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Final 12 Pages Home Paper to 60,000 Readers nd Crowing! 111th Year, No. 239 Associated Press JACKSON, TENNESSEE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1959 AP Wirephoto Price: FIVE CENTS Fir iimdoirDg Sfirnke Ds 7 ii i 1 ii hi i ii mn mi MiiiinninHiim mum mi ihhjiu piiijNiwiiiwiwLuiwiummiiiiimjiwiiiiMMijHmw pwiwiiiiuiiimijnHMimm imwuiMH" "imh m'hwiim in .1.1 jn i -V. vMv I f- I 1 iff'' 'iff -1 i 'III Satelite Is Expected To Photograph Moon Tuesday, Russia Says By JOHN MOODY PITTSBURGH AP) The United Steelworkers today rejected an industry offer to end the 83-day old nationwide steel strike. Shortly afterwards the industry said it would resume negotiations but declared it is "not willing to buy peace" at the risk of promoting inflation. The Wage Policy Committee of the USW, which rejected the industry offer stood by this afternoon for another meeting.

The industry spokesman, R. Conrad Cooper, said the offer rejected by the USW would have provided a 15 cent hourly package "providing for increased wages and benefits over the period of two years." stay aloft for a long time because it will approach no closer than 2,000 kilometers 1,240 miles to the earth. The flying station was reported loaded with scientific equipment mated eight cents an hour to welfare and pension benefits during the first year and increase wages a similar amount in the second year. The union has been demanding a 15-cent hourly package increase during each year of any new-agreement. The government reports workers earned an average of $3.11 in Jun.

Ktfcwiiiiiy'afeafraMifeaitf ThriiiinMiiiiia'ii 'iitiiiiiirrir'niTifiiWiiiii'irnWi'iiii-iirtiftiNiiTiifciiiM-iaiiwnwtyrinriiiariiitf ijn-Mi imxmX 'rtm ijf' APPLAUSE FOR STEELWORKERS' PRESIDENT Members the wage policy committee of the United Steelworkers applande USW President David J. McDonald as he prepares to report to them this moroingr on the status of negotiations in the 83-day steel strike. McDonald reaches for his tobacco pouch preparatory to filling: his pipe. ap wirephoto) S. High Court pens Wev Term Khrushchev Heads For Home after Red China Visit By JOHN RODERICK TOKYO (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev headed for home today after once more voicing Soviet Communism's determination to end the cold war.

But there was no indication his Chinese Communist hosts were climbing on his peace wagon. Khrushchev flew from Pei-ping to Vladivostok, capital of the Soviet Far East. During hi? five-day visit to the capital of Red China, he told Chinese Chairman Mao Tze-tung about his talks with President Eisenhower and attended the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Communist capture of the Chinese mainland- In his third speech in Peiping calling for an end to the cold war, Khrushchev said at the airport that the "forces of peace are stronger than ever" and "there is full actual possibility to bar the road to war." "The common people of the entire world are becoming ever more confident that with the growth of the mgiht of the world Socialist system," he continued, "it will be possible forever to eliminate war as a means of solving international disputes. "This is why we Communists of the Soviet Union consider it as our sacred duty, our primary task, to utilize these favorable conditions." NEW YORK (AP) Top union leaders from ports along the East and Gulf Coast voted unanimously today to "hold the line" in their five-day strike against shipping interests. The Executive Board of the International Longshoremen's including 16 vice presidents from (Continued on Page 10) Petitions Seek Revocation of Beer Licenses Revocations of beer licenses for three night clubs in the Nashville Highway area is being sought by an anti-vice group in petitions filed today with County Court Clerk Franklin Ivey, secretary of the Madison County Beer Commission.

The petitions ask that the board revoke beer licenses of Mrs. Christine Rushing, operator of Rushing's Place on Highway 20 northeast of Jackson; Mrs. Carmania Jones Humphrey, operator of El Rancho Cafe on Nashville Highway; and Mrs. Ellen Reynolds, also of Nashville Highway. Two of the three places have been subject of recent raids by state and county law enforcement agencies.

Mrs. Rushing was fined in General Sessions Court on a conviction of possessing liquor after county officers found portions of a fifth and half-pint of whisky at her place of business. Mrs. Humphrey was indicted by the Madison County grand jury on charges of tippling and liquor law violations and scheduled for trial in the September term of Circuit Court. The cases were continued until January because the defendant was hospitalized.

