Rocky Mount Evening Telegram (Newspaper) - October 7, 1951, Rocky Mount, North Carolina 6161: Dial 5162: Society and News Dial 5163: Dial 5164: ROCKY cloudy and cooler VOL. 310 THIRTY N. C. SUNDAY OCTOBER 7,1951 Press and 15 Swarm In Major * Officially Admit Having GIs Come Off Solely To Meet U. S. Sees Move As Part Of New Peace BY EDWARD E. BOMAR Oct. 6 Premier Stalin told the world today that Russia has the atomic bomb but developed it only in order to be fully prepared to meet .It was the first time Russia has announced It had exploded an atomic official experts on Russia took Stalin's announcement as move in the Soviet diplomatic and propaganda and as another effort to halt or hamr the Western effort to build up armed defenses against Communist particularly in insisted in an in Pravda that the Soviet Union has several times the of the atomic but each time it has been refused by the Atlantic bloc course the aggressors want the Soviet Union to be unarmed in the event of their attack upon it. The Soviet does X not agree to and it thinks that it should be fully prepared to meet the Stalin's words pointed to a willingness to use the atomic he nevertheless insisted Russia's interest is only in in the opinion of American officials has the same basic to throw the Western defense effort off generally refused to get excited over Premier announcement Russia is testing One member of the Atomic Committee urged a vast expansion flf the atomic program in light of Russian but others willing be quoted said present plans are in which heard about the latest Soviet explosion for the first time today and reacted a attitude seemed to prevail among those who had already heard President Truman break the news doubt was expressed that an atomic explosion had occurred and that Russia was testing new But recent information about Ufi S. developments has been about See ATOMIC Page 2-A To Moves To Take Profit Out Of Backs Proposal To Pass BiH With Power To Curb Political Influence G. MILTON E. Hewitt 28, was restored to life by an 15 minutes after he was pronounced Surgeons cut through his chest and massaged Ws Doctors pointed out Hewitt may have some permanent brain damage because of the period his brain was without Oct. 6 of the Democratic and Republican national chairmen provided stage settings today for a Senate moves to the profit out of political McCarran announced he would lead a drive for Senate approval of such a before Congress told a reporter he believes recent Senate and some still hanging entitle the measure to a rank among | bills being pressed by administration forces for adoption before Congress Senate Committee which McCarran heads is expected to consider Monday the he It is a measure sponsored by Sen. Byrd and others to prohibit officials of with new weapons to combat bartering in political influence and the profit out of political Judiciary Subcommittee under formal is reported to have revised Byrd's to impose penalties on any national committee salaried or 1. Solicits or accepts anything of value from a client he represents or helps before a federal fees or other benefits for negotiations with federal agencies in behalf of or has described the measure as designed to provide the Reveals Price Use Tax Laws Upon STERLING F. Oct. 6 Director whose reported ceiling violations 740 meat today announced a plan to penalize offenders through the tax said the government is exploring the possibility of in the figuring of tax any business cost deductions attributable to the payment of for live Truman gave notice on Thursday that all federal will cooperate in meat price DiSalle follow-up today disclosed the Internal Revenue Bureau may a major role in discouraging See PRICES Page 2-A Russell Ruled Out As Fading For MARGARET KERNODLE Oct. 6 Democrats say openly and others privately that neither Senator Byrd nor Senator Russell can be elected President of the United just don't think these Southerners can get the vote North and out They go so far as to say they fear the of either might help elect this South Carolina Governor James P. Byrnes said he would like to see or Byrd in the White With quite a few In Washington No Democrats failed to praise them when this reporter talked about with Byrnes that President Truman nob and will not run they don't agree The President told that did not get his information from Hoey has already announced that he does not want to see nominated as the Democratic candidate next N. 6tilHope was all but abandoned today for 11 seamen missing since the ill-fated cargo steamer Southern Isles sank in the storm Atlantic early 3,325-ton Southern with iron snapped amidships when caught by a sea swell about 200 miles of She carried a crew of 23. brief message from the Coast Guard Cutter which other service and maritime vessels and airplanes sped to the scene of the told the fate of the 23 crewmen The radioed