1954, August 24 - Senate Election by Journal Inc

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Volume 84. - Number 128.

Tupelo, Mississippi, Tuesday Morning, August 24, 1954.

Member Audit Bureau of Circulations

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Drought Aid May Be Sought In This Area ..

It Happened In

Mississippi 22,000 Negro Voters JACKSON.-Attorney General J. P. Coleman estimates that 2.2,000 Negroes are quallfied to vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Coleman said the estimate was based on a poll of county vote registrars. It amounts to fo_ur per cent of the state's total estimated voting strength of 525,000. Coleman said 13 counties have no qualified Negro voters. Coun· ties with the heaviest Negro vot· ing strength include Coahom"'. with 1,200; Washmgton, 1,700, Warren, 1,400;· and Jefferson Dav is. 1221.

State Farm Leaders Will Meet Today To Consider Plight Of Farmers In 47 Counties

JACKSON, Miss. , Aug. 23 CUP) Agricultural leaders meet her e Wednesday to consider recommending North Mississippi as a drought disaster area. Reports from tbe state's 82 counties indicated the counties north of Highway 80 from Vicksburg to Meridian are hard hit by the lack of rain. The state's six-member Drough t Committee will confer with Agriculture Commissioner Si Corley on the designation of disa ster areas for possible federal relief. The recommendations will be

turned over to Go v. Hugb White after the meeti ng. White will seek federal drought aid on the basis of the r ecommendation. Tom Patterson, head of -the U.S. Agricultural St ablization and Conservation Office for· the State , said today the county reports indicate the drought is severest in th(! northern counties. He called the situation "the worst I've seen in years." All or part of 47 counties a r e in. eluded in the nortl1ern area considered the most critical.

Injunctions Are Sough1· l·n Liquo.r Crackdown/·

Ike Confident ·OJ Support ·For GOP Congress

l'uil United Press Leased Wtre

Senate Election May Pull Fewer Tnan 200,000 Votes

Lauds Recent Sessio~ For 'Excellen·t Job;' Sees Prosperity Ahead

. DENV~:R, Aug. 23 (UP)-President Eisenhower h e a r ti l v commended the po licies of his ••human administration" to the America n electorate tonight, advocating that the voters keeo the Republicans · in powe r in the House and Senate this fall. The cliief executive, in a homey review of the accomplishments of the 83rd Congress, told a nationwide radio and tt levision audience that the GOP should remaii;i. in con gressional control to insure the . completion of the administra tion's '· program for "a stfonger America ." While the Pre si dent' s speech was ] obviously a stout plug for the Re· publican record this year in th e House and Senate. he took the occasion to allay fears over the apparent near-collapse of the 'l'!luropean Defense Community . He told his countrymen, "don't be too discou raged" liy " gloomy predictions about Euro p e" which he said were currently filling the 1 newspapers. He was particularly proud of SENATOR JAMES 0. EASTLAND is shown in .. Tupe'lo prior to his appearance at a Northeast Misthe administration's fiscal policies siss ippi rally Monday night at the fairgrounds. From - left to right are P. J, Phyfer, New Albany; Tom as reflected in the tax revision bill Hunt Cole, New Albany; Senator Eastland; Claude F. Clayton, Tur)e lo. -Staff Photo by Chriss which he said would save Ameri- 1 * • • • •· ~ * • • O cans $?, 4oo,OOO,OOO. · · I

Heated Race -

Ends With Each Claiming Vietory · Gartin's ·'Friends': And Eastland Record Are , Debated Till End

