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THE WEATHER TENNESSEE Rothtr cloudy and mild with showers and scattered thunderstorms likely Friday and in west portion tonight, low tonight round 60 west. WTJS NEWSCASTS 5:00 A.M., 3:55 7:00 7:30 9:25 11:25 12 Noon 12:15 P.M., 4:00 6:00 9:00 10:00 10:55 11:25 106th YEAR, No. 60 Associated Press, AP Wirephoto JACKSON, TENNESSEE; THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1954 Twenty-Eight Pages Price: FIVE CENS LnJ WW JvSLn. 5S 4: 1 Swift Senate Approval Senator Gets Jump In Race For Spotlight By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, March 11 Bill ted xpec V. It jt Turnpike Officials Agree To Plan Expressway By TOM CHASE MIAMI.

March 11 Turnpike officials from Ohio. Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida agreed today they would work together for completion of a north-south expressway from the Great Lakes to Miami. Meeting at the Inter-State Turnpike Conference, the officials discussed ways of building: toll roads "where they are most needed to get people where they want to jro with speed and safety. 0. L.

Teagarden of Oak Harbor, Ohio, vice chairman of the Ohio Turnpike Commission, said the states "must consider the interests of the public and not bo selfish in planning for a future north-south expressway. "Traffic on roads leading to Florida is becoming so hazardous it is discouraging people from driving down here." he said. C. B. Enlow.

of EvansviUe. vice chairman of the Indiana Toll Koad Commission, told the turnpike representatives that a recent survey of a five county area around EvansviUe showed six people were flying to Florida for every one who went by road. Marvin D. Adams, chairman of the Florida Turnpike Authority, said tliat Florida naturallv favored i 1 1 r. Jr.

1 1 1 aO-'. MAY BE CENTER OF CUSTODY DISPUTE Marquam (Mark) Wells, heir to a $250,000 fortune since the slaying of his father and the suicide Monday of his mother. Mrs. Diane Wells, talks in Hollywood with his aunt. Mrs.

Edna Westbrook. who flew to Hollywood from Alaska. She hopes to have the boy return with her. but his custody probably will be disputed. The young; mother took her life in a Hollywood hotel rather than face trial nest month in Alaska on charges of murdering- her husband.

(AP Wirephoto) Of 3X By JOE HALL WASHINGTON, March 11 (P) a bill to slash about 25 federal excise taxes by 912 million dollars has vfon overwhelming House passage and today appeared likely to get swift Senate approval too. The House speeded the measure to the Senate yesterday by a 411-3 vote despite opposition from the Eisenhower administration. The cuts, representing the first major downward revision of the excises or sales taxes in 20 years, would add almost a billion dollars to a deficit already forecast by the President at $2,900,000,00 for the year starting July 1. The bill also includes something the administration wants and had figured into its budget for fiscal 1955 extensions of some steeper excises voted after the Korean War began. The Treasury would lose another $1,070,000,000 in revenue if these were to expire April 1 as scheduled.

Sen. Georje (D-Ga), senior Democrat on the tax-writing Finance Committee, said in an interview he expects the Senate to pass the House bill with little or no change. Several Republicans on the committee said they would go along with the excise reductions. Chairman Millikin (R-Colo of the Finance Committee declined to disclose his position. But he said he would call his group together promptly, -perhaps tomorrow, to start work on the bill, against the approaching expiration date.

There were indications today that the administration, which had hoped at least to scale down the excise reductions in the Senate, might instead wind up trying to head off further revenue losses. George said in the interview that he would not try to attach to the excise bill his proposal for a drastic cut in personal income taxes by raising exemptions of each taxpayer and his dependent. He said he would save this for the 875-page general tax revision measure which the House starts to debate next Wednesday. But other Democratic senators who want the exemptions boosted fContinued on Page 8) Escape Car Found; Search Is Pushed For Bank Robbers BUMPUS MILLS, March 11 (B An escape automobile used by two men who robbed a bank here yesterday has been found abandoned near Cadiz. the Stewart County Sheriff's office reported today.

