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Smash Sidelines Pictures On VPI VMI: Pages 18 19 William Mary Richmond Penh State Pittsburgh 18 1 South Carolina 24 1 Cornell 15 Wake orest 7 Penn 25 Texas 27 Brown 21 Texas 0 Colgate 19 1 Miss Southern 20 7Chattanooga 13 28 12 6 1 Utah State 7 Today's Chuckle Oh for the good old days when Lebanon was a sausage Morocco was a leather and the summit was the top of a mountain 1 THE ROANOKE TIMES The Weather VIRGINIA: Cold and cloudy with some snow southwest by night High in 30s ull Wetner won on pr Vol 144 No 151 4 Section: 48 Pages Roanoke Virginia: riday Morning November 28 1958 nl nM1 tKRVCK 5 jc crim 9 1 iaia at uoanuKe( a a Herald Tribune Newi Servian DAILV Bth'DAT iBll X' A xf s' I mA 4 X' a A' wag Ml MMMi A 'V raSaMMM mhmBK Ml mbiM Hof aMk! a vWviSK MMoMm EKM WaMI mmmJS Mm! Bro HUM Ira i (Times Photo by Jack Caking) Snappy VM I Cadets March to Victory Stadium 1 Search Widens or Desperado MURREESBORO Tenn Nov 26 The search for Geor 'Ilmcs Photo hy Howard Hammrrslry Jr (Tim Photo bv Jarlc Caking) Heartbreak Play: Whittier Drops Pass rom Holsclaw in VMI End Zone During 3rd Period Highly Tighties Drum 1 1 Up at Halftime aasBRwro LMiwW 'A 7aaa aa thSBbZA ffSMMHBBBRk BMR9 wV(s A a WMMSi Ktffeaib lfc VPI Tops VMI or State Title Holiday Marked By Reunions Turkey Dinners By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Eisenhower like mil lions of his compatriots played host to a family reunion on yes Thanksgiving holiday The President and Mrst Eisen hower vacationing at the Au gusta National Golf Club had their son his wife and the four Eisenhower grandchildren on hand for a gala turkey dinner The children David 10 Bar bara Anne 9 Susan 6 and Mary Jean 2 flew in from Washington with Army Maj and Mrs John Eisenhower Usual Characters Color and Rivalry VMI Brings Girl Cheerleaders By BEN BEAGLE Times Staff Writer The Thanksgiving Day game with a few innovations and cast changes played again yesterday in sun bright breezy Vic tory Stadium The usual characters color and rivalry came again The color and rivalry were about the same The characters were dif ferent Characters like: THE MAN WHO asked the officer on one of the gates if they were taking up tickets to get out of the game The man who yelled and aimed a shaky 35 millirneter camera at a Virginia Military Institute punt The woman VPI fan who wasn't sure about how the game was going to go but was certain of one thing: got a better band than they The man who yelled sluggishly at first and then harder that coach over here I want 'to talk to VMI surprised the 27500 head crowd by bringing seven girl cheerleaders to the game It was pretty hard to understand until one of the male cheerleaders ex plained fhe girls usually lead yells for Lexington High School (Picture on Page 13) Scoring something of a first by wearing the VMI colors on the cheerleading line were Janice oltz Betty Cummings Nancy Mabry Punky Dod Lula Mae Crist Betty Ann Crist and Becky Black The flags they flew were a flag policy nightmare When the game started 24 Confederate flags snapped at the top of the stadium The US flag flew at its usual stand from a staff at the south end of the stadium The only Virginia bannersin were in the color guards of both cadet corps And just as it looked like the prank sters weren't operating at full strength along came Virginia Tech's Company marching in flawless step and carrying at the head of the column the plaque from the main gate at VMI And in the same formation there flew a stolen VMI guidon upside down on the staff Tech took the plaque across the field before the game started and left it on the (Continued on Page 5 Col 1) 21 16 Triumph Is Engineered By Holsclaw By BOB ROEMER Times Sports Writer Record smasher Billy Holsclaw directed Virginia Tech' to the state collegiate football cham pionship yesterday mapping out three long drives that served to defeat Virginia Military Institute 21 16'i? Holsclaw showed the Victory Stadium capacity crowd of 27 500 a methodical but exciting job of quarterbacking that resulted in two Southern Conference rec ords for himself and a winning season for his team THE 170 POUND senior from gia desperado Spence Edwards included Birmingham today after three Shelbyville Tenn' teen agers told officers he forced them to drive him there The three youths returned to their home today and were imme diately questioned by the ederal Bureau of Investigation agents NEW annual fixture the Macy parade went off with precision in spite of 35 degree weather and a lack of helium A government ban on helium forced a change of plans The big balloons were filled With air and BIRMINGHAA1 police however report no sign of Edwards Simon Wagner Jr told a news man Edwards overtook him and two friends in a highway patrol car last night then forced them at gunpoint to drive him to Birm ingham in their car The car broke down when they reached Birmingham and War ner said Edwards gave them $20 to get it fixed and get home He was believed to have com mandeered another vehicle and driven off In Birmingham police reported no evidence of a kidnaping Of ficers say it appeared Edwards was met by prearrangement on Birmingham's