The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 1

THE ROANOKE TIMES ULL AP and (UP) PRESS CERVICES Our Daily Circulation 46245 Some week last 44960 Vol 136 No 149 ROANOKE VIRGINIA: RIDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 26 1954 Enteri'1 fou oic i pA(cc Second CUst mall matter f4 The Weather VIRGINIA Considerable cloudi ness nnd continued rather cold today snow flurries In moun tains Highest 40 45 west Tull Wfathrr report on JI CENTS IE CENTS DAILY 1 SUNDAl ri'ri Gator Bowl Chance 9 Unbeaten Year Gives Gobblers Big Six Crown i Big Switch: Moe to VMI with it the Big Six championship won 9 BoyMoiJediIrain Wrecked Jailing Of Airmen Kif bflserinfl By Broken Rail Stjrs ree Word Diplomats Believe Red China Reduced Chance for UN Seat Kidnap Victims Swapped (Continued on Page 34 Col 1)? 25 Slide Crashes into Train Engineer Killed (Continued bn Page 4 Col 2) 25 'A fai Where It Is a Clifton orge Engineer Died in Cab of Diesel Unit Which Plunged into James (Continued on Page 2 Col 1) four and the A EW MINUTES later Petty kicked out on the VMI 45 and the Keydets were knocking on door again The door was slammed on the 11 when Bill Jamerson dropped Wool 17 year old Ken Wright from Arlington its of two men on IMiller con Miiier The kangaroo had nothing to saj of course but the lanky freshman had plenty to sij partii ulaily about the VMI chow while he vis held captive over night in the dormitories at L(x ington The first was that the Chi nese Reds have reduced mate rially whatever chance they had of being recognized as a major power in the civilized world and of getting a scat in the Nations i The second was that British ef forts to find a compromise be tween the United States and Red China on the issue of ormosa hospitalized but his last night was re satisfactory Tom Dooley of Salem VMI scored first picking up two points when Howie Wright was trapped behind his own goal The Keydets then hun up a touchdown on a three yard pass from Woolwine to Dale Vaughn in the second quarter and pegged the score at 14 9 The Keydets were very much in the picture until Don Divers hard running Roanoker who won the sports nomination for the outstanding player snatched pass in tended for Nick Servidio and ran 42 yards into the end zone There was less than a minute remain ing in the half when Divers scored the for SHARP REACTION came yes terday from London where the British condemned the prison sentences as an violation of international Echoing angry American pro tests the British accused the Chi nese Communists of bad faith in deliberately concealing the deten tion of the 13 men for more than a year after the Korean armistice of July 1953 Government officials in Wash ington were keenly interested in the forthright British attitude Diplomatic authorities saw two probable results from the Chinese action and the reaction to it 'in free countries of the world The ydets were up for this one a Rich is nothing unusual when it comes to the Military Classic of the South island bastion of the Chiang Kai shek forces have been defeated for the time being at least Brit ish officials indicated they shared this view Charlie Byrd Vaughn and Johnny Morgan were down fast after a Bob Jordan punt The trio chased Howie Wright from his nine across the goal and then swarmed all over the Dover scooter This maneuver gave VMI two points and the urge to get more hie The safety was sandwiched be tween two serious VMI threats 1 On the third play of the game Mike oley broke through the line and raced 55 yards before Wright bumped him out on the Tech six Two running plays lost a yard and fourth down pass was broken up by Beard 'passengers were Thirty five NEEDLES Calif Nov 25 CAP) A broken rail was blamed today for the derailment of nine cars of the eastbound Santa Chief as the train traveled at a mile a minute clip across the Mojave Desert last night Ninety five 1 aboard the train were reported bruised or shaken but only two were hospitalized Both were only slightly hurt One planned to leave tonight and the other: early tomorrow The remaining tie crew 1 'VALLETTA Malta Nov The British Royal Navy agreed tonight to transport to Sicily a German circus stranded on Malta Gov Sir Robert Laycock ap pealed to Adm Lord Mountbatten Britain's naval commander after a storm ruined the canvas of the big top and left destitute 135 per formers and hungry animals The Admiralty in London ap and so the Apollo Circus will travel to Sicily in two landing craft tanks In the move beginning tomor row there will be 112 elephants camels horses and caged animals and 93 vehicles No commercial firm here could do the job uuu Vftvuj vvcrv 1VU V4j UlC'ftUC U1 UXC Thanksgiving this year It throng that turned out for that happen again until 1965 city's 34th Thanksgiving parade VMI cheerleaders surrendered Wright with his legs bound so that he would have to hop across the just like their missing kan garoo Wright said scn VMI men jumped him about 9 Wednesday night while he was British To Move Stranded Circus 39 41 6 18 