Rocky Mount Evening Telegram (Newspaper) - August 26, 1952, Rocky Mount, North Carolina Dial 5161: Dial 5162: Society and Sews Dial 5163: Dial 5164: Evening fair and tonight and 301 FOURTEEN N. C. TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1952 FIVE S. Troops Stop Furious Chinese Attacks On Bunker 000 Brink's Armored Car Robbery Cracked By Employee Holdup Money Is Former Guard Of Solved In Less Than 24 hunch N. C. Creech will hold an uest tomorrow night in the of Young who was shot by ice Chief Frank Carter said he shot at him when he to arrest grazed his cheek Carter Watson was len to a Smithfield hospital t was pronounced dead on and another Negro Sunday afternoon had and disarmed Cook the police ief storm Are Ten inches of rain hours flooded 90 per cent of capital yesterday and today the one to at least eight dead bodies were recovered from Manila Two drowned in the The sudden tropical by heavy injured Three were rivers and streams swept rows of homes and Thousands of workers of one million were I in for hours In irling cans and reined stalled in streets by the Threatening clouds hung low er the sea-level he Weather Bureau said the 15-mr storm was caused by a low area which hit Manila The disturbance moved miles of Manila by e Weather Bureau said it was for the South China in the vicinity of During the height of the winds whipped water over FLOOD Page 7A Chief Robert V. Murray cracked a Brink's armored car theft today 24 hours after a 26-year-old bakery truck driver pulled it and charged with grand larceny and bank was Ray Eugene a slender youth who had been fired by three years ago after working as a guard for the armor car was Farmer dug up the money for He had buried it In a wooded area near Glen Echo Amusement Park in nearby was a carefully planned sandwiched in on Farmer's bakery route Myrtle receptionist at the bakery said today when told of the just can't believe came in from his route at the regular time she was just as calm and as he could He was one of our best one our most trusted was Chief Murray's recollection of a Incident that led to Farmer's Murray recalled that Brink's uniform once popped up In the hands of a teenage gang of rounded up on various There was suspicion at the time that some of this gang contemplated using the uniform In sort of is the story as told to reporters by Inspector Jeremiah Pla uniform was found in the possession of the gang in 1949, police took him into custody and questioned They found no evidence of any wrongdoing by and released Soon Brink's fired Parmer because of the uniform went to work for ' key armored car which travelled iii the same area of his bakery noon the armored car pulled up to the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel and the four guards went inside to They locked up the Parmer drove up in his bakery inserted his turned the grabbed a sack containing in small pushed It into the bakery and drove off. He Ignored In bills of large BRINK Page 7A Legion Launches All-Day Parade On Fifth Ready For 15-Hour March By Is the day they've been waiting for the big chance for American Legionnaires to strut their the time for New Yorkers to watch a it is some running for 14 to 16 hours and causing a wholesale rerouting of traffic In busy midtown is a of the annual American Legion at 9 some 75.000 marchers will parade up Fifth Avenue from 34th Street to 72nd grand marshal of the the marching list are bands a unit of West Point delegations from most Legion U. S. military units flights of Air Force members of the Legion's 40 and 8 York's Gov. Thomas E. Mayor Vince R. and other civilian and military dignitaries had places in the reviewing parade follows a busy opening day yesterday during which Eisenhower received an ovation at Square Garden as he told the Legionnaires that the United States must tell the Kremlin that can never until the nations of Eastern Europe and Asia have been freed to choose their own other speakers yesterday were APL President William Acting Defense Mobilization Director John R. and Legion Commander Donald R. yesterday the Legion ap See LEGION Page 7A Light Vote Seen Fight Lasts Eight Jet Bomber Crosses Ocean Back In 10 ALDERGROVE A TR Ireland British jet lomber flashed across the Atlantic and back today in The In a single lay was the first in The black Canberra also all previous records for west to east passage as it home from western I ybf the epic whole trip of 4,144 miles took 10 hours 4 including two-hour stopover at This was the timetable of the In terms of Time which is six of Eastern 6:34 a. m. Left in 11:12 a. 1:10 p. m. Left 4:38 p. m. Reached km The plane fought 100-mile-an hour on its east to west He but was helped by them on trip The bomber belongs K. Gough of and Walter E. of are top contenders for the post of National Commander of the American The organization's 34th convention is being held in New York Both Dwight D. presidential and Gov. Adlai E. the Democratic nominee were scheduled to address the Grocer Held By Police In Mercy Invalid Daughter Because He Could Not To See Her Suffer Any Royal Air Force and is pilots ed by Wing Commander Roland 32, with a crew of is 2,072.79 miles from here to making the round trip about 4,145 leg was made at an average of 448 miles an against the record of 483.91 Beamont made in the same plane last Aug. 