The office of Sheriff J. C. Spice-land said the automobile tallied with a description of the one used by armed bandits who took $6,280 from the Farmers and Merphants Bank during the lunch hour lull yesterday. Several witnesses told police they saw the 1949 black Ford speeding northward toward the nearby Kentucky line. The vehicle bore no license plates.

Some members of the two-state posse were said to be pushing the search on foot in the sparsely-settled area between Bumpus Mills and Cadiz. Cashier Russell Wallace was alone in the bank at the time. He said the men crammed their pockets full of rolls of currency, then locked him inside the vault. Walace said he opened the door with a safety catch and drove to Dover to report the rdbbery. Bumpus Mills has no telephones.

i Mrs. Springbett Dies, Descendant Of Pioneers 19 Rioting Prisoners In Cook County's Jail Subdued After 7 Hours CHICAGO, March 11 (Nineteen prisoners in Cook County's overcrowded jail rioted for more than seven hours yesterday before they surrendered after a barrage of tear gas shells and streams of water from high-p ressure fire hoses. The disheveled prisoners, soaking, shivering and gasping, stumbled out of a cell-block dayroom on the jail's third floor after a final hour of defiance late last night. Three of the 19 suffered injuries in the stormy battle the inmates had waged with guards, police and firemen. Four guards also were injured, none seriously.

The thwarting of a jail break was blamed by Sheriff John E. Babb for touching off the siege, by the prisoners. All were confined to the maximum security section of the jail and were con sidered dangerous. The ringlead ers were described by officials as a condemned murderer and a bank robber. Babb.

who was overcome by tear gas fumes in leading the asault against the prisoners, had steadfastly refused to bargain with the rioters. "They wil get a diet of tear gas no food," he said. Another Jail official said over crowding of the jail, which houses nearly 2.000 inmates, contributed to the riot. The jail was built to (Continued on page 8) Legion 9th District Plans 'Boys County" HUMBOLDT, March 11- The "Boys County sim ilar to the Boys' State project sponsored annually, will be pushed this year, by the American Legion of the Ninth District, according to Jim Cunningham, district com mander of Humboldt. Each county will promote its own Boy's County program setting aside one day when all county of fices will be filled with High School students who have qualified for the honor.

The Gibson County committee for this activity is made up of J. C. Nowell of Trenton. Rankin Mathis, postmaster of Milan, and Dr. Tom McCord of Humboldt.

Details of the procedure will be announced at an early date. Madison Counfians Leave For Induction Eleven Madison Countains left for Memphis this morning for induction into the. armed services from Selective Service Local Board No. 61. They are Norman Larkin Spencer, Route 1, Medina; Garland Frank Bond, Route 1.

Denmark; Billy Hilliard Bailey, 26 Caruthers Drive; Willie B. Yarbrough, Route 1, Jackson; Joe Louis Johnson, Bemis. Charles Ray Miller. Route 3, Jackson; Charles Curtis Robinson, Route 1. Malesus; Robert Lewis Fitzgerald, 312 Middle John Youngerman Powers, Bells Highway; Bennett Brock Tillman 243 Highview.

and Clifford Harrison, 155 Robbins St. Health Education. He expressed opinion there are still some unanswered technical questions about the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk of Pittsburgh.

A main question is how effective killed viruses are in creating antibodies, and how long such antibodies last, he said. Another is how many thousands or millions of killed viruses are needed for one vaccination. If the number is too high, it may be impossible to supply enough virus to vaccinate millions of children and young adults. Dr. Sabin said.

The virus for vaccines now is grown only in monkey kidney tissue, he explained, and there is a limit to its availability. Dr. Salk If expected to report new findings on just such questions at a meeting tonight in New Orleans. Dr. Sabin's prepared paper did JF) Sen.

