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IT 1 1 r. THE' MBEX-JOUMA GMOfWOOD WKATHES For 24 houn 'ending at a. today: Temperature, nigh Tt, tow Mg for 24 hours eadlfii at Sa.aa. Sunday: Temperature, high 65, lav U) rainfall 0.38 Inch. Hatofst slant Jan.

1, Hit Inches. A.Tsn WEATRKK FORECAST SOOTH CAROLINA Clear this Afternoon and tonight Tuesday partly eloudy, continued mild. The Leading Newspaper of Western South Carolina through AprtlieSl tocbwJ fra 6:11 a. sunset. S.93 p.

ex. VOL XXXVI. 65 Associated Press ond King FeotJres GREENWOOD, S. MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL I 1955 Associated Press Leased Wire PRICE FIVE CEWIS. Knife Involved Jn Saturday Night Incident ilson Says Hi Is Stickii i.n ,.,1.

i in. For Further jl j. I Cherry Blossom Queen Blizzard I Secretary Testimony Discounts Recent Reports About 'New Look Hurtling of Defense Wilson dis "Vs I I I I I In i jt a 3-. 1 it 2 1 Deputy Sheriff R. L.

Lyon holds the knife found In- the field yesterday where the body of Otis Waters" Was found Saturday night At left Is Sonny Cooper, deputy sheriff who took part In -the Investigation along With a number of city and county officers. The body of Waters had 'been slashed and stabbed 27 times, faul Raymond Smith is being held in the county jail in connection with the Incident (Index-Journal photo). Jeanlne Raymond, 18, freshman at Mary Washington Ootleget Fredericksburg, Va from LewUton, ta surrounded by some of U) losers after she won title of 1956 Cherry Blossom Queen In Washing' ton, D. C. (Apr.

1). The Maine princess, she won the title when "wheel of fortune," spun by Vice President Nixon, stopped at name of ner nome state, only otner, girl kientiried Ann Porter, second iron -right, Kentucky princess. AP Wlrephoto). County, City Officers Continue Investigation Greenwood County and City officers are continuing theS Investigation into the death of Otis Waters, 29-year-old marble yard worker whose body was found in a vacant lot off Cbkesbury Street Saturday night, his neck broken and 27 knife wounds about the neck and face. WASHINGTON AP) closed today he is sticking to Army manpower strength.

There have been recent reports of a new "new took" to leave more men for the' grbund forces, but Wilson, In testimony prepared for a' Senate Appropriations subcommittee, said the plan is for an Army of 1.037,000 by June 30. 1956. This was approximately the figure originally recommended. Wilson to the Budget Bureau. Wilson's prepared statement was.

read to the subcommittee by Robert Anderson, deputy secretary of defense. Anderson said Wilson was unable to be present because of a cold. By this summer the Army will be down from a present strength of about 1,250,000 to 1,102.000. That level had been proposed originally Greyhound Bus Union May Call Walkout Tomght CHARLESTON. W.Va.

An A FX bus drivers' union may call a strike tonight in the 10-slate system of Atlantic Greyhound Corp. A walkout would idle about 738 Atlantic Greyhound drivers In all or portions of Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and the District of Columbia. They are members of Division 1439, Amalgamated Assn. of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America.

The' divi sion's U-man negotiating commit tee arrived here last night and a crucial union meeting was ached, uled for today. Division President Daniel V. Maroney Jr. of Charleston has said his men will strike unless the com pany agrees to meet with them this week and settle on a con tract. When Maroney issued his ulti matum last Thursday, an AUsntlc Greyhound official said his firm could not meet with the union this week because of prior commitments.

Instead, Vice President B. M. Amole Said the company would meet April II ST any-time there after. Maroney said last night that the strike deadline could be' tonight If someone doesn't rive us some information." He added: "Ws have had no answer, at all from the company. The company has made no effort to meet with us.

