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i LOCAL COTTON Granville Mid. Spot 1 Inch 35 30 New York Mid. Spot 36.15 14-Market Spot Average 34.73 WEATHER Partly clouily and warm toddy, turning cooler Thursday. Ilih 86, low 58. (Other data on page 2) THE LEADING NEWSPAPER OF SOUTH CAROLINA 84TH YEAR-No.

253 metropolitan POPULATION 168.152 GREENVILLE, S. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1953 20 PAGES PRICE 5c SUNDAY 15c Teamsters Testify Before Committee nteorate CilOO! iOi Rock Offered Order' Plan i fi nia o' 1 yrr A wr vi Lx- Awry U. ntegration-Hotspots In Virginia 12 Negroes I ,1 MR. RENIKER MR. WAINWRIGHT MR.

ROGERS WASHINGTON Three teamsters are shown at they testified before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee Tuesday. Amos Renlker (left), leader of a group trying to oust the officers of Teams-lers Local 823 In Joplln, said four terns ters tried to beat him np last fall the day after he talked with a committee Investigator. Branch Walnwrlght (center) of Buffalo, who was made a local business agent. Invoked the fifth amendment. John E.

Rogers (right) of Springfield, testified that the International Union put his local under a trusteeship and gave Jobs to e-convlcts. (Unifax) V. V.V.V.V V.V V.V.V NEWP0HT fl 13 HMD iilM XX-X Quemoy Convoy Halted iy Storm Formosa (AP) Stormy weather in Formosa Strait stopped the U. S. 7th Fleetcalled the biggest single naval force ever deployed by any nation in me suppiy4 run to beleaguered Quemoy Tuesday.

RICHMOND, Va. This newsman spotlights Virginia communities velopments continued to make news Tuesday. School integration decisions by the Supreme Court in Peace Force Is Proposed Rogers Would Let Both Join To Keep Order By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The federal government Tuesday suggested a coop erative federal-local plan for preserving order at Little Rock, In event the U. S. Supreme Court denies delay in school Integration there.

The plan which emphasizes cooperation between local and federal authorities within limits of their respective responsibilites, was seen as a move to take the sting out of claimed federal intervention in state affairs. STATE DUTY CITED It involves use of injunction pro-ceedinas against those opposing integration by unlawful acts. A letter to Little Rock citv and school officials from Atty. Gen. Rogers said the primary duty for main taining peace rested with state authorities.

But Rogers said the U.S. mar-shal's staff at Little Rock has been enlarged and the marshal and his deputies would function "in a way which will be helpful to you." He expressed the hope that effective use of city and state police, along with cooperation by the Justice Department, could prevent mob violence and disorder. Rogers did not try to anticipate action the Supreme Court may take after it hears arguments on the Little Rock school case Thursday. The high court will review an Arkansas District Court order postponing integration at Central High School Vk years. Before the new federal plan was announced, the Arkansas Gazette utue ko(JK saia in an eauonai that delay in school integration (Continued on Page 16, Col.

2) Washington were meeting resistance. At Alexandria, District Judge Albert V. Bryan advised Ne groes to enroll In segregated schools pending action In his court on Paul asked NAACP attorneys to integration of schools. Paul also Harrisonburg, U. S.

Judge John that, if granted, would order rejected Negro applications for U. S. Judge Sterling Hutcheson One Between 29 And 25 2 Major Link Routes Discussed By J. HUNTER STOKES White schools In Charlottesville. In a Richmond Integration suit, set Wednesday (today) for a hearing.

Schools opened In Richmond where school Integration de. their appeal for Integration. At rewrite a desegregation injunction, was expected to begin reviewing Pepper and Alexandria Tuesday on a segregated basis. Schools at Norfolk, scene of another integration attempt, are slated to open Sept. 22.

