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VOL. 124 Full Associated And Press United Press MONROE, LOUISIANA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1954 FORTY PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS City Girl Killed By Car, Sister Injured Sec. Stevens Jn New Clash With McCarthy Tells Two Army Officers Not To Be Witnesses WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (AP) Secretary of the Army Stevens today told two Army officers who had been asked to appear before the McCarthy Investigating committee not to appear but said he will testify himself Tuesday as a voluntary witness. It had been first announced that Stevens would appear before the committee in response to a sub poena but later the Army said no actual subpoena has been delivered.

Secretary Stevens will voluntarily appear on Sen. McCarthy (H-Wis), head of a permanent investigating subcommittee has demanded that the iArmv produce the names of the Voople involved in the promotion and honorable discharge of a reserve dentist. McCarthy has cailed it a discharge and said the Army had ample evidence available beforehand that the officer, former Maj. Irving Peress, was a Red. the army will give the names of men coddling McCarthy said, we will take it before the Senate and attempt to have cited for contempt those responsible for a shameful situation.

McCarthy had demanded on Thursday to know within 24 hours whether or not the Army will give those names. Friday the Army ignored the ultimatum that it produce the names. Tonight the Pentagon issued this statement in behalf of Stevens: of the Army Robert T. Stevens has instructed officers requested to appear before the Sen. McCarthy subcommittee on Tuesday not to appear.

Stevens himself has been subpoenaed by the Sen. Mc- -f'farthy subcommittee for Tuesday and will appear." The Army said McCarthy had summoned before his subcommittee the Armv adjutant general. Brig. Gen. William Bergin, and Brig.

Gen. Ralph Zwieker. commanding general at Camp Kilmer, where Peress was stationed. Peress. at a hearing in New (Continued on Second Page) Warren Approved By Subcommittee Of U.

S. Senate WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 Earl Warren won approval of his nomination as Chief Justice Saturday in a showdown session of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee which rejected as charges filed against him by an alleged perjurer. The bipartisan action was at once a resounding vote of confidence in the former California governor and an implied rebuke to subcommittee chairman William Langer who aired the unsubstantiated charges at a stormy public hearing Friday.

Langer did not join the four other members in recommending Senate approval of the nomination, but neither did he oppose the action. He told reporters he favored shooting the nomination on to the full Senate Judiciary committee without any recommendation. The full committee will act on the nomination Wednesday. Members predicted it will speedily endorse the action and send the nomination to the Senate floor for final approval. Mr.

Warren has been serving as Chief Justice since last October under a recess appointment. Minutes after the subcommittee acted, President Eisenhower interrupted his vacation at Palm Springs, to say that the former California governor is of the finest public servants this country has ever This direct wmrd from the Pres- (Contlnued on Second Page) Facts Given LindaJordan Dead; Patricia Photographer isMiy Hurt Microfilmer Bacardi Capti vi ty Details I OLENT WINTE WEATHER Gales that reached hurricane force in Texas and adjoining states cut visibility in the Southwest Friday and Saturday; while tornadoes struck in Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas and Mississippi. Above, firemen and others probe the wreckage of a tavern and cafe near Conroe, Texas, in the wake of a twister that also damaged six houses. Right.

Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Mayhew of Wichita Falls, Texas, survey the tumbleweeds piled to the eaves of a home by winds reaching a velocity of more than 75 miles an hour.

Dusl Spreads To Great Lakes And East To Alabama 3 In Mayor's Race 13 Seek Posts In Council The stage was set yesterday for a lively three-way battle in the West Monroe race as 53-year-old businessman Charles P. Chisholm beat the 5 p.m. Saturday deadline dug out Saturday from the effects by qualifying as a candidate in the April 6 Democratic pri- blizzard while dust from the By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Parts of Kansas and Nebraska of a windswept Western plains darkened skies 1.000 miles away in northern Illinois and Indiana. The high-riding dust from the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas cut visibility to 14 miles in Springfield, in central Illinois. Muddy rain fell in loop.

