Rocky Mount Evening Telegram (Newspaper) - December 24, 1951, Rocky Mount, North Carolina ' Dial Dial 5162: Society aad News Dial 5163: Dial 5164: cloudy and not much partly cloudy and 60 ROCKY N. G. MONDAY DECEMBER 24, 1951 * * PRICE FIVE Known Toll Is Fixed At 90 TED MCKENNA Mexico Bf and left this city today in the ror a Christmas party iire took a officially at 41, or more and broken being examined in an effort complete an accurate There were ' estimates up to 90 or Atty. who announced the official said he believed it highest toll of deaths in single lire in the history of who escaped three-story building downstairs to a single treated for burns the ' Miguel laid the only fire escape was not Wly locked but boarded still the five or six on the verge doctors the 33 were 19 said this probably the ration of little ones among 26: bodies had been before i- There accounts of the nylons cannot be here for any price being smuggled Britain inside colored glass ball postal 41 was discovered in. sorting office when a parcel of decorations mailed from the United States dropped burst A pair of nylons was found inside each the six balls in the said they had notified customs and a of stockings had been seized from similar Death On During Associated death least 17 lives In North the holiday week of four perished In a fire destroyed a furniture shop in The pre-Christmas tragedy killed Mr. and Mrs. Reavis Perry and sons 5, and oh Fire Chief Cosmo Cox that either lacquer or 4die}lac ' and touched 57,NWh0i4ied destroyed his In ( 28-yiaar4<)m Louis ' killed when his struck a concrete marker within the city limits of state highway police reported that a Negro Lizzie Mae was killed when struck by near woman died near victim bf a shotgun blasts Police identified the victim as Edith 25, and said they were seeking a Negro man in connection with 56-year-old sawmill employe died in a fire that destroyed his house trailer at He was Identified as Arthur highway accident Mocksville and Yadkinville fatally injured Mrs. MaV Kelbaugh 31, of The victim was returning with her husband from a visit relatives in when their car crashed into a truck parked the operator of a Ner gro night club near was killed by a shotgun Police jailed another Rufus in connection with the Sunday motorists watched as a young Negro took off his coat and shoes before Jumping from a Korean Spirit Penetrates SAM Korea ers today prayed for peace but ought scattered skirmishes on the frosty Korean battle was plenty of Christmas along the 145-mile Nations troops had religious wrapped gifts for Korean gathered around trees decorated with baubles tnd opened packages from Cardinal Archbishop of celebrated first wartime mass in Korea morning withi 600 The dressed in Army winter was on a Hying tour of front line for many a the day before Christmas meant ks the around the freezing repulsed a series of probing attacks early way bridge Catawba River heaviest action of the 24-hour period ending at midnight Sunday was stiff two-hour fight between an Allied raiding party and Chinese Reds of Chorwon Allied armored column about 2,000 yards into Red looking for The opened with a hail small arms When they added mortar ind artillery the raiding party the Allied pilots flew 269 by noon m attacks on Red rail lines ind supply fliers out rail lines In nearly 10 places on the important rail link between and Korean exploded 200 gasoline and out three positions ' near Sabre jets roamed iip and town MIG Alley for half an hour Ais but failed any the The pf Johnnie Thad 24, of Rt. 5, was recovered one hour Coroner G. McLain ruled the death 48, pf Rt. 3, was killed by a motor vehicle along a Robeson county child playing Associated Imore countries the world over - ahd failed for centuries to find organized peace Christ to the children of the his eve .In themselves customs and President button this evening to the national community Christmas He will do that from his home in in his Christmas Vatican Pope Pius XII again made an impassioned plea for It was the 13th Christmas message since his in even behind the Iron praises were sung for the the Holy torn by the 1948 Arabs and Jordan relaxed its holy of Christianity to let pilgrims visit and the Old City of Jordan occupies but for the second year letting 2,500 in from to of a series of Christmas services in the Holy Land was held in. Nazareth of Jesus was in Nazareth maintained .by the ill the American soldiers sailors are playing host to a quarter million needy at hundreds of holi day Allied commandants of Western Germany donated a of season a bit for poor and old folks in It'll go mostly for shoes and and Dwight D. Eisen hower an American Christmas at home being their quarters kt SHAPE just outside of A few close friends will help them pat same fare goes to all PEACE Page 1-B BALK AT PLAN TO Is Told Steel Is Even On The Of Murray Ifl President today awaited a reply from his appeal that the CIO steelworkers a threatened New Year's Day steel President Philip Murray his response in Pittsburgh and the betting was about even that he would accept or reject the Murray also the labor leaders here felt that the imion Executive