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106th Year. No. 270. Phone ST. 3-5000 **s WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1958-38 PAGES Home Delivered: ti&r&rfatt.1““,h S4SS 5 CENTS Warren Board Persons Will Succeed Willing to Ask Adams at White House Hurricane Changes Course, By CECIL HOLLAND Star staff Writer The White House announced Tax Increase today the apointment of MaJ. Gen. Wilton B. Persons as suc- cessor to Sherman Adams as Baltimore Court BP Hit assistant to President El- Winds Coastal Areas the Told of Position senhower. Gen. Persons. 62, has been In Schools Case deputy assistant to the Presi- By MARY LOU WERNER dent and in charge of congres- Skirts Along Bt«r Staff Writer sional relations. Convoy lakes announcement BALTIMORE, Sept. The was made 27 —The by White House Press Secretary Carolinas; County < Va.) Warren Schoo C. Hagerty willing request James who said that Board is to a Mr. Adams' resignation will be- Largest sufficient tax increase to begin Load come effective after an orderly Tides Rise operating county schools on ar to pre- integrated transition. He declined WILMINGTON, N. C.. Sept. basis without Statt j diet when this would be. aid, beginning with the 1959-60 27 'APi.—Hurricane Helen* Mr Hagerty also announced Quemoy roared northward along the school year, the Fourth Circuit Yet to Bryce today that N. Harlow, who has North Carolina coast today, Court of Appeals was told been an administrative by assist- with winds as high as 120 The statement was made to the President, 59 Landing Craft W. Phillips, Commonwealth’s ant will be- miles an hour lashing coastal J. come a deputy assistant, taking GEN. PERSONS attorney of Warren County, as Carry 177 Tons areas. over Gen. Persons' work in Top Aide to President he urged the appellate court tc charge The center of the hurricane of congressional rela- —AP Phot* Ashore Under Fire was about 50 miles set aside an integration ordei tions. south of which has kept Warren County By FORREST EDWARDS Wilmington at noon, with th* High School closed for the past Merriam Recently Appointed ate of the Harvard School of Associated Press Staff Writer angry winds spinning in a northeasterly up two weeks. Mr. Hagerty pointed that Business Administration, the QUEMOY. Sept. 27. The direction the Mr. Phillips said the school out coast. Robert Merriam was recently \ Command and General Staff biggest authorized him Corps and most successful board has to appointed as a deputy assistant ; School, the Air Tactical Described as “dangerous" by say of Chinese Nationalist convoy of m it will ask the board for interdepartmental affairs. ' School and the Army War the Washington Weather Bu- supervisors to raise the county Another deputy assistant is College. the offshore war reached Que- reau. Helene raised hurricane levy for an 1 warnings tax 1959-60 in Howard Pyle, in charge of in- moy today with supplies for north from Myrtle amount operate Served With AEF C„ to sufficient to tergovernmetal t state» rela- the beseiged island. Beach. S. Cape Hatteras, local schools on an integrated He N. C. tions. was commissioned a sec- supply basis. The latest mission • .. storm Mr. Hagerty an ond lieutenant in the coast l. The was packing winds said that 1 pushed through Communist ¦V J^ibhbMP high State law withholds State overall deputy assistant to artillery1 in 1917, served with as as 125 miles an hour. school funds from localities the shellfire. From a vantage point President would be named the Allied Expeditionary Forces Warns of Flooding attempt operate 1 overlooking Lialo Beach I could that to inte- shortly to Gen. during World War I and be- assist Persons. I 1 three four times as many grated classes. Another law. Gen Persons is a tween 1933 and 1937 was liaison see or Storm tides and heavy seas already retired landing craft ashore which has been invoked Army officer who was appointed >' officer with the House of Rep- as came with waves up to 10 feet high in Warren yesterday. County, automati- special assistant to the resentatives for the War De- will flood coastal lands between cally any Presi- closes school where dent on January 1953, and partment. A Nationalist military the resort town of Myrtle Integration takes place. 21. 1 amphibious was named deputy assistant on From 1939 until 1948 he was spokesman said 18 'v>r Beach and Hatteras, the Bu- Hasty Implied September 5. 