If they' don't, we certainly Intend to bring them (the drivers) out." Amole could not be reached for comment on the union's latest statement. The union was first certified as bargaining agent for the drivers, last November, Negotiations have been under way sines December for an Initial contract, without agreement being reached. Dulles Declines Japan's Abrupt Bids For Tallis TOKYO (APyU. a Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today declined an abrupt Japanese request for Immediate top-level policy talks in Washington. the plan for a further cut in for June 30, Wilson satd.

but may oe reacned "a month or two later In order that reductions can be effected -in an orderly manner." Some Army 6f fleers. Including Gen. Matthew B. Rldgway, chief of, staff, contend that a larger Army, not sr smaller one. would be needed In atomic weapon battlefield fighting.

President Elsenhower has described Rldgway 'a demands for bigger ground forces as Present combat unit strength of the Army Is 19 divisions. 13 regiment, -and 117 antiaircraft battalions. By June 196s. this will be reduced by one division and one regiment, but antiaircraft strength will be Increased to 136, Wusoo said. Mentioning tests at Ft.

Bennlng, Os. and Ft Hood, in reorganisation of units to meet atom-i conditions, Wilson said "the force, structure beyond June 19M may begin to reflect the results of these tests." Wilson said that because Communist military-power continues to grow and now Include ability to attack with nuclear weapons, "the United States has reason to 1 deeply concerned over the serious effects which a sudden attack could conceivably Inflict upon us." Such attack, he declared, "could threaten our survival as a nation. Therefore, the defense chief asserted, "Our primary objective must be to maintain the capability, first to deter sn enemy from such an attack; and second, to blunt any such attack It it eomes.M This requires a combination of "effective retaliatory power and a continental defense system of steadily Increasing effectiveness, Wilson said. In retaliatory capability, Wilson there are "very powerful forces! In the Strategic Air Com great capability the carrier striking fores of the Navy, and In the tactical unite of the Air Force and Marine Corps. Long-range fighter units of the Strategic Air Pore art) scheduled to be reoqutpped with faster-than- sound fighters, Wilson reported.

The B3, plston-en fined long-range bombers now in use by the Stra tegy Air Command will be replaced with all Jet B8J heavy bombers, hs sskL Air Force strength by Juno SO, 1966, Is planned for 131 wings within six wings of the eventual gout. The sise of a wring varies from 30 to 36 planes. The planned strength for 1966, Wilson said, is "four more combat wings than ths Air Force thought they could achieve on year ago." By 1966, he added, the number of acUve planes In the Air Force will have increased to about 33,000 "and will continue to inorease In fiscal year J967." Wilson's plans tor th Navy ta the coming fiscal year would leave It little changed In the number of ships the fleet. "After the recent publication of the Yalta documents, to my utter amasement. It was staed on the floor of the Senate that the eon-cessions made at Yalta by ths American and British chiefs of state were' based, upon my recommendations.

'Such statement -ts utterly unfounded and without the basis in" fsct." He said military advice given to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Yalta came' from the Joint Chiefs of Staff of ths respective countries. He continued: "The estimate af these chiefs ef staff that the war with Jspsn would last for II months after the Soviet had entered was st complete variance with my awa publicly announces estimate of Japan growing weakness. "Indeed, so confirmed was my lief in Japan's early defeat that iscusslons wers held at my head- uartera concerning the possibility finishing off Japan oven before close of the European war." Eastward Great Plains Hit By Cold The Associated Press A fierce, blizzard hurtled eastward across the Great Plains plummeting temperatures 20 degrees, and the Northeast also lay in the grip of another surprise snowstorm. I The western storm's dread cousin, tne "Diacx nuzzara.

naa "all but finished' crop prospects on the bone-dry plains In eastern Colorado. The furious wind swirled dust 35,000 feet Into the air and stripped away the meager remainder of farmers' hopes across Jhat section and Into Kansas. Eight to II Inches of new snow blocked roads in Wyoming and Montana, and to 17 Inches fell through upstate New York, parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut and The weekend weather was blamed for at least 13 deaths, including three persona who died In the crash of a dust-blinded small airplane in Colorado Saturday. The others were in traffic accidents, The duatstorm had subsided along with wind velocity as the western storm moved eastward, but Chadron, reported gusts up to 00 miles an hour early today as the white blicsard reached western South Dakota. The storm center set off showers of snow and rain ahead of it.

