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Chronicle The Weather Sports 6-7 some hail and strong gusty winds Movies Leaf-Chronicle thunderstorm this afternoon, endComics 10 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: Cloudy Society 8 ing before midnight. Chance of Editorial Clarksville and mild. Showers and scattered Classified 11 TV 9 in the scattered thunderstorms. High this afternoon mostly in the Tennessee's Oldest Newspaper Established In 1808 60s, clear and cooler later tonight. (Continued on Page 2, Col.

2) VOL. 155 NO. 59 TWELVE! PAGES CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1963 HOME DELIVERED PRICE-35 CENTS A WEEK-10 CENTS SINGLE COPY Unemployment Rapped Called No. 1 Economic Problem Adenauer Returns I President Says Bidault's Letter Seeking Asylum BONN. Germany (APT.

Al spokesman said today Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sent back opened a letter from former French Premier Georges Bidault 1600 Strike At Kingsport Press Plant KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) Approximately maintenance 1,600 and employes the Kingsport Press today in support of demands wage increases and other benefits. The walkout, affecting members of five AFL-CIO unions, began at 6 a.m. EST. Union officials said the dispute involves wages, a reduction in working hours for dayshift workers and seniority.

Company officials declined comment. The firm, one of the nation's largest book manufacturers, em-. ploys 2,200 workers. It manufactured approximately 48 million -last year and recently announced plans to double its capacity. The unions involved in the walkout are printers, machinists, bookbinders, printing pressmen and unions are said to be seeking an hourly wage increase annually over.

the next three years. One union official said the company had offered a 5-cent boost for: employes making more than $3 an hour. and a scaled down raise for employes earning less than $3, computed on a percentage basis. The company's offer for the on Page 2, Col. 2) Three Given Sentences In Criminal Court One man was sentenced to three years on a charge of grand larceny and another man was fined and sentenced to the workhouse.

this morning in Criminal Court, a third was sentenced to the workhouse. The court opened Friday with a large number of cases to be tried. Robert Andrews, 34, Negro, of 975 Greenwood was given a three -year. sentence on a charge of grand larceny in connection with the theft of a number of cameras from Hawkeye Color Lab here. Daniel Dix, 27, Negro of 109 Tenth Street, was fined $25 and given a nine- month sentence to the workhouse on each of two counts of assault.

The two workhouse terms are to run concurrently. A third Negro, William Thomas 18, Route 5, Beech Street, was given 60 days in the workhouse on a charge of attempted larceny. asking for asylum in Germany. The spokesman said that under law, political asylum is a question for local authorities in Bavaria, where Bidault is under police protection. Because of the political importance of the case, he added, advice had ben asked from the interior minister in Bonn.

No reply had yet been given, he added. Bidault, political chief. of the French terrorist movement sworn to. eliminate President Charles de Gaulle, located Sunday by German police in a lakeside hideout near the Swiss border: He made his request for asylum at once. (Continued on Page 2, Col.

2) Hardas Held To Jury; Bond Denied Pfc. Philemon A. Hardas, 26, of 109 Stone Mountain Road, Bel Air, was bound to Criminal Court this morning on two counts of armed robbery, and was denied bond. The action was taken in General Sessions Court. a Fort Campbell soldier attached to Headquarters Company, 187th Infantry, was arrested February 28 and charged with Armed robbery in connection with the September 8, 1962 robbery of John Lee and Mrs.

Russell Lee, as the couple left Lee's (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) Mrs. Christy Dies, Rites Set Tuesday Mrs. Alice Christy, 79 died Sunday in Memorial Hospital after an illness of two weeks. She was a resident of Route 5, Ashland City.

Funeral services will be ducted Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. at Rock Springs Free Will Baptist Church by the Rev, Paul Sitton, and Rev, Stanley Outlaw. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at Taylor Funeral Home, Dickson. She was a native of Montgomery County, daughter of the late Will and Eliza Wall Reynolds, and was the widow of Tom Christy.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. William Christy and Mrs. Raymond Groves, both of Route 5, Ashland City; three sons, Woodrow Christy, Cunningham; Baxter Christy, Southside, Nesbitt Christy, Clarksville, Route two sisters, Mrs. Nannie Perry, Nashville; Mrs. Lizzie Haggie, Southside; two brothers, John and Tom Reynolds, both of Southside, 19 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.