Ivey said the Beer Commission would meet Oct. 15 to (Continued on Page lOt By PAUL M. YOST WASHINGTON (AP) A 17-minute session today launched the Supreme Court on a new term expected to produce major decisions affecting racial relations. The Biin black-robed judges, appearing to be in good health and excellent spirits after summer vacations, marched to their places on the high bench at the customary stroke of noon. They faced a courtroom packed with Justice Department officials, attorneys, personal friends and relatives of the jurists plus run-of- Brownsville Leader Will Visit Europe NEW YORK, N.

Y. Mrs. Alexander H. Gray of Brownsville, Tenn, National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, will be among the 60 prominent Americans to fly from New York on Oct. 16 for a 10-day overseas study of Radio Free Europe's broadcasting facilities.

The tour is sponsored by the Crusade for Freedom, a private, non profit organization which supports the anti-Communist broadcasts of Radio Free Europe to the Iron Curtain countries of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. No Crusade contributions are used to finance any portion of the trip. Mrs. Gray has been an American Legion Auxiliary member since 1927 and has represented Tennessee on the Auxiliary's National Executive Committee. In 1948 she was elected president of the Tennessee Department of the Auxiliary, and in 1952 she was elected National Vice President for the Southern Division.

Mrs. Gray is also active in civic and social organizations and is a member of the Parent-Teacher Association, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities. Members of the group will be thoroughly briefed on all RFE operations and w-ill study the network's headquarters and installations in Munich, Germany. One day will be spent at the West German-Czechoslovak bor- fContinued on Page 10) By PRESTON GROVER MOSCOW (AP) The flying Soviet space laboratory will reach its closest distance to the moon Tuesday and make mankind's first photographs of its hidden face, Tass said today. Slowed by the relentless gravitational tug of the earth, the flying laboratory should come within 4,350 miles of the moon at 5 p.m.

9 a.m. EST Tuesday the official news agency said. As it approached the moon, the interplanetary station that's what the Russian call it has separated from the last stage of the cosmic rocket that launched it Sunday, Tass added. The agency said that at noon Moscow time 4 a.m. EST the station was 248,000 kilometers or 154,000 miles from the earth and over the eastern part of the In dian Ocean.

This was well over the halfway mark. Tass said the apparatus is moving toward the moon more slowly than the first and second Luniks. This is to enable it to pass round the moon and be pulled back to earth instead of flying off into space as did the first moon shot last January Much conflicting data is being given out on what the satellite is doing or is likely to do Tass put the flying laboratory about 20,000 miles farther from the earth at noon than did the Moscow Planetarium. The plane tarium put the moon distance at 215.000 kilometers 133,515 miles Tass announcement today that satellite would pass within 4.350 miles of the moon differed from the original Soviet announcement, which placed the distance at about 6.210 miles. The unmanned space station has a camera aboard.

Its pictures were to be translated into radio signals which would be sent back to the earth. An unnamed astronomer de clared triumphantly over Moscow radio: "It is now a new moon and that means that the other side of the moon is brightly lighted by the rays of the sun. What lies there? Soviet scientists will have ithe reply to this question before long." Scientists kept track of the space vehicle by its radio signals, which sounded like notes from a violin. The launching Sunday on the second anniversary of the birth of the Sputnik was heralded on both sides of the Iron Curtain as another giant step in man's adventure into space. The Soviets indicated some control of the new space station could be exercised from stations on earth.

They announced that the "apparatus carried by the third Soviet space rocket" would be switched on for two hours today. They predicted that the station the third Soviet cosmic rocket shot aimed at the moon would he said the whole of the Conservative party and their supporters were servile and stuffed shirts and all the rest of it. "Whatever happens in this election, about half the people will vote one way and half the other. I do not think it is much good one half saying that the others are crooks and rascals. We are all Englishmen, and we have got to live together.

In the past some have died together. 'It is just bunk to get up and talk that kind of stuff in the second half of the 20th century. It might have been all right 100 years ago, but it is just not true today. We know that this old class war stuff is dead, and people are getting bored with it." Gaitskell said in an article in the pro-Labor Daily Herald that "the class barriers have crumbled but not disappeared." "There are still indefensible inequalities of wealth in our society," he added. "One in 100 owns as much as the other 99 between them.

The false values of snobbery still distort the personal relationships with each other which we should enjoy." On the basis of public opinion polls, usually accurate in Britain, Gaitskell's Laborites and Macmil-lan's Conservatives appear to be neck-and-neck. But with only three days to go, a massive and decisive block of voters appeared still undecided. The Liberal News Chronicle's latest poll indicated the two major parties were each backed by 37V4 per cent of the nation's voters. With the Liberal party supported by only 4 per cent, the poll (Continued on Page 10) Ihe meeting closed to newsmenfollowed by one day a session of the union's 33-member Executive Board at which a new industry contract proposal, including a money package, reportedly was found unsatisfactory. A recommendation of the Executive Board was handed to the Wage Policy Committee shortly after today's session had started.