JACKSON. Miss .. Aug.' 23 (UP\ About 200,000 .Mississippians are 1 expected to vote tomorrow in a I Democratic primary that has seen 1 the most heated senatorial cam: paign since the early l940s. ii ACKSON. - Three Gulfp<?rt Both Sen. James 0. Eastland yo uths, arrested on reckless dr1v· 'l'emporary injunctions asking Chancellor William Inzer in Ponand Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin wound in.g and wh isky charges, _escaped the closure of three no rth Lee to toc. ' up .their stumping tours tonight from Dade County Jail m Tren· County establishments charged Mr. Carr said the county would with last-minute appeals to voteu ton Ga., today. with selling liquor will be sought seek permanent injunctions reover te levision and radio - EastSheriff F. c. Graham sa)d the Friday in chancery court, Coun- straining the defendants from viland from Tupelo and. Gartin at men were Monroe Evans; his bro· ty Attorney Dudley Carr said olating the state's liquor laws if Meridian. the t emporary injunctions are ther, Eugene Evans; and Jesse L. Monday. Eastland, who spoke at Raleigh The petitions. filed by Mr. Carr granted. _ Yarbrough. and Holly Springs earlier in the and District Attorney W. P. MitThe injunctions, if granted, day, predicted he would win by Graham said they apparen_tly j00,000 votes , Gartin. who met vot~ pried a bar from a windo'J:'. usm,g chell, ask injunctions against the would restrain the defendants Merle Murphy, Rad Palmer and from violating Mississippi's prohters at Bay Spring, Raleigh Taylora pipe to:rn from a stove m t1:eir Cecil Searcy establishments. AF bition laws at the three establishville and Mt. Olive,- said he would cell of the second floor of the Jail are located on Highway 45 bements. The petitions fq,r the court carry !Yl counties and win by 25,000 building. The sheriff said the votes. three tied blankets together and tween G':lntown and Baldwyn. , action ask that the de.fendants b t A _hearing on the petitions for placed under two . year bonds to Widely scattered afternoon and. lowered themselves to the ground. evening thundershowers were foreThe three were arrested W~d- the mJunct1ons 1s scheduled for m sure thell' observance of the cast for most of the state for the nesday night and charged w:1th election. The U. S. -Weather Bureau reckless driving and transporting Friday morning, Aug. 27, before pr~~bi~i:~. ~:~~\i;ing of the in- b1·c:p~wok1·etai·11bhgo~~oennt~~apii~:;rs"t:1t1F~1~ 1 at Jackson said tempentures will whisky. The sheriff said a check I junct ion proceedings was taken · range in the middle 90s with a. writing machi11e and. a bu~dle of little cooler weather in the northern f~/t;~~~:~:~~~fs~1~!~~teH:a~;tJ a~:!r!~~gre~i;al .~~;J~~OJH checks were round m their car. portion and along the Gulf coast. Lee County sheriff's officers have government pa yrolls. "This ts a . The 40-year-old lieutenant goversearched all three repeatedly and human administration." He called for an amendment nor will go to his home at Laurel h ave been "diligent " in thei r efHe al so reported with obvious Senator James 0 . Eastland Eastla.nd made his appeal to the fort s to prevent liquor traffic. pride that because of a stei·n pro- Mond ay night said his attendance fanner and emphasized his back- to the Constitu ;;Jn, curbing of the to vote tomorrow and will return · JACKSON.- A Misissippi Navy " Because of the persistency of gram of whacking federal spend· r ecord ln Wa shington was better ing of high ·support p'r ices for 'the Supreme Courrs power and an to Jackson to await election returns: :flier was killed in the crash of ' organization in .the South which with members of his campaign law violations committed at these ing , "we are now well on the way than some of Mississi ppi's great- Southern producer. his propeller-driven fighter near In other highlights of\11is speech would fight abolishment of · se- staff. Eastland was to retur n to hig places and because 6f numerous to a balanced budget-twp_ thirds est senatoi·s and that his oppoAtlantic City, N.J., Monday. home at Doddsvllle tonight and . · complaints from. neighbors, we of