Committee's no policy meant going ahead with the scheduled walkout when present agreements expired at midnight Dec. 31. guessed will have the committee rescind the policy and call off the Mr. Truman said it was the leadership's patriotic duty to do remained Arthur the union's general and one Murray's top was from to Pittsburgh last Presumably White ' Mr. acted Saturday night after mediators had failed to break the deadlock with the industry over the union's demands for an average 18% cent hourly pay and other Steel workers now average just under two dollars an President sent the case to the Wage Stabilization Board for a recommended The board promised early but it can complete the case until after Murray's strike So Mr. Truman to The Wake county sheriff's office reported today it was Investigating the death of a woman whose body in a patch of woods north of Wake Sheriff C. L. Haynes said that the woman apparently had been badly Rosa assistant clerk of Wake Forest court said the woman had been identified as Mrs. Luna Beddingfield of ' Wake She said that Mrs. Beddingfield was in her 50's. Miner Rescued From Illinois 111. One survivor was rescued from the West Frankfort disaster today and Mine John R. toll at no jnore 44, to United Mine in are men down more We believe that 119 the West Frankfort was the nation's worst mine disaster in 2 been an earlier report that some others trapped below might still be later inspection led to Foster's statement no more survivors were in the explosion which rocked industry and to keep steel i sprawling mine Friday see STEEL Page 1-B See MINE Page 1-B Hungarian Of The Associated Press speech as having violated i off its course on a States from the President shocked and puzzled Monday by the ransom demand of Communist Hungary for foUr fliers forced down in their unarmed cargo plane and convicted in a swift They were accused of violating the Hungarian situation unparalleled in U. S. officials both in Washington and in and expressed the hope that they would be dealt with by justice fire Capt. John Swift of Glen N. Capt. Dave H. Henderson of Jess A. Duff of and Sgt. A. had expected Elan Ark. FLIERS Page 1-B West Germany to stayed the Hungarian border Nov. 19 and was forced down by Soviet news that the sentence was a three months if the fine not relatives of the tracks in Charlotte moved aware that struck and fatally injured by a Southern Railway Henry Cornelius Morrison Jr. died at a Charlotte hospital less than one hour after he was struck by the County deputies investigated the death of a whose body was found in a of woods near Wake A deputy said identified as Mrs. Luna Beddingfield had been badly Highway Patrol reported that B. 2?, of Sanford was killed his car collided with a bus on the were no See DEATHS Page move was one calculated to humiliate the United States the and remembering that premature speculation in the jailing of businessman Robert Vogeler by Hungary delayed his release from military acting with astonishing convicted fliers in Budapest yesterday of violating the border the intention of aiding spies and The four were fined the equivalent of each and the a was ordered a week Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky to the four fliers in Correspondent Tells Sen. William P. of the U. S. 24th told a Communist he saved his last bullet to kill Himself rather than be but that the Reds caught him a Wilfred 40, of the Paris newspaper Ce said he interviewed Dean airee days ago in a prison camp near of AP Correspondent Robert B. Tuckman by were Mrs. Dean at her Radioed to the United the pictures were moved on ihe AP - my all Said crying no doubt about it. It's wonderful to see Anyone ever loses faith must thls situation about Gen. he came through shows what human endurance can a Medal of Honor listed as missing for 17 name appeared on the Communist war prisoner gave this his interview with was fighting alongside his men at July 20, 1950, when North Korean tank columns were sweeping into South husky than battled his out ttf a road block in flaming after ordering his men not to He helped wounded men to Burchett wandered for a month in without food for 20 Injured and he lost 60 Dean was surrounded six but time eluded the those agonizing he saved and carefully polished last 12 Burchett was absolutely determined never to become a prisoner of I was determined to kill 11 North The 12th bullet was for near some 30 miles of Dean was sheltered and fed by two They betrayed him when North Korean closed in. Dean drew his but one of his grabbed his arm before he could left had been broken in a fall while he was trying elude the Reds suffered from dysentery or an stomach ailment and finally said Dean regained his health last September and now weighed about 180 The correspondent said he and Dean talked for hours in a cellar in which the General is Delayed By Xmas The Associated of American to rush home for waited yesterday in was probably the most exasperating line they ever sweated out in their military a lining up for passes and marked time as they waited for airplanes to carry them the Pacific Coast to servicemen were stranded or