Several members who had attended the Executive Board meeting said the industry offer was reject ed unanimously. The pessimistic reports raised speculation President Eisenhower will invoke the Taft-Hartley law this week and send the half million strikers back to the mills at least for an 80-day cooiing-off period. President David J. McDonald of the Steelworkers would not say if the executive board recommended rejection. But he did say he has the solid support of the striking members.

Even before the board meeting ended, there were reports from Washington that govrnment attorneys were working on plans for quick Taft-Hartley action to stop the costly strike. The first step would be for the President to declare an emergency and appoint a fact-finding committee. Then, if the committee reports an emergency, a federal court injunction would be sought. Industry sources earlier reported the management offer would increase labor costs about 16 cents an hour during the life of a two-year contract. But union sources said added labor costs would come closer to 10 cents an hour during a two-year period.

The union and management seldom agree on the costs of labor improvements unless it is a flat wage increase. In its newest proposal, management offered to apply an esti- Anxious to Help In Prison Study, Patterson Says NASHVILLE (AP) Pat Patterson, assistant i titutions commissioner, says the department is anxious to help the State Legislative Subcommittee studying the prison system. Patterson declined to comment, however, on a statement the Memphis public defender, Hugh Stanton, made before the subcommittee here Saturday that the prison system suffers from too much politics and too little planning. "While I would not care to comment on any of the specific statements made before the subcommittee," Patterson said, "it certainly would not be correct to assume that we resent or resist this subcommittee's inquiry. "We made our facilities avail, able to the subcommittee.

The members have toured our institutions across the state. We are hopeful something worthwhile will come out of this study;" Stanton had urged reforms to rid the system of what he called political involvement and to provide more money to get experienced, capable workers for the department. Other witnesses urging changes in the penal laws and the penal system included Criminal Court Judge Homer Weimar of Nashville: Criminal Court Judge J. Fred Bibb of Knoxville; Jess Talley, secretary-treasurer of the Tennessee Assn. for Relief of Ex-Convicts, and Dr.

Lois Kennedy of the League of Wo-en Voters. Go for $450 You win even when you lose in Mr. Dollarwords puzzle contest. If there is no winner Mr. Dollarwords adds another $25 to the pot for next week.

Since there were no winners last week the stakes now climb to $450. As the stakes grow higher there is more reason to work hard and the competition grows keener. Mr. Dollarwords puzzles revolve around the meanings of words. Study each situation carefully and then choose the word which most exactly describes that situation.

The puzzle appears on page two. If you are not already familiar with the rules, go over them completely before starting to work. but the official announcements gave no details on it. Y. K.

Fedorov, member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said, "The tremendous amount of data gathered by the many measuring devices is being regularly transmitted back to earth." An announcement said the satel lite can broadcast two to four hours a day, drawing its power from solar batteries. The original announcement said the space station is on a course that should take it around the moon at a distance of about 6,200 miles. Prof. Harrie S. Massey, chair man of the British National Com mittee for Space research, said the Soviets "certainly will be mak- (Continued on Page 10) Judge Rules Against Plea BROWNSVILLE, Tenn.

A plea in abatement, filed by attorneys for Willie M. Jones, Haywood County Negro man changed with murder, was overruled by Judge John Kizer in Circuit Court here today. Jones is charged with shooting Haywood County Sheriff J. S. (Jack) Hunter on July 24 with a 12-guage shotgun, killing him instantly.

The plea in abatement was filed last week, immediately after the Grand Jury had indicted Jones on a murder charge. Attorneys for Jones contented in the plea that the list of persons from which the Grand Jury was selected contained "no person or persons of color or African descent." The attorneys. John A. McCor-mick, James M. Tharpe and John E.

McKee, also argued in their plea that no Negro has served on any jury in Circuit Court in Haywood County for a number of years. "Such discrimination is a denial to him of the equal protection of the laws and of his civil rights guarantee by the Constitution and laws of the United States," the plea said. I Sure Shook Those Tourists Up, Cop Says By EDMOND LE BRETON WASHINGTON (AP) "I sure shook those tourists up this morning," said the handsome young policeman across the street from the White House. Washington police treat tourists fine, so explanations were in order. These tourists, it seems, were Japanese.

