Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 1

n- -V -Vi i--'- as -1- nwiwmoyMiur mnni'din'v i "TV o'WWS -ir I V- 'V- -f 1 v- r-f-r 'W i Li-'" rf- 'V 1 VA A I I Consolidate Yew jChuckle v-' Wn U' -1ST Oa tka affle feullatla kill: aBrM4 ik Mac kwtiit i wm tty tk Mte th lUl akaaM ka aaa toa tot- Cay) GivingThrough Community Chest ESTABLISHED 1829 VOL NO 280 AUGUSTA MAINE SATURDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 26 1955 TDf PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Two Monmouth MONMOUTir NevT Twrf' children word Redly teJnred to day when the Meyele they were riding was ta eellUea with aa nntemeblle on the LewUtan In eeriene eendRien at den tral 'Maine General Heepttel far Lewfotde tonight were: 1 Donald Kinney 'll no sf Mr: end Mrs Freg Kinney and Lneilte Prent Id' danghter NEWRY Not Three persons were killed sod five others injured tarn criticslIj'T'In car-pickup truck collision hero this sftenioon CHEKIYPIELD FATAL And In another Occident at Cherryfleld a dairyman waa frlll-d when-hefril from a truck Hta passengers were Mrs Herrick Miss tho Willard boy end Lejolc Landry-and-McLean-zrero-na BusTrain WASHINGTON Nor 25 Interstate Commerce Commission' ruled todaj tha racial segregation in train am bus travel between the states Is unlawful HISTORIC ACTS rdend aa end to tho KparaUoo white ptnou jud Hcgroca od lntcrsUt trains and buses and la public watting noma serving the transportation line The ICC has boon grappling with the problem for 6S pears Today's decisions a course already established by the Supreme Court although the court aaa never Issued a flat baa -on all segregation Interstate travel' Until bow the IOC has iaactiooed the principle of separate but equal accommodations for the races administering the Interstate Commerce Act But tt said in today's rulings: disadvantages to a traveler who Is assigned accommodations or faculties so designated ns to Imply his Inherent Inferiority solely because of bis raco must ba regarded under present conditions as unreasonable be Is entitled to be free at oneoynncee aome petty and im ntniitiii which in evttabiy accompany aegregntioa oven though the rail carriers moot of the defendants have done here sincerely try to provide both nods with equally convenient and comfortable care and watting REST ROOMS The ruling appUedlo nil faculties provided by the carriers for Inter state travelers This would Include seat rooms If they were put The commlseioa said tt voted on the segregation Issuo Nor 7 The drisy In not announcing until today was not unusual The commission sot Jan 10 aa tho effective data The IOC ruling has im effect on intrastate trnvri-that is within 'one state-end 13 states have lawi Georgia Louisiana- Mississippi Photo by Leighton EARLY BIRD Friday's Ideal ahopplng weather (14 degrees hut sunny) brought out throngs of residents eager to spend their money and get Jump on Santa Left to right ought with their arms loaded In a scena remlnlaeent ef Christmas Eve are Mary McTadden xileen Murphy France Rieturos To Uft Algerian Issue Dropped' UNITED NATIONS NY Nov 8 The UJY Assembly and France today dramatically ended their raw-over Algeria The Assembly unanimously dropped Algeria from lta 1955 agenda Prance called off its boycott Tho break fa the deadlock meant Franco will resume the test fa the Assembly from which Foreign Min- thony Mass fa in fater Antoine Ptaay nngrfly stalked -very critical" condition at Cen-right weeke ago tonight Pinay tral Maine General Hospital Lewiston suffering from shock Lionel Lejote-Jtv 23-of 42 or 46 Morgan St Worcester In the Rumford Hospital with multiple fracturey of face bones Miss Erlene Ferren 21 of 42 Morgan St Worcester in the same hospital with fractured toes both feet ON SLIGHT" CURVf Both vehicles were demolished in the crash a "alight" carve brat six miles north of Route 2 at Newry State Trooper Allen Weeke uld Wight who served two terms in Tho end of boycott over Al-state Legislature wu driw selectman former state legislator and dance hand leader Mrs Claude Herrick 64 Wight's housekeeper -Joseph Me Lean 78 of 88 Myrtle St Portland 1 Clayton Gay about Si of Chernrfleld a dairyman The Injuredf Mbs Erlene 'Ferrari 21 of 82 Morgan St Worcester Mesa fractured toes of both feet In Rumford ComMmlty Hospital Michael Landry 70 of Day-ton St Portland la the seme hospital with fractures of both legs and ribs George Willafd 15 of 121 Aa- -The-deadr Lon Wight 73 of North Newry tag the ear on Route 26 according