The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

I Ma, it- I RUTHERFORD COUNTY Dairy Center of the TE WEATHER Occasional rain, and colder tonight. Tuesday cloudy, colder. 'OS RUTH ERFORD COUNTY'S IfOMENlVJVKPZn SINCE 1049 ol. 99 By Carrier Per Week 25c Single Copy No. 245 United Press Wire Service Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Monday Afternoon, December 26, 1949 Two-Milliorith-Of-A-Second Photograph ga a Toll At tmas Deal 444T.otaG, Kises Bank Employes Help Santa And Get Gifts, Too Seven, hundred delighted youngsters swarmed through the Murfreesboro Bank and Trust company Saturday; afternoon for Christmas packages from Santa Claus himself -and the assurance that they were not forgotten by a busy world.

The children, rounded up by welfare workers -and the Murfreesboro police department, gleefully shared the hugestore of fruits, nuts and candy as they paraded 49 Children Siiicide AMTisDo Murders Mark Violence Christmas his neck and stepping off a bale hay. His body was discovered Satur day afternoon by Doc Pate who'ters by her former husband, Bob 4- Rutherford A suicide and two murders in Rutherford county over the weekend "added to the violent deaths across the nation during the holidays, I The county's first fatality was reported- late Saturday afternoon when M- Yearwo! was dis- imuig uuuLa tduei la barn behind his home on Sun- set drive here The 73-year-old contractor took his jttfeearlierinheayyUy a five-foot length of well rope around a rafter, looping it over Chef Peeks As of Smashing through a glass jar and then breaking an electrical conductor, a .22 calibre bullet this two-millionth-of-a-second photograph. Breaking of the conductor set of high-speed photolight "wfucfriTrumTnateftlhe" afctfOtT for twq-milhonths jgf The picture" was ftaken by William R. Plantr electrical engineer who developed the pnotol ight In Schenectady, Ti (International) a Congressman Moves To Head Off Bitter Battle Over Civil Rights Legislation ox i ii "1 'V '''fJ, II I A I I 1 past jtlHttering Christmas tree fn the lobby the bank building R.T. Bell president bank, said the party was planned to make sure that every child in Murfreesbpro received a visit from Santa Claus this year.

aisiriDuieijJUO aozen -oranges, 1,000 -dozen apples, 1,0,00 pounds of candy, 600 pounds of nuts, 600 pounds of raisins, 1,000 horns and 1,000 balloons," 600 pounds bananas and -100 one dollar, bills to the youngsters. Then, after Santa's tired helpers saw the last of the shouting children troop out of the bang, they recefved a present of their own. It was announced that all employes of the bank, both the horne office and branch banks, would receive a bonus amounting to two months' salary for each. City Employes -Attend Meet On Retirement Plan About 60 city employes attended a meeting Friday in 4ne old Stones River club building to hear Roger C. Nooe, Tennessee Retirement system official, explain the workings, of a retirement plan which is under consideration for Murfreesboro.

The plan was proposed before the City council some time ago and is now being investigated as to costs and benefits. Mr, Nooe xom xne ctiy employes tnai tne retirement fundjwould be made up from seven percent of their earnings and 9.16 percent of the overall city-payroll. Under the plan, employes could be retired at 60 after 20 years of service, or at any age after 30 years of service. Retirement would' be compulsory at 70. No definite action been taken on the proposal yet.

The council will act after it has been determined how many of the employes are in favor in the plan and the cost and other matters. Negroes Bound Over Orf Charge Of Stealing Pigs Cleo Bingham, Edmond Osborne Frazier and Dennis Veal four Rutherford county Negroes charged with the theft of five were held lo answer to the next term of the grand jury here Friday morning under, bonds of $1,000 each. The men are accused of stealing the pigs, valued at $70, from the farnr-bf Sterling Walls -n the Halls Hills road. They were arrested Wednesday night by Asst. Chief Paul Windrow and Officer Buddy Chambliss of the city police force.

The policemen said that the four Negroes had. the pigs in a car with them when arrested. ii Washington (U.R) Rep. Brooks Hays, made a new bid today to head off a bitter fight in the next session of Congress over civil rights legislation. Appealing to moderates on both sides to get behind a voluntary program for helping Negroes, Hays said in a statement: "We who have responsibility for a federal -policy must resist the temptation to play politics with i human rights and aspirations.