"They were really interested and asked a long question, but their accent was so heavy I only got the general meaning," the policeman went on. Well, how did he shake them up? "I answered in Japanese." A Japanese-speaking policeman in Washington this one learned the language in the Army isn't really much more of a curiosity than, say, a baby-delivering policeman elsewhere. After all, the Washington downtown scene normally includes strollers clad in kimonos, saris, turbans or a variety of resplendent uniforms. A French visitor who wanted to see an exhibit in one of the government buildings was stopped by the Negro guard, who explained the department was closed on Saturday afternoons. The visitor went away, remarking audibly in his own language that something was lacking in American hospitality.

But he turned quickly when he heard, in flawless Parisian French "Perhaps, monsieur, an exception could be made." It was the guard. He made the exception with a flourish and a conducted tour in French. Washington's various police and guard forces Metroooli- tan, Capitol, White House, Park ana others are federal agencies which recruit from all Dart of the country. The svstom brings in not only an occasional linguist, but all the regional ac cents and, besides, a real friendliness toward people from the hinterlands. Heavy Rain Hits Central Section Of the Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy rain spread across the central section of the country today and fell again in flood areas of the Southwest.

It was the sixth consecutive day of rain in sodden Oklahoma. Parts of Texas also were inundated. The swollen Arkansas River spilled over several thousand acres of farm land in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Several families left the threatened town of Moffett, Okla. Ten deaths were attributed to the weather last weekend.

Five were caused by accidents during the rough weather in Oklahoma. Five members of a family were killed in Lapeer, Sunday when their car collided with a train in rain and mist. Hard rain beat down on Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas. Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The fall, in a 24-hour period, measured around IM inches at West Plains, Brownsville, Milwaukee, Dubuque.

Iowa, and at the Glenview Naval Air Station near Chicago. San Antonio, was deluged by 3.66 inches of rain. Property losses in Oklahoma ran into the millions. Hardest hit are Guthrie, Oklahoma City and smaller communities in the eastern and central sections of til 6 StstP Almost 7,000 persons have (Continued on Page 10) School Bond Issue Approved by Court BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. A $300,000 bond issue for construction of Negro and white schools was authorized by the Haywood County Court, meeting in regular quarterly session today.

Money from the bonds will be used to build a Negro high school in the Douglass Community and a white elementary school in District 7, County Judge B. W. Cobb said. The court also revised the school budget, adding $31,000 to these funds. Another important decision was to raise the annual salary of the Haywood County sheriff from $6,800 to $8,000, so that the sheriff can pay his chief deputy a regular salary.

County Attorney A. H. Gray was authorized by the court to collect delinquent accounts for rural fire truck protection. The court heard a report that the cost of participating in the surplus food program for the past six months in Haywood County has been $3,337. It also passed a resolution urging the state to complete Highway 54-West.

5 Traffic Deaths During Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least five persons were killed in traffic accidents on Tennessee streets and highways during the weekend. The victims included: Nicholas Angkayan, SI, a sailor at the Millington naval base who was killed in a head-on collision near Memphis Saturday. Ernest Halloway, 85, who was hit by a gravel truck as he tried to cross a Memphis street Saturday. Samuel Wright, 19, of the Singleton Community in Bedford County, whose car crashed and burned south of Shelbyville Saturday night. William Renner of Huntland, who died in a collision near Winchester Saturday.

Ruby Allen, 16, of Crummlis, whose car ran off a road east of Crossville Saturday. the-mill tourists, and other spectators. Among these were retired Justices Stanley F. Reed and Harold H. Burton.

For Chief Justice Earl Warren the brief session marked the start of his seventh year on the high tribunal. He first took his seat there on Oct. 5, 1953. Flanking Warren were Justices Hugo L. Black and Felix Frankfurter, both of whom have long since passed the voluntary retirement age of 70.

Black will be 74 in February; Frankfurter will be 77 Nov. 15. Neither has given any indication of having retirement plans. Opening day ceremonies included the admission of 39 attorneys to practice. Then a loud bang by the crier's gavel gave notice the court would be in recess until next Monday.

Two pilot appeals directly affecting enforcement of the 1957 Civil Rights Act are among the more than 800 cases already entered on the court's unusually heavy docket. Heading the civil rights cases is a Justice Department appeal from a decision by a federal judge in Georgia that a section of the 1957 act is unconstitutional. He said it is invalid because it gave the attorney general authority to seek injunctions not only against state officials but against private citizens as well. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on this appeal later in the fall. It is expected to announce soon whether it will hear argu ments on another Justice Depart ment appeal, this one from a de cision by a federal judge in Ala bama that the act did not cm' (Continued on Page 10) Wants to Make Sure TVA Gets Fair Shake NASHVILLE (AP) Jennings Perry, executive director of the Citizens for TVA, says he will fly to New York Tuesday to discuss with film director Elia Kazan a movie Kazan plans to make concerning the Tennessee Valley Authority.