There was a continuing fall of snow in Wyoming and Montana, where drifts virtually paralysed air traffic, closed many highways, and isolated Billings, Montana's second largest city of W.Q00 and Sheridan. Lusk-and Gillette in Wyoming. To the south, the duststorm "all but finished us," said County Farm Agent Bruce Young, of eastern Colorado. -It was the latest in a series' which has cstrsetf minions oT dollars Of crop damage this spring. The 'storm pounded a small section of Oklahoma early today with hall.

Checotah, 108 miles east of Oklshoma City, reported an Inch of hailstones covered the ground. Snow and rain continued In the Mid-Atlantic "states and southern New England after the heavy snowstorm yesterday paralysed traffic on highways to Vermont and Connecticut and disrupted electric power In severs! Connecticut and Massachusetts communities. Rain driven by a 30-mlle wind whipped New York City. Sp Airman Dies Foiling Attempted Assault 0( Date 'WACO, Tex. UP An airman who threw himself between his glr) companion and an armed Negro who vowed to rape her was shot dead yesterday, -officer said.

The girl fled. The armed man, who reportedly appeared as the couple sat in a car, vanished. Authorities! pressed a hunt for him today: Dead from, a bullet wound suffered, officers satd, after be Jumped. the stranger was a man identified as A.I.O.' Henry Poole, 23, of Spartanburg, SC. Deputy Sheriff SandersSaid Poole was stationed at Bryan Air Force Base, Tex, and had formerly been at James ConnaUy AFB near here.

1 Officers said Poole and the 30-year-old Waco girl were parked on a gravel road that runs through woods southeast of the base. Sanders quoted the girl as. Saying this is what happened: An unidentified man appeared, pulled a gun and demanded the alrman'hand over his money. The man ordered the couple to accompany him into the woods. Then he told the girl to take off her clothes.

Poole declared, '-'You are not going to rape that girl." The Negro replied, "Yes, am." The. airman replied to the effect "you "will do it over my dead body." Then Pools Jumped the armed man. In the scuffle Poole was shot. He died shortly afterward at the Connelly AFB hospital. ESCAPE ATTEMPT PAILS RAIPORD, Pla.

A desperate prisoner tried to shoot his way out of state Prison today with a pistol i SEtT" 6uarVl un.rmS themselves overpowered him 1m- mediately. He was put In solitary. Hi Kaoor by Ol in Miller When I want to frit the lowaown on a woman I do a lots of bragjpng on her to another i wom- an. aa The inquest has been set for SO Wednesday morning at the court house, Coroner L. E.

McCravy said today. Officers do not consider their Investigation complete as of today, however. Raymond Paul Smith, 23-year-old former convict, Is being held without charge in the case while the) investigation goes on. Sheriff J. Calvin White said that Smith had admitted tutting Waters, saying that they had quarrel.

Coroner McCravy said that Smith told Dim thai he and Water became Involved In the quarrel and he knocked Waters down. Waters started up with his knife In his hand, and 8mlth took the knife a-way from him and cut and tabbed him. 4 Both men were married. Smith with two children and Waters with three." The Investigation was touched off Saturday night when Smith went to the home of his parents and told them some ofi the Incident Police were notified from the home of the parents and went the scene and found, the body, The scene Is between Cokesbury nd Pelzer Streets, immediately back of the Orendel Mill warehouse. The events took place some time after o'clock Saturday night, during, the rain.

Although Waters bore the marks of 27 different slashes. Dr. J. M. Symmes, coroner's physician, said that he attributed death to a broken neck.

His examination of the body some time after midnight Sunday showed that the cause of death was a brok en neck (fractures of the four cer-vlclt verterbraes), lacerated wounds of the lace, chin, windpipe and throat Incises and lacerations, wounds of the cheeks on both sides, mouth, nose and upper and lower lips, lower Jawbone fractured. Dr. 8ymmes said that the "lethal matter" was the broken' neck. Smith and Water!" were in a car. driven by Smith, which jwas In collision with another car at the In tersection, of.

Reynolds and Cokes-bury some time before the body was discovered. The story the officers received was that Smith and Waters were at Dillashaw's. an establishment opposite the Pair Orounds on the Laurens Highway. Smith borrowed car there from John D. Collins, telling Colirns he was going to take waters nome.