Airborne dust also was carried eastward as far as Alabama. The deep storm center veered northward toward Lake Superior after causing blowing dust, blizzards, thunderstorms and tornadoes in the central part of the nation at a cost of at least five lives. However, it brought more soaking rains Saturday to drouth- pinched Missouri and began pulling colder Canadian air down into the Midwest. The bodies of two Kansas men, missing since storm, were found Saturday in their snow- stalled auto. They apparently perished from carbon monoxide gas.

Two others died in Kansas auto crashes during the storm. Body Of Woman Killed By Gun To Arrive Sunday The body of Mrs. Laverne Wright, 28, who was killed in Texarkana, Friday morning by a blast from a shotgun, is scheduled to arrive here Sunday morning from Texarkana for funeral services and burial according to a rel-, ative Saturday. In a news story carried here Saturday on the reported suicide of the former Monroe woman, an incorrect identification of Mrs. Wright's mother was made.

It was stated that Mrs. Wright was a daughter of Mrs. B. L. Brantley, widow of a former chief of police of Monroe.

Instead, the mother is Mrs. Estelle Brantley, whose husband formerly was a A trusty was killed Friday night captain in the Monroe fire depart- when a twister ripped through part ment. of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Two others were injured. Winds died down in the Southern and Western Plains and skies cleared in the snow choked areas of Kansas and Nebraska.

Disrupted communications were being rapidly restored in the storm area Mrs. Wright was said by Justice of the Peace W. G. Sorsby of Texarkana to have shot herself to death in that town about 11:30 a.m. Friday while a heavy rain was falling and while she was at home with her four-year-old daughter, Carol.

According to Mrs. D. D. Wade, mary. Chisholm, who operates a sales company and a cleaning and laundering business, entered the race against incumbent J.

A. Norris, and a former city councilman. Marlin Hattaway, operator of a motel. In taking the plunge into politics has never held a public office who resides at 811 Trenton, said, have alw'ays been concerned about our city, and thought that vve could prosper if we had the right He said that he intended to make a clean campaign and would not to the low level of undermining any of my Five persons were qualified yesterday in the council race, bringing the number of candidates to 13. Saturday qualilyings included newcomers Arthur D.

Read, 308 Riggs Street; Joe E. Johnson 309 McClendon: Jack Russell. West Monroe taxi operator: Tommie L. Nichols, 307 Montgomery, and Roy Cash. Previous filings included former councilman Amos Hood; incumbents Whit O.

Smith, Ed Hislop, R. A. (Bob) McNeely; and newcomers A. P. Burkett, C.

E. Ponder, L. Wood and George Cox. Alderman R. C.

(Dick1 Jolissaint, w-ho earlier in the week said he would qualify, was not among the Saturday filings. Alderman John P. McKee also passed up the race. Of Hiss Papers Takes Stand Key Figure In Hiss Conviction Breaks Silence ALBANY. N.

Feb. UP Photographer Felix August Inslerman broke a 15- year-silence Saturday to reveal he was the mysterious Moscow-trained agent known onlv as who microfilmed the used by Whittaker Chambers to help send Alger Hiss to prison. Inslerman, who ha? invoked the Fifth Amendment in earlier appearances before Sen. Joseph R. Senate Permanent Investigating subcommittee, freely told the committee his cloak-and- dagger story when he appeared as a The New York photographer testified during an open subcommittee bearing on subversive activities in the Albany area.

He said he w-as the mysterious by I hambors and others as the photographer ior the Soviet spy ring that operated the United States in the 1930s. He said he made the microfilm reproductions of the government papers Chambers charged Hiss passed to him. Hiss convicted of perjury in 1950, and went to Lewis- hurg, federal penitentiary in 1951. to serve his five year sentence. He was convicted of lying about his associations with Chambers.

