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VIRGINIA 8k wmm 63 YEARS In PublTf Service Oldest vTrgmla Dally WmI of the Bio Ridge KH -r 1 130 ifMlliLiiJKARI Meetly fair asd warroer today wept for rather cloudy weather a the coast. xsum imnam uos UMCUtlS MtlBl PRICE ITVE CENTS 66TH YEAR, NO. 219 STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955 MAY muunn un 1 oximately $5 Billion Virginia's An ALMOST LIQUIDATED IN RUSSIA Launch Integration Test Case State Supreme Court Adjourns Second With RichmondLosesRecei ptsTaxCase In Virginia State Supreme, Court 52 P.O. Boost Virginia Supreme Court adjourned its annual Staunton term today 20 New Polio 3DeaihsBoosi StaieTollTo 578 Close Behind Florida In Per Capita Income -vv-y Ill www Di I 1 1 CaseslnSiafe after handing down opinions la 24 cases, agreeing to review two cases on appeal and refusing writ of error in four By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A teen-age Negro boy was killed today when he put his bead Nine lower court decisions were RICHMOND. Sept.

14 I Gov. Stanley has started a test case before the State Supreme Court to determine whether the present Virginia Constitution bars the use of public funds in subsidizing the education of children In private schools. It was disclosed today the attorney general's office launched the test at the governor's request before the court at Staunton in a mandamus proceeding. Stanley said the case is Intended to settle some doubts over whether reversed by the high court in the out of a bus window and. was opinions given on cases argued at earlier terms.

caught between the window and a tree. His death was one of three which brought the state Among the trial court decisions R1CBMOXD. Sept 14 CP-Twenty new polio cases were reported to the Stole Health Department last week. The aew cases boosted Virginia's 1954 polk total to 223-104 below the 1354 flgare of 329 at the same date. The Leader Papers Add Service Of New York Herald-Tribune In order to give a wider coverage its readers.

The Leader Papers have arranged to receive the New York Herald-Tribune News Service. This is in addition to Associated Press news and other features. 1: The range of this service is broad. It combines the efforts of the far-flung staffs of both the New York Herald-Tribune and the London Observer to provide a world-wide coverage that supplements the regular news services. Its foundation is the dependable, expertly written political articles and analyses for which both the parent newspapers are noted.

Included are stories 'written by such adept reporters as Walter-Arm (the -Communist trials). Earl Ubell -science and medicine), Judith Crist (the U. N. Investigations), the Indefatigable Marguerite Higglns, find offbeat stories of humor and human interest by John O'Reilly. This service gets behind 'the news to the important, often unexpected and always revealing facts.

The Leader staff hopes its readers enjoy them. road toll to S78 compared to the 496 deaths for a similar period affirmed was one holding a manufacturer of voting machine equip ment liable for certain equipment be contracted to furnish the General Assembly of Virginia. a year ago. the Commonwealth could allot state The Richmond iivtcttnrzi I Franklin Delano Monroe, 19, who funds aid students in private Charles F. Thompson.

Marshall was dead on arrival at a hospital F. Thompson and International colleges. This was recommended recently by the State Capital Out 20 minutes after the accident Other deaths were: Roll Call Corp. appealed from ft Richmond City Circuit Court decision in favor of the The eases came from: Arlington, Augusta County Bochaaaa County. Fairfax County.

Norfolk County, xloanoke Connty, Smyth County, Wythe County, Lynchburg, -1 Richmond, Chesterfield County, 1. Mrs. Evelyn Johnson Newsome, 24, of Richmond, killed in the collision of her car and a trac While affirming the lower court. lay Study Commission. It seems apparent a decision in the case would also provide an answer to whether the state, without amending the Constitution, might subsidize children In private schools as a means of helping localities avoid integrating public schools.