'Now we handle the FEPC. (Fair I Employment Practices commis sion) matter will determine whether or not the standards of Legion Sponsoring Tide Of Toys For European Children The American Legion in Ten-- ressee is going-to conduct an. acj tive Tampaign beginning Decern ber 26 called "Tennessee's Tide of Toys," according to Frank G. Cle ment, Department Commander of the American Legion for the state of Tennessee. Commander Clement stated that "the program is designed to make friends of America -out-of Europe's destitute Children of today who are the potential soldiers of tomorow." The plan for the Legion's "Tide bf Toys" is as follows: 1.

The 231 American Legion posts located in Tennessee's counties "are urged to start a drive to collect extratoys the day after Christmas. 2. Messages from America should be attached by the donor to each toy. 3. Shipment will be made by local Legion officials-to "The -American Legion, Pier 38 South, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" by prepaid express or freight.

4. Distribution of the toys will rbe -made by the organization CARE in most European countries. Any Legion post may dest-gate the particular country which It wants" the local toys dj5-(Continued on. Page 8) John T. (barter continue to insist on the extension of the franchise to the Negro in the South and the equalization of school facilities and services.

"We do this because Jt is our duty and justice demands, it. "Political bids for support of minority groups outside the South will not stop this progress; however, they will make the task more difficult and will play into thehands pf the extremists who, masquerading behind the claim-of states rights, would arrest the social and economic progress that has been so marked in the South iiiLrecentears." Troop 105 Gives Christmas Party EorLEuropean DP's Boy Scout Troop 105 entertained Thursday night at a Christmas party at "the Scout Hut for three families of European displaced persons. The three families of displaced persons all live in Rutherford county. They are the Kallin family from Latvia who reside in the Fairfield community; the Sprin-ces' who live with Burns Carrol and come from Latvia also, and the Tak family, being brought over from Estonia by Dr. E.

1 M. Goodman. Patients from the Veterans Jios-pital presented a musical program for the DP's. Other entertainment consisted of movies, record making, and" Christmas stockings for those attending. Harold Nygaard and Eddie Griswold Jr.

are the scoutmasters for the troop. Rites Tomorrow For J)onall B. Clark Funeral services will be conducted -in- Chattanooga tomorrow for 11-year-old Donald B. Clark who died there this morning following long illneos. The child was a native of Murfreesboro and the son of Mr.

and Mrs. George. Clark. The family moved Chattanooga a number of years ago. The funeral will be held at the White-Clark Baptist church at 2 p.m.

Survivors include Tan Aincle, B. R. Newsom of Murfreesboro. Among Victims; Texas Leads Tragic Race Chicago (UP.) Death- travelled the nation's highways today as thousands of holiday motorists headed homeward after the three0 day weekend. By noon, 444 persons had died in.

accidents acros3 the country since 6 p.m. Friday. Of, that lo-talj 318 were killed in traffic mishaps while 50 died in fires and Seventy-two others mea miscellaneous" accidents. with at least 60 deaths over the weekend so far, while California counted 44 deaths including 35 traffic fatalities. Texas had 28 highway deaths; New York reported 21 traffic deaths, Ilinois 19 and Ohio 18.

The death toll already had pass-" ed the mark of 422 fatal accidents set during the 1948 two-day hoh-, day, and far sin-passed (the 1947 total of 332. But it was well below the all-time high of 804 deaths" recorded during the 1949 Independence Day weekend. Forty-nine of the holiday vie-, tims were children. TheNationai Safety Council last week issued a grim prediction that 435 persons would be killed; in traffic accidents alone and the toll was expected to climb at least that high by nightfall when most vacationers will crowd onto the highways. Freezing rain was reported fall- ing in parts of Michigan early today- and weather forecasters said snow and rain falling in Illinois and Missouri and other midwest-crn states might turn into freezing rain later in the day.

Diiying conditions were hazardous throughout the. Valley ahd" the number of traffic fatalities soared as cars ekidded and crashed -into- eaclL- other on wet and icy pavements; The rain was expetced to reach the watersheds that fill New York. reservoirs but forecasters said there' wouldn't be enough of it to do the water-short city much good. Rain also fell in the Pacific Northwest as far south as North ern California. Light snows fell in America's "blizzard bowl" of Northern Utah, (Continued" fn Page -8) R.

II. Sniothemian Died Following i Brief Illness Richard Houston Smotherman, 80, died this morning in the Rutherford hospital here following a week's illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Woodfin Memorial chapel at 2 p.m. Kurfees Pullias, minister of the North Maple street Church of Christ, will officiate. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery here.