19 4 5 10 16 33 41 THE BODY of A Hill 52 veteran railroad man was re covered from the waters of the James River late this afternoon Two other members of the crew both from Eagle Rock were dunked in the cold river waters but made their way to safety The pair Dwier Jr brakeman and James Zell fireman were not believed to have been seriously injured in the mis hap Traffic on the single track line No 91 the Speed West loaded with perishables bound for mid western cities was blocked Re pair crews were busy tonight clearing the wreckage One of the three diesel units plunged into the James the two others slid down the bank and at least three of the 83 cars were derailed The depth of the water at the scene of the wreck was estimated at between 12 and 14 feet IN OTHER PLACES the Im prisonment of the Americans brought these developments: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr chief American delegate to the UN is sued a statement in New York de nouncing the Communist sen tences as new act of bar barism" and as still' another rea son why the Peiping regime should not sit in the UN The magazine Voting Commu nist came out in Moscow with an article claiming that "American diplomacy and American espion age work so closely together that it is very difficult to differentiate between THE others have resumed their journeys It was at remote point near Cadiz five miles from the nearest highway and 62 miles west of here that the Chicago bound train reported by Santa to have been traveling 65 to 70 miles per hour on an uphill grade left the tracks: Service on the main line was halted about seven hours while emergency repairs were made' Hospitalized were Cusack and Charles Anderson both of Los Angeles A spokesman at the Needles Municipal Hospital said Cusack will return shortly to Los Angeles and Anderson plans to take another eastbound train to morrow morning MARK PACE! JO of San Bernardina Calif suffered abra sions to his right leg and a shoulder sprain He was treated at the derailment scene examined (Continued on Page 23 Col 2) LHI IN THE DAY Divers made a repeat performance but the second time he ran 67 yards Divers also chipped in with a fumble recovery that led to a score Bob Cruickshank teammate of Divers in scholastic days at Wil liam leming made the final touchdown possible bv recovering a fumble on the 17 Divers and Torn Petty divided scoring duties each with 12 points tallies came on passes one from Cranwell and one fiom Dickie Beard Beard also crossed the goal for a six pointer and kicked extra points Dave Ebert Bobby Scruggs completed scoring PRESIDENT Eisenhower sent a personal Thanksgiving Day mes sage to the wives and mothers of the 13 prisoners pledging again that every effort would be made to free them and any other US citizens in Communist hands The messages were sent from his holiday headquarters at Augusta Ga Dy MLLVH LE CAItICO VMI yesterday exchanged a kidnapped VPI freshman for mascot kangaroo just before the kickoff to the delight the 26000 fans at Victory Stadium for the traditional Thanksgiving Day football game between the two schools DIPLOMATIC EXPERTS were agreed that Anglo American soli darity in the situation is an effec tive bar to Red Chinese admission Into the UN at this time As for ormosa the British have been working for some firn? it is reported on the idea of an eventual compromise What com promise they favored has never been announced but that there has been speculation they would like to see the Untied States and Communist China recognize Chiang Kai Nationalist re gime as the government of or mosa only Such a compromise would have Red China abandon its claim to the Island and Chiang Kai shek give up his aspirations to the Chi nese mainland The jailing of the Americans a em4 to all such compromise iflorti for the present at least GLEEI UL VPI cheerleaders de livered the VMI kangaroo dressed like a convict in a striped jacket with the cadets Horn Lexington chanting got a Hokie! The pet kangaroo had been missing from his cage since Sun day the Tech freshman since Wednesday evening Some newsmen wrote off the theft of the kangaroo and rumors that a VPI fieshman had been kidnaped as pre game publicity gags But if that is so those who did the plotting apparently failed to consult the kangaroo or the fresh Tech Wallops VMI 46 9 Boosting By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS Americans celebrated their sec ond peacetime Thanksgiving in a row yesterday with solemn prayers of gratitude gayp a a de and feasting It was the seventh time in the last 13 years that America has been free from war but thousands of families sat down to their tur key dinners with a son still over seas VriSo uy reuMiny Gay Parades Classified ads 37 38 Comics 40 Ed'tonals V1 VMI pictures Local news Obituaries Radio TV programs Sports 34 35 36 37 State news 2 11 12 14 Theaters 42 Women news 22 23 24 28 29 30 Weather 33 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red China appears to have stirred up a nest with ttl announcement