Nobody concerned with the tor-trailer in Amelia County, RICHMOND, Sept. 14 The largest share of Virginians' income continues to come from governmental work, a survey shows. Manufacturing wages placed second. I A study by the University of; Virginia's bureau of population and economic research showed about 80 per cent of 12 billion dollars paid out in 1953 In governmental wages in 1953 went to residents In the Arlington and Hampton Roads areas. Residents In the two areas account for less than 30 per cent of the state's population.

In the Arlington area alone, governmental wages accounted for well over half of the total Income of the area. And about 30 per cent of the total Income In the northside Hampton Roads area came from governmental sources and better than 38 per cent In the southslde The growing weight of governmental salaries In the Arlington-Alexandria area pushed the Richmond area out of Its former position as the state's top income section, the study for the years 1947-1953 Showed. The study showed that Richmond's per capita income of in 1953 had been topped by the cities of Falls Church with $2,439 and Alexandria. $2,189. 811ghtly below Richmond were John Karl Weiss, 22, of New the Supreme Court amended the trial court's decree to allow tbo defendants to have another manufacturer prepare, build, construct or deliver the equipment.

Palts. N. killed when his car Denies Slaying was in collision with a truck at Woodbridge in Prince William case would say so, though. The Supreme Court ruled against County. He was en route to Miami KP.

JOSEPH f. HC4.T, Republican of Van Nuya, Calif demonstrates in Washington how a Russian Army lieutenant felt about Americans Moscow. The Red, who apparently had not heard of the latest era of good feeling toward the United States, held a cocked pistol to Holt's head, and only intervention by a Russian colonel prevented an international Incident Th State Department filed a protest There have been suggestions the city of Richmond in its effort to enroll as a freshman at the University of Miami made to the governor and his commission on public education in to upset a decision of tne Kicn-mond Hustings Court, ft gross the light of the U.S. Supreme Court receipts tax case. A five-year-old boy was critically Injured today when he was struck by a car in front of his Mayor Reid Scores Dirty City Streets And Night Parking antisegregation decision that state Richmond sought to eouect gross IMP at usa.

I '1 "1 home i grants-in-aid to individual pudIIs receipts Uxrsfrora Pr Lewis near Marlon. might be an optional alternative to the usual allotments for city and the child, Michael Overbsy, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Overbsy, suffered Internal injuries, a brain injury and a broken arm. Complete AtWeyers county schools.

Some indications are that the education commission has given serious study to the subsidy plan as part of a posalhle legal formula ft 4 (B 1 iasy 1 i' -V '( mi Cave For ville Ave. by Peeler Oil "prc- Vlded the driveways are put in for sidestepping enforced integra- as approved by the, city eng.1 Hurricane Hilda In Caribbean As uon. Norfolk with Colonial Some legal authorities, however. Heights. Newport News.

neer." This clause is to prevent a long driveway from obstructing any futre sidewalk laid down in this Middle River Fair Portsmouth, Roa- Disturbed by the "filthy conditions" thatprevall along-downtown streets and sidewalks, members of the City Council yesterday discussed ways to solve the problem of trash and dirt in the business section of the city. The Council met la special session to vote on a permit for a gasoline station on Greenville Ave, but the subject of dirty streets and sidewalks was raised lone Moves In have questioned whether the subsidy approach might hit a legal roadblock in Section 141 of the state Constitution. i Bosher Jr. on his earnings at Mc-gulre Veterans Administration Hospital. Justice Kennon Whittle wrote the opinion which held the tax did not apply to income derived from teaching and could not be applied to a surgeon en the teaching staff of hospital.

Some 40 other members of the attending staff at McGuire's are similarly situated and attorneys said it now remains for the city to determine whether it wants to broaden Its ordinance to apply the gross receipts tax to the teaching profession generally. I one of the nine reversals, the high court ruled in favor of Mrs. Christine Melvtn Bickers. Mrs. Bickers had challenged ft Winchester Corporation Court verdict holding valid an Insurance trust agreement between her late hus noite.

and Hopewell. $1,799. Clifton Forge with a ner caDita section. MIAMI. F1a4 Sept 14 for top honors in tractor driving Everything is in readiness for Cuba counted tws dead and wide Income of $1,148 had the lowest such total among all Virginia cities An excellent demonstration for This section says "no aDDronria- the ladles on the use and care in 1953, the survey showed spread damage from Hurricane Hilda today while a new tropic tion of public funds shall be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively the big Middle River Fair to be held at Weyers Cave on Friday, Sept 16.