31. The Canberra's maximum speed is an official ( but it is believed to be capable of approaching the speed of around 660 miles an hour at sea is an RAP hero of the Battle of having shot down 10 German planes and 32 7-1 flying bombs during World War In February he flew a Canberra from Lonbon to Tripoli at an average speed of 541 miles an navigator today was Squadron Leader D. A. also a veteran of last year's Atlantic His co-pilot was V. See JET Page 7A Oleo Playboy Faces Lengthy YORK l/W Minot P. Jelke heir to oleomargarine has pleaded to an Indictment charging he forced two pretty models into prostitution and accepted money 22 - year - old socially registered if convicted on all counts against would face a possible 16 to 134 years in prison and a jury action against Jelke and three others was taken yesterday in the cafe society vice probe of call girls who reportedly got up to Officials said the investigation was of those accused with Jelke pleaded guilty to a charge that he received prostitution He is 39-year-old movie actor Richard also known as Richard Sentencing was set for Sept. 9. was named on eight counts of compulsory prostitution and living off prostitution He also is charged with illegal possession a was specifically charged that he induced 19-year-old Patricia Ward to a life of and lived or in on her -s 1951, to 1952. Waru nas been held as a material witness in the New York newspapers have said she broke vice case after Jelke Jilted also was charged with forcing 23-year-old Pat Thompson to become a See HEARING Page 7A Fla. retired grocer stabbed his 18-year-old invalid daughter to death with a butcher knife yesterday and later explained to couldn't stand to see her suffer any called ihe slaying Adela Sapp - said John Moskal led officers to the body of his daughter in the bathroom of their apartment and girl is all right The detective said Moskal related that while his wife Mary was out he led the girl into the bathroom and plunged the knife twice into her my baby's Sapp quoted the 57-year-oId wife Injured herself by falling against the corner of a The baby was never was a soft spot in Mississippi Demo Also Slated On Repeal Of KEITH Miss. Light voting was predicted today as marked two one for the first Democratic primary and one a state-wide referendum on liquor of State Heber Ladner estimated slightly more than half of the 407,774 who voted in governor race would go to the polls opening at 7 Central Standard today in cities and 8 a.m. in rural All voting slops at 6 will name Democratic to posts but nomination is tantamount to election in this predominantly Democratic main interest centered on the liquor referendum and a tight congressional race between Rep. John Rankin and Rep. Thomas contests include naming a U. S. senator and three other Two unopposed Jamie Whitten of the the were declared party 2nd District and Prank Smith of Rankin and Abernethy Legislature combined opponents for re-election when the their districts to wipe out one district lost in the 19.50 The campaign developed into one of the in Mississippi made age one of and the doctors said of the Allies Hold Heavily In Hand-To-Hand Fight For Bunker Guns Back WILLIAM C. BARNARD Korea - U. N. threw back three assaults last night and A total of 378 308 pounds against Bunker Hill on on the Western killing Monday a third of the 80-man! .Sl88;830.42. for an average of. Red fighting raged nearly eight At some points troops closed to hand-to-hand combat on the muddy slopes soaked by G. Johnston market sales that only about 300, 000 pounds were sold steady barrage throughout the night in reply to Red S. and bombers price is said more tobacco is to be brought to market later this supply and communication i there was not much coming ta centers near the hard-hit Korean capital ' The U. S. Eighth Army closed that U. N. guards wounded j 38 prisoners of war 11 about a nerve not protected and every time it made with other parts of the brain it drove her nerve made contact 15 or 20 times an all her My X to see her uiSE specialists but they told us slie would never 6e any Moskal told won't be around much longer and I did not want my wife to bear the burden said It was necessary for his wife and him to bathe and feed their that the girl was never able to do anything for her the detective further quoted It did not bring and I had to do it I wanted to help my See MERCY Page 7A Shot Down By Two Crew Members Explorers Survive Trip Into Dangerous AIR PORCE survivors from the bomber that was shot down by a new jet fighter picked up in the Gulf of Mexico today by a Navy Both were in good physical Air Force identified the two as Charles D. 31, of and Airman 2C Peter R. 22, of 111. stated they felt fine despite their ordeal of being shot down and tossed about In stormy Gulf waters in a life raft throughout the Air Force spotted the two men in the water about 11 a. m. and directed the minesweeper Seer to the Both came aboard the vessel under their own They were being brought back to the base Air Force said it had hopes there were other survivors among the eight crewmen of the 49-year-old attorney has spent the past 10 years in Rankin is 70. He lias pent 32 years in the House and is one of the See MISSISSIPPI Page 7A air and surface craft from military bases along the Gulf Coast were sent out at