Inslerman said he quit the Communist party in 1938 or 1939. remember exactly and had maintained silence about his espionage activities since. He said he has been with the FBI. He told McCarthy he went to Moscow on a passport in 1930 and was taught photography and the internationale code. Then, he said, he became involved in espionage.

When he returned to the United States in 1935, Inslerman said, he on Secood Page) FACUNDO BACARDI but some trains still were running an Mrs. Wright, her body lat Trio Arrested For Beating Up 2 Taxi Drivers BATON ROUGE, Feb. 20- morning had cleaned up the house, here have arrested HARTFORD Feb. 20 UP) PrePared lunch, end was appar-! three men for allegedly beating up ently ironing when she stepped into two taxi drivers in a jurisdictional the closet where the gun was kept, dispute over union representation, through the ruins of a 40-year-old convalescent home seeking the Authorities Seek Cause Oi Blaze Fatal To Seven will be returned to Monroe Sunday morning by train but funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mrs.

Wade said Saturday, despite the justice of the verdict, that relatives here still believed the shooting was an accident. She said Mrs. Wright that INDEX 1 Churches 10B Radio TV 14B Class. 12-15A Society Sec. Editorials 4 A Sports 9-11A Gard.

News 16B Theaters 13, 14B INSURE YOUR FUTURE, PROTECT OUR FORESTS cause of a fire last night which killed seven elderly persons and injured four. The convalescent home, ated by Mr. and Mrs. Shimer, had passed a state fire inspection only last month when an addition was built. One of the four injured victims, Mrs.

Jennie Schuster, 83. of Benton Harbor, was taken to a hospital in nearby Watervliet in very critical condition. Doctors said today they did not expect her to recover. oper- Wade. Clark gun was kept, dispute must have gone off accident- Thomas P.

Curtis, 31, former ally somehow she said. don't business manager of the Baton believe she would leave that baby Rouge Teamsters Union no. 5 James Douglas Jordan and Mrs. mother has gone Ben Carpenter were charged with to Texarkana, according to Mrs. aggravated battery and criminal damage to property.

35 Miners Trapped In Jap Coal Pit They wrere arrested after complaints were filed by two cab drivers, Hare, 22, and A. P. Ferro, 27. Hare said he was dragged from FUKUOKA, Kyushu, Japan, Feb. his cab, knocked down and kicked 20 miners were in the face and body.

Ferro corn- trapped Saturday near here when that too was pulled from water flooded a coal pit in which his cab and his assailants ripped they were working and little hope out radio wires and broke the igni- was held for their survival. tion key of his car. Monroyan Killed As Tornado Dips At Angola Camp ANGOLA, Fob. 20. tiusty guard from Monroe was killed and several guard towers '-nlintered in a vicious little tornado that hit Louisiana state penitentiary Friday night causing damage.

R. D. Hemphill. 48, a resident of Monroe for 22 years and a trustee on guard duty at Camp was killed as a guard tow'er was demolished by the down-swooping tornado. Two other inmates were injured by a bolt of lightning that struck a cell block.

Warden Maurice Sigler said the tornado swooped down on Camp w'hich is for first offenders, and lasted about five minutes. It was accompanied by lightning and high winds. Sigler said guard on the 18.000 acre prison farm were raked by the wind. On the injured list were Stanley Seltenrich and Joe Currie. Both injured men later were reported by prison doctors.

Details of the funeral arrangements for Hemphill were incomplete last night but it was reported by prison officials that his re; mains were being taken to DeFuniak Springs, for services and interment. Hemphill, a smokestack painter, is survived by his ife, Mrs. Gertrude Hemphill, Monroe; by two daughters, Linda, Monroe: Mrs. Bobby Fant. Monroe; by one stepdaughter, Mrs.

James Jewis, Monroe; by three sons, Joe Hemphill, Monroe; Bobby Hemphill, in the armed forces overseas in the Pai cific; R. D. Hemphill, of Moni roe and by three grandchildren, all Loys. SANTIAGO. Cuba, Feb.