The day will begin rith the entering of exhibits from 7 until 10 a.m. An unusual large of electrical appliances will be given in the afternoon at 2 pm. al storm. lone, threatened the! The survey said total income payments to individuals in Virginia In 1953 climbed to $4,829,000,000 Many contests for both old and northern Leeward Islands and i Paerto Rice, I controlled by the state or some political subdivision thereof." it au young will be staged during the number of exhibits will be entered in the ten departments A man and his daughter were; day. A good selection of movies Dr.

Samuel B. Loewner raised a suggestion at the meeting that the city of Staunton enlarge its sinking Insurance fund in order to permit reducing present insurance premiums paid for coverage on buildings of small value. Dr. Loewner pointed out that money thus placed In the insurance fund would interest, as well as saving on Insurance premiums paid by the city. The Council members agreed to discuss the matter further at a later meeting, has been arranged for the after ranging from agricultural prod noon and evening, too.

thorizes only two exceptions: The state may appropriate for schools or agencies under an inter state agency in which Virginia portici-pates, and the localities may ap by Mayor J. Malcolm Reid. Mayor Reid described to the members of the City Council the disturbed reaction he received from walking along Beverley St. and observing the trash and dirt that Uttered the length of the street The other Council members were in agreement, and a dis- while per capita Income reached $1,361. This 52 per cent increase topped the national increase of 46 per cent and put Virginia second only to Florida in pr capita in come In the 11-state southeastern -region.

It also gave the state a killed when Hilda's destructive, winds' smashed their horns In' northeast Orlente Province and other homes along the Cuban' coast were destroyed or damaged, The FJTA. Chapter of Middle i-i '-1 ucts to canning and baking of the home. A nice display of educational exhibits has been arranged by the Weyers Cave and River is giving a pig to the FFA. propriate ior certain non-sectarian or 4-H boy who brings the larg band, Myron Bickers and the sneo-andoah Valley National Bank of Winchester. In a majority opinion fr Suwetr.a aa Hilda moved into the Carrlb- schools of technical or trade-train est number of entries to the fair rank of 36th among the 41 in per Mt Sidney Elementary Schools.

Many commercial exhibits will be beaa -south of the island repub-l ing nature. and wins the. most prises. The capita income "Court alArmed the-Eoumia Coun on the ground displaying some winner will be -determined by a point system. A competitive spir Wages and salaries accounted "TtT Zn nearly 75 percent of total cleaQ Up iowa" town area.

Iks. I Rains flooded parts of causing heavy damage to coffee ui it has been manifested for this In 1953, the survey said. This com of the very best farm machinery and household appliances. One of the outstanding high The test case tiled at Staunton seeks an Interpretation of Section 141 as it applies to appropriations in the present state budget for helping educate In private or public schools the orphans of Virginia All Council members agreed, -wamuies tags pared with 68 per cent in 1947, The Kwaliteed Hatchery of Harrisonburg la giving 100 that the problem was caused by and other crops, but no official estimates were Immediately avail able. i AtBIuefield At the same time, the proportirn baby chicks to the individual who lights of the day will be the displaying of sixteen booths of var of the total accounted for by pro- Jl" Ti fMlnnl Alf n-rrn.

-K11 Ping in the BLUEFTELD. W. Va, Sept 14 lona sent hurricane warnings servicemen who were war CB Police in neighboring Bland and proprietor, topped-from 18S In several north Leeward Is-t lands and northeast storm warn-' The petition for a writ of man per cent in 1947 to 13 per cent in County, had some 15,000 dozen well scrambled, but burned eggs on their hands today. damus was brought by Atty. Gen J.