She was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. Providence, Ringgold Clubs To Hear International Civitan Veep New Providence and Ringgold Civitan Clubs will join together Friday March 15 in hosting the International Vice President of Civitan, Zone I. Robert E. Igleheart. The subject of Mr.

Igleheart's talk will be "America's and is in consonance with the 1963 Civitan International's program of "Speak Up for Freedom' which was announced across the nation by billboard during the month of January 1963. Robert E. Igleheart, president of the Guaranty Savings Life Insurance Company of Montgomery, Alabama, was chosen Vice President of Zone 1, Civitan International, in June of 1962. Zone 1 includes parts of (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) 'FIRE KILLS TWO.

Sheriff Kenneth Albright looks over the razed the building early today. Only the brick chimney remains. ruins of a five-room home. in which two people died when fire (Photo by W. J.

Souza) Two Perish When Fire Razes 5-Room Home Two people perished in a fire that destroyed a five-room house early today in Round Pond community on Highway 48. Dead are Coma Allen, 58, and his wife, Martha Williams Allen, 48, both colored. Their charred bodies were removed from the ruins some 30 minutes after Clarksville firemen arrived at the scene. The house was enveloped in flames and caving in when firemen reached the site. They were able to save a nearby tavern which Allen operated, but his two automobiles also burned.

An unidentified soldier reportedly saw the blaze about 1:15 a.m. and notified neighbors who called the fire department. The couple apparently suffocated before the fire reached them. Sheriff Kenneth Albright said Mrs. Wiggins' Funeral Today Funeral services for Mrs.

Johnnie Wiggins, 93, will be at 3 p.m. today at Tarpleys Chapel. The Rev. Roy West and the Rev. T.

W. Mayhew will officiate and burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Wiggins died morning at the home of a daughter Mrs. James Wood, of this city.

She was a native of Montgomery County and was born Nov. 18, 1869, daughter of the late George W. and Cynthia Ann Tomlinson Outlaw. Her husband, David G. Wiggins, preceded her in death.

In addition to the daughter she is survived by three sons, George Wiggins, of Clarksville, Paul and Earl. Wiggins, ville, 12 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren, One Injured In Accident One person received injuries this morning in a one-car accident on Highway 41-A North, when the vehicle struck the right side of Ringgold Bridge. The car, driven by Howard T. Medlin, 21, Company 327th Infantry, Fort Campbell, was headed north, and upon approaching the bridge, Medlin applied the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Jobless Status Wastes Lives By NORMAN WALKER Associated Press Labor Writer WASHINGTON- (AP) President Kennedy reported to Congress today that unemployment, "our No.

1 economic problem." is wasting lives and unrealized production that could materially increase the nation's living standards. The President said the economy is growing steadily more efficient but is progressively failing to supply the jobs to occupy a fastexpanding population and work force. cannot accept this Kennedy said in again urging on his tax cut proposals and other programs advanced to spur economic growth and job sion. "It is within our power to these steps, to summate an achievement of magnitude mark this for all time in the history of man progress." Kennedy submitted his to Congress along with a hensive Labor Department tory manpower resources their utilization since World out and forecasts of what is to happen in the future. -At the rate the economy is ing, he said, unemployment rise by 1967 to 5.5 million, (Continued on Page 2, Col.

French Revolt Leader Executed By RODNEY ANGOVE PARIS (AP) Lt. Col. Jean.Marie Bastien-Thiry was ed today for leading the ambush attempt to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle last August. Official sources said De Gaulle had granted clemency to two others sentenced to death with Bastien-Thiry. They were Lt.