to Trooper' John Marshall News In jt Toby Goldberg Elaine Morphy "Biggest Season nod Sara Coughlin all of Augusta -J J- turning taJhgtljmdjfltrXandry part worker for the Sanden Engineering Co in Portland -h cempleted an errand fra the firm in New Hampshire Mrs Landry aid last night Marshall said both vehicles remained upright after the crash He said the highway in foothills of the White Mountains wu clean and dry Wight wu dead on arrival at tho Lewiston Hoe-PitaL Mrs Herrick wu killed Instantly' And McLean died In -the Rumford HoapitaL Mlu Ferren and Lejole and the Willard youth had been with Mlu parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Ferren also of Worcester on a visit to North Newry over Thanksgiving Joseph Ferren and Wight were brotbere-ia-law a relative ef Wight tald The Willard boyJa a cousin of Lejole Wight had served as Newry selectman for 27 years and for years wu chairman He and his brother Fled Wight operated a sawmill until about ten years ago The accident victim was a'lead-er "Lon Wight and His Old a hand widely known fa th Newry area The Cherryfleld dairyman Gey was fatally injured white rushing to finish deUrreies ho could go hunting Ho died tonight fa a Bangor hospital after falling from a delivery truck driven far Hampy Michaud at Oraae Brief hidden In the Eisenhower ai Dixan-Yates on-tract that hie Sen-at rabeommtt-tec for tt Water Street Merchants Beaming As tamers serin to have a happier outlook this year There's more money available wtth employed" Kata' aooed Vernon Segal uld hie atom's business wu way ahead of last aeaaoa' "It has been giinlng la steady leaps fre uld McLeuy's clothing sjore -already besieged with requests for sweaters fingertip cute and gtoveg noted Tmere activity" In front of the counters 'If we could only get everyone In tho city conscious about trading In Augusta Wo'd go ever the top like nobody's business" Robert1 Dl McLeary emphasized "We still lose quite a bit te eut-of-tewn atom" CONFIDENCE TOTE PARIS Nov 25 Fighting a desperate battle against -opponents of early elections and enemies of the government's general policies Premie Edgar Faure today asked for enotber retie of confidence to speed work TIRED TOURISTS be wreckage ef tte Ho aided Antimonopoly Intends to teat ICG Chairman 'GETTYSBURG Fa Nov 8 I --President Eisenhower todky accepted the resignation of Hugb-W? Crou Interstate Commerce Con mission chairman whoao actions had come uadtTteenittay of Sea-aterfarestlgators resignation aa chairman and commission member jrna made effective immediately It -wu submitted far Crou under date of tost Wednesday Crou fa a 59-yeiurold minofa Ra publican a two term lieutenant governor who waa appelated by President Truman to the ICC Much I 19(9 to fill out aa unex-pired term and wu reappointed to a seven-year term fa 1950 Hr became chairman of th ICC last June undef the system by which ICC members rotate fa the i chairmanship Crou uld flf his fatter of migration that the charges 'agafait him were baseless but: "I am realistic enough to know that unfounded as they are tho mere pendency of such charges impairs my further service on tho commtasion and its proper fenc tioniag in the public interest" The Senate Investigations tub- -committee beaded by Sen Me-Lellan (D-Ark) has been looking Into tho award of a contract by a group of railroads to Railroad Transfer Service Inc of Chicago Tho contract was to carry railroad passengers in buses between Chicago railroad atationr and had been freld for many years far tte A Parmetee Cq of Chicago Parmelee pretested strongly when tt fast the contract effective last Oct 1 Crou was questioned behind closed doors early this month There hu been no formal dte-(Cratlaned ra Pago 6-Col 6) HitBy Shot on of them aa! were wounded in accidents Albert 11 at Augusta fa tte foot far a bullet companion's riffa He to' Brunswick Hospital Sheriff Edward Brian- Joined Warden Supervisor and Wantea Cecll Ben the said came from a rifle which accidentally while being far Robert Dolrou 17 Patrick Bosse II Albert Jr 12-Augusta the wounded boy were occurred near tte Bowdoiaham-RIchmoad line Just Belanger aafd hunter was Injured a slUgacckfantally ricocheted from a rock him ia the faft thigh Supervisor Arthur Rogers Nutt of Fairfield waa Sisters' Hospital Wat-ervUfa holding th rifles of when his owa a accidentally discharged WEATHER CLOUDY Partly cloudy and colder Saturday with snow flurries over elevations Sunday increasing cloudiness with little