanied by Mother Three of those questioned were girls, one of 17 and two of 15, who were then turned over 1 to Juvenile Home. Two, Mary Dunlap, 17, and Delores Dunlap, 15, are sisters of the Dunlap brothThey accompanied by their mother. evere The third is Sandra Smith, 15. 'Learned My Lesson' Mr. Mathis and John Fogarty, went to Mr.

rescue with jeweler and special, deputy, who drawn pistol, said two of those in the attack were still at large. Deputies said one suspect was reported to have left town. is John Fritts, SumThe seventh questioned, today mitt Avenue, who was released. Charles Dunlap, emerging from his cell so a News-Sentinel photographer could make his picture, said: "I've already learned my lesson." He "learned lesson," it seems, just a month after being released from the Workhouse on another beating case -the "hose beating" of two sailors in De- cember. Fined, Sentenced Two sailors were mauled by a gang.

Dunlap was sentenced to 60 days in the Workhouse on Jan. 2. Charles Dunlap and Donald Leaman, 19, of 189 Summitt Avenue, were identified at the time as two of a gang of more than 15 who beat the Navy men with fists, brass knuckles and a rubber hose. That beating occurred near West High School. The sailors, Ralph Cook and Charles Bracken, said there was no motive that beating.

Charles Dunlap and Leaman were also fined $50 each in the assault case, and detectives said that Dunlap's brother, David, paid Charles' fine. Young Nicely and David lap were arrested after a bystander gave their names as the Expressway Link Work Order Given North Route Job Approved by U.S. By ED TOPP News-Sentinel Nashville Correspondent NASHVILLE, March 25 The State Highway Department today wired A. B. Long Co.

of Harriman to proceed with work on a section of Knoxville's north expressway. State Highway Commissioner William M. Leech told the NewsSentinel that approval of the project was received today from the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads.

The project is 2.3 miles long, from the West Expressway near Southern Dairies northward to Sharp's Gap beyond the limits. It includes grading, drainage, paving and the building of 11 bridges. Cloverleafs will connect it with West Baxter Avenue near Brookside Mills, and with West Oldham Avenue. The cost will be $3,789,526. L.

N. Means, highway department office engineer, said "limited" work order was issued because all rights of way project have not been acquired. He said the contractor only on the of road on which rights of way have been obtained. He added that no difficulty is anticipated in obtaining other rights of way involved. The Long firm was low bidder on the project Nov.

27. Mrs. Hayes and Coulter To Wed A produce jobbing official, Douglas Coulter, and Mrs. Parthena Faye Sterchi Hayes, a Karns High teacher, are to be married Friday at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church. In the marriage license, her age was given as 40 and his as 32.

Mrs. Hayes, Cedar Bluff Road, was formerly married to Dr. Tuckey J. T. Hayes Jr.

Mr. Coulter, 2240 Hillsboro Heights, was previously married to Mrs. Frances F. Coulter. Driver Fined $175 Evan McMillan Stalcupp, 31, of 416 Broadview Drive, was fined $175 in City Court on charges of drunk driving and having no driver's license.

questioned seven persons in gang beating Sunday night, young man recently in the case. Summitt Avenue, was charged in the Sunday case after and his rescuer. His bond Court at 2 p.m. Thursday. against the other six ques- ones who attacked Mr.

Mathis. But Mr. Mathis met the youths face to face today and said they were not the three who jumped him. Called Out Mr. Mathis said he had given some ice cream to his daughter, who was sitting in his car in front of the ice cream place, "I just glanced at a car 1 parked beside me and a girl the back seat hollered out, 'Where are you going, you s.

o. I asked her what she said, and then a boy sitting in the back seat with her said, 'Let me get the s. o. and he got out of the car and drew a knife on me," Mr. Mathis said.

"Two other boys then came up and the three jumped me as I was going into the ice cream parlor to call the Mr. Mathis continued, He said he fought off two of them and then one of them kicked him. Held Under Bond "I never hit the ground, though. Johnny Fogarty came up about that time and he stopped the scuffle." Detectives said Nicely and Dunlap would be held under bond as material witnesses. They told deputies the names of the three boys who attacked Mr.