the way." , nen t had resorted to "desperate Senator Eastlan·d lashed out at gregation laws. The Senator explained his stand plans to remain there through the The Navy said 25-y ea r-o 1 d h ave t ak en t h is means to seek a Proud as he was of the 1egtsla,. measures" in · order to win the the CIO, the ADA and the NAACP saying "they have tr ied on social security, REA and old vote counting. clo sure of these places as estab- t\ve record ~m whi ch GOP congres- election of U. S. sena tor. Ralph S. Kiry of ~ulfport. an '.l'he senior senator said "the real ensign died when h1s F-4U Cor· lishments wh. ere liquor may be s10nal candid. a tes must stand this Speaking before some 1,500 on- to drive a wedge into ow· south- age pensions, saying legislation he had enacted in Congress ·had issue" in the election Tuesday " is; obtained." Mr. Carr said. fall, the President was frankly lookers at the Tupelo fail'grounds, ern culture.'' !air n~sed over and crashed as he Named defendants in the in- 1" disapp~inted " that the 83':d Con- - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - made possi ble many improve- whether the national CIO, the was returning to Pomo~a N1!-va1 ments concerning these. He also Americans for Democratic Action, Air Station from a routme flight _junction proceedings against the gress did not complete his pro-claimecl. credit for introducing a and the NAACP can elect a sena_t.or towing an air gunne11y ~arget. Palmer place were: Rad Palme r; gram. · " bill abolishing taxes from the sa- in Mississippi." Kirby was to be. 1;1arr1ed Satur: A Arch ie Palmer described as Pal He said the answer w.as em· · . · •J ACKSO N , Miss., ug. 23 (UPl, - h t· n 1o" to the que stion of , laries of American soldiers durHe said those groups "have tried day to Miss Patnr.ia Blanton or The special session of the Legisla- ·mer's father· Cecil Griffin nam- P a ica Y ! . ing the wa.r a nd said he was an to drive a wedge into " our Southern Egg Harbor City, N. J . ture which opens Sept. 7 will be ed a s the o:...,ncr of the Palmer whether hi s program was com· author of the GI Bill. culture and believe "they have a requested t.o consider 10 s ubjects pr~per ty ; . and James B. Pettit, pl ete. He ~a id _Congress ~iust bend , . . The majority of Se'nator East- foot in the dot,1r." . 1 in addition .to the constitution al sa id to he an employe. ' new effoits m January . to J;)Ut . . ' land's speech concerned price " Well, I am here to tell you that O ~ , amendment to permit abolishing The Palmer place; l ocated 011 ~cross such v 1 at_ 11 e legislative DENVER, Aug. 23 (UP) - Presi- to pay for salary increases." support laws which he said he foot is going to be cut off a s clean -, TtALEIGH.-A 50-year-nld Polk- public school s, Gf v , Hugh White Hi ghwa y 45 midway between 1loms JI ~ re vision oE the. Taft-Hart- den t E ise, 1howe1· today vetoed ,a · 'l'l1 e President arrived at bis lj:U lll· Waf bac.lting _ire Washjngton with a,s a guilloutine •.vhen the peopl.e.,,a.o. 1 \ ,ville, Mississippi ' wotnan was kill- said •i.oday. l . , , CJ•,n ' ~·,,in and Baldwyn, was de- lcy lab,J.r la_w a nd, his health re· hil_l gr anting a ,five pe1· cent pay mer Wlute House oHlces .at Lowry all his power. , · ·· to the polls tomorrow," Eas tland' <1 ed a,,d h er husband !njur,ed. last TJ1c governor said he expects the scnbed rn the proceedings as a msuran~e php,. ,raise to 1,750,000 postal and olher Air Force Base today before 8 a .m . "There are 15 men i n the Sen- said, "We are going to show those He said.he th?ught current gl_oom federal· workers. . . . . He conferred . shortly thereafter a te who control the agricultural pressure groups fh at the old South , night in an aut?mob1!e ai::bdent sessiqn to last about three weeks. ''combination store and residence near their home m Smith County. Most of his requests are non-con- and tomist court." , over conditwns m Europe-obvwus- It was the President's ftrst maior with Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R- w-ogram of this country," he said. still lives in Mississippi, and we Mrs Jeesie Keen Hawkins died troversial. The injunct10n petition, charged ly the current state of near col- veto since takmg office. NJ), chairman of the Far East s·ub- I am ,one of those 15 men. " want them t.o stay out of our state." 