Mr. Smotherman had resided in the 19th civil district of this county until five years ago when he moved to Murfreesboro. He was a member, of the Church of His wife, Mrs. Evie Pinkerton Smotherman, died in 1929. Survivors include six.

daugh ters. Miss Ollie Smotherman, Mrs. O. P. Smotherman, Miss Mildred Smotherman, "Mrs.

Howard Reeves, Mrs. Adams, all of Murfreesboro, and Mrs. Mildred Hog-wood, Miami, three sons, Rollie, Butler and Richard Smo; therman, all of Murfreesboro; 14 grandchildren two greatgrandchildren. Rites Today For Mrs. Taylor At Fosterville Funeral services this afternoon at the Fosterville Church of Christ for Mrs.

Ro-. berta, Taylor, 28, who was shot to death by her ex-husband, Bob Tay-i lor here Christmas Eve. Clyde Gleaves officiated -and burial was in the Woodfin cemetery in Fosterville under the direction of the John Woodfin Funeral chapel and the Jennings and Ayers Funeral home. Born and reared in the Foster- MrsJTaylor was a member of the Church ot Christ Surviving are two daughters, Linda Fay 8, and Shirley Taylor, 2, and one-half years; one brother, Donald Powell her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Jordan Powell, Fosterville; a sister, Mrs. Eunice Lane, Smyrna; a grandfather, Will Fulton, andra grandmother, Mrs. Madge Powell, FoftervWe. A chef at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel manages a peek as the year's Roberta Taylor was shot to death about 8 p.m. Christmas Eve in the presence of two young daugh The woman was seven times as she was telephoning the police for help.

She had called the police station and was talking to sk Set. -Jack Ilerrod, when the bujlets piereed herodyv Sg't. Her rod said that the woman had just "reported that she was having a' little trouble with her former husband-when he heard a string of. shots which ended in the woman's scream. Asst.

Chief Paul Windrow and Officers rushed to the house in the patrol car and found the Worn-and lying- in the hallway of the home. Her daughters, Linda Fay, 8, and Shirley, 2 and one-half years, and her 14-year-old brother, Donald Powell, sat in the parlor weeping when police arrived. The attractive 28year-old wom an was pronounced dead on arrival at the Rutherford hospital Police, said that seven empty cartridges from a .32 caliber auto yiatic" pistol were lying on the floor around, the woman's body. Tavlor, who surrendered himself about an hour later, said that he had thrown the death gun into the Stones river. Taylor told police that he went to see his ex-wife and that he became enraged and ehot -her when she called for help.

Broken and sobbing, he told police yesterday that he wanted to see the woman's bullet-riddled body again before she was buried. Remorsefully he said that he i.had no intention of jhpotir.g his ex -wife' when he went to. her honve.Ile iohLpolice that he only went to see. his children. Taylor is being held in the Rutherford county jail here without bond, lite preliminary hearing will probably 'come Ocneral Sessions Judge John Rucker tomorrow morning.

Rutherford's third violent holi day death yas reported Sunday I morning when John T. (Red) Carter's body was found slumped over the wheel of his taxicab on a side road to the Walter Hill-Old Jefferson highway. Officers said all evidence Indicated that Carter was murdered and robbed early Christinas Eve. The investigating' officers, Sheriff Earl McKnight, Deputy Bill Petty and Constable Rube Wilson, said the man had apparently been battered about the head and killed, Carter, middle-aged Smyrna taxi operator, was found by" a paper carrier early yesterday morning on the Powells Chapel road 'nine miles north of Murfreesboro. A.

coroner's jury, under the direction of Coroner J. Richmond Jones, was scheduled to hold an inquest at 2. p.m. today. Constable Wilson said that Carter had, left Smyrna shortly after 7 p.m.

to take a passenger to the Hilltop Inn on the Nashville highway. Wilson said Carter later (Continued on Page 8) Final Rites For Ed M. Yearwood Held This IMorning Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today for Ed M. Yearwood, 73-year-old Murfreesboro contractor, at the Jennings and Ayers Funeral home here.

Rev. Wendell Price, pastor of ed. Burial was in the Dilton cemetery. Mr. Yearwood's body was found hanging in his barn late Saturday afternoon.