Mathis and the names of others in the crowd, County officers on the case were Chief Deputy John Saylor and Detectives Carl Bunch, Randall Wells, R. G. Cagle and S. E. Pollard.

Teen-ager Gets Three- Year Term Teen-aged Donald Hurst, declared incorrigible by Juvenile Court, has been sentenced in Criminal Court to three years i in prison. Hurst, 17, of 325 Unaka Street, charged with burglery, Jan. 14 at Vicker's Cash 987 Wray Street, pleaded guilty today. His juvenile records show that he has been in State Vocational Training School twice. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 12 Mid 49 8 a.

m. 47 a. m. 48 9 a. m.

48 a. m. 47 10 a. 50 3 a. m.

47 11 a. m. 52 a. m. 47 NOON 52 5 a.

2 1 p. 6 a. m. 46 m. 52 a.

m. 46 Unofficial Jo Jo Says: It'll Stay Messy SPRING IS AS MUSHY AS THE POETRY IT INSPIRES The Fitzgerald estate lot fronts 47 feet on Commerce Avenue and extends westward 139 feet. It now is occupied by a small building on the western end and is used for private parking on the eastern end. Safety Park would operate both lots as a single parking facility. The alley between the Sullivan estate property and the old Askin Marine store would be widened from its present 15 feet to 20 feet and be shifted slightly northward, It would be one-way east for regular traffic.

But parking customers could travel westward on it to get into the lot. 300 Turnover Expected The Downtown Knoxville Association has been plugged for more parking for Gay Street store customers, particularly for this northern section of South Gay. There had been some talk of reactivating the defunct Parkling Authority through which the city might provide the parking. While the lot will have space for 86 cars, Safety Park officials estimate the daily turnover will be about 300 cars. The recommendation for widening the alley is expected to come before Council April 1.

Home Show Opens Tonight Story and Picture, Page 17. WHAT: Greater Knoxville Home Show. WHEN: March 25-30. Weekdays, p.m., Saturday and Sunday, p.m. WHERE: Chilhowee Park.

WHO: Sponsored by Home Builders Association. ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents. Children free. Fotocast Weather Map on Page 15 KNOXVILLE, OAK RIDGE, AND MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE: Cloudy with scattered areas of drizzle tonight, Mostly cloudy with occasional rain likely tomorrow, No important temperature changes. Low tonight 45, high tomorrow low this morning 45, high yesterday 52.

Outlook for Thursday partly cloudy and cool. At 7 a. Station barometric pressure 28.82 inches (rising), relative humidity 92 per cent and 24-hour rainfall .19 of an inch. TENNESSEE: Cloudy tonight and morrow. Occasional drizzle likely in the east tonight.

Light rain or drizzle over most of state tomorrow. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight in the 40s. KENTUCKY: Cloudy tonight and morrow with some rain or drizzle likely in extreme east tonight and in the south and extreme east tomorrow. Not much change in temperature.

Low tonight 38 to 43. VIRGINIA: Cloudy with rain tonight and occasional rain tomorrow. Rain heavy at times in the north tonight. Continued cool. Low tonight 34 to 42 in the west and 46 in the east.

NORTH CAROLINA: Rain tonight. tomorrow in the east and gradually ending. Low tonight in the upper 30s in the mountains ranging to the upper 40s in extreme southeast. LAKE STAGES 7 a. m.

midnight STATION today tomorrow Ft. Loudoun, Knoxville 808.2 Cherokee headwaters 1039.6 rise .9 hw. 953.4 rise 1.5 Fontana hw. 1609.4 rise 1.8 Santeetlah hw. 1803.0 fall Norris hw.

984.0 rise .8 Watts Bar hw. 736.0 fall Watauga hw. 1933.1 rise South Holston hw. 1699.0 rise Wolf Creek hw. 710.3 Dale Hollow hw.

645.7 Center Hill hw. 641.1 Falls hw. 804.9 Boone hw. 1370.7 Ft. Patrick Henry hw, 1259.0 Hiwassee hw.

1460.4 807.0 to 808.5.