Coast Guard district headquarters in that it had six survivors and six bodies and 11 crewmen were still unaccounted Two big planes the Coast Guard Air Station here crisscrossed a 60-mile area day in search of possible But Coast Guard missing seamen included the Southern P. of The chief J. L. also of was one of the seven survivors picked up by the Charlotte Lykes but he died shortly after being rescued from the Southern Isles was from San Puerto with a cargo of iron ore for ship into halves without and sank five Many of heY crewmen were trapped in their bunks when the tragedy struck at 5 a. m. Only the nearness of the Charlotte Lykes prevented a higher death Hint Peace Session To Be Resumed Jets Outnumber Allied 3-1; In Latest S. EIGHTH ARMY Oct. 7 driving the Chinese Reds before seized most of their objectives Saturday in their 100,000-man Western Korean the American and French troops stormed the uncompromising slopes of and won its Solicits or receives things of Twice in of bloody they had taken the height only to be hurled far Northwest some 200 miles behind the Red 33 U. S. jets slashed into three times as many One American plane was shot The Air Force reported one Red fighter probably was destroyed and two were still was no sign that the Red - suspended armistice talks would be The Communists continued their silence on the issue of a change in the truce site from Kaesong to somewhere in Eighth Army headquarters officer said Saturday night that looks as if our offensive is nearly looks as if the actions now will be on the part of the Maj. Gen. Robert H. Soule said his U. S. Third Division in Its three-day drive had breached the main Communist line northwest of Chorwon in 17 north 38, is at corner of the old Communist formed by in the East and in the had withdrawn from many of their strong bunkers in the Of those who chose to the Third Division killed 588, wounded 582 and captured 35 the first two Third Division and the U. S. See KOREA Page 2-A including jobs or of jobs for himself or in exchange for his influence in any governmental Accepts or solicits any of those things for his promise to use even though the is not fulfilled or intended to be of the proposed was reported still under the group's move follows on the heels of the Senate study of See INFLUENCE Page 2-A told a reporter hope President Truman will not seek I believe the Democrats could then get reunited upon a candidate acceptable to the Democratic Party and the Senator Russell and Senator Byrd would meet every ment for the himself to this voted for Senator Russell in the 1948 Democratic convention and will support him for the Democratic nomination if he permits his name to come Johnston tried to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for our Democratic nominee m 1948.1 am still trying to get him to run In 1952. I voted for Senator Russell's nomination in the Democratic in 1948, after known that Eisenhower would not be Nothing would please me more than to see Dick President or even Vice We thought in that to try get him nominated for President would give him a good chance for the vice presidential However I See DEMOCRATS Page 2-A off Heartbreak in come these GI's riding atop the backs of their buddies carry them through rain to an aid station behind the front The 2nd Division ed in an ambush as they came off the Ridge for a two-day had spent two weeks in the line during the height of the bloody battle on the east central The Allies seized the Ridge Claims Evidence Churchill Hits In Disputed China Deals At Labor Senate Group To Study Late Senator's Diary For Confirmation Of Previous Of Walled-Up Says French Examines New JOHN Oct. 6 announced they have solved the case of the walled-up corpse with a confession from Sylvie a green-eyed adventuress whose personality has fascinated French was formally charged with victim was her Mrs. Jeanne 58, whose was found by Sept. 11, bricked into a basement wall of a third-rate hotel in the Rue Neuve du almost within the shadow of the Eiffel beautiful 38, who is expecting her third child Oct. 20, wrote out a statement in longhand which said she killed her friend with a bottle or a crucifix in a jealous quarrel June 9. face haggard and sne pictured former prison mate with whom she had once operated the tawdry abnormally jealous of her associations with both men and four-year-old played gaily of her mother's Sylvie wept as she signed was made within a few hours after her arrival in police custody from Paris cafe where she was trapped with the mustached Ben Sahel another roomer at the Rue Neuve came to a climax when Jeanne learned that Sylvie was to fathered by Abdallah an Algerian who lived in the with I shoved Sylvie fell on the I seized a crucifix or a can't remember and struck She remained and Jeanne met in the Prison of Tourelles in 1946. Two years Sylvie had been de ported from France