Police said he left a suicide nojte. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Homer Harris and Mrs. Clifford LAvis, both of Murfreesboro, Miss Annie Mae Yearwood of Jackson, Mrs. Kenneth Williamson1 of Shelbyville, Tenn.

and Mrso Claude Hibdon of Knoxville; two sons, Edward YearwoodL Murfreesboro, and William Yearwood, Manchester; three brothers, V. C-Yearwood, Fosterville, White and John. Yearwood pf Nashville; eight grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. WlfATHER FACTS Temperature at t- pm. 58.

Hiahest last 24 hours, 58. Lowest last 24 hours, 51. Sun sets tonight, 4:35. Sun rises tomorrow, 6:58. Precipitation, 01.

120 top New York City debutantes sing Christmas Carols while seated on the ballroom floor during-their gala "mass glittering Christmas ball cost invited patrons $12.50, and cost the delighted fathers something awful. (International) told police that he had come to talk to the man and bi'ihd him hanging in the barn. Yearwood had previously written a suicide note, contents ot which were, not disclosed. His lahnTyOTct no for an inquest into his death. Funeral services were held, this The county's lentaimng two fa talities were both murders.

Mrs. Debs Dehut Christmas tree and spread out of control within 15 minutes, raced through a dozen business houses arid several residences shortly after jlusk yesterday. Twenty-two fire companies from this mountain town and surrounding communities snuffed out the last of the -flames three hours Burgess Ernest Hardin estimated damage at "upwards of $500,000." But Police Chief Paul Wise arid Harvey Zeigler, local undertaker, both said they, believed a complete check would show losses of more than $1,000, 000. Firemen and state police from the. -Bedford, barracks -were, searching the ruins of the building where the fire started in an effort to locate Mrs.

Somers Fischer. No trace of the woman had' been oun 1 ames were quelled. Firemen reported that the blaze broke -but in a Christmas tree in an apartment occupied by Mrs. Fischer and her husband above one of the frame business houses. Fischer was.

being treated at Cumberland, Memorial hospital for severe burns. The other injured included Fischer's sister-in-law, Mrs. Bessie Beal, of Pitts-bil and two firemen from Corri-gansville? John Clark and Maurice Murray. Burgess Hardin said the heroism of switch-board operator Mrs. Helen Turner was instrumentann saving the town from possible total destruction.

While the flames licked within 100 feet of the telephone building cutting off lightsMrs. Turner remained to summon fire companies, police and ambulances. She had to work by flashlight after the power went off. Among the buildings destroyed Continued 6n Page 8) Entire, Business Section Of Town Gutted By Blaze statesmanship are as excellent as these times require." Both the House and Senate are tentatively scheduled to get to work on an FEPC bill soon after Congress reconvenes. Democratic Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois has said FEPC will be among the rnajor measures to be considered by the Senate.

In the Jlouse, an FEPC bil has been approved by the House Labor committee. It is scheduled to be taken up on the House floor. early in the perhaps late in January. "aysf-ff-Tnaae-eveHd-ipeeeh es in the first session of the 31st Congress urging a compromise in the civil rights controversy, said the "coercive and punitive" mea sures advocated by President Tru man and his administration would "impair, and tven destroy in dome industries the basic freedoms of both management and labor un ions." "For many months," he Baid, "I have advocated the adoption of non-coercive FEPC and other civil rights measures." "In opposing an extreme force (FEPC) bill, those of us Who believe that still further gains must be made by the Negroes in the South are not renouncing our goal oflthe elimination of discrimina tion in employment. "We believe that the principle of equal pay for equal performance should be applied and that wider job opportunities for Negro workers must be sought.

We will Cary Grant Weds Betsy Drake In Christmas Rites brant's Christmas present to Betsy Drake a wedding ring and a romantic flight the Arizona desert to find a preacher included only a 24-hour honeymoon today, The green-eyed bride must report back before the cameras tof morrow. Their sudden elopement late yesterday was a big surprise to their friends. The dimple-chinned actor has been "going steady" with Betsy for two years, but just when he would makeJier the third Mrs. Grant was auestrofiTthat'a been bothering Hollywood for months. Last April Grant admitted he'd popped the question to his young protege, but he, insisted she hadn't said yes yet.

said she wanted to wait until she'd proved she could be a sttir without her boy friend's help tconunuea on x-uge o) W. P. Sutton Dies Suddenly; Rites Held This Morning Funeral" services were held at 10 a.m. today for William P. Sutton, who died unexpectedly at his home, 540 East Lytle street, here yesterday.

Joe -H. Morris conducted the services which were held at the Woodfin Memorial chapel. Burial will be in the Mt. Olivet cemetery in Nashville7. Born and reared at LaVergne, hewas-the son of-the late Edward and Jane Lou Mullins.

