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atest News THE WOULD Printed irst Wlje (Columbus unquifcv I I 1957 1959 GEORGIA PRESS EARLESS EDITORIAL AWARDS OUNDED BY MIRABEAU LAMAR LN 1828 1955 HEADLINER MEDAL OR PUDllC SERVICE 1957 GEORGIA PRESS GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD 1955 GEORGIA PRESS COMMUNITY SERVICE TROPHY Last Word In GEORGIA ALABAMA State News VOL CXXXII NO 159 ive Cents COLUMBUS Ga Monday Morning November 30 1959 Two Sections ULL AP UPI AP Wirepboto 15 Children Perish In Weekend ires usDid Panama Seizes Agitators Kidnaping chinaSays After Rioting by Mob Held By BOB UCHIMA Cold Ups Auto Toll Back by Canal Zone Soldiers TOKYO (AP) Red China Sun day accused the US consulate general in Bombay of kidnaping one of consular staff holding him for 20 hours and forc ing him to make a statement against his will Hard reeze 2 wife es acci I enter me nouse County agents reported mcom lheard screaming Where to ind It A soldier charges into group of Panama Balloonist Ex Wife Her Companion 6 (Continued on Page 2 Col 6) Weather Outlook BIRTHDAY OR SIR Sir Winston and Lady Churchill sit together I (Continued on Page 2 Cot (Continued on Page 2 Col 2) the and RI Barnes New and his four chil Album of Yehr Award Won ST 400 69 117 586 World War If has suffered two major strokes and two attacks of pneumonia as well as other ail ments but has recovered from all of AP Wirephoto Residents of the Chattahoochee Valley can expect another hard freeze tonight although temper atures are not expected to dip quite as low as the 25 degrees which was predicted for the early hours this morning This cold snap caused by mas ses of cold air moving into the Valley from the northeast is scheduled to drop the mercury even lower than the previous 28 degree low recorded here Nov 18 A report from the Weather Bureau at Muscogee County Air port said the weather should start moderating some during late aft ernoon today but it will probably be Wednesday before freezing temperatures disappear Until the warming trend ar rives radiators young plant life and exposed water pipes are in danger of weather damage and should be protected and northeastward into By THE ASSOCIATED PRES Twenty persons including 15 children died Saturday night arid Sunday in fires across the na tion father and his two children were killed when fire destroyed their home at Groveland la Sunday They were Oscar Ward 30 Lola Mae Ward 3 and Oddis Ward caped unhurt At Bristol berry Jr 38 dren perished Sunday when fire swept their' 20 room home over looking Narragansett Bay He was an insurance executive and dealt in real estate Trapped in lames Trapped in the flames with Newberry were his stepchildren Evan 11 and Stephanie 8 and his children Eleanor 5 and Rock well 3 The mother Martha 37 es caped by jumping from a second story window ive persons died when fire en gulfed a two story farmhouse near Merrill Wis late Saturday night The victims were August Laabs 66 his wife Anna 65 their son Norman 37 and two of sons Larry 6 and Gregory 2 Norman and his wife Marie 35 escaped with their 2 month old infant and two other children Duane 6 and Myron 11 but Nor man dashed back into the house to arouse the others and appar ently was overcome by smoke At Southern Pines NC three Negro children died when fir stroyed a three room frame home Their mother Mrs Ernest Sin gletary 20 ran screaming from the house for help but the roof collapsed before her children Her bert 5 Clifton 4 and Hazel 16 months could be reached In Louisville Ky four other Negro boys were killed Saturday night when' flames swept their two room house The children who had been left alone by their parents Mri and Mrs Spurlin Johnson were Daniel Wayne 4 Alvin Spurting Jerome 19 months and Ricky Lee 8 months Police tried unsuccessfully to nnfiir fVin hnneo nffnr nhilH wnc PUSHES INTO DEEP SOUTH By The Associated Press reezing weather pushed deep into the Southeast Sunday after nipping vegetable crops in the Rio Grande Valley and chilling North Carolina with zero cold rost or a freeze was expected Sunday night for all of lorida except southern coastal areas Daytime temperatures remained below freezing as far south as cen tral Georgia and Alabama The Southern chill was part of a cold pattern which blanketed much of the eastern half of the country Snow and snow flurries were mixed with the cold from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians and northeastward into Maine The mercury fell below freezing for the third time this month early Sunday in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and iced some sections with readings of 27 piete surveys showed damage to tomatoes and peppers