"I want to make sure TVA gets a fair shake," Perry said. Kazan plans to begin filming the movie in southeast Tennessee Oct. 19. Perry says the movie is about an elderly woman who refuses to leave her home, which is about to be flooded by a TVA lake. platform committee for its consideration.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in a statement praising the report, said it "presents the Republican party as a party of dynamic progress. "This report brings home the fact that we are conservative because we want progress. We oppose programs which place what we believe to be too much emphasis on federal government action not because they promise too much but because they would produce too little." A task force headed by Charles E. Ducommun, California metals firm executive, forecast a 60-mil-lion increase in population and revolutionary developments in almost every field in the next 17 years.

To keep abreast of a space-probing world, the task force said that by 1976 the United States ought to be spending 36 billion dollars a year more than three times the present outlay on scientific research. But it insisted that government must not supersede private enterprise In this field. Candidates in Britain Clash on Class Issue MOSCOW (AP) Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the Dalzavod ship repair yards at Vladivostok today, the news agency Tass reported. Khrushchev flew to that ibg Siberian naval base Sunday from Peiping where he attended Red China's 10lh birthday celebration. The Tass dispatch gave no indication of when he will return to Moscow.

Weather WEST TENNESSEE: Mostly cloudy today and tonight with scattered thundershowers. High 85. Wind from the south at 10 to 15 miles an hour. Low tonight 65. Tuesday showers ending and turning cooler.

Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild. Extended Forecast TENNESSEE Temperatures will average 3 to 6 degrees above normal for the 5-day period Tuesday through Saturday. Normal high 70 to 76 northeast, 75 to 79 southwest. Normal low 45 to 51 northeast, 48 to 56 southwest. Turning a little cooler Tuesday or Wednesday.

Warmer Friday and Saturday. Rain will average one-half to one inch in showers or thundershowers Tuesday and Wednesday, and again about Saturday. Temperatures Republicans Are Alerted To Changing Times By TOM OCHILTREE LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell clashed today on the issue of class distinction as candidates began final campaigning for Thursday's election of a new House of Commons. This mention of class was temperature-rising stuff. It's the oldest issue in British politics, one with great emotional impact on the nation's 35,400,000 eligible voters.

Gaitskell claimed Britain still is snobridden. Macmillan deplored this suggestion. The Prime Minister spoke in King's Lynn in the heart of a rich agricultural area of eastern England. "Mr. Gaitskell is becoming quite desperate," he said.

"Last night U. S. Airmen Clash With Japanese Group TOKYO (AP) Five U. S. airmen and a group of Japanese men clashed in a bloody brawl in nearby Tachikawa Sunday.

One U.S. air policeman was badly cut by a flying beer bottle. Another had to beat his way through an angry crowd of Japanese with his night stick. The Air Force put on off-limits ban on two streets in the night club and bar district of the city, home of Tachikawa Air Base, America's biggest air supply terminal in Japan. Japanese police held four Japanese men for investigation of assault.

The Air Force said it does not contemplate any punishment of the airmen. 1 Yesterday Today 1 p.m. 89 1 a.m. 77 2 p.m. 88 2 a.m.

76 3 p.m. 89 3 a.m. 75 4 p.m. 88 4 a.m. 74 5 p.m.

86 5 a.m. 73 6 p.m. 82 6 a.m. 72 7 p.m. 78 7 a.m.

74 8 p.m. 77 8 a.m. 75 9 p.m. 77 9 a.m. 80 10 p.m.

77 10 a.m. 80 11 p.m. 76 11 a.m. 81 Midnite 76 Noon 85 WASHINGTON (AP) Architects of the 1960 GOP platform are going to get thousands of words alerting Republicans to changing times and the unchanging goal of budget-balancing. The Republican Committee on Program and Progress, headed by Charles H.

Percy of Chicago, seems likely to wind up in a series of five reports of advising the party to be flexible but to stand firmly against paternalistic government and deficit spending. In two reports released during the weekend, the 40 member group called on Republicans to be "flexible and imaginative in welcoming change" but to continue to resist "vast new spending programs directed from Washington." Upcoming are three more reports on "National Security and Peace," "Human Rights and Needs' and "Economic Opportunity and Progress." All of these peer ahead to 1976, the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, in an effort to prepare the GOP for things to come. They will go to the 1960 convention Precipitation Precipitation last 24 hrs. Precipitation this month Precipitation this year .00 .00 35.52 Sun rises 5:54 Sun sets 5:32.

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