(Continued on Pats, Seven) MacArthur Wants Full YaltaRecord Revealed i Opposition po41tlclani her pounced on the turndown-as a slap st the conservative government of Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama. Newspapers talked ef a possible) political crisis. Government lead ers discounted this' snd admitted they had not given ths United States enough notice. Only Friday, Japan had pro posed sending Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu to Washing ton this week to try to iron out growing difference betweea 19 United States and Japan, especial ly on rearming the former Axis partner, yr Dullesssld today his schedule would not permit adequate time to prepare for talks now but sus sen ted a later, date. Authoritative sources said, ers of Hatoyema'a Democratic party had decided on.

a polluoaj-amble to trv on abort notice 14 send a special envoy to Washing ton. They wanted him l) to "sou ths new prime minister to ths United States, 3 to get A inert ca to temporarily let up on Hs) pressure for Japan to rearm faster and 1 to try to get America to "understand" Japan's need to re sums relations with her Commu nlst neighbors Russia and Res China Ths. government folt a new ap proach on the defense Issue was) urgent. U. 8.

officials la Tokyo have refused to grant a cut is Japan's share of the cost of Sta tlonlng U. S. troops here. JapWa proposed budget la based on a cut. The projected visit leaxea to to kyo newspapers before It could be Cleared with the United 8tatcs.

Hatoyama told reporters hs was disappointed at Washington's rcao tion but hs acknowledged a pa should have consulted the Unites. Ststes esrller. A government source said, "The Prime Minister does not consider Mr. Dulles reply an Socialist party leaders called Washington reply, a and a death blow" to the Hatoya ma Cabinet. Highest A-BIast Set ForTuesday LAS VEOAS, Nev.l The hlf est U.S.

atomic test will bo unloosed six miles above Yucca Flat tomorrow weather per mlttlng. The nuclear antiaircraft device was to havs been tested yester day, but the weather was unfavor able and the Air Force scheduled to make the drop ds veloped. mechanical trouble. Hill Power fit termed the Georgia Powesf o. Junior partner the Dixon Yates deal" since it la.

a wholly owned subslolary of the Southern Co. It has, he said, "steadfastly refused to wheel power to ths) preference customers." The counter-proposal made by the any, Kefauver said) "would nvtan' a million dollar; year benefit to the company and 9100,000 benefits to "the coopers -'(. Georgia Power President Harllht -Branch 3rt tn reply charged, ihat Kefauver was simply repeating "inaccurate statements to further the causect federalixed electrielty. He asserted tnat his company's pro poaal to distribute the Clark HIS current wouldlmean "much chekper power" that afay 'other and because 1 of this Congress, under both Demo era tic and Republican leaderships! three' times rejected bills tor tax- financed public power lines." (Continued on Pasje Seven Victim nys ii This picture, taken when he was a member of the Armed Forces, was latest taken of Otis Waters, victim of the Saturday night Incident which resulted in his death. Waters was 29, and was employed by the Owen Bros.

Marble and Granite Co. Sen. McClellan, Stassen Confer WASHINGTON Or) r-en. McClellan (D-Arx) and Harold B. SUssen meet today to' talk over differences between the Senate Investigations subcommittee and the Foreign Operations Administration.

The conference In McClellan'a office was requested by Stassen, the POA director. Subcommittee members accused him last week of obstructing their efforts to dig out the. facts about a proposed contract for grain storage elevators In Pakistan. St assent den led it and volunteered to appear before the subcommittee But McClellan, a the subcommittee chairman, tissued a subpoena directing -the foreign aid chief to produce all records bearing on the project at a public hearing scheduled for Wednesday. Stassen had said earlier that he hjA made "the.

pertinent jailablt to the subcommittee weeks ago. McClellan' concecea the subcommittee has had access to the records but said staff employes have had to fcpend days making penciled copies. He said the FOA refused to furnish photographic copies or let the subcommittee have the documents to photograph them. best remedies Is "to bring the family altar back In the Dr. Peale, whose printed sermons, articles, syndicated columns, books and $usy lecture schedule to the worried and distre'ised "to help wiU be on a regular commer- 'Xially sponsored cadip network NBC has scheduled the pro- a.m.

tsr. i to to ihe.sheky to, tion of many Amerlan American nmfri-. 'Bes, Dr. Peale said, fte country's population also is suffering from a widesprend, and enervating dls-; ease "anxiety and' tension." It is passed on. to children by, "timorous parents," he said, and robs millions of their potentialities.