but present big carrots and cabbage have escaped injury In the Southeast Mt Mitchell highest peak east of the Mississippi River had a high tem perature of 4 above zero Sunday after an early morning 1 below Winds of 25 miles an hour churned an inch of snow into clouds Heavier snows blanketed parts of the northeast and Maine was warned of additional heavy accu mulations Ashland in northestern Ohio shoveled out of nearly a foot of snow Zero temperatures also gripped Wisconsin and Iowa early Sunday Spencer Iowa had 10 below Light rain spinkled coastal sec tions of the Pacific Northwest but skies were mostly fair elsewhere Traffic deaths mounted rapidly Sunday night as homebound mo torists filled highways in the wan ing hours of the four day Thanks giving Day weekend The toll grew at the rate of 9 deaths an hour more than double what it average from 6 pm Wed nesday when the holiday period began to midday Saturday Wintry weather was a highway hazard in much of the Northeast Snow was scattered from the Great Lakes into the Appalach ians Maine or comparative purposes the Associated Press clocked a recent nonholiday weekend for an identi cal 102 hours That survey showed 433 traffic deaths 49 in fires and 100 in miscellaneous accidents Although the National Safety Council does not issue a forecast for Thanksgiving weekend fatali ties it estimated that traffic fa talities for a four day nonholiday weekend at this time of year would total 470 Last Thanksgiving 454 persons were killed on the highways over the long weekend 54 died in fires and 118 in miscellaneous dents HOLLYWOOD (AP) The re cording industry honored its top artists of 1959 Sunday night at the second annual awards presentation A total of 37 awards were made on a nationally televised program (NBC) originating from simultane ous parties in New York City and Beverly Hills The Grammy is a miniature of the early day gramaphone Receiving multiple awards in se cret balloting by the membership of the National Academy of Re cording Arts and Sciences were Bobby Darin rank Sinatra Ella itzgerald Duke Ellington and Arthur Rubinstein The complete list of winners: By ROBERT TUCKMAN LONDON (AP) As Winston Churchill stabbed his fork Into a sausage he thought about Adolf Hitler I think of that lie growled I think of that mustache "They say he is a genius He is not He is the most monstrous abortion of human That was 19 years ago rance had fallen Britain was under the terror of the Nazi blitz Churchill at lunch was prepar ing a broadcast to the people of occupied rance He was to speak to them in their own language to rally their spirit Churchill had summoned to his table rench actor producer Mi chel Saint Denis then working in By RICHARD MASSOCK PANAMA (P) Panama police rounded up all known anti agitators Sunday after a night of riot pillage and stoning of American soldiers standing guard at the Panama Ca nal Zone A mob of about 300 splitting away from an orderly Independ ence Day rally surged on the American leased canal zone and battled Panamanian National Guardsmen and US soldiers A dozen US soldiers and 19 Pana manians were injured in the me lee broad Central Ave nue was a wilderness of shattered glass Sunday morning Turned back from the zone the mob went on a looting spree smashing in store windows Authoritative sources said Pan ama police in their roundup of agitators had jailed 30 to 40 per sons The Panama press blamed the violence on 150 Panama national ists who drove lre from western Panama in a of sov to support this coun try's imands for sovereignly over the canal zone Guard Wins Praise Maj Gen William Potter governor of the zone praised National Guard for acting the highest traditions of their service in checking the mob US Ambassador Julian Har tington also sent a letter of praise to Col Bolivar Vallarino com mander of the guard The United States had criticized the guard for failing to control mobs in rioting Nov 3 in which 80 persons were injured US authorities indicated that as a result of help in controlling the disorders negotia tions may ojwn earlier than ex pected on Panama complaints re garding the canal zone Panama wants flag to fly over the zone and wants an end to what it calls disci imination against its Citizens in jobs and business opportunities in the zone There were indications that left ists had taken advantage of Pana manian resentment and I the big rally celebrating the 136th anni versary of this independ ence from Spain One of the mob leaders was described as a uni versity student believed to be a Communist In the mob were members of the for the Defense of the Cuban Revoht Before being turned back into the city the mob burned two cf figies of Uncle