20 Facundo Bacardi knelt tonight and gave prayerful thanks for his rescue from kidnapers who held the heir to a rum fortune 11 hours in an unsuccessful bid for $50,000 ransom. The 8-year-old youngster wras seized unscatched from one of his abductor-. last night by an army lieutenant pressing the search on orders from President Fulgencio Batista to the boy and clean up this case Facundo offered his thanks in the picturesque Church of the Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre in the foothills skirting Santiago, not far from the mountain highway where he was rescued. Praying with the little boy were his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel Bacardi, and his six sisters and brothers. One of abductors. 20- year-old. jobless Manuel Echevarria. was transferred from the army barracks where he spent the night to a municipal prison to await trial.

He faces prosecution under a law providing a maximum of 12 years for kidnaping. The other abductor, family chauffeur Guillermo Rodriguez, 23. met swift death last night at the hands of the army as he made a break for liberty in the country while reenacting his part in the crime. father said the boy is just fine and I suspect he imagines himself a sort of hero today because of the attention. All his little friends want to pose with him for pictures and there has been movie, television and still photographers at the seems to be eating unusually well.

His mother always had trouble getting him to eat enough, but he certainly was believe for the first time in his life the army people brought him home last night after saving him from the kidnaper. wife and all of us were happy to see him, of course, and she was especially glad to see him Bacardi gave this account of his experiences: says the only time he heard any threatening wrords was when the chauffeur and the other after the hoy left the house on the way to carrying out an act to make Facundo think they did not know each other. that time Echevarria drew a knife and threatened to kill both Facundo and the chauffeur if they did not follow' his orders. But Facundo says the man let him play with the same knife later. And when we asked our boy if the man had mistreated him in any way he said: not.

We were very good friends, and he took fine care to protect me. only he did not give me anything to eat. But he was sorry about that and he didn't have anything to eat Mayor Won't Have Opponent In Winnsboro WINNSBORO, Feb. 20. (Special) Mayor Robert F.

Mulhearn of Winnsboro virtually re, gained his post ithout opposition Friday as qualifying deadline for the Democratic primary passed with Mulhearn the only candidate for his office. In one party Winnsboro, the Democratic nomination is tanta- mount to election. I Deadline for qualifying for the town official post was at 12 noon Saturday, with one person having qualified for mayor, three for town marshal, and seven for the five aldermanic posts. In the race are Incumbent George B. Ferrington.

Jesse Hodges, now in the non-elective i post of night marshal and a subor- i dinate of the marshal and Donnie I E. Eilerman. For Hie aldcrmatiic positions are James D. Mays V. B.

Scriber, C. C. Nelson and John B. Snyder, cumbents, and three newcomers, J. Nelson, L.

L. Miller and W. O. Gwin. Funeral Set For 011a Man Killed In Auto Mishap OLLA.

Feb. 20 (Special) Funeral services for William C. Patterson, 29, of Olla, who was killed in a truck automobile collision near Horner Friday afternoon, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Beach Grove Methodist Church north of Spearsville. Interment will be held in the Beach Grove church cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral home of Monroe.

Rev, W. H. Carroll, pastor of the Olla Methodist Church, will officiate at the services. Patterson died about 4:10 p.m. Friday after the automobile accident on a narrow bridge 13 miles est of Homer on state highway 490 about 2:30 p.m.

Friday. Four persons were also injured in the accident, including Cicero McBroom of Homer, and Felton R. Holly, W. R. Knox and G.

W. Holtzclaw of Minden. All suffered bruises and lacerations, but none was seriously injured, according to reports Saturday. State police said the accident occurred when the automobile in which the men were passengers collided with a truck driven by Albert C. Bryant of Cotton Valley, at tne end of the bridge.