At Arlington, schools are open on a segregated basis. Newport News schools still are on a segregated basis. (Unifax). State Highway Department survevs for a Hnk-nn nf Church St. Ext.

and Interstate Highway 85, and for a Holland Wins From connecting roaa Detween U. S. Highways 25 and 29 are nearly complete, officials said here vesterdav during the course of an annual meeting with the Greenville County Legislative Delegation at which legislators took On States' Rights Plank Sen. Spessard Holland By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS turned back the challenge of Claude Pepper In his race for a third-term Democratic senatorial nomination Tuesday night in a Florida nation over former Vermont Gov. Lee E.

Emerson. WISCONSIN Sen. William Proxmire (D) w4as virtually as sured renomination over two less known opponents. But his vote in early returns, plus that of his opponents, was less than that of Roland E. Steinle, the GOP can Suspects In Georgia Win Right To Attend Charlottesville, Ordered To Open School Doors HARRISONBURG, Va.

(UPI) U. S. District Judge John Paul, who ordered Charlottesville, to desegregate two years ago. Tuesday directly ordered the city school board to admit 12 Negro students to two White schools. The order paved the way for setting into effect Virginia's school closing law.

Judge Paul ordered that 10 elementary school chil dren be admitted to White Venable School and two students to Lane High School, the city's only White high school. If the schools close, approximately 1,000 students would be thrown out of classes In Lane; about 650 from Venable. Attorneys immediately went In to a conference with Paul in the judge's chambers apparently to discuss the possibility of a stay. Paul called for the admission of the Negro students by reason of academic achievement tests and the students' residences in relation to the schools. PLEA DISREGARDED He brushed aside a school board plea for a one-year stay of integration in Lane High School.

Paul said he could not believe the peo ple of Charlottesville would become "aroused" by the admission of two children to the White high school. Gov. J. Lindsay Almond said he would have no statement to make on the judge's order. Almond was working late in his office at Richmond.

Paul began his assignments of the Negro children to schools Immediately after attorneys summed up their arguments presented in a two-day hearing at Paul's court here. The 12 Negro students were among 33 whose applications the school board had denied last Fri day. The school board had conceded in testimony that five of the ele mentary school Negro students and the two high school students ordered admitted were academically qualified for transfer to White schools. STUDENT'S JUDGMENT The school board contended that one of the two high school students whom Paul ordered admitted to Lane High School, Diva Ferguson, should not be uprooted in her final year at Charlottesville's all-Negro Burley High School. Paul agreed, however, with arguments of Negro attorneys Oliver W.

Hill and Spottswood W. Robinson HI that regardless of what effect the transfer might have, on her work, the Judgment as to whether Miss Ferguson should transfer was solely up to her and her parents, not the school board. The 10 elementary school stu dents ordered admitted were among 24 whose applications the School Board denied because they lived In a newly-created Jeffer son school district and should therefore be sent to the Negro Jefferon School. The order was announced after the School Board had argued that possible violence might occur In Charlottesville if pubic schools were desegregated. New Storm Is Brewing? MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) A new area of suspicion developed In the tropical Atlantic Tuesday while storm Fifi drifted along on a path that will take it well east of the U. S. mainland. Latest area of circulating winds which a forecaster said "can potentially develop Into a tropical storm" was about 50 to 700 miles east of the Windward Islands and 2,000 miles southeast of Miami. Winds there were estimated at about 20 miles an hour and blowing counterclockwise, a condition that often presages formation of a storm.

Fifi was about 55 miles south-southwest of Bermuda, near lati tude 24.1 north, longitude .66.5 west. It was nearly stationary or possibly drifting slowly north northwestward with a gradual turn to the nortfi indicated after 12 hours. 2 White Men And Negro Sought In Ray Slaying LIBERTY, N. C. (AP.) Officers sought two White men and a Negro Tuesday in an attempt to link an 'early morning hold-up attempt with the slaying of a highway patrolman in South Carolina.

the knotty problems of se area to Highway 29, Mr. Hendrjx said. This survey will be com pleted this month, he added. The county's bridge Impfswe- ment program was the first item to be taken up by the delegation Recognizing two "acute situa- tiops" on Highway 253 over the Enoree River, the legislators voted to build two bridges in what js known as the Jackson Grove area at an estimated $55,000. F.