He sees confident faith, and positive belief that Chrst will help you through affinities; as the need of an anxious sge. Dr. Peale said he believed the great spiritual evident in this country will mean "this generation will go down as tremendous milestone in the history of the' world and the Christian faith." i A J' 1 1 -AW I Held "i 1 2 Paul Raymond Smith. 23. Is being held in the county Jail In connection with the death, of Otis Waters Saturday House Expected To Get Protests On Proposed Tax COLUMBIA OrTA wave of concentrated protest by advertisers against a proposed advertising tax Is expected to break over the heads of House members when the General Assembly reconvenes here tomorrow.

The Senate last week approved a proposal to bring advertising under the states I per cent general retail sale tax. Tills brought forth a blast of protest from clumbers of commerce and merchants associations. Special meetings were called by these' groups to organise a battle against the tax. The tax Is In the general appropriation bill, which' bo.th House and Senate now have passed, but In varied The House gets the Senate ver-aipo; at noon. It csn concur In the Senate amendments of which the tax is but one of many or can refuse to concur.

One form of refusal would be to amend the Senate amendments. An effort is etfpecteaTo afnendTtSe bill by striking out the Whether stricken or! not, the tax will be before the conference committee to which the bill will go, and can be reinstated by that committee. But this, would be a hard tax to veto, because it Is levied In sections of the blU that also, even In the 'ssme sentences, levy dther taxes. 39 Persons Die In Theater Fire SCLESSIN, Belgium -Weep-lna- relatives filed through a imake- shift morgue today to row cnrrea toj, trim row .1 A Bm4 a movie nouseurrycsicr tims of a movie nouse nre yester- may that killed 39 persons, includ- Ine 23 children Belgium's King Baudouin arrived in this grieving industral suburb of 'Liege this morning to visit the scene of the flamng disaster In the tiny Rio Theater and to talk to the victims' families. Officials announced that ,38 of the 3 bodies had been identified.

part of the matmce audience mostly children which was traoned when the ire-broke out. Many were trampled to death in the mad rush for the a la Churchill Is Host To British Queen sAnd Duke Tonight By TOM OCHILTKtE LONDON Ul Sir Win a ton Churchill made ready to entertain Queen Elisabeth II st dinner to night. Most. BrHons believed It was ths last time the 30-year-old statesman would be host to his young sovereign as Britain'! prime minister. Observers and members of Par liament generally expected the vet- ran Conservative chief to drive to Buckingham Palace tomorrow or Wednesday and hand blavfeslg- nstton.

to ths Queen. Shr is considered certain to summon Foreign Secretary AnthonyvEdea to take over the top post for which bo has waited so long; Tonight, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will dine with Churchill and his wife at the Prims Minister's official residence, no. 10 Downing St. The rarity of the occasion was viewed as still more evidence that the old man finally was stepping down. There were conflicting reports about Churchill's plans.

Hs is scheduled to fly to Bic April 13 for a 16-day vacation. It has been Indicated that when he returns, he will hold his member ship in the House of Commons and sit on the back benches a an alder statesman. But this would be I delicate role for a man of such great Political observers agreed tt might damage the Conservatives' election chances this year If Churchill will mske only Infrequent visits to the or even accept a peerage and. move to ths House of Lords. People who doubt this theory point-out that the veteran-of 66 years in the lower house ljas always described himself as "a child of the House of Commons." The switch at the top of the government was expected to bring no upheaval In ths makeup of the rest of the Cabinet.