Alain Two Men Die In Accident Near Trenton Two brothers were killed and.a third man hospitalized yesterday following a three-car accident a- bout miles north of Trenton, on Highway 41. Dead were Dennis G. Duray, 19, and his brother, Leslie Ray Duray, 26, both of Chicago, Ill. Injured was Donald L. Willis, 27, of Boaz, who was reported in fair condition at Jennie Stuart Hospital in Hopkinsville (Continued on Page 2, Col.

3) Debougrenet de la Tocnaye, 36, reportedly the deputy leader of the plot, and Jacques Prevost, 31, a veteran, of the Indochina war and Die Bien Phu. Presumably their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. Bastien-Thiry, 35, confessed his 26-day trial that he master-minded the assassination ambush last Aug. 22. He was sentenced to death last week by military tribunal.

De Gaulle denied him presidential clemency. He was the first man executed. for trying to kill De Gaulle. aster With his lawyers, he went to the office of the prison directors before dawn to ask that his execution be held up because of an appeal to the Council of State and because of the discovery in Germany of ex-Premier Georges Bidault, head of the anti-De Gaulle political underground. The maneuver failed.

The a condemned man was rushed with a chaplain 10 miles from the prison in southern Paris along police-lined roads to Fort (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) left. Driver of the car at right was Donald L. Willis, 27, of Boaz, Ala. He was in fair condition at Jennie Stuart Hospital, Hopkinsville, Ky.

this morning. (Photo by Glover Williams) expan- take consuch decade hu- message compreinven- and War likely gowill or 7 1) that he is checking on the cause of the blaze but added that he does not suspect foul play. Mrs. Marable Dies, Rites Today Funeral services for Mrs. J.H.

Marable, 70, will be held at 2 p.m. today at McReynolds Chapel. The Rev. T. W.

Mayhew will officiate and burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Marable died of a heart attack at her home 203 Castle Heights, about 9:45 p.m. Saturday. She was recovering from an attack of influenza.

Mrs. Marable had been executive secretary of the ClarksvilleMontgomery County Chapter of the American Red Cross since World War Il. She was a member of on Methodist Church, past president of the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) 7 Inquiring Reporter "Do you have a solution to our traffic on the Nashville Highway?" "No, I don't believe I do since I don't drive, but if they'd just slow down some." Mrs. India Baggett, 618.

Elder saleslady. "No, I I I I I I I I sure don't." Miss Geneva Dycus, 736 Main Street, cook. "No, I hardly ever go up there myself." Jessee Smith, 501 Hawkins farmer. "No, I don't think! so." Guy Tresch, 109 Marion Street, works at APSC. "Slow'em down and these tractor trailer trucks they cause a lot of them.

They drive -on your bumper--too close. to you. They couldn't stop if they had to. They don't have their lights on when they're supposed -that's not just trucks but cars too. I hope something's done about it.

My husband is a truck driver." Mrs. Lee Thomas, myra, Tennessee, custodian. "Get, these drunks off the highway." C.P. Brooks, Erin, inspector. Double funeral services will be held at 1 p.m.

Tuesday at Mt. Zion Baptist church with the Rev. T. H. McFarland officiating.

Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery, Foston neral Home will have charge. Surviving Allen are a daughter, Mrs. Mary Frances a brother, Jesse Allen, ter, Mrs. Carrie Rouse, and six grandchildren and one great grandchild all of this community. Surviving Mrs.

Allen are six sisters, Mrs. Lissie Outlaw, Mrs. Hestella Madden and Mrs. Nola Johnson, all of this city, Mrs. Oda Teasley Mallory, of Nashville, Mrs.

Beulah Rudolph, Pleasant View and Mrs. Veasle Burney, Indianapolis, and three brothers, Jesse, Alvin and Buford Williams. She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Allen was a member of Mt.

Zion Church and Loving Sons of Union and Daughters of Zion Lodge. TWO KILLED Two Chicago men were killed in this accident, which occurred about 8:00 a.m. yesterday morning on Highway 41, about miles north of Trenton, Ky. The two men, brothers Dennis G. and Leslie Ray Duray, were in the at R.

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