He was a conductor on the Nashville, and St. Louis railway for 50 years prior toiiis-retirement in 1937. He had made his home in Murfreesboro for the past 20 years. He formerly resided in Nashville for several years. He was a past chairman of the Order of Railway Conductors.

Survivors include two daughters Mrs. J. V. Hindman and Mrs.W. A.

Mason, both of Murfreesboro, four grandchildren and threft Killed Saturday, Rites Tomorrow Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow for John T. (Red) Carter, 46-year-old Smyrna taxi operator, who was found beaten to death In his cab on the Walter Hill road Sunday morning. Services will be held at Rmurno Phnrph nf Christ. Klir.

And Two Ornate Snuff Boxes New Congressional Chambers To Be fees Pullias, minister of the North i Grander, But Quieter Maple street Church of Christ here, will officiate. Burial will be in the Mapleview cemetery, Smyr- na. under the direction of the Wal- on interior walls which have beeiiT4ie' House chamber was nrsi treated to absorb all the raucous occupied in 1857. Two years later t(r King Hoover Funeral home. 1 Survivors linclude two sten- Hyndman, Pa.

U.R Damage estimates rosejoward the mark today in the wake of a Xauistmas fire that leveled most of the easiness section here and threatened for a time to wipe out the town. One person was reported missing and feared dead. At least four other were injured and 55 persons were left homeless. The fire, which started in a Vice President John C. Breckin ridge led "a triumphal march" of senators into the.

new Senate 7 This is the first major reconstruction project in either chamber since they were first occupied. Fancy decorative effects in both chambers are limited to a frieze at the juncture of walls and ceiling and the national eagle emblem emblazoned in the center of the domes. Lynn said that ''although modernistic lighting, acoustics and air conditioning have 'been intro duced, the interior will still retain, the "grandeur- and simplicity" conceived by Dr. William Thornton, the original architect. The two traditional Senate snuff boxes which have rested in tiny alcoves on each side of the president pro tern's desk will be retained, Lynn said.

-The two ornate will be "filled with fresh snuff although nobody ever uses it now," Lynn daughters, Mrs. Louise. Pitts, Mur-I frWsboro. and Mrs. Billv Hendon.

Smyrna, and stepson, Charles Tenpenny, Murfreesboro. Israeli Parliament Convenes In Jerusalem' Jerusalem (U.R) The Israeli parliament meets here today In defiance of a. United Nations decision to internationalize the (Sty. Gaudier And Washington (U.R) Congress, the next time it meets, will -be gaudier and grander but quiet- i i -Its redecorated houses are about ready for the session meeting two weeks" hehcerThey're not complete and be until 1951. But the new roofs are onthe walls and have been treated to absorb some of the oratory.

the changes varies. Most congressmen haven't bothered totake a look yet. Some, like oldtlmer Rep. -William Lemke, R. N.

thought it all interesting but unimportant. Lemke took" a long look at the white dome and. frieze work ot the newe metal roof which- has replaced the old skylight in the House of Representatives the first change since before Abraham Lincoln day. "It's fine but a lot of brains never had to have plush and pretty houses," growled Farmer Lemke. Today decorators are tacking yards rich silk brocade -gold in the Senate, blue in tha House a th ca th th.

hit sounds and prevent echoes from the cries of House statesmen proclaiming triumph or outrage. Millions of tiny holes in the specially-treated walls and metal ceilings will swallow'' up harsh When the $5,000,000 remodeling project is finished, there won't be single echo Vn either place. In both houses, the skylights have been "taken, out and the steel beams which have kept the roofs from falling in. for 10 years have rbeen removed. State seals which redecorated the panes of the house skylight have discarded.

No longer wilLthev Jight in thje chambers or fade as the sun ducks in and out of clouds. In both chambers, coneave are ringed with indirect lights and air conditioning ducts. Capitol Architect David Lyhn says the job will be only. "70 per cent" completed by Jan. Work on the main House and Senate floors will be delayed until after the end the next session.

The meeting will be held in the assembly hall the three-story Jewish Agency building. From theFe( the activity of the Jewish underground was directed during 8 the British mandate. Only routine' legislation was on the urogram for todayjs ceremc- arial, meeting. But opposition ov earties hinted that they might try Th mwh motiohs of censure lot against Premier- David Ben Gu rion's government to force 'i freat-gvandchildren..