to the German concentration camp at claimed she was a leader ol the she saw Jeanne went to live with her in 1949 in the hotel Jeanne had just Sylvie had two See FRENCH Page 2-A Prices Hit High Top Is Per Oct. 6 tobacco prices hit a record level on the Eastern North Carolina Belt this Market News Service reported its seventh week of sales the belt sold 50,933,741 pounds of leaf for an average of a hundred the service two-thirds of offerings brought the highest average prices ever established by U. S. Weekly averages on all cutters good to choice low to choice smoking leaf and practically all low to fine leaf were at levels by government the service practical top price paid was per with some better grades even weekly general average was over that paid last were better on the Middle Belt and the Carolinas Bordier while the Old Belt reported prices steady to slightly Belt gross sales totaled 17,171,909 pounds at an average of This was higher than last week's average and the See TOBACCO Page 2-A Head Charges Defense WILMOT Oct. 6 E. Stassen claimed today he has evidence showing that only the State Department could have proposed cutting off aid to Nationalist China in White House conference in 1949. directed the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee the diaries of the late Sen. Arthur Michigan James Secretary of for his previous Jon the extract from the Forrestal which Stassen drew the committee's said that at a cabinet meeting Nov. 26, 1948, Gen. George C. then Secretary of presented a State Department paper suggesting abandonment of the Chiang said Marshall and President Truman did not go along with the idea and the suggestion was not Stassen that similar proposals apparently were in the State Department after Marshall was by Dean 1949. ah appearance before last Stassen said Vandenberg told him In 1950, that Secretary of State Acheson and Philip C. Jessup had proposed at the White House meeting that aid td the be former governor of Minnesota and a Republican presidential ant in 1948, is now president poi the University of meat of his testimony last week was that the policy In the Far which the committee is then helpful to the first saying it could find no trace of me White House the State Department later agreed that a meeting was held on Feb. 5, 1949'. A State Department spokesman said it was called to consider a cut-off proposal made by the U S. military representative in and that President Truman turned it down upon the advice of Congressional State Department did not say what position Acheson took in the It said Jessup was not Jessup was nominated recently to be an STASSEN Page 2-a Officiai is By Red in MILTON Oct. 6 guerrillas today killed Brit ish High Sir Gurney in ambush just three years to the day after he had taken charge of the bitter war ip stamp out Red terror in the Henry's secretary and chauffeur and 13 soldiers In his armea escort were wounded as his convoy nosed around an turn on a mountain road north of Kuala capital of the Malayan whose car was following the threw herself on the floor and escaped said the 53-year-old Sir Henry was a victim of his own yet calculating show of More than any other it was his habit to travel the remote roads and jungle paths to see for himself how the war was going in this rich tin and ruh ber administrator who was chief secretary of the British Palestine government Dwight D. Eisenhower views the new Atlantic Pact Supreme Headquarters flag which was raised over headquarters near in background from left are RAF Leading Aircraftsman John Francis of Dutch Army Staff Sgt. Hennie of and Canadian Army Sgt. Lawrence C. Oakley of HAROLD W. 6 CIO charged today that the nation's defense production program is falling dangerously behind because of of failures and CIO Committe on Economic Policy called on Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson to develop an overall production plan serious in the defense the committee there is a waste of manpower and Unemployment has appeared in some areas and structural steel shortages are slowing down it should be sought out and broken they the committee overall defense production plan has been slow in getting the committee shift in the scheduled pace of defense production is undoubtedly to a great to the failure to plan the effort would be a serious failure on our part as a- if down the production effort any A substantial weakening of the mobilization would undermine our own strength and that of the free and were exposed in Wilson's third quarterly Chairman Emll Rieve of the CIO committee said in a letter to the production Rieve wrote Wilson that the scheduled peak level of defense production has been pushed back three to six and was deemed to be major of reaching the peak of our defense build-up in as previously you now indicate that the peak will not be achieved before the latter part of that Rieve