Sam in front ol US troops guarding the entrance to the zone The mob carried pla cards demanding "gringo gj and the phrase was shout ed by demonstrators at the zone boundary Some demonstrators tried break through and plant the flag of Panama in the zone They were turned back by sol diers who occasionally brandish ed their bayonets Tear gas anc fire hoses were brought up tc turn back the mob at one point Bank Window's Smashed No US citizens were molestec and damage to US property was limited to smashed windows ol the Chase Manhattan Bank All America Cables office some other firms Zone officials reported the of demon strators trickling back across the zone in their cars on route to their homes in Chiriqui province ol western Panama This fanatic group had agitated (Continued on Page 2 CoL 6) COLUMBUS AND VICINITY air cold Sunday's high 41 low 26 Expected: 25 48 Rain fall: None Sunset: 5:34 Sunrise: 7:23 Moonrise 7:28 am Moon set: 6:17 pm orest fire dang er: high WEST air cold EAST air cold NORTHWEST air cold light northerly winds SOLDIER IGHTS DEMONSTRATORS IN youths as they plant the Panama flag in Canal Zone territory during a mob demonstration Pana manians are objecting to control of Panama AP Wirephoto' 6 8 5 5 3 5 12 6 17 6 16 Ann Landers Says Bulletin Board Dawn Views Dear Minnie oreign News Briefs Books 9 Bridge 6 Bundescn 5 Cerf 5 Classified 17 19 Columns 4 5 Comics 11 Considine 4 Crossword 12 Editorials 4 Eliot 4 Eve Starr 16 ortune 12 By Dance With Record of the Ths Bobby Darin Album of the year Dance With rank Sinatra Song of the Battle of New Jimmy Drift wood composer Best vocal performance female Not for Ella itz gerald Best vocal performance "Come Dance With rank Sinatra Best performance by a dance band "Anatomy of a Murder" Duke Ellington Best performance by an orches David Rose (Continued on Page 2 Col 1) in their London home was taken to the hosnital but af in this picture taken to mark his 85th birthday today The British statesman who lei his nation in ter being treated for the wound VUrsr IJ TT I MANHATTAN Kan (AP) Two balloonists climbed 15 miles into the sky spent about an hour photographing and studying the planet Venus through a telescope then made a rough landing in a northeast Kansas pasture Sunday Cmdr Malcom Ross a Navy physicist was shaken up in the landing and was hospitalized at Schilling Air orce Base Salina Kan for the night The other bal loonist Charles Moore Cam hridrfn Mnss wn not hurt three y00re sajd they reached 81000 I a little over 15 miles high and above 98 per cent of the earth's atmosphere with its dust (Continued on Page 2 Col 7) GEORGIA RECORDS 14 TRAIC DEATHS By THE ASSOCLATED PRESS Two deaths in a car wreck late Sunday brought to 19 the number of persons killed in a variety of accidents in Georgia during the long Thanksgiving Holiday week end The grim toll included 14 traffic fatalities three deaths in house fires a boy shot while rabbit hunt ing and another boy hit by a fall ing tree The State Patrol said David Brown 19 and William Murphy 18 both of Barnesville were killed when a car went out of control and hit a power pole about a mile west of Barnesville on Georgia 36 Both victims were thrown from the vehicle In addition two Georgians were killed in out of state crashes David McCurry 17 of Atlanta died Sunday of injuries received Saturday night when a car hit a bridge abutment near Abbeville SC Tracy McIntyre a 21 year old sailor from Savannah was killed Thursday in an automobile accident in Charleston County Two persons died in a fire in a northwest Atlanta apartment building early Sunday Police identified them as Mrs Delores Kanakos 34 of Atlanta and Tom my Stephens Jr 28 of Cedar town and said cause cf death evi dently was inhalation of smoke (Continued on Page 2 Col 6) Graham In H'wood Needlework Obits 2 8 Pattern Radio Ripley 16 Sallies 10 Sports 13 15 Television 16 Theaters 17 Weather 2 Women By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic ires Miscellaneous Total Peiping was replying to Wash charge that a US Ma rine of the Bombay consulate gen eral staff was abducted and beat en in the Chinese consulate ri day after he showed up there with the Chinese The Chinese was identified by Peiping as Chang Chien yu a member of Red China's Export Import Corp The US Embassy said he asked for asylum in the United States then changed his mind Protests lo India The United States filed a strong protest with India Saturday say ing the abduction of Sgt Robert Armstrong 34 of Los Angeles was "a high handed violation of the personal rights of a United States A spokesman for the Red Chi nese oreign Ministry in a state ment broadcast by Radio Pei 1 ping said the State