daybreak to the search rain storm which churned up waves 15 feet high during the night only slightly during was sent into the Gulf in flames yesterday by a rocket fired by mistake by an intricate automatically controlled jet crewman who parachuted into the water in his life jacket waved and smiled to the crew of a passing PBY flying A life raft was tossed to Minutes later the area was pounded by a terrific rain and theman wasn't seen rocket was fired by the pilot of an the Air Force's newest all-weather which is undergoing operational suitability tests at the air Air Force said the See BOMBER Page 7A Oiilnspection To Look At British American oilman W. Alton Jones left for the South Iran oil center of Abadan today to inspect the long giant refinery once owned by the who is president of the Cities Service Company of New was accompanied by four associates who arrived with him from the United States on Iranian government spokesman had described assistants as caliber the party's arrival in the Iranian spokesman said yesterday Jones had come discover what assistance can be made to put the Iranian nationalized oil industry into and advise Iranians how to continue working and administering the oil New Cities Service officials said Jones had gone to Iran only to mediate in the long dispute between and the British who formerly operated country's oil Their these See IRAN Page 7A down a demonstration among Communist in a POW pen on Koje Island off South Gen. W. Clark announced he had reorganized his Far East Command headquarters to give the Navy and Air Force an almost equal voice with the Army in overall planning and including direction of the Korean War and armistice met no opposition night in bomb runs over port city for Pilots results were pilots attacked a supply area south of near and reported their bombs touched off two secondary explosions and three large fires in the target Bunker Hill fighting four miles east of the Panmunjom armistice talks site was the only major action along the 155-mlle winding S. Marines captured the dominant height Aug. 12 In a quick Then for four the Reds attacked furiously in vian attempts at recapturing the that overlooks both U. and Communist probe at 8:40 last night touched off the latest hour after the 200 using burp guns and hand smashed against outer defenses of the ridge for 20 minutes and then big assault of from 400 to 800 men hit at 10:30 p.m. This battle raged for an hour and a half before the Reds were beaten back by deadly tank and See WAR Page 7A Average On Leaf Pounds Sold On Some 4,585;^ pounds of tobacco were sold oi markets of the Eastern North Carolina Belt Farmers an average of pel hundred pounds for their Market News ice reported sales brought the season tal to 18,996,512 pounds and average to on the Carolinas Bor Market moved upwards yesterday while the averages hi firm on the Eastern Belt as pared with Friday's Belt quality was due to more low and fair Sales volume while on the Easten volume was fairly Principal Eastern Belt were common low i good fair ' lugs and following average were ber of fair ange 758. low orange orange Low Lemon Good lemon good fair orange low ange Good fair lemon fair orange low orange See TOBACCO Page 7A To Make Bold For Huge Voting Bloc In N. UPl Three men have come out of Valley alive to prove that legends of death stalking those who brave far north wilderness have some but that the gers are not from three explorers who barely won out in their hazardous trek through the mysterious valley are R. young chemical from D. writer - photographer Norman Thomas of N. lOM and botanist Howie Martin of Yale trappers and have failed to return from the valley it's because they were not as fortunate we says is good reason for their failure to It's the kind of country where one mistake can mean your financed the trip by n. commission from the U. S. Defense Department to test a new food ration and an assignment to write scientific reports on some of their The trio motored from northern aviator C. C. P. Dalziel picked them up for the 150-mjle flight to their base camp at some 180 miles upstream from the mouth of the The is in the northwest territories and about 700 miles northwest of started from Glacier Lake because much of Valley had been covered by and and they wanted to go through a region less likely to have been seen they got going on each carried a 75-pound pack with a rifle and other Shamp cracked a and fractured a soon after the but continued with the few days later one rifle was damaged beyond repair on and the two others were put out of by dampness leaving the explorers without arms to kill game for On the whole trek they saw the sun only three 25 days they walked 150 miles tortuous but were their to Watson Lake in the See VALLEY Page 7A Ready To All-Out RELMAN MORIN NEW YORK Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has been told that his at this is not going and he was pictured today as prepared now to begin an toe-to-toe fight for the aides and visitors to his newly established New York headquarters Indicated that his next moves will To obtain the active support of Sen. Robert A. Taft of and especially of Taft's the thousands of Republicans who backed the senator for the GOP To begin speaking out on specific naming names and pin - pointing major GOP charges against the