McCarthy (R-Wis), nailing; down the chance make tonight the first broad-Cast reply to Adlai E. Stevenson, got the jump on an administration drive to lure the spotlight away from him. The senator, still insisting he is entitled to free television and radio time over the networks which carried Stevenson's party speech last Saturday, announced he will make a "partial" reply tonight (7 p. m. EST) on the Mutual radio network.

That will be two days before the official GOP reply by Vice President Nixon. McCarthy will appear on the 15-minute show of commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. McCarthy said it would be a "question and answer mostly answer" affair. He said it would touch on criticism of him by both Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952, and by Sen. Flanders (R-Vt).

NBC and CBS, which carried Stevenson's speech from Miami. have granted free time to the Republican National Committee for reply. The committee, which beat McCarthy to the draw in requesting it, chose Nixon as the GOP speaker. President Eisenhower told his news conference yesterday he re- (Continued on page 8) Senate Group Votes To Oust Chavez March 11 MV-The Republican majority of a Senate investigating committee rec ommended today that the seat held by Sen. Chavez D-NM be declared vacant because of "irregularities" in the 1952 election.

The report said the election In which Chavez was opposed by Republican candidate Patrick Hurley, snouia De voiaea. Sens. Barrett (R-Wyo) and Pot ter R-Mich) signed the report. I he third member of the com mittee. Sen.

Hennings (D-Mo), was preparing a minority, dissenting report. The Barrett-Potter recommendations culminate a one-year investigation of fraud charges made by Hurley. The three-man group is a subcommittee of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, headed by Sen. Jenner (R-Ind). Barrett and Potter gave their report to Jenner.

Jenner told reporters the Rules Committee plans to act on it Tuesday. He said Sen. Hennings had advised he would oppose the recom mendations of Republican members in a minority report. Jenner and Barrett said a resolution declaring there was no legal senatorial election in New Mexico in 1952 will be offered to the Senate if the Rules and Administration Committee adopts the sub-committe report. They said they believed Senate approval of such a resolution by a majority vote would have the immediate effect of unseating Chavez, and the New Mexico governor would appoint a senator to serve until the next regular election.

Lexington To Name Berry Court Tonight LEXINGTON. March 11 The annual beauty revue in which royalty for the Strawberry Festival is selected will be held this evening at Lexington High School gym at 8 o'clock. The event is sponsored by the High School P-TA. Reigning wiU be the retiring queen, Barbara Wilson, Maid Bobbie Hendrix and the junior king and queen, Norris Moore Jr. and Ava Jane Martin.

Theme of this year's contest will be "An Oriental The following girls are entered: Betty Kirk, Chlrley Todd. Robbie Cook, Minette Trammell, Carol Blankenship, Jewell Hays, Rosetta Johnson, Helen McKee, Rubye Smith, Nancy Reed, Sara Powers, Merelyn Davis, Myra Blankenship, Clotene Milam. Jo Ann Dawes, Lula Hester Graves, Noretta White, Betsy Heathcoat, Patsy Hale, Gaye Reid, Shirley Jordan. Anna Pearl John son, Janette Palmer, Bonnie Sue Kolwyck, Noretta McEarl. Shir ley Elliot, Mary Lou Gurley, Martha Rhodes, Glenda Van Dyke.

Marjorie O'Brien. Eddie Joyce Todd, Shirley Douglass. Dorothy Jane Tulley, Jewell Wood, Mar JOE S. GEST Joe S. Gest Dies At 62 Joseph Samuel Gest.

manager of the Caldwell-Wisdom Insurance Co. of the Second National Bank, prominent church and civic leader, died Thursday morning at 1:30 o'clock at his ho le, 208 Division, after an illness of several months. He was 62. He was born in Columbus, July 30, 1891, the son of William Andrew Gest and Margaret Patterson Gest. He left Columbus at the age of 15 to enter Union University, graduating from that institution in 1912.