southside No auto fitting the description has been reported stolen The 32 year old desperado fled a prison farm near Dalton Ga Tuesday and kidnaped a nearby resident Hubert Turner They drove to Tennessee in a truck belonging to Turner Ed wards was serving a life sen tence for killing a Georgia state policeman in 1917 In Tennessee Edwards com mandeered a highway patrol car and handcuffed the patrolman Tom Moore of Smithville to tree Using adhesive tape he bound Moore and Turner to gether Both are now free Edwards was believed headed Good Morning Newport News School Hearing Opens Today Page 13 Wise County Airman Dies in Auto Wreck Page 13 Billy Graham 3 Classified Ads 43 45 Comics 47 Editorials 8 Local 13 14 15 Movies 48 tNews 'Round World 2 Obituaries 4 Radio TV 46 4 Sports 38 43 State 13 16 17 VPI VMI Pictures 18 19 Weather 4 Women 30 32 here in an attempt to free a younger brother Harry 30 who is jailed on a murder charge Harry who said he would rather die than escape with Spence to day broadcast a tearful plea to his brother to give himself up THE WIE of a cousin Mrs Buck Jones of Murfreesboro who said she visited Edwards regu larly at the Georgia prison also broadcast an appeal the right thing to she said you or anybody else gets The manhunt Tennessee's big gest in recent history brought out state patrolmen by the hundreds Roadblocks slowed Thanksgiving traffic across the state The alert stretched from Georgia to Ken tucky Berlin Proposed or 50th State BERLIN Jlov 27 (AP) A West Berlin editor' a wry smile on his face today came up with his own solution for West Ber nroblem Here It is: elect an' American mayor Then ask Congress to take us in as the 50th suspended from giant cranes An estimated 1250000 persons lining Broadw'ay watched a toy soldier and a space man leading colorful floats and marching bands Churches were thronged for special Thanksgiving services In Washington Cardinal elect Amleto Cicognani apostolic delegate to the United States celebrated the 49th annual Pan American mass in thef St Patrick's Cathedral IN LONDON Vice President Nixon was embarrassed by an ill fitting borrowed tuxedo as he played host to Queen Elizabeth II at a Thanksgiving dinner at the American embassy Through oversight his own tuxedo had not been pacKea wnen he left Washington Strikes against two airlines caused some confusion as holi day travelers booked for their flights had to find other trans portation Other airlines added extra flights to take up the slack Even those with little to be thankful for were able to look on (Continued on Page 4 Col 2) Widely Known Speaker Dr Walter lick Dies LEXINGTON Nov 27 Di Walter A lick 63 head of the department of psychology at Washington and Lee University died tonight in the University of Virginia Hospital at Charlottes ville HE HAD BEEN a patient theic since Nov 16 when he underwent an emergency operation Dr lick was stricken Nov 15 with a ruptured artery near the heart A graduate of Bridgewater Col lege he was widely known throughout the Old Dominion as a speaker Public speaking was one of his hobbies The educator joined the faculty in 1924 and was named professor of psychology and edu cation in 1936 He was personnel consultant for a large number of industries and business firms (Continued on Page 4 Col 2) Dr Walter A lick Bars Abandoning Russian Plan Defied in Berlin West Berlin To Soviets (Continued on Page 3 Col 2) to be Col 1) The Statistics by (Continued on Page 5 Col 5) Somebody orgot to Pack His Nixon Greets Queen In Baggy Tux on his city tike fore issued Even before the statement was issued it had seemed apparent that the Western powers would our 1944 IT OERED the plan as a substitute it or leave It basis die out this would be one way to go about it demonstrated the good of goes without saying that the Soviet note will be carefully VI 21 249 104 8 14 2 3 3S 3 3 65 THERE WAS some speculation here that Khrushchev might be planning to drop the issue with out letting the East Berlin Com munists take over from Russia as he had promised That would avoid a showdown with the that UN observers might keep watch after the troops pull out Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev said this was not an ulti matum but the Soviet Union will press for liquidation of cancerous tumor that is West regardless of the reaction six month period will give us time to negotiate time to talk about the Khrushchev told his first news conference in the Kremlin since he took over the premiership last spring irst downs1 Rusntns yarrtae Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punta umbles lost Yards penalized MOSCOW Nov 27 (AP) Soviet Russia announced today it to turn West Berlin into a demilitarized free" city next year It proposed six months of negotiations with the West to arrange for the switch The Soviet government noti fied the United States that the Russians regard the Big occupation agreements of 45 as null and void The I nitcd States the state ment said along dvith Britain and rance is com mitted to the security of the Western sectors of Berlin Two and a quarter million Western Berliners in reliance thereon have convincingly and courage ously fruits free on a suggesting SOVIETS