1 in th~ accident. Sheriff A. E. They include salary inc1·eases for tlrnt on three occasions defend- lapse of. the European . De~e.nse In a long men:,orandum of disap· committee of the · Senate F oreign At present, he stated, tlus group Gartin ~ i s mi s s e d Eastland' s I Bounds said her husband appar· circuit and chancery judges where ants in the case have b~en found Comm umty were no\ fully JUSt)fted I prov al the Preside nt con~eded the Rela tions Committee , tackled . a stands at an eight to seven dead- charges as "flimsy campaign tac! ently lost control oi his car and to nut the state's gas ex'ecution in possession of liquor at the He asked the fmencan pubhc to i need for such }alar_y ,!ukes. bJ!1 t mass of paper work and put the fin- lock. He warned tha t the Eisen- tics" and again de nied he is conwmrned into a tree The car chamber hi r i n g of additional P almer place. They are listed as have la_ith m. a }ot of ~ur go~d lab'eled the bill unwise 111 that t ishing touches to his · radio and hower administration w as at- trolled by " pressure groups." ·ned. . . ·. guards f;,r the maximum security follows: Rad P almer on June 5 , fnends m Eu1ope. He said he was "ignores the necessity !or revenue television report to the nation to- tempting to reduce the high price , . He said :E;astlan~ ha_d a.~tend!)d _to bul · ht th 1· h I . . A h. p 1 ' confident !hat a way out of lbe 1fHawkins was hospitalized w1!h cell block at Parchman Penitent1- 1954 , . re 1c a mer, Aug. 7, current EDC stalemate would be mg on e accomp is ments o suppo rt laws he was backing and his senatorial du bes m an md_ that if he were not re-elected the ferent and apathetic way." bruises at Jackson. Bounds said ary, authority for the Bu1ldiJ1g l 954; and James Pe ttit, Aug. 14, f d · Congress. · b emg · ·· · · ·tam · s t ~ t e- 1954_· _ mm . Congress h a d approve d t·h e 31 advantages for the farmer woul d "I challenged him ~ime and again an investigation 1s ma d e of Comm1ss1011 .t o se lJ eel , The · chic£ executive was 1,lghly . . I to d_efend that record and. to try the ~rash. o_wned_ land 111 Jackson , clar1{1~a- . Rad ~alrner 1s facmg grand !auditory of tbe 83 rd Congress and million dollar pay raise bill Friday be l ost. I :i'I hons m the homestead exemptw11 J~ry action on a third • offen se said a ll Amencans should salute _ night during fts rush toward adHe pointed to the price support · to fmd,, any~mg .=c:pg with my cott d . . record , Ga1. tin. sai d, bµt he ne ver law, lo_cal and pn~ate bills, and liquor charge. _Conviction_on such the work'-of the House and Senate journ men t, despite administration program covering . .on, auy offered, to do either." correction of errors 111 school lunch- a charge carne~ a pemtentiary for the past two year s. protests that the bill did not include products, and other basic comma'I'I ·t G t· 'd •• · · · .. · 1e vo ers, ar 111 sat. • see " JACKSON.-Bids on 11 projects room appropnat1ons ~nd l~ealth sentence as_ pumshme~. . He characterized the record ol companion postal rate increases to dities as v;el! a h" bill ' s ls new m igathrough s uch flimsy campaign tac·tion ·( • counties will be received laws made m the 1954 regular ses- . Named as defendants m the m- the Republican-co nt rolled Congre ss offset the cost. Republic an leaders . tics and tomorrow they will prove it a 111 10 s1on. . Junction aga rn st the •Murph_v a an excellent job of putting the had forecast the veto. ~ Tuesday by the Mississippi High- White sajd he would not su bmit place -are : Merle Murphy, his ·n~tional house in order after w hat Ot1ve Tbe measure called for minimum " ''.The irrigation bill;• he said, by electing Carroll Gartin as their will open a new era of prosperi- full time senator." WI~c?u°ae:t:s~i~g the contracts schoo_l bUls outside the prop?sed Dlfe, Mrs . p~~_lme Murphy; Fre,d he considered to be a steady pro· 1 raises of $200-a-year for 500,000 ty . for farmers. , cattleme n and • • • '. is work in Union, Lee. Panola. constitutional amendment which If· u~can, desc_ubed as Murphy s cess of feder al deterioi"ation under O mailmen, and a $170-a-.vear mini- dairymen.'' , . JACKSON.