He entered the employ of the Southern Seating and Cabinet Co. and after three years became man ager and remained in that capacity until the plant was sold by the Piggly Wiggly Corporation to the Kroger Company. He then became manager of the McCowat-Mercer Printing Co. and in 1937 was named manager of the Caldwell-Wisdom Insurance Co. with which institution he remained until his death.

He was treasurer of the First Baptis Church for many years and had also been chairman of the board of trustees for a numebr of years. He served on the building committee of the church and was a member of the A. V. Patton Sunday School Class, serving in a number of official capacities. Mr.

Gest was a member of the Jackson Golf and Country Club and served as president for two years. He was a member of the Elks Lodge and had served on the Jackson Housing Authority. He was a former membe- of the Jackson Rotary Club. He is survived by his wife, the former Virginia Pope Pinkston. a stepdaughter.

Elizabeth Anne Pinkston, two sisters. Misses Hazel and Kathleen Gest of this city. Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church Friday auernoon at 2:30 o'clock, conduct ed by Dr. Fred Kenoah. pastor.

xsuriai win De in Hollywood Cem etery. Pallbearers are: Active Ralph E. Alexander. Wesley F. Jones, Robert N.

White, Marvin F. Outlan. W. P. Moss.

Hugh Hicks. Dr. Jack Thompson, John R. Todd. These are to meet at Griffin Funeral Home at 2 o'clock.

Honorary Frank B. Caldwell I. B. Tigrett, Spencer Truex, Dr. Stanford M.

Herron. Clint D. Rowlett, J. Henry White. Seale B.

Johnson, Chancellor DeWitt Henderson. William C. Hanafee. Abner U. Taylor.

Felix C. Ray, Dr. J. L. McAliley and members of A.

V. Patton Sunday School Class. These are to meet at the church. The remains will be the home until the funeral hour. not imply that the Salk vaccine is not safe.

He said the final answer whether any vaccine actually gives protection can come only from carefully controlled experiments on hundreds of thousands of children. Such tests of the Salk vaccine are scheduled soon, with support of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The Foundation supports the studies of both Salk and Sabin. The "tame" viruses appeared when huge numbers dangerous virus were being grown on kidney tissue. By bpecial methodr, Dr.

Sabin and co-workers found that some had changed or mutated become genetically different so they lost their polio punch, and these strains were separated and continued. The studies must continue to learn whether there is any chance these viruses could change back again to become dangerous. expressways from the Great Lakes to Miami and from Maine to Miami. Dixon Oxford of Dawson. chairman of the Georgia Turnpike Authority, said enabling legislation had been passed for a survey ''but we are waiting for Florida and Tennessee to get their routes laid out before starting W.

M. Leech of Nashville, commissioner of highways for Tennessee, reported the Automotive Safety Foundation was presently surveying Tennessee for a possible route. "No decision can be made until the survey is completed," he said. Thomas Nominated Navy Secretary March 11 lP Charles Sparks Thomas of Los Angeles, now an assistant secretary of defense, was nominated by President Eisenhower today to be secretary of the Navv. Thomas would succeed Robert B.

Anderson, of Texas, who has been nominated to be deputy secretary of defense in place of Roger Kves who is leaving the Pentagon May 1 to return to private business. No successor to Thomas in his present job has yet been chosen. He is the assistant secretary of defense for supply and logistics. Thomas. 56.

is a native of former President Truman's borne town of Independence. but has been a resident of California since 1911. At the Pentagon. Thomas told reporters "I am very honored that President Eisenhower would see fit to Rive me this very responsible assignment." tie praised Anderson as "one of the most able, forthright men I have known, one of the most respected secretaries the Navy has had." "It will be difficult following him." Thomas added. Thomas was asked how he felt about the project proposed by the former Navy secretary to build one super-carrier a year for 10 years.