Lindsay Almond Jr. against State Comptroller Sidney C. Day ious civic clubs and other groups interested in education and community improvement Mr. Gordon Stewart, Supervisor of Instruction, and Miss Avice Roane, General Supervisor of Instruction, Augusta County Schools, will judge these booths as well as the Educational Department under parked vehicles; and the second resulting from merchants sweeping dirt and trash Into the streets before opening for business in the mornings. A tractor trailer haulinsr the ty circuit courc reiusai ra set aside condemnation commission's awards in ft land condemnation suit Two tracts of land were involved, and the Virginia electric and Power Co.

contended the commission's awards were excessive. But the court's majority opinion, written by Justice Archibald Buchanan, said awards "cannot fairly be said to be so grossly excess aa to show Justice Willis Miller dissented and Justice Lemual Smith dissented tn part. Vepco had objected to the commission's method to determining awards. Each commissioner made his own apprai3 and an averago was taken from the awards proposed by the tndivldul sioners. eggs plunged off U.S.

21-52 on jr, Inga were ordered sip en the Puerto Ricaa coast from Areeibe. to Humacae, lone at 8 p.m. was centered about 250 miles eaat of San Juan 1 and only some 80 miles east of Anguila. The eye of the storm was expected to hit the small East River mountain Just outside A STATI nOOPEI escorts Dominic Bonoml, of Sciruate, Mass, from the Hingham, Mass, court where he pleaded not guilty when arraigned on a charge of murdering his wife, Mildred. Her body was found under tons est gravel and rock after bloodhounds led police to the spot Mrs.

Bonomi's hands were trussed behind her back, her skull was crushed and a rope The Council discussed the pos the Bluefleld city limits early brings the most entries and wins the most prizes In the Poultry Department The ladies of the school area have secured many pounds of country ham and young turkey to. serve from 6 to 8 p.m. The community la known for the delicious meals served at prerious suppers, and everything is being done to make this just as tasty. Other eats and drinks will be available throughout the day. Everything Is in readiness for the big day next Friday.

People of the Middle River area are urajsd to bring exhibits, and everyone is' invited to come.a this morning and burned. 1953. I During the six years under study, the study said agriculture and mining provided "a constantly decreasing share" of wage and salary payments In the state while the proportion of income from manufacturing, construction, trade, service and finance gained steadily. i SIGNATURE PROVIDED SAN DIEGO, Calif. OB A sibility of Imposing restricted hours for" parking on main It developed after Day last week notified the attorney general that some doubts had arisen as to the constitutionality of the appropriation.

Therefore, Day added, he would, not make any payments The Stonewall Brigade Band of For a time police feared the driver might have perished in streets after midnight so the cleaner will be able to reach all Staunton will be on hand during the evening to entertain the the blaze. 'However, a bread Lundfj the appropriation until the parts of the streets. Concerning the problem of truck driver told trooper C. D. Pennington he picked up the large crowd that is expected.

Also, during the evening the trac Virginia Supreme Court had ruled tied tightly about her neck. it is valid. tor rodeo will be staged for the driver and took him to the foot of the mountain, presumably to State law provides that In such Island or pass Just to the north tonight. Hilda, stin reeling from her bout with the Cuban mountains last night was some 310 miles southeast of Havana and mov ing west at about miles per hour. This path would carry ft some 200 miles to the south of the Cuban capital city.