temperature with a enow likely principally north portions Sunday Nev 8 Bureau maximum temperatures 12 hours and minima hours ending at 7:8 Max Min Mrs WoodwarilClQared Of Blame in Husband's Death Mr Billie Conwjat TK Tt Adams eeametke counter said "I don't know whore they all com TRAFFIC JAMS Water Struct traffle congestion caused Patrolman Arnold Barrett to comment "Thta Is pretty indicative ef what's coming In Traffic anarla were common especially ground Haymarket Square Cony Hill and Commercial Street It wu apparent that phenomenal buslncii wu the order of the day Friday And If the merchants' predictions am accurate till be a boom holiday buying season right np te Christmas Eve uld today that the immediate causa of death was a ingle tiny shotgun pellet uly a Uttie larger than the head of a pin It hrajn and erased a hemorrhagehe fte doctor added that Woodward remained alive for about 15 minutes although unconscious The grand Jury heard 81 witnesses during its one-day session fa this Long Island suburb of New York City PROWLER -Beridca MrarWoodward they fa-eluded Paul Wirtha 22-year-oid German refugee He had admitted earlier to police that be had previously invaded the Woodward estate breaking into garage and a balhhouu near the swimming pool Wirtha alee uld that shortly before the shooting he had scaled some trees leaped onto the roof directly above the Woodward's bedrooms and was blundering nobly around the roof when 'he heard Ufa shotgun blast that killed the millionaire Wirtha added that he then fled The pend Jury finished hearing testimony at 4:55 pm approximately alne hours after tt took the cue' At 7:41 pm tte deliberations tho Jury left Its chamber tho third floor of the Nasuu County eourtbouuTht five mea-all married-end 17 men1 on the (Continued an Page S-CeL I) geria came swiftly In these developments: Tbe Assembly's Political Committee met fa aa extraordinary seven-minute session and approved a motion far Hr Krishna Menon to drop the Algerian Item 2 The Assembly itself met next la plenary session and within five minutes approved the action of the political committee No one spoke difridg that period "and opposition votq was recorded President Jose Max a Chileaa diplomat who played a major role la the aefatfatfanf -announced Jbe result with obrious utfatactioa 8- Pinay Informed 'Ufa' French Cabinet fa Paris -and tha Cabinet deelded-en France'ar'Jwtura to the Assembly Pinay emphasized that France had not asked for action but printed rat tt wu man-expressed thanks to thou who worked hard to obtain tt French Premier Edgar Faure issued a statement on his owe saying: decision to inscribe (the Algcrfaa question on tho agenda) was shocking- Tha decision which has Just been taken satisfying I rejoice at the same time for France which fa happy to resume Us place in the Assembly and fob the organization of the United -Nations whose position comes back to conformity to the Charter which governs it COMPROMISE Some diplomats explained privately the compromise wu reached Franco can take pert in tho vote for the admissioo ef countries to the UJf The membership question fa a burning issue fa the Assembly and delegates of various ehadea of opin-uld the absence of France from the Assembly might endanger plans to take fa the II new members Krishna Menon India's top delegate and -foreign affairs adviser to Prime Minister Nehnr was hailed far several speakers for thinking up' the formula approved today Ho has worked too problem forweeks Delegatee also paid tribute to the assembly president and to two Latin Americas leader Franc is-eo Urrutia of Colombia and Raphael do la Collna of Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma Te tho greatest array of merchan- disc la many a moon owners qf marts along teeming Water ctreet nil agreed yesterday hnri-nesa waa humming Even the Santa Claus elllgles seemed to he shaping up bluer than Igft Them were mem of them and In bigger rises "Friday's business (up to pm) wu tremendous" said Burchril manager of MeLel- r- "Thinp began popping list Wednesday end people back at the dome when we ope ed Friday morning People seem to be everywhere have -yen noticed? Our stock this year Is heavy because we're banking on a betterthan-ever year" ha said Mm Florence Philbrlck manager of the local Bell Shops atari has already added five extra sales ladies and plane to Increase her force to Bine soon "Business was exceptional Friday" was her comment as she fought to untangle the snail at the counters At