Thomas said that he had n't Kiven that any thought because he has been so busy as assistant defense secretary for supply. 15 Loggers Escape Flaming Death In Forest Fire CARY, March 11 OR Fifteen loggers escaped flaming death last night by swimming a river minutes ahead of a vast forest fire. Forester Mac McMillan said the men pulled themselves from the Sun-flower river as flames swept to the edge of the opposite shore. Four loggers who escaped earlier said the men's lives depended on whether they could reach the river before being cut off by the converging flames. The fire which seared across two Central Mississippi counties had destroyed an estimated 7,000 acres of forest by midnight.

A tractor unit, used in plowing fire lanes, was destroyed as the flames ripped along a 17-mile front. Its three crewmen escaped. One man who was in the area said the flames were "two houses high and rolling like mad." Southern Bell Fills Vacancy Fred F. Watkins. supervisor for Southern Bell Telephone and Tele- grapn jo.

in Knoxviue, has been promoted to the position of manager for the Jackson and Brownsville business offices. Watkins succeeds Walter Thomas, who recently transferred to the Nashville commercial office. His appointment is effective immediately. District Manager Leslie Stovall announced today. Watkins started with Southern Bell in 1947 after serving in the Army Infantry for two years.

He has been active in the Knox-ville YMCA physical education program and acted as chairman of that committee when "Biddy basketball" was organized. He served as a junior deacon in the Broadway Baptist Church and was a member of the Northsifa Kiwanis Club. Mrs. Y'atkins teaches in the Knoxville public schools and will continue in that position until June. Sufton To Speak At Humboldt April 10 Rep.

Pat Sutton of Lawrencebure candidate for the democratic nom ination for the U. S. Senate with the primary to be held in August, will open his campaign in West Tennessee at Humboldt April 10 at 1 p. he stated Wednesday afternoon here. He was here for a short time meeting friends and talking over his campaign plans with them His first speech will be at Mad- lsonville, home town of Senator Estes Kefauver, April 3 at 1 p.

m. He will then go to Shelbyville. home town of another prospective candidate, former Governor Prentice Cooper, where he delivers an address at 3 p. m. Rep.

Sutton said he had a wonderful reception of his candidacy over the state and was highly pleased with the outlook. As to his Jackson date, he said he probably would speak here in June or July. His itinerary has not yet been completed, he stated. State Supreme Court Sets Session Here The Tennessee Supreme Court will convene in Jackson Monday April 5 for its annual hearing session, Miss Lucile Myers, clerk of the court, announced today. A.

B. Neil of Nashville is presiding justice. Other Justices of the court are Alan Prewitt, Bolivar; Frank H. Gailor, Memphis; Pride Tomlinson, Columbia; and Hamilton S. Burnett, Knoxville.

Representing the state in arguing cases before the court will be assistant attorney general. Nat Tipton and Knox Bingham. The list of cases to be heard has not been completed. ber of years she directed the choir at St. Luke's.

In add.i:on to her daughter, Mrs. Stone, she is survived by three grandchildren. Albert Stone Jr. and William Joseph Stone, both of Jackson, and Mrs. Edward G.

Con-nette Jr. oi Richmond, and three great-grandchildren. Dr. W. J.

Loaring-Clark, rector, will officiate at services which will be held in St. Luke's Episcopal Church at 4 p.m. Friday. Griffin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The body will be at her late home.

Pallbearers will be: Active, Dr. H. n. White. Carl Vineyard, Paul Taylor, Walter Morgan.

James White and David P. Murray; honorary, K. E. Taliaferro. Thomas McCutchen.

Hewitt Tomlin. Kent Monypeny, Simpson Russell, Ruddy Hayes, Keith Short, Judge Thomas McCorry. Randall Vann, Fred Young. I. B.

Tigrett. Abner U. Taylor. Dr. W.

T. Fitts, Harold Bond. Seale Johnson. Roger Murray, George O. Benton, Jonas Kis-ber.

Col. Thomas Smith of Bolivar, John F. Hall, Joe Tuchfeld, Allen B. Robertson of Memphis. Windy, Showers The bird was talking with Mc-Sobbin the Robin when the reporter found him today.