1953. Jin charge of congressional li- vehicles clambered onto the reau warned. Action from Gen. Persons, a native of aison1 for the War Department beach yesterday. Judging Making the classic turn of Earlier in the hearing one Montgomery. Ala., is a 1916 ' and then served as director of the capacity of the alligator BATTENING THE HATCHES—Three sailors at the United States Mine- Atlantic hurricanes, Helene al- of the three appellate judges graduate of the Alabama Poly- * the office of legislative liaison craft, their total load could force Base at Charleston, S. C., remove awnings and sandbag entrances tered course in the night toward suggested the up to Thousands moved inland that school clos- technic Institute, and a gradu- 1 See PERSONS. Page A-3 have been 54 tons. in preparation for Hurricane Helene. as gales the north, sparing South Caro- ing law was invoked prema- and towering waves pounded the Carolina coast, but Charleston escaped lina coastal areas the full brunt turely in Warren County, No Direct Hits the full force of the hurricane.—AP Wirephoto. of her wrath. since the school board had not Today’s supplies came in 59 Taking over control of the actually enrolled Negro students landing craft. They carried a hurricane warnings beamed up in the white high school. possible maximum of 177 tons the East Coast in advance of The school closing should not Little Rock Is Voting of supplies. It has been esti- 0 50 K)0 howling winds, the Washington • Do,hom have come about under Vir- the • Weather Bureau warned that mated 80.000 to 100.000- STATUTE Mills" . ¦¦ i. M ginia law until the local board garrison 11 i # Rocky Mount JJT mft evacuation was "imperative" man Quemoy needs 350 Raleigh on actually the Negro Typhoon . enrolled On School tons daily to stay at top combat Kills j*J island beaches and in coastal Integration h students, it was suggested. capability. Greenville areas from Cape Fear to Hat- The question of timing was LITTLE teras. ROCK. Ark., Sept, i and deceive the voters of the Alligators and other landing • CHARLOTTE raised by Judge Soper, NORTH J Morris 27 < AP). Election officials Little Rock school lie craft cast off from United The center of the hurricane as district.” pass the three-member Fourth due to sup- 241 in _ CAROLINA was Cape Hatteras States-escorted Predict a heavy vote in today’s said. "The Jntegrationists are Nationalist Circuit Court of Appeals met about lose ply ships standing outside Red at midnight, the Weaiiier to crucial to a battle.” here consider pleas from referendum on the in- artillery range 1,270 Missing, SOUTH c °p* 100,10 «* reau said. Movement was at 10 tegration The Governor expressed a and swarmed to Are W(lm „,g(on Warren County and Norfolk to of Little Rock schools. 7? miles an hour at midday, with conviction that courts 'four separate landing areas. • delay segregation. The ballot offers a choice of woulcl 442,548 Homeless CAROLINA V y a gradual never order private schools to As they came In shells pickup in the north- Warren County High School allowing Negroes to attend all 0 Sumter Florence X.n iIN easterly speed splashed around TOKYO, 27 (AP).—Ty- °' predicted as the schools in Integrate. all them and Sept. * C °P*- fr has been closed for two weeks. the Little Rock*dis- the phoon Ida deso- Columbia winds advanced up the coast. tnct or restricting them hit beach. There was one left death and HTWy'le Beach Gov. Almond announced he was to President Issued Warning jvery near which a lation in central Japan today. Heavy their own segregated schools. miss caused Rains Expected assuming control of the school ; stop seconds, Rescue franti- There are about 42.000 eli- Gov. Faubus charged that craft to for a few crews worked Heavy under a State law which closes but I saw no direct hits. cally to clear the damage. rains were forecast any integration gible voters, including 8,000 President Elsenhower had over Eastern school where ‘ North Negroes. ! Even had the shelling been National police reported 241 Jf Carolina takes place. The action Polls opened at 9 a.m. joined in a campaign of de- \ •Allendale and. portions of came (EST) Star heavier than in the past dead from the typhoon's rip- tyT Ocean Southeastern when Federal Judge John Paul and> will close at 7:30 ception and propaganda” aimed Virginia this afternoon and to- ! P-m. at making voters believe they two days, a majority of the ping winds and floods. 1.270 V y,, CHARLESTON \ issued order requiring the .afe* night. No change in the size an approve landing craft could have missing, and 442,548 homeless. County Board Tension over the election i must integration or 1 \ or intensity of Helene Warren School rising leached the long expanses of w'as ex- to admit 20 Negroes to the , has been during the last 1let the school remain closed. I Almost a half million houses pected. few days. beach. 30,000 white school. President Eisenhower warned were flooded and acres The highest wind reported Last night Gov. Orval E. Thursday that closing of pub- Medicines Dropped of rice paddies ruined. avannah thus far was 120 miles per Refusal Faubus. gas** hour Questioned who closed the city’s lic schools faced with integra- The known casualty toll was, at Frying Pan Lightship four high This strongly Indicated the off Judge Soper questioned why schools two weeks |Uonj' in Arkansas and Virginia expected to rise