that 11 American 'airmen and two civilians captured during the Korean War have been Imprisoned as v1 4 JOE ADEEB member of Gator Bowl Committee arid mer tackle at VMI was among the 26000 spectators in Victory Stadium ollowing the game Adeeb reported he was impressed with the performance turned in by the Gobblers The Keydets contained fleet backs the first quarter but once the Hokies got rolling in the second the thing snowballed Tech left the field for intermis sion leading 21 9 and then put the game out of reach with three more touchdowns in the third and a singleton in the fourth Trichiriafche(l yards for its first score turned two fumbles into touchdowns and picked up two others after in terceptions of Dave Woolwine aerials 35 Bruised Shaken On Sante Line Soviet Russia Satellites May Meet Alone PRESIDENT I II OWER broke into his Thanksgiving vaca tion at Augusta Ga to send to the families of 13 Americans im prisoned by the Chinese Commu nists a telegraphed pledge that the United States will use feasible to bring each of the 13 to freedom Vice President Nixon was also in sunny climes acting as host for 35 at a Thanksgiving dinner at Nassau in the Bahama Islands Atty Gen Brownell spoke at Thanksgiving Day services of the American Society in Brazil at Rio De Janeiro' A pl a 1 observance of the holiday by American troops stand guard overseas occurred at Augs burg Germany where the 11th Infantry Regiment was host to children from five orphanages IN NEW YORK an estimated two million persons watched the 28th annual Thanksgiving Day parade through mid Manhattan They watched the traditional gas filled rubber monsters and floats under a warm sun In Philadelphia no one would even estimate the size of the Three Birthdays Also Celebrated KALAMAZOO Michf Nov (AP) The turkey at the home" of Mr and Mrs rank Branch was decorated with 18 candles to day for the birthdays of three of their four children The birthdays of Bill 10 Mari lyn 5 and Cathy Joe 3 fell on Whether the Chinese Commu nists have ItM more than they gained by jailing the Americans diplomatic observers In Wash ington said depends on what they hoped to gain These observers could only spec ulate that the prison sentences were meted out possibly to justify some internal purges still to come or that it was a move to try to convince influential neutral na tions like India that the United States is engaged in belligerent and provocative action with a horde of spies They noted however that the Chinese Reds are creating antag onism at a time tvhen Soviet Rus sia appears to be moderating iti policies (Times Photos) Kidnaped Student to VPI Keydets Keep Hokies in Check irst Quarter ade in Second Moe "Goes Back to VMi Cadet Returned to VPI By HAROLD WIMMER Times Sports Editor Virginia Tech's Gobblers concluded their first undefeated season in 36 years and moved squarely into contention for a Gator Bowl spot by downing Virginia Military Keydets 46 9 In the 50th meeting of the football teams yesterday The victory second largest ever registered by Tech over its rival from Lexington carried here by VMI last year BIG ISLAND Nov 25 (Special) A engineer from Clifton orge lost his life this afternoon when a westbound freight struck a rock slide at Coleman's Bluff ss about two miles east of here sending part of it into the river LONDON Novi 25 (AP) viet Russia and her satellites gave strong indications today of going ahead alone Monday with the "all European security which has been cold shouldered by the West Members of several East Euro pean nations attending a meeting of the Communist inspired World Council in Stockholm said the conference will open as scheduled in the invitations broadcast by the Kremlin Nov 13 and that a military alliance will be discussed This would be In line with a declaration of Soviet oreign Minister Molotov last week that the Soviet Union and peace loving (Communist) would take countermeasures for their own security if the West persisted in pushing through the accords for rearming off West Germany Undismayed thej Western powers have gone ahead with next March 1 as the target date for the last of the ratifica tions Che Russians have been report 1 cd dispatching Deputy War Min istei Marshal Georgi Zhukov ana Chief of Staff Marshal Vas I sily Sokolovsky to the Corn znuuisl neighbors to lay tliej groundwork for tightening Red! military ties I Keydet Player Hurt Condition Is Satisfactory A VMI end suffered a brain concussion In yesterdays game and was condition ported as He was who was knocked out when he tackled Abe Ebert about midway in the third period He was fully conscious last night a physician renorted Dooley was carried from the field on a stretcher An ambu lance drove across the field to the injured player and he was given oxygen before being moved to Jefferson Hospital: parents Mr and Mrs Robert Dooley and a sister were in the stands at the time he was hurt His fatherland mother accompanied him in the ambulance to the hospital (Tlmw 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