seem the statement said while they keep their grip on East Berlin the three Western allies abandon their rights in West Berlin and retire in favor of what is called a The United States declared it would not agree to Russia's single handed repudiation of its past agreements to cooperate in the occupation of Berlin and then sternly asserted will it enter into any agreement with the Soviet Union which whatever the form would have the end result of abandon ing the people of West Berlin to hostile BERLIN Nov 27 West German officials and an opposi tion leader joined tonight in de fying Soviet Premier Khrush chev's plan to neutralize West Berlin as a free city They appealed to the West to back them up A promise of support was quickly forthcoming from Britain reject Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's latest proposal the idea of a neutralized free city of West Berlin Some authorities here said the main result of move was to stall off a grave Berlin crisis for at least six months The Soviet premier said he would al lovV that time for negotiation and discussion of the idea If he wanted to let the whole subject WASHINGTON Nov 27 (AP) The United States tonight barred any agreement with Russia on the status of West Berlin which wrnuld abandon that city's more than two million people to Com munist control Rejection of proposal to convert West Berlin into a was clearly shadowed by a statement by the State Department VMI ll 162 8R 8 11 0 4 15 1 25 BRITISH senior officials in London indicated privately they may take advantage of the Soviet offer for a six month standstill on changing status per haps by moving for a big four conference on the entire German unity question Willy Brandt lord mayor of West Berlin rushed from an emergency meeting of the West Berlin cabinet to announce radio and TV broadcasts to 2200000 people: in West Berlin say no wp nnt a fra id 1 In Bonn capital of the West German Republic Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said the people of Berlin could be certain that everything would be done by West Germany and the Western pow ers to maintain independ ent status the chemical manufacturing city of Charleston Va completed eight of 14 passes for 104 yards to stretch his aerial yard age to 1013 He also gained 28 yards on the ground making his total offense production 1227 yards Both seasonal figures are new conference records erasing marks established by West Dick Longfellow who the campaign last Saturday It was the second consecutive loss for VMI Which had an 18 game undefeated streak halted two weeks ago by The Citadel But Tech had to come from be hind to overtake the defending Southern Conference and 1 ive champions The Gobblers won 31 lost' 18 and1 tied five in the series with VMI dating back to 1894 started each of their touchdown drives deep in their own territory Behind 7 0 they marched 66 yards in the second quarter Down 10 7 they hustled 70 yards in 13 plays bridging the third and fourth "quarters Then ahead 15 10 they poured it on their bitter rivals with a 76 yard assault be fore the second largest crowd in the series history poured out of the exits Tech had all the better of it with a fierce driving line a (Continued on Page 5 Moscow Offers ree City Plan for West Berlin Germans Recall 'ree' Danzig BERLIN Nov 27 The Soviet proposal to create the city of West made Ger mans recall the sad history of the free city of Danzig The free city of one of the excuses Hitler used for in vadinu Poland in was ere 1 ated by the World War I peace treaty with Germany i Danzig was a Prussian port on the Baltic Sea and had been a part of the German empire since 1814 LONDON Nov 27 Vice President Richard Nixon wearing a borrowed tuxedo that fit entertained Queen Elizabeth IT tonight at Thanksgiving dinner in the American Embassy residence never let anybody else pack clothes his wife Patricia told a reporter NIXON LOOKED uncomfortable as he went to the door of the palatial residence in Park to greet his top level guests He shifted restlessly inside the jacket he borrowed from a friend As he welcomed the radiant Queen he tugged at his over long sleeves and at his low hanging coat tails The jacket bagged in front The Queen seemed not to notice or 45 minutes before she arrived there was chaos inthe the home of Ambassador John Hay Whitney Nixon's valet Dave Ball reached for the vice president's and it there in Washington a week ago forgot to pack Pat Nixon said it me is the first trip he ever went on that I didn't pack for him It will never happen In the chaotic interlude all men of Nixon's entourage lined up to be measured One would have to give the his suit A pair of Scotland Yard detcctkes got in the line by mis take inally Jim Bassett of Los Angeles a close newspaper friend of Nixon's was picked as a near equal in size That left Bassett without a tuxedo so he requisitioned A Scotland Yard suit The Scotland Yard man borrowed here and there and stopped the downward progression The crisis ended just 15 minutes befdre the Queen swept in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Adm Lord Mountbatten and roomsful of dukes duchesses and leasers had arrived during the big suit search '19 i.