Wrist's and Sisters where rush for cocktail dresses and dinner gowns preceded Charity Ballsiest night shoppers-gathered in knots cause froth store owners to say business wu "outstanding" "BEST YET" Wilson Fuller manager of mage's took a well-aimed shot at tho buying bullaeye-and said his business wu "best yet" At Nlcolson and Ryan Bennett Katz said people are looking end mom important" gifts such television seta and diamonds 'People have waited aU year to splurge and they're interested In gifts that cost hundreds of dollars Tho clerks and cue- Texas South Carolina and Virginia In them states the railroads would Otu have to supply aepante watting rooms' and separate passenger aceommodatttmn for whites and Negroes if they comply with atete law Thu the situation would arise of a rtOroid being forbidden by the IQC to separate and Whttes fravrilajf acmes state lines Tand having to separate those traveling from one print to another within the state SUPREME COURT A IMS Supreme Court decision ruled against a Virginia law requiring aegregntioa within theoiate of bus passengers la Interstate travel bolding that this was aa unduo burden on Interstate commerce That decision limited to a hue case did not motion railroad passengers but it geaerhlly was interpreted as broad enough to cover all interstate travel by bus or trsln While the Supreme Court in the IMi Virginia case said segregation ef interstate bus passengers 'Waa nncoustltutionsi the broader ICC ruling today was directed at practices of specific railroads The IOC decision comes at time who Southern states are poo-(Coetiaued am Page S-CoL I) Red Feather Thermometer on the election MIL The rotate scheduled for Tuesday AMBUSH ALGIERS Algeria Nev 28 A rebel bend usbnahed a party of traopa la eastern Algeria yesterday and killed two soldiers Two at tte gaerril-lu ate wefi iUh JETS FOR ISRAEL PARIS Nov 8 UT-An authors bed spokesman uld today some of the dower French Ouragen Jt fighter planes hare been deliver? ed to IsraeL He reported this after a responsible source in Rome said that eight to ten French Jets had passed through -Clampino Airport there en route to Israel In tte put 48 hours COTTON WASHINGTON Nev 85 tft-Tte American Cotton Mean-fact arere lutitnte today probed Japanese governuent cube ra 'exports at' cotton textile predoete tat eeotinaed to can fora sod Import control system en foreign textiles WING TANKS PALL WILMINGTON Del Nov 8 Two wing tanks from a Delaware Air National Guard Sabre Jet plane fell in the heart of nearby Newport DeL today damaging one building hut injuring no one In tte community of 4000 DBON-YATES WASHINGTON Nov 25 (Ft Sen Kcfanvcr eald today a "criminal conspiracy Involving a number of hlgh-raakiag per- POONA ladle Nov Two tired Soviet leaders arrived today In one ef tte meat famous centers of a put Premier Nikolai Bulganin looked worp out te arrived in Poena at the halfway mark In his Indian tour The (usually talkative Soviet Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev' tat with his eyes half doted at almost in (lienee PLEDGE UNITED NATIONS Nev 25 The United Stater renewed today a pledge never to nse any weapons "atomic or otherwise" except In defease gainst aggression Fail in Try To Rescue 30 On Grounded Ship HALIFAX NK Nov 8 (Ft-A helicopter fatted in snow squalls to rescue crewmen from the decks of tte grounded Liberian freighter Kismet today But tt put lines aboard for a perilous try at getting them ashore far breeches buoy The 3M-tou ship lay helpless and la danger ef foundering under the towering cliffs of northern Chper totoa fa battering storm conditions Aa expert uld even the outlook for rescue by tte old-fashioned breeches buoy method seemed bleak '-L" i The helicopter was stepped dead in the air tt tried to reach' the ship to pick tiw men off the decks The Navy helicopter warned to Sydney (5 ptlles away to pick up breeches buoy gear and two experts from the Navy's Halifax dockyard Tho ship wu about 500 feet offshore from the Jagged cliffs Police searchlight were naked to the scene for light rescue efforts Tte breeches buoy la a basketilke chlr that travels along a rope between ship and shore The Kismet grounded early to- city day a few miles east of Cape St AUGUSTA Lawrence about 8 miles north- Boston orthwest of Sydney and about 15 Chicago mite from the 'nearest populated Los Angeles aettlemcntef any-oil She wtf Miami' hound from" Philadelphia' to Sum- NctrYOrr" Hunter Accidental Twoi hunter Augusta Friday Raymond was