the Truman and the Democratic Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Eisenhower's schedule of appointments for were Sen. Edward Martin of a Taft and Sen. Styles Bridges of New Bridges remained neutral in the battle in the New Some of the in the that he leaned general's aides said a meeting with Taft himself is in the cards for some time next The date is still they three different Eisenhower apparently heard some frank talk about his campaign progress on his first day in the new regional headquarters was Sen. Wallace Bennett of who supported Taft's drive for the GOP said he discussed with Eisenhower the means of getting support from Taft's the we talked about fusing the Taft and Eisenhower groups into one effective he senator added that he has found a of independent voters who are in doubt now about after having been sympathetic to his candidacy find plenty of people who say they are going to take a second look at Bennett prominent who not to be campaign in low gear to and through today's speech before Legion of Eisenhower's top Arthur Vandenberg told a campaign hasn't begun He's sgt now to open these conferences were taking the New York and Sun was on the street here with a front-page editorial which running like a dry newspaper is a unit in the which is supporting Eisenhower fo But that described his to as milk and water and asked when do we Eisenhower's there was no sign of The people yorking with him quote a political headlines don't and from this point he would open uo with all his heavy guns on the The question of conversation with the Taft wing of the took much the same But seems to loom large on general told me he has I See EISENHOWER Page 7A Probers Hear Revenue Is Accused In Finnegan House tax scandal probers were told today that Ellis N. now an acting assistant attorney general okayed a grand jury report vindicating the way James P. was handling the St. Louis Internal Revenue office in 1951. Judge George H. Moore described the report as and told the grand jurors to try a a Judiciary subcommittee was indictments were including an indictment of the collector of internal revenue in St. James P. statement was made by Robert A. counsel for the as it resumed an inquiry into the St. Louis scandals that led to conviction last March 15 on charges of misconduct in who was in the hearing told a reporter that Collier approved the grand jury report was read to Slack I had no authority to approve it. That Is where the statement is in Chelf has announced the aim of the subcommittee is to find out whether there was any with the grand three of deliber the grand submitted See PROBE Page 7A DON 111. Adlai Stevenson was all set today to make a bold bid for votes in New York then swing into a Western tour early next month on his presidential Democratic presidential nominee will address the American Legion Convention at Madison Square Garden After that he plunges into a round of politicking that has all the earmarks of a major campaign Labor Day speech in Detroit will launch his formal the New York City trip was developing as the real opening campaign barrage in fact if not in was due to see a few callers today to discuss farm and rural electrification The visitors Included Clyde H. president of the National Rural Electric Co-operative Roy J. chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Agricultural and D. master of the tional most of the day was aside for polishing up his York City which lieutenants will touch off Stevenson boom in the East. Latei this Stevenson will New York for a campaign toui through the Western tour began to up as a jam-packed 10 into the and then circling down the Coast into the reports indicated tia tour would open Sept. 5 television speech in and conferences with political leaders from 11 speeches were said tentatively scheduled Sp Francisco and Los and schedule could be See STEVENSON Page 7A Health Needs At Regional Meet In I/O More medical personnel and facilities are needed to meet the rural health needs in North South Alabama and education is especially it was stressed here yesterday at a regional health hearing of the President's Commission on Health Needs of the leaders of health lay groups and farm and labor organizations delivered talks during the all-day They pointed out the need for more hospital nurses and hospital and medical insurance in rural Scott welcomed the He asserted that In his opinion stream pollution sanitation are the biggest health in North water program as a whole is one of the biggest jobs ahead of North Carolina in the next 25 of medical in this state and in the would go a long way ving the and need doctors J. Fisher the Virginia on Hea and Medical reported Virginia is providing 50 scholarships for medical who plan to return to rural to Fisher said the glnia Council has set up a pli ment center to bring communities needing doctors doctors needing a place to E. A. Branch of the Board of reported there are other counties on per 2,000 and still others ratio is one to 18,000. Mrs. Marie B. secretary of the North State delegates the severe nurses in this state can by Improving and the governor J. Street the nursing education pri of the North Carolina Medical intensifying the recruitment said so-called reactivating inactive n ige of is move making more efficient than He asserted a better i