delayed in airport terminals by a combination of factors including flight mixups and just the normal Yule of just back from Korea or due to go overseas after their were angered by the holiday time they were losing well as the possibility of missing Christmas at Oklahoma 17 airmen were among the glummest servicemen in the They lost more than two days there waiting for a airline company to take them the Air Force came to their rescue and ordered a plane dispatched from A Tinker Air Force Base spokesman said came down from to help the stranded 17. were scheduled to leave Oklahoma City soon after 49 servicemen were stranded at Oklahoma City Friday when a pilot of a airliner landed there and told the is the of the added that would pick them up 30 and the 49 They had purchased bargain round-trip tickets at each from the to go from California to the East of the airmen became tired and accepted Red Cross offers of bus but the other 17 held out for hundred service men were stranded yesterday at Lockheed Air Terminal in when planes on which they had bought tickets failed to appear or no a terminal spokesman said most of GI's were due to be on their way with planes now coming He said the craft had been delayed by bad San Francisco and Oakland some 1,500 servicemen were delayed for more than 12 hours by waited along with hundreds of civilians through Saturday night and until late yesterday before fogbound flights could take off. Among the soldiers were combat veterans from Korea for whom the Army had chartered 60 arrival from planes at Oakland Spellman Speaks Near GEORGE A. Korea Cont munist High today rejected Gen. Matthew B. appeal to permit Red Itt of North Korean prison ' ' Peiping Radio said North Korean Premier Kim II Sung and Chinese Gen. Peng tola the commander that inspections unnecessary because of the shown Allied prisoners in Red broadcast tha of to delivered to U. N. truce negotiators at Allied authorities liave not yet dis- 11 closed the Red broadcast was monitored by The Press in Tokyo and San declared that early will Wv Quickly to their J They In 31 |l on the point of being ' only thing holding is your continuous and sonable rare to delay the While the Reda ll ting inspection their prison camps they Monday ' that a postoffice set up in. neutral Panmunjom prisoners of both sides could The U. N. quickly With Only x x x 3rd II With only three days until the provisional Una agreement there appeared slim chance that negotiators would be able on Korean armistice before the the wintry il Allied troops beat 9 II of minor Red probing at- |l But for most part religious and put the finishing touches on preparations for il There il except for strikes against t| ist railways and supply hundred soldiers a new the iront Monday and heard Francis Cardinal Archbishop of New celebrate his first wartime in letter from MaJ. Gen. William F. Dean to his ll in was turned over to V. N. negotiators by Monday in The letter immediately was put aboard plane for It will be warded to Mrs. Dean from The letter was delivered soon after a Communist told of interviewing the former 24tliS Division commander at a camp near Pyongyang threes days prisoner of war See ARMISTICE Page 1-B Paper order to provide an ' for Its employes to Christmas Day with The Evening gram will not publish This is In with custom of long standing and Christmas Day is the only day during the year when Telegram fails to Americans Die In Tehran Plane I. C. GLOVER OF BAILEY SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL PHILIP Iran American colony was in mourning today Dr. Henry G. U. S. Point Four program and seven other Americans who perished Saturday night in a plane which claimed 21 crash came when the big four - owned by Egypt's tried to grope through a blinding snowstorm and hurtled into the of a 10,000-foot granite range north of one survived the worst in Iran's air the victims was Bennett's who had accompanied him to Tehran for an official five-day visit In connection with the Point Four program of technical aid to developed Iranian government sent a message of condolence to the United States President paid tribute to Bennett as great teacher of the simple ideas of cooperation and spoke of another of the Benjamin H. chief public affairs officer of the as one of the creators of the idea of helping of State Acheson also expressed grief over the American Embassy which had prepared elaborate plans to entertain the Christmas was plunged in Americans the plane were James T. audio-visual A. C. Bennett's special Louis University of Michigan botanist believed to have been on a mission for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization Jesse Lee the Centennial Cotton Gin and other victims were and five one German and plane crashed after to pierce the been to go or return to Baghdad J where the plane had off for later found thil charred wreckage in a The bodies of most of thil occupants were burned The wreckage first sighted from at foot of the Alborz 65, who was on from his post as president of homa M. College at StU once technical adviser to Halle Selassie of study of problems of the Nile became head of the in iSee