-P hi lip A, ShetJess p Bea lle cotton buyer at · 1:1um for about 1 million classib d would permit the Legislature to at er -m-law. Hubert Murphy, a ti1 D · 1, t He vehemently a ttacked•Missis - field. state campaign manager for l' iaa::~on Nesho a an establish a state-supported. private brat.her; and Lero y Edge, a11 em~ut ::~~ th~·11 praising the work Amorv and a ~ative of Verona f1e_d government workers. The top sippi legislators for their handl- Carroll Gartin . Monday night pre· \ school system. Po., e. f ti . . ti ct · . d C . . . : d 'n . , ' rai se would have been MEl\-a year. -l The Murphy p1ace was describ- 0 ie iecen Ya Journe ongi~ss, d ied at 6 p.m. Mon ay 1 the 'luIn his memorandum f d" - ing of federal funds give n to the dieted an "overwhelming victory" for Gartin in today's United State11 ~ ed as a co.m paratively new ' pri- he lo~ked to. the . votmg . this . fall. pelo Commu111ty IIosp1tal follow- oroval , President Eisenhiwer 1: :rd stat e , for old age pensions. vate 1·esidence. lo_catecl off High- He s~.1d he \\•as co~fident that the lllg an extended illness. He was he felt th(: bill failed to correct in- . . Taiking -about "those po liticians Senatorial election. Mr. Sheffield, from campaign. /f, · wa:v 45 just south of Baldwv1,. An1e:tcan people, .,~ ould . back · tl~e 52. .· · ·t· · ti f d I I opposmg me," Senator Eastland NATCHEZ.-TIl e N a t ch ez ire • • The petition charg d ti "M • c_a ndtdates, supp01 ting !us legisla- . Services will be held at 3 p.m. e(m ts. m le e era personne said, 'IThey turned back $1 ,400,· headquarters in Jackson, declared -~ department is dragging the Missi sh .. · · e "le ur t1ve program because the prog r am I d . . t p F . s r ue ure . 000 of the federal money I helpG · 1 -,I sippi River for the body of a 72· P :v _P 1~c~ ha_d bec~:n~ a common was aimed at im provin g the wel- j We n.es_ciay a egu;.s u 11 er a · He pointed out tllat last Februa1-y ed. to get for them and a.ctualJy that "Carroll art m will win b v .I year-old Louisiana man who :r.tuisanc.e ,;"_1th a . wid_e "_spr_ead fare of all segments of the United Ho?1'· In . Tu~elo v. ith Rev~ Ihe submitted a seven-point federal red uced old age pensions in July."" a 25,000 m ajority." He spoke of drowned late y esterdav. · · ieputation as .a liquot e_stabhsh- States pop ulation. F'oite_r Gi.;nte~. of Pl_ant7tsville of personnel program to Congress, Qut · Concerning TV A and. the REA gai ns being rep orted in every secThe 14~year-old so1; of Frederick mei_,t. On prevwus oecaswns, the He said he felt that everv fact t iciatuig. Buual wil.J oe tn the that Congress had failed to enact he said he would continue to work tion . of Mississippi . · Moses said he and his father were petition co_n tmued. the "~efen~- in exi.stence today made liars of Veron~ cemetery. · . , . his proi;>osa l for "general pay in- for expansion of these two serCarrol l Gartin has fought it en route up the riv.er in a 20-foot O U5tneSS ant.s had sold and possessed b - what he termed at Springfield Ill., Mr. Beane is the son of the late creases based upon the purposes v_i~es al)d recalled his part· in the clean campaign, Mr. Sheffield de· quor ~n the.premises." . La st *eek, "prophets of gloom' Mr.;a1:_d Mrs. James ~arey Beane of _correcting inequiti~s. promoting filibuster agamst President Eis- clared. He;,_ said it was one free , hoat to buv lad in Kentucky. " Thev had tied up at the mouth U . Meile Mu1phy was convtcted on of \ faona, a membe1 of th e Ve- efficiency and r eqardmg merit 'enhower's prop6sal to . replace of mud slinging, based "strictly a liquo r charge at the last term rona Methodist Cht~r ch and ve terTV A with private power. upon the issues of today." of the creek. the youn!!er. moses !ames Ao_gustus _Coleman, pro -. of Lee County circuit _court. He all of World War I. ' Under social securitv the Senarr said, when a heav".'