If Eden, plans sn early election, he may make almost no changes and msy even for a time shoulder the double load of prime minister and foreign secretary, TO COMMAND FORRFHTAL WASHINGTON MTV-The Navy to4 day appointed Capt. Roy Lee John- son the first commander of the su- percartler porrestal. For Clark build a plant and. If possible, wreck the TVA system." J'Ws Intend to stop them," he declared, adding that If the controversial power plant Is built, "I can assure them of this not one kilowatt of Dixon-Yates power will ever enter into the homes and factories of Memphis, which Isi their target" "The peopleet 'Memphis voted' this same crowd out," kefauver said, "a number of years ago. They don't Intend' to let them creep back with a contract AEC Atomio energy Commission) now." As tor the fight being waged In Georgia over Clark Hill power, Kefauver aald: you ask.

Is what Is your right under the law Congress Intended it to obtain the preference power from Clark Hill dam without the intervention Georgia- Power as a middle man." I Dr. Peale Says Leading Spiritual Failing Of ericans li Marriage Kef auver Urges Georgians To Keep NEW YORK UH Oen. Dougl MacArthur says he favors release of documents dealing wlthrespon-aibillfy for the Yalta decttbns" only if the record is released In fuB. "I would be wholeheartedly in approval have published all documenu Which bear upon re- sponsiBtmy tor -tne xaita he declared hi a st a te nt last night "But," be added, I would deprecate most unequivo cally a partial and selective re lease." The wartime Far Eastern military chief referred to the requested documents and messages dealing with the war against Japan. Publication of these records was sought after MacArthur denied statements that his advice had prompted concessions to the Soviet Union in order to enlist that nation in ths Pacific war.

These concessions were made by the T7nlt; ed States and England at the Yalta conference in February 194S. The Army on Saturday announced It had boosted the security classification of MacArthur's wartime message file and other documents and wxsHeavlng decision on their release to the Depart tnent of Defense. MacArthur said he wants, the whole record released If at 'all1 because he understands that the Defense Department, la now being asked to release only selected documents dealing with plans for Implementing the Yalta decisions. He ssjkl this' release would: exclude "the. documentation which preceded the Yalta decisions and which alone might cast light upon the responsibilities involved." Such partial release, the general added, "could only result in added confusion in the public concerning the Issue under discussion, which is the responsibility for the Yalta i In an editorial on March '35 the Washington Post and Times-Herald' challenged MacArthur's denial of any responsibility for the Yalta concessions.

The newspaper said the general was known have pleaded "for eonceseions to get Russia into 'the Japanese war." Similar statements were made In Congress by i Sen. Lehman ip-Lib-NY. I MacArthur repeated snew last night, his earlier denial of this, saving By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK UTi Trie No. I spir itual failing of Americans today.

says Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. right In their own households: "Couples don't give "'each otner'new project today to irlve advice Up Struggle ATLANTA CB-Rural electrifies-tlon officials In Georgia were urged today by Ben. Estes KefauverD-Tenn) to continue their battle with the Georgia Power Co. for prefer ence power from Clark Hill dam.

The senator, In a speech pre pared for delivery at a statewide meeting of Georgia Electric Membership Corp, managers and directors, satd as far. as be knows the Elsenhower administration Is not "doing anything about' 'their problems over Clark Hill power contracts. "An over the country', he said, "citizens like you ara fighting a hard, uphill battle in order to pre serve the benefits which nature and years of far-sighted administration gave them of power benefits and natural resources." A similar struggle is being wsged across the Jlne In Tennessee, he satd, "with the aame people ths Dlxon-Vates grows who want to In i as of essential respect and esteem any re," her said. "There's too much talk 'lovln', and not lenough about respect for each oth- er in sovereign human souls." Dr. feale.

the country's foremost i un. 1 of eefe-fulfillmenti- vuiuiu KurrmuHi i through postlVe" faith, said more inrougn posiive laun, saia more than half the approximately 0,000 letters, be gets from people each we are about mariul toubles. "So many of them Just haven't got moral stamina," be said. "Wives complsin that their huv bands, are moody or mean, and they wonder1 if they have any obli. gallon to stick with lt.

Or they say, 'He doesn't amuse me any They need to realize mar-rlags is a binding spiritual compact." If they don't, he said in an Interview, the Institution seems headed Into a forest of, wreckage and heartbreak. said on of the I a 1r .1 1 I.