E. Armstrong, district engi neer, told the delegation that in the past year 11 of 49 which were considered in a bad state of repair have been improved to standard On the farm-to-market system Commissioner McMillan reported that of the $4,688,000 available to the delegation, $3,297,000 had been used, leaving $1,390,500 not under contract. But of this amount $828,400 has been programmed and $562,100 Is unpro-grammed. The discussion of present programming, much of which has been set up for years, led to the citing of numerous road-blocks that have been thrown up in front of intended improvements by fail ure to secure rights-of-way and (Continued on Page 16, Col. Auto Crushes Man To Death SPARTANBURG, S.

Of) -Charles Louis (Butch) Hughes, 19, of Boiling Springs, was crushed to death Tuesday when his automobile overturned on a sharp curve near Valley Falls. A passenger, Billy Monroe Bishop, 17, of Boiling Springs, was not injured. Today's Chuckle Women are more to be petted than censured. a now-or-eise" stand on curing ngnts-or-way. The delegation threw a one-two punch at right-of-way bottlenecks with hica it; has, been plagued for years toting to re-program some $800,000 in "farm-to-market" roads if the Highway De partment cannot receive "go aheads" from property owners on numerous projects by Jan.

1, and adopting a policy that all petitions for road, improvements in the future must carry a guarantee of rights-of-way to be considered. Chief Highway Commissioner Claude R. McMillan headed the Highway Department group and declared that highway development Is suffering both "In and out of the city" because of "no planning" at all, or "failure In planning." The city and county "can't sit still with improvements needed so badly," he said. Mr. McMillan also reasserted his opinion when questioned by Sen.

P. Bradley Morrah Jr. that tht reopening of the Jones Gap a highly controversial sub ject, was not worth the cost an estimated half a million dollars at a rate of approximately 000 a mile. T. J.

llendrix, associate urban engineer of the Mate Highway Department, said that the survey of the Church St. 85 link-up would soon be complete and a hearing would be held here in two or three months. The connection would be along E. North St. eastward, crossing over the present Stone Ave.

By-Pass, E. North St. and Laurens Rd. intersection, then following the WC railway tracks for a distance, and then swinging back north of Greenville Municipal Airport to a link-up with Interstate 85 near Roper Mt. east of Greenville.

BEING SURVEYED The Highway 25-29 connection is being surveyed from Augusta Rd. (Highway 25) along Potomac Ave. and a sparsely developed diate who had no primary op ponent MASSACHUSETTS Former House Speaker Charles Gibbons won the Republican nomination for governor. He was the choice of the state committee to replace Atty. Gen.

George Fingold, party endorsee who died nine days ago. Exonerated hitting one of the men in the shoulder. Generally the description of the three and their car, a two-tone 01d.smobile, filled the description of the men and car being hunted in the South Carolina case. The South Carolina Highway Patrol, doggedly searching for the trio who gunned down one of their members, Harry Boyd Ray, 31, said a report of an at tempted robbery involving two White men and a' Negro at Cal houn Falls, S.C., proved false. The patrol said It still was searching for three men also wanted for questioning in connection with a slaying at Philadelphia, Pa.

They were identified as Richard Woods, 21, 9 Negro of Dothan, primary, The more conservative Holland, who championed states' rights and took a tough stand against integration, had a lead of 65,000 votes over the former New Dealer, in 1,168 of 1,880 precincts. Pepper, a practicing attorney since his defeat in 1950, was seeking a comeback by attacking what he called Holland's conserv ative record. Holland's renomination is equiv alent to election in strongly Dem ocratic Florida. He will face Re publican Leland Hyzer, Miami attorney, in November. The Florida primary was one of 10 in as many states to practically wind up the picking of candidates for the November elections.