{ rain under- mment me1chant m Tu pe lo fo1 entered a plea of gmlty to a FI 1 h · ·f tl · f I :tor said he was entir"ely responmine d a tr ee which fell on the 43 years, died at his home on charge of k nocking District At Session M' e Jeaves. isBwi et't ,ef oAribner · ' er·f sible for new legislation making boat throwl·ng Mose•• 1· nto the N or"tl1 M a d"1son . Str ee t a t 7 a.m. lOrney Mitchell to the ground , A business -1,:ieeting of the Tu- d 1ss , eanme, G arnep · Bo it 'possible for ministers to be water. Monday following an illness of twice pelo Junior Chamber of Com- een, a son. us · eanc 0 covered. The Tupelo Daily Journal several months. He was 70 . · Na1;,ed defendants in the pe ti- merce will be conducted a t Hotel ~mory; tlf~reit~t~cr~ll J. R;be~~ Senator Eastland was intrnduc- will hold an election pariy in Services will be h eld at 10 ,a. tion involving. the Searc lace Tupelo tonight at 7:00, President eane o an er sv t e. •ran' ed to the audience by Claude F . front of its office ton:•ght be• m, today fr om the Coleman re- were Cec·1l S . LY Cl d W t h d Beane of Verona a nd _Gus Beane Clayton, Tupelo attorney. Among ginning shortly after the elos• BATTcSVILLE -A two-year-old sidence with the Rev. H. R. Hol- Searcy'· d escrii;;~cy ~s foe be eJ1i~ss!~, a~~o~~tother ~p~o; and ;hf!e l sters, Mrs. those on ti<§ platform were the ing of the polls at 6 p .m. Batesville, Mis sissippi, boy was comb officiating, assisted by Dr. father· ' and Leroy Edge an - club business are football ticket · · aster O ' aso, T ex":s; lee Senator's wi:fu., and two chiJdr en Journal correspondents over k\lled in a wreck near N ewport. ~- E. McF'.adde!] . kBurial will l;>e ·ploye.' Edge was also ~amedei~1 sales and the ·operation of conces- · MMrs. ER. ';:'h· SSl~ter off MMemph isC1!-tnd Ann 1a:rid Nell, and . Cason Rank~ northeast M ississippi will phone David Odell d ied when the. auto m Memo~ial Par· Cemetery 111 the petition against the Mur h sion stands fol' home football · rs.. u rn exico I Y, in. T upelo attorney and chairman in returns from the first boxes I his father was driving went out Tupelo w ith W. E. Pegues Fune- place. p Y games. Mexico. A comparatively light vt,11.e is of the· Lee County Eastland Com- counted and wires of the United of control and overturned. ral · Directors in charge. expected today as L ee Countians mittee. ' Press will bring statewide Mr. Coleman was born in Memcast ballots in the' U.S. Senate · Befor e and aft_er the campaign returns as rap;•dly as they are Jf f phjs, Ala., and was reared at Marace . ~peeches t):ie au dience heard sing- counted. Winner in the elecCCI y ' ii con. Miss. He was the son of the ' 1 mg by thf Blackwood Brothers ·:lion may be known within · · l a t e James Augustus Coleman and More . than · 9,000 persons cast the Beggs . Quartet and the Mid~ three hours after the polls . LUMBERTON. - A coroner's, Mary Dunn Coleman. ballot~ m the Lee County elections Southei'n Quartet. close. Jury reported that 62-year-old He had been a merchant in of 19nl but less than llalf this - - ,·, ~,.....:"- --:--- - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - / John Smith of Stone County ac- Tupelo since 1911 when he ennumber is expected to turn ou cidentally shot and killed himself t ered the grocery business here today. ' ; near L_umbert on. with his b r-other-in-law, the late Estimates of the ex pecfed counJustice of the Peace G. H. Bond John R. Baker. For many years ty vote in today's election ranged said Smith w as killed as he shot the Bak er and Coleman Grocerv Monday from a high of 4,000 to a . h awk s on lhe farm Qf Herldon was one of the best to be found low of between 2 0 500 a nd 3,000 . .