Forecasters in the Miami older During the afternoon, couple youngsters approached actor Van Johnson beside a hotel swimming pool and asked for situations the attorney general merchants sweeping trash into the streets, the Council members concluded that it might become necessary to require stricter enforcement of the city ordinance the TSJl and 4-H boys will via a insurance adjuster in Blue must bring mandamus proceedings to have the Issue settled. autographs. No one had, a pencil. field, who was asked to make an The petition for mandamus ar Then brunette woman sitting Investigation regarding the lost forbidding this practice-In other business. the Coun Un-American Body Finds Commie Cell Operating nearby reached Into her beach eggs, valued at $6,000 to $8,000 gued that Section 141 does not said he was told the driver's bag and came up with one.

ell approved a permit for a gas- niD payments irom we disputed appiouilaUurn Weather Bureau said a pressure area hovering at "Thanks, said one of the name was Joee Mailt, addieas Benson Plans Action StopSlidingFarnilncome corner of Driscoll St and Green youngsters to Rosalind RusseU. unknown. 000 feet over the Bahama may keep lone from threatening the WASHINGTON, Bept 14 IB TJ. S. Atlantle Coast, just as it Tips Hai To U.S.

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 National Geographic and Palomar Map the Universe forced Hilda down into the Caribbean. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 UrUSeo- The secretary General of retary of Agriculture Benson said lone was discovered 320 miles Vienna's Historic Postwar Patrol Makes Last Tour VIENNA, Austria, Bept 14 WV Ren. Walter (D-Pa) said today there is evidence that a sizeable Communist cell was operating inside the federal government as recently as 1954. The House Committee on Un-American Activities, headed by Walter will hold nubile hearincs France's Socialist party tipped his hit today to American free en east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Congressman Says Foreign Aid Was Deterrent terprise: I will admit It at and 1,400 miles southeast of Miami.

Although the storm's top today the government definitely plans to do something about sliding farm income. But he emphasised the Eisenhow least deserves its name." winds are only 70 miles per Socialist leader Guy Mollet, hour, hurricane warnings were in January to expose the alleged i Vienna's famed postwar interna-Red apparatus. itlonal patrol the four soldiers tn WASHINGTON. Sept. 14 posted immediately In the northern Leeward and Virgin Islands.

Other committee sources sald who made history and speaking to the National Press Club, said that "for decades, our country has waited in vain for capitalism to take risks as it does here er administration does not Intend to backtrack from its system of flexible price supports. The San Juan Weather Bureau at least two federal agencies are Rep. Halleck (R-Ind). Just returned from a three weeks trip to Europe, said today he Is con to a formal end movies came today. was so sure that lone would develop quickly into ft full-blown Involved and that government employes as high as legal eouns- Mollet said French employers "hide behind customs barriers, and assistant counsels were hurricane, it referred to her as els vinced the foreign aid program must be continued because "it probably has been the strongest An American military police members of the cell- The agencies) Benson, returning from ft two-week trip to Europe, told reporters Congress will receive some "very specific" proposals to reverse the downward path of farm earnings.

man, a Russian, a Briton and ft were not identified. a hurricane in its acvisory released at 1:17 pm. EST. 1 deterrent to war. protect their prices behind marginal enterprises, beg for government subsidies while our Frenchman' shook hands in front "We have been talking with: some people who were in this Halleck visited France, Ger- He indicated no decision had yet OPENS TONIGHT All is in readiness at Woodrow of the now defunct headquarter of the Big Four Allied High Com- thing, Walter said la an inter been reached on precise measures' Austria Switzerland and England on a trip sponsored by view.

They gave us a lot nnlKirinri tnr nut their telenhnnM youth remains without a future because Franch economy remains stifled by a management lacking courage and which has not been true to its mission." but said a number are under study. valuable information. 'and symbolically handed over Wilson Rehabilitation Center for the open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous to be held in the Red Cross Auditorium at 9 pm. to "Something Deeds to be done to It was also learned that the theie authorttv to the Vienna the Defense Department. He traveled mainly by automobile "so I could get a good look at what ease the farm prize squeeze" Ben 1 son said.