Briefly, here's what other states were doing: VERMONT Rep. Winston L. Prouty, a veteran of four terms in the House, won the Republican nomination in his bid for the seat of U. S. Sen.

Ralph E. Flanders. Prouty won the nomi- EPIDEMIC EASES TOKYO (UPI)-An epidemic of sleeping sickness raging in Japan and the Republic of Korea Tuesday appeared to have passed its peak. However, the unofficial death toll had reached 1,948 and was expected to pass 2,000. You'll Find: Billy Graham I Radio, TV 13 Comics IS Sports 7, 8 Deaths 6 Theaters 16 Editorials 4 Want Ads Markets 14 Women 11, 12 Send Contributions iicaucwwcii-vm tuuvuymg Adm.

Wallace M. Beakley, acknowledged that the Chinese Nationalists- axe going to have a tough time 'dealing with Communist shore guns which threaten to cut Quemoy 's lifeline. SHELLING RESUMED Quemoy, Little Quemoy arid T-tan, a 96-a'cre islet, came under heavy fire Tuesday from Communist batteries on Amoy Island, the Tateng Islands and the mainland. The Nationalist Defense Ministry reported the Red- gunners fired 4,376 shells from midnight to 5:40 a.m. Nationalist batteries fired back.

The Defense Ministry disclosed no figures on the retaliatory shelling. A Nationalist convoy set to sail In daylight under U. S. 7th Fleet escort was canceled. Beakley said this was due tq the weather and not the threat of Red Chinese guns which blew up a supply ship Monday during a record bombardment of more than 53,000 shells.

Another supply ship turned back. The Reds kept up a sporadic artillery bombardment of Quemoy Tuesday. The Defense Ministry said that up to 8 p.m. more than 4,000 shells had landed on Quemoy and its satellites. SHELLS ARE CLOSE This made aircraft landings on Quemoy hazardous.

Associated Press correspondent Gene Kramer, who flew into Quemoy aboard a Nationalist C46 during a Red barrage, said shells landed a few hundred yards away as the craft set down on a beach airstrip with newsmen and Nationalist officers. The plane later took off with wounded Nationalist soldiers. Kramer's plane had turned back on one approach to Quemoy when, the pilot said, a flight of Red MIG jets was sighted. The Defense Ministry said Nationalist guns answered Red gunfire but it refused to disclose the intensity of the return barrages. It seemed the Nationalists did not match the Reds round for round because they are wary of wasting ammunition.

DULLES NOT TALKING At a news conference in Washington, Secretary of State Dulles aid he felt it unwise to say whether the United States would agree to Nationalist air attacks on the mainland. Dulles hinted that the United States is ready to ofter concessions to the Red Chinese if they renounce the use of force in the Formosa Strait. He said U. S. Ambassador Jacob Beam in Warsaw got in touch with Red China's ambassador, Wang Ping-nan, and told him the United States is ready to start talks on the Far East crisis.

Another Ideal Day In Offing Pleasant ate Slimmer weather Continues In Greenville. The Weather Bureau forecasts another sunny day here today with mild tem peratures. The high reading is expected to be only 86 degrees as compared yesterday The ldi warm day is ex pected to follow another cool night wun i ro a-tures dropping to CO. The low yes SUNNY terday was 58 degrees. Thus, yesterday's temperatures averaged four degrees below a normal 75.

Temperatures have averaged two degrees below normal each day this month. f. One of the three was wounded. when Wendell Snow Phillip, 34, of Rt. 1, Elkin, opened fire with a .38 caliber pistol.

He said one THREE IN S. C. HOLDUP WALTERBORO tf) Three White men tried to holdup a motel near here Tuesday night and one of them was chased Into a swamp. The stickup attempt k'd to speculation the trio may be the men who are sought for the slaying of highway patrolman Harry Boyd Ray last Sunday near Santee. man flagged him down In his truck and two others climbed out of the car when he stopped.