wounded from waa taken for treatment Deputy get who Roy Gray fa investigating the bullet discharged loaded also ef Augurta Two others and Rene brother of ia the party The ahooffng off Bte 24 A Fairfield at Unity when discharged end struck Warden raid: Roland treated at Nutt waa' two companions 8M0 was THE MAINE somewhat few light higher change in little light over tte afternoon BOSTON Weather for for 18 pm EST: A pre-Chrisfoaaa buying spree began with a vengeance nt meat Water afreet buslnesa ettablisb-ments Friday with cerii regiaten Jangling In tempo with chantt sentiments that This will be the biggest aeaaoa yet' Why all the rush? Mott State and Federal work-era had the day off to begin with And Jhe streets were Jammed with college etudente home for the holiday The temperature was S4 and sunny I HUMMING With stockrooms bulging with Gar Missing Dealer Reports An Augusta automobile dealer wu minus a IBM Bvlck red-and-whlte four-door hardtop Friday which had been given to an Interested buyer to "read on Thanksgiving Day The prospective' buyer left behind a 1959 Oldsmobll hearing Maine plate Blouln Jr owner- ef BloutaBuick fold Jugurt appellee Friday that a man drove np Thanksgiving Day Indicating he wanted to trade for a IBM Bulck -He asked Blouln If he could try out the car by taking it to Bangor Neither the car nor the operator hu shown up anywhere State and local police have been alerted to watch for 'the 1B56 car bearing dealer'! plates 180-R Blouln uld the man told him he came from Minnesota but wu going to work for a paper company In northern Maine Complete Up-to-date SERVICE DEPT YOUNG'S' TV Stone St Dial MAS-BUB Kennebec Valley Cenunnnlty Chest flZMH Pledged to date IlltaflJi ITT 5-Pfsce $3900 DINETTE SETS Frank Pomcrleau State Lenrel Stfc Aegmta MACOMBER FARR WHITTEN INSURANCE ij TRWD ANY amount WHERE Depart ten Trust Bldg Angiaato DIAL S-4S7I MINEOLA NY Nov 8 W-Mm Au Woodward wu found legally hlameleu tonight in the shotgun killing of her miUioaalra-aportamaa A Nasuu County grand Jury de liberating 41 minutes held that them wu crime Involved in the Oct 8 slaying of 8-yearold William Woodward Jr owner of the racehorse Nashua Mrs Woodward spent mom than three houra in the grand Jury chambers However only part of that time wu spent In the witness chair where she repeated her account of the shooting as a tragic accident By its decision the grand Jury accepted her account of the death SOBBING The blonde 19-year-old former how giri wu virtually carried from the building after the Jury finished its chore She wu sobbing convulsively and had to be supported Her condition at the climax of the sensational cau appeared even than It had been when she entered the grand Jury chambers earlier Then her head wu bowed and she wu sobbing She wu dressed entirely In black Including- a black hat and a veil She wore no makeup and the only color about her except for her blonde tresses wu a white handkerchief clutched to her face 'On four different occasions including her grand Jury appear ance the Kansas-born Mrs Woodward told essentially the same atory She said she wu In dreadful fear of a prowler who wu active la the vicinity of the Woodwards' Oyster Bay estate the weekend of the killing Both she and her husband aimed themselves with shotguu when they returned from a party early Oct JO in honor of the Duchess of Windsor Thu armed they retired to separate first floor bedrooms oa opposite aides of a 10-foot-wido hallway Mrs WoodwanJ -she wui awakened by the barking ofa family poodle teal with fririta icMeu he grabbed the gun as she leaped from her bed and fired blindly fate the hallway fa the direction of a heard Her husband nude med in his own bedroom doorway wu hit in tho head far one of her shotgun charges Dr Theodora Corphey Naa-w County medical examiner SHOPPING DAYS LEFT Htlp Fight TE L-Bvy Christmas StoffJ ertide PEL Phoehlx DAILY ALMANAC Sun Rises 6:48 Bm Sun Sets 4:04 pm Day1! Length 9:16 Day's Decrease 6:17 AT- Beales PUIHING BUSINESS SALE 14 Bridge Sfn Auguste We art Oela EVERY NIGHT UNTIL 9 PM LeVelleo Photo IF ITS Youngsters appeared on ponds and marshes Friday td their first hating at the season Taking advantage at the skating conditions at Manchester were left te rlgttt Joseph Childs ll Jean Lamkln 14 Carole Ann Grant 9 and Irene Davie 18 But youngsters have been cautioned to avoid skating ever deep wafer where the ice still and It Isn't In most place -v-i V-- -'W'j V- 'li y- Va 1 I 1 I 'a 1 (A'g -'to i ite fe to.