"Laddie." he said. "This bird says he's been here several weeks, "But that he isn't getting the attention seeks." The reporter wanted to know what Attention. "Well. McSob-gin says he de pends on publicity for survival, "And that the press hasn't paid to his arrival." McSOBBIN proper attention Windy, showers. TEMPERATURES TODAY 7 a.

61; 10 a. 65; 12 noon 69 Highest for 24 hours preceding 12 noon 69 degrees; lowest 55. The same date last year: Highest 66; lowest 49. Normal for March: Average 68.4; maximum 80.2; minimum 41.1. Precipitation Rainfall for 24 hours preceding 12 noon .00 Jnch.

This month .38. Normal for the entire month 5.00. Sun rises 6:17. Sun sets 6:04. Banks Close Monday Monday, March 15, being a legal holiday, Andrew Jackson's Birthday, no business will be transacted on that day by the banks In Jackson.

Mrs. Eliza Blount Stephens i spnngDeu oiea at ciock mis morning at the home of her daugh 1 1 V. o. i ter. Mrs.

Albert Stone, on North wood where she had made her home since the death of her husband, Joseph Enoch Springbett. Springbett was clerk of the Tennessee State Supreme Court and Court of Appeals until his death in 1945. Mrs. Springbett was born in Jackson on Oct. 8, 1867, the daughter of the late Daniel Moorman and Sarah Eliza Miller Stephens.

She was a descendant of some of the leading pioneer families of Tennessee. Among her ancestors were her maternai great-great-grandfather, William Blount. first territorial governor of Tennessee; her paternal great-great-grandfather, the Rev. Abednago Stephens, who moved to Tennessee from Maryland and was one of the founders of St. Luke's Episcopal Church here as well as being one of the first Episcopal clergymen to settle in this part of the state.

Her great grandfather, Judge Pleasant Miller, opened one of the first land offices in Madison County. Her grandfather, the Rev. Daniel M. Stephens, fou.ided St. James Episcopal Church at Bolivar.

Tenn. At the time of her death, Mrs. Springbett was the oldest member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church where she had been baptized and confirmed. Mrs.

Springbett. who lived her entire life in Jackson, attended the local public schools, the old Memphis Conference Female Institute and the Columbia, Atheneum. Possessed of an outstanding soprano voice in her younger years, she used it generously for church and civic programs. For a num- Worker Reports Urged In Red Cross Drive Volunteer Red Cross fund drive workers in the industrial, business and governmental divisions were today urged to pick up envelopes left at the various offices and return them to Red Cross headquarters as soon as possible. Campaign Chairman Roy Gilbert said every effort is being made to reach a $21,535 fund goal and enroll 12,725 members by Tuesday March 16 when what is hoped will be the final report meeting will be held at Red Cross headquarters in the Church and LaFayette building at 2:30 p.

m. Residential workers are also urged to make recalls In instances where families were not at home in the Initial visit. Citizens who have not been contacted in the residential drive are invited to telephone Red Cross headquarters, 7-5543 and a worker will be sent to receive the contribution. Big Steps Reported For Polio Vaccine That Might Give Lifelong Protection DETROIT, March 11 WV-Dr. Albert B.

Sabin, Cincinnati virus expert, today reported big steps toward a new kind of polio vaccine which might give lifelong protection. He announced finding "tame" living polio viruses which have been used successfuUy In vaccine tests on monkeys. Although still alive, these viruses are harmless "cousins of regular polio virus, and don't cause sickness. Because they are alive, they presumably would be far more powerful in creating protective antibodies than killed viruses, such as used in the Salk vaccine. The antibodies created by living virus could last for years even perhaps a lifetime.

Much more work needs to be done on this type of vaccine. Dr. Sabin. of the University of Cincinnati Medical College, told the Michigan Foundation for Medical and (Continued on Page S).