Department "reversed right and wrong and falsely accused other people I am authorized to voice a serious protest against this" In Washington the State Depart ment declined to comment on the Peiping broadcast Radio Peiping gave this version of the case it is expected to lay before the Indian government in New Delhi: Chang kidnaped by per sonnel of the United States con sulate general in Bombay at I around 11 am on Nov 26 and was detained in the US consu late general and its building at the Bombay beach for as long as 20 hours until the following day this period by apply ing serious threats and crude pressure the personnel of the i US consulate general forced 1 i Chang Chien yu tif make a state ment against his will "At 7 am on the 27th when the American kidnapers were tak ing Chang Chien yu to Bombay city by car and passing the vicin ity of the Chinese consulate gen eral Chang Chien yu managed to escape and ran back to the Chi nese consulate general the personnel of the US consulate general escort 1 ing him immediately chased him with knife in hand I was discovered by other i personnel The Chinese consulate general who while stopping the American from carrying out his criminal intention and protecting Chang Chien yu informed the In I dian police authorities in Bombay I I by telephone Soon after the Bom 1 bay police authorities dispatched persons who took away the Amer Version Differs Tho 1 1 vArcinn th nt Arm SZeSSnlMan Killed After Shooting wan ivicaovu unjj nuvii xiivnun police arrived The US account runs like this: Chang asked for asylum and was taken to a beach cottage at Juhu overnight Thursday because he expressed fear for his safety Armstrong went along as his es cort riday morning Chang asked to London on wartime rench pro grams for the British Broadcast ing Corp Now for the first time Saint Denis tells of the day he spent with Churchill to rehearse him for a memorable broadcast that night Oct 21 1940 Saint Denis recalls that for the actual broadcast he sat on knee to share a micro phone in the cramped underground defense headquarters in London These and other intimate recol lections will be broadcast by Saint Denis over the BBC Monday as a birthday tribute to Church ill who will be 85 Saint Denis remembers a seri ous and at times tearful Church ill who over a lunch punctuated by German air raids said shall win my friend We shall win be cause we are much better people and we have much better scien tists will try to destroy this ancient city cf ours But for one bomb that falls on London ten are going to fall on Berlin or ten a hundred or a hundred a thousand and for a thousand thou sands of That same evening over dinner in a basement dining room Churchill told Saint Denis: "We must rehearse seriously We must go through it three times at least 6) Shaken Up On Landing Due Tonight In Valley TAUNTED SOLDIER A lone soldier stands Ills ground against taunting Panamanian youths as they attempted to cross into the Canal Zone Saturday and plant the Panama flag tioops were called on the back up Panama National Guard in holding back the demonstratois Panama photographers in background snap the AP Wirephoto By JOE RAILEY (Enquirer Valley Bureau) LAGRANGE Ga A divorcee companion in an affray and a man companion were shot at Louise Ga north of 'here by her former irisbond ''ho in Saturday night Sheriff Bai turn war shot to death by the Icy reported Sunday 1 Conneri 37 ied a few za 11 1 I'M minutes auer oeing snot in trie Churchill 1940 Plea to Rally rench Recalled on 2 I companion who was shot in the leit side the sncritt said Mrs Caroline Bonner 32 was shot in the left chest by her for mer husband who came to Lou ise from Atlanta where he had been living for about weeks Bailey said According to Chief Deputy Sher iff Mack Smith who with Deputy Sheriff rank Earles investigated the shooting Bonner had hid in some shrubbery at Mrs Bonner's home awaiting her return home As Mrs Bonner stepped out of the car Deptry Smith said her former husband came out of hid ing and said back into the car I'm going to kill I Deputy Smith said before she could get back into the car Bon ner shot her When her com panion got out of the car Bon ner shot him Jack Smith accord ing to the deputy sheriff reached into the glove compart ment and got a nine shot 22 caliber pistol He fired four times at Bonner with one of the bullets striking his heart Deputy Smith said Mrs Bonner who was wound ed by a 32 caliber bullet was brought to City County Hospital here where Sunday night her condition was reported as being The wounded Jack Smith also ETlt at 4 A Ik r''W'lv jjLaJBk 'V i Obi 'Wr IM 51 W1 s' vlflMBa WP III 1 BaKJTB Kw JVr '2: fi IS Li A SHSINI 1 I IT.