Bryant was uninjured. Patterson is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Minor Patterson of Olla; five brothers, Joseph Lenard M.

and Minor C. Patterson, all of Olla, Bobby J. Patterson of Illinois, and A. C. Patterson of Haynesville; and two sisters, Miss Frances Patterson of Dallas and Mrs.

H. R. Whatley of CUa. Pallbearers at the funeral will be cousins of the victim. The body will lie at his home at Olla until 12 p.m.

Sunday when it will be taken to the church. Condition Of Latter Said To Be Critical A 10-year-old Monroe girl was killed and her 16-year-old sister critically injured when struck by a car as they stepped from behind a bus on College avenue about 5:15 p.m. yesterday. Linda (Bootsy) Jordan, daughter of M-Sgt. and Mrs.

Willie H. Jordan, 1000 Filhiol avenue, was killed instantly, and her sister. Patricia, critically injured when struck by a car driven by Mrs. Alfred D. Galligher, 21, Edgewater Gardens, at the intersection of College avenue and Evangeline street.

According to the report of investigating officers the youths had disembarked, by way of the rear door, from a northbound City bus at the intersection, and had walked to the rear of the bus to cross the street. As they stepped from behind the bus they were struck by the southbound car. According to the police report of the accident, Linda body was knocked 46 feet from the point of impact. Her right shoe was found at the side of the road, 25 feet from where she as struck. The estimated speed of the car at the time the children were struck was within the speed limit for a residential area, the accident report revealed.

The driver, according to the report, told police she did not see the children before hitting them. The vehicle traveled 124 feet from the point of impact before (Continued on Second Fa.g#) Ramblin $7,000 In Loot Two MenSoughl For Burglarizing Crowville Firm WINNSBORO, Feb. 20 (Special) state-wide alarm was casted yesterday for two suspects wanted by police in connection with the Friday night burglary of more than $10.000 in cash and securities from a business firm at Crow ville, 10 miles northeast of Winnsboro. According to Franklin Parish Deputy Sheriffs Mack Rogillio and Elmer Wiggins, the thieves entered the general sto and offices of J. A.

Harper, prominent Crowville businessman and contractor, sometime Friday night broke open the safe, and made off with approximately $7.000 in cash. $3.500 in government bonds, a number of shares of capital stock in area banks, and six life insurance policies. The loot included 63 $100 bills, one $50 bill, and $419 in smaller bills. The shares of stock taken were issued by the Franklin State Bank, Winnsboro; Central Savings Bank and Trust Company. Monroe: First National Bank, Rayville, and the Progressive Gin Company and Farm and Home Loan Association.

Deputy sheriffs reported that entrance to the building was gained by prying the hasp off the rear door. The burglars used a hammer and chisel to chisel the dial off the door, thus gaming entrance to the safe. The burglars was reported about 7 a.m. when Harper entered his office and found the safe ransacked. An unidentified man.

who was in the office Friday, and his companion. are wanted by police in connection with the theft. Greeting cards, valentines, orchids, presents, telegrams aU these descended on the A. R. Bryans.

2705 South Grand street, February 14. when they observed their Golden Wedding. House-bound through illness. Mr. Bryan could not have an open house but the mails brought cheer instead.

It took many days to open all the greeting cards stated Mrs. Bryan, and letters and telegrams came from Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Colorado, California and New Jersey as well as from hereabouts in Louisiana. Man May Be Down but He's Never is the slogan of the Salvation Army. Just to refresh any who may have forgotten this slogan, Capt. Louis Mockabcc, of the army here, tell- the fo'uwing, (louuaued on Second Pago YOU NEED TO Sell, Trade, Rent, Buy, Hire, Exchange and you need Quick, Profitable Results Place a low-cost Classified Ad In Monroe's LARGEST, BEST and LEADING Want-Ad Medium THE For Prompt, Courteous Service PHONE 2-5161 SUNDAY HOURS 1 a A.M.

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