"Anyone who is sincerely night was going on." interested in agriculture cannot be satisfied with present conditions. Two out of town speakers, an attorney of Richmond and a Baltimore woman will appear on "On the whole, my Impression was a good one, he told a news witnesses, who hsve been que-'police, tioned privately by committee in-j vest! gators, are former federal I For 10 years, soldiers from each workers who have never told 'of the four occupying powers their stories in any open congres-i pa trolled the capital, ready to in-sional inquiry. tervene in incidents involving If the January hearings devel- (-troops of the four nations. For op along sensational lines they; seven years they did it in open Police Speed Search For Missing Negro After Finding Car Certainly I am not. i conference, but added that he th.

wnavever meuwoa are sub- Eund nomine to Indicate the free Th. n.Hn, i. ni. k.m kcoku, wre Kuir uucm, iions can reiax ineir aeiense Et.tmnn tir. supplement tne aaminisirauons programs.

rlsonburg' chapters, and WWRC may wen be a factor me; jeeps nying tne nags or tne sig congressional and presidential Four. Three years ago, they took campaigns of 1956. 'to sedans, still flying the flags. k. a In iSma.

TToTIW I. 1n H.miMU, I uC uu, -tl organized group at the Center. CREWE, Sept. 1 W1 The car In which a Negro farmhand fled after shooting a deputy sheriff Monday was found la goat pasture seven miles east of Crewe tonight Wing Veraer, 63, the farmer who ewns the property, r- hvu. ijcnuci vi aifc uvuoct Some Democrats and RepubQ-' WEST GERMANY-RUSSIA CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW cans ahke nave suggested toe Astronomer George Abcll (right) guides Big- Schmidt Ult-seope at Palomar Observatory that after seven years' work has mapped the heavens out to 600 million light years.

Above, aa exploding star or nova cauglit by the Sky Survey flares space, releasing some 10 aep-t ill ion times as antes energy a hydrogen bomb. The atlas of the heavtna, a Lf I'oint project of the National Geographic Society and the Cal- ifornia Institute of Technology, will be furnished to astronomers and observatories around the world, President Oliver La Gorre ef the Society has act- economic well-being or otherwise of. farmers may a Governor Will Ask For 4-County Disaster Area 1 major issue in next rear's presidential election campaign. The 1 it 1 Agriculture Department said yes RICHMOND, Sept. 14 (A-Gov.

terday net farm Income had dropped 4 3 per cent in the first Stanley said today he win ask President Eisenhower to declare half of 1955 and seemed likely to decline further. a four-county Rappahannock riv er area a disaster area to enable Democrats have attributed this hurricane-hit oyster planters to ported Hie tar that beloags to the woanded deputy had beea la his pasture aa day after he first heard about the booting oa a visit to ewn. He said he firnt spotted this merniag hat thought probably belonged to someone banting in the area. Police Immediately intensified their search la the area for Otto Bradshaw, abont 86, who exchanged shots with deputy Frank Sbepard, 44, whea the deputy sovgnt to serve a warrant ea him. The gas tank of the two-tone blae 195S Ford was three quarters fan.

In the- light of this the sheriffs offlee said the ar may have beea abandoned there shortly after the hoot- slump to Eisenhower-Benson poli get low interest relief loans. cies. Republicans insist the system of flexible supports adopted last year tn place of fixed, high props Stanley's announcement came hasn't had a chance to work yet. after a delegation from the Rappahannock River Oyster Planters Assn. asked him to put the re quest to the President.

It becomes effective this year, Benson said the whole problem will be studied by 18 farm leaders comprising his department's Agri The area in to red is the Rappa BouBeed. IXFRKINTATTYB OF the German Federal RepubUe (West Germany) and the Rtssisa de! shewn tn this composite photo as they alt across from each ether hi Moscow. At left (aT9w) is rr. Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor. At right (arrow) is Nikolai A.

Bulgtnln, SovM lfinlster. Dr. Adenauer urged the release of German war prisoners, i in. iii i i.i jf ksuj hannock section bordered by Lan caster, Richmond, Essex and cultural Advisory Commission at ft mswVtTig hen entZV22 pciddtosaa Cosalfea,.

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