One man drew a pistol and Phillip opened fire, apparently To The News Fund For Widow And Children Of Patrolman Ray Commended Here and two Wbite brothers, Anthony and Joseph Scoleri. The South Carolina patrol said tha three were believed to be in a two-tone automobile bearing New Jersey license plates. Ray was slain early Sunday after three men robbed a Santee, S.C., motel at gunpoint of $1,681. He apparently had stopped a speeding car near the motel when he was riddled with bullets while preparing to write a ticket. II.

M. Gaskin, operator of the Clover Motel, said he did not think any one of the three bandits was a Negro. However, tha highway patrol, said Richard Woods, the Alabama Negro, was an extremely light-skinnl man with bleached blond hair. A patrol source said he could easily pass as a White man. At Liberty; near Greensboro, Phillip reported the hold-up attempt about 2:30 a.m.

He said ha fired at the men who stopped him when one pulled a gun. said he thought he wounded one man in the right shoulder. Meanwhile, Chief J. P. Strom of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), went to Sylvania, Tuesday to question two men being held there, Strom returned to Columbia, S.C., later afler questioning tha men, David Hardy Rogers, who said he had no home address, and Clarence Henry Pruitt of East Lumberton, N.C.

At Lancaster, S.C., police arrested a 14 year-old girl and her boyfriend after a 24-hour manhunt started when they fled from an) auto after It was stopped at a patrol roadblock Monday night. Police identified the girl as Jill Wltmer and the boy as Roger John Gabbey, 18, both of Rochester, N.Y. They admitted stealing the late model Pontiac auto in Rochester and switching license plates on It. However, Police Chief John Carnes said he, did not believe the two were connected with the shooting of Ray. Miss Witmer ami Gabbey were found hiding under a platform at a fertilizer plant.

And The Judge Ran Out Of Sympathy YORK, S. C. (AP) Lawrence Froneberger, 49, of Rt. 1, Kinga Mountain, didn't get any sympathy in York County Oeneral Sessions Court Tuesday. Froneberger was arrested June 30 by York County police and charged with transporting illegal whisky.

He pleaded guilty during the July term of court and sentencing was deferred. Gut last Saturday Froneberger was arrested by York County police agam. This time he was charged with Illegally operating a still, When Froneberger appeared In court for sentencing he pleaded guilty to the second charge. Oeneral Sessions Judge Bruce Llttlejohn of Spartanburg asked Froneberger's lawyer: "Do you mean he was arrested again while awaiting sentence?" "He must have been trying to ralAe money to pay his fine," the lawyer answered. "He won't get much sympathy from me," the Judge remarked.

He sentenced Froneberger to six months In Jail or $600 fine, reduced to three months or $300 for the first count. For the second charge the sentence was one year In Jail or $1,500 fine. "Enclosed find my check for $10 to be applied on the fun for the benefit of the wife and children of the late patrolman, Harry B. Ray. I highly commend you for this worthy undertaking and hope it will be a great success." The above was from James H.

Price, Greenville attorney, and was received by The Oreenville News yesterday afternoon. The News Tuesday announced It would sponsor the raising of a fund. William Henry B. Simpson and The News each started it off with $100 contributions. Mr.

Price's was the first to come by mail. Many phone calls were received during the day as to how checks should be made out. They should be made out to: Patrolman Harry B. Ray Fund and sent to The Oreenville News, Oreenville, 8. C.

All money collected will be turned over to the widow of the young officer who was shot down In cold blood Sunday near Santee. He presumably had stopped a car for speeding and was in the act of writing out a ticket when four bullets were pumped into his body. It is presumed the auto stopped was occupied by the bandits who shortly before had robbed a Santee motel. Mr. Ray's widow and her two young children will return to Greenville and reside with her parents, she has announced.

She is the former Miss Jo Ann Mulllnax of Greenville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Mulllnax of 604 Grbve Rd.

The search is on for the killer or killers of Patrolman Ray. Regardless of whether they are caught, and if caught, how they are punished, the widow and her children have been "deprived of a husband and father who died while on duty, protecting the lives of South Carolinians. I.