· in this area. Later he opened a J. Davis. The number of qualified voters Jitney Jungle, tj1e first cash and f A.M STERDAM, Aug. 23 (U P )-A side' Amsterdam, had no time ta slumps during the years between carry grocery in Tupelo. In re- . J county elections, it was pointed Dutch DC6B luxury liner in bound radio an SOS. cent y ears he owned and operatHeadquarters of the KLM · Roval out. Many voters fail to pay the from New York plunged mysteried a hardware store on Main Street here ancl also had ·l arge poll taxes necessary for voting in ·onsly into the rainswept North Sea Dutch Airline announced tqnlght 1 toda y. · that the 12 passengers and nine non-county elect ions and pay only ~ t' d f M C't C t farming interests. All 21 persons aboard. including crewmen were given up as lost, COn tnUe 1. Y OUr ·. ' Mr. Co1eman leaves his wife, the poll taxes necessary for voting but the search of the coastal waters I Five char.ges or blocking t raffic the former Miss Laura Hold of every four years in county elec- seven Americans , were killed. Disaster struck so wddenlv ·t hat off Ijmuiden would go on through \ against w_. C. Francis, conductor Mel"idian; two daughters, Mrs. tions. i on the Frisco Railroad, w.ere con· E lizabeth Holcomb of Tupelo and Vote rs will be required to th_e pilot, alr.eady letting down for the night. ·at Scbiphol airport outOne uniden tified body w;is 1•ecov' tinued until next week . by: City Mrs. A. Brookins Delano, Jr .• of show both t heir 1952 and 1953 poll a ' landing ~'- --''---~-~--- ered from the choppy sea wl1ere Com-t Judge Charles B . Hutchison Montpelier, Vermont; a son. tax r eceipts to qualify for voting bobbing while cnshions and other ' James Augustus Coleman. J r ., of i Monday. today. 1vreckage marked the scene of the Mr. Francis is on vacation and Tupelo; a sister, Mrs. John R. Heaviest voting i.s expected to plunge 30 miles from journey' s end was unable to appear. Baker of Tupelo ; and two grandt ake place in Tunelo. where ap· after a 3,000-mile flight . · In other actions Monday, Mrs. children. proximately 3',300 persons are The Americans on KLM's t,a~I Alice Coleman was fined $100 for P allbearers wi11 11e F. 'L. Boho, qtrnJified_ ~nger Jjt were Mr. and i\1r5. 'possession of liquor. Judge Hutch· G . G. McGregm\ Gilmer Garmon , Voting will he conductecl in 43 One new Lee County polio case J h y d t h!ld 1son su spended the fine, ttating Milton ' Temple. Robert Carruth, os ep arrow an wo c ren, precincts in Lee County. Electin.n and ano'ther-from·Jtawamba Coun- Richar Peter, of Woodbury, d and that Mr s. Coleman had left Tupelo -Jack Condrey, T . .H. Stephens and officials. are looking for a speedy ty were reported Monday by the Conn.; Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Deck' some time ago,' · J . W. B uchanan. count and have ex pressed hopes Hea lth Departjlent. er. of Daytona Beach, Fla.; and / Six persons paid $85 in p ublic - -that ele ction holders in all 48 pre· R. E. McDaniel, . about 25. a Leonard Jamison of Miami Fla. 1 drunkenness fines. Fifty-six dol· W EA T H ER cincts will bring their ballots to farmer of Dorsey, ·was stricken , At one stage dr the effo;ts to , lars were p aid out in overparking the circuit clerk's office in the over the _.weeken~ a~d taken ~o identify the victims, KLM reported Northeast Mississippi: Part• fines. Eight persons were charged ly cloudy Tuesda y. Widely sca tthe Isolat10n Hospital m Memphis. that two passengers had boarded . GET OUT AND :'fOTE TODAY-Three 'l'upelo Jaycees boost today's U. S. Senatorial election with comthouse tonight. with speeding. two of the cases tered afternoon and evening The Democratic executive comLee County's 13th d1$e is Linda the big ship at Shannon, Ireland, a b,t of, barrel shenamgans. It's pa-rt .of a cily...,,ide campaign by the Junior Chamber of Commeree in continued, and six paid $65. Two thundershowers. urgrng rup~loans to go to the polls today and vote fo,r the candidate of lheir _choice. Poll t.ix receipts are mittee will meet Wednesday to Jane Herrin1;,t 2, daughter .gf Mr. the only stop on the way. But the tlersons paid $30 in reckless dri vGenile ~outheaderly winds, necessary. The clothesless Jaycees who are still hanging on. ~o their pl'ivileges of. voting are, left to right, make an official canvass of the and Mrs. James C. Herring of Rt. line said later they were !!Ccounted In1 ehar1u. · msll Tumid.a:, !ID to a,s, 2, Shannon, for otherwise. Dwayn!! Boyd , Davfo Earl Nash and W. Cl. Ba1·ner. -Photo by 'terl'y WC1od vote tote.I.

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