delays in hitting production targets represent failure to meet our obligations in a critical period of world Rieve He is president of the Workers and a labor member of the Wage Stabilization strife in the Holy Land was at its Sir Henry was a stickler for He insisted on flying his pennant though be knew it marked his car for High Commissioner and his party were driving from the steaming heat of the Malayan Capital for a week-end of rest at Frazers a resort north of the large band opened a heavy automatic fire from a jungle hillside 50 yards away when the convoy was about two miles from a mountain pass leading to the hill a wounded Malay police said Sir Henry staggered Jrom his Rolls-Royce sedan Snd fell face downward on the grass after the first soldiers in an car returned the All were in the 20-minute battle A radio van in the convoy was Henry's car two of its tires punctured by The See GURNEY 2-.A Ol Dispute Seen TOM Oct. 6 Ml Churchill charged tonight the Labor government's handling of the ' Ian oil dispute constituted one of the worst muddles in recent British his la the leader said Prime Minister cabinet had waited three months too long to V present the ' British case to the United He cannot recall any large matter of policy which has been so handled as this dispute with Persia usual approach to foreign affairs been shattered by sharp political de- bate over the evacuation of British oilmen from the Oil Company's holdings m the East The Iranian case has become the hottest issue the British election in both the Conservative and Labor paid only passing attention to other Hartley president ' of the Board of Trade told a Labor rally London that the days Of are He were not prepared at to risk World War on this for told laborites at refused to succumb to Tory suggestions we should use If we had used force In Iran it is highly probable that Russians would have invoked their treaty with Iran and would have marched fuel said the cabinet merely was the rule of as laid down by the International Court at The Hague in the Iranian oil CHURCHILL Page 2-A Gains At CASSAI Oct. 6 Southern delegates obtained what they termed major concessions on states and civil rights at the National Young Democratic Convention they gained in the resolutions committee of a Virginia proposal urging the Oct. 6 Richard j. administrative assistant to Gov. Stevenson of was elected president of the Democrats by 571 to 394. His opponent was Basil Whitener of N. C. All of the southern states except Tennessee voted for The northern and western except for Rhode supported Francis Cocke of has been named president of the American Bankers Association at its convention in Democratic leadership to do within its power to preserve to the individual states their historic they succeeded in knocking down a California resolution endorsing federal fair employment legislation and carrying reference to and Qie watered-down resolution was adopted over the of It merely praised President Truman for his stand on civil deleing reference to the three specific proposals now face action on the convention C. Duncan of S. a member of resolutions described adoption of the Virginia measure as greatest that has been made within the past six In those believing in states other the South lost its fight for a two-thirds majority rule to govern Democratic The vote in committee was 9-6. said he would bring the matter up on the floor later in the Carolina delegates said yesterday a similar resolution will summer under the sponsorship oi be offered at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago Gov. James F. Byrnes of South convention addresses thus far have indicated the theme for the Democratic presidential campaign next year will be that Republican Party Is the war Indicating Conservatives Oct. 6 shift the right by a mere handful of voters Oct. 25 will make the next Prime Minister of the public polls are anywhere near the will wrest control of the of Commons from the Labor government by a majority of 60 to 100 the key to a Conservative victory lies In just 56 averaging 46,000 where the Labor party won out In the 1950 general election by margins of 4,-000 or 47 of these districts the Labor candidate polled less than half case the Laborite finished first ia a three-way race with a ative and a Liberal winding up a poor third every shift to Conservative by only three per cent of the Labor t supporters in 25 of these would mark the end of more than six years of Socialist rule in These are the Labor won in 1950 by fewer than i 2,000 key districts are ' A dozen embrace suburban in the London where many of the city's white collar workers Eight are in Others are in the textile of agricultural East and in the rolling Half a dozen are in Prime Minister Attlee and his Labor government hold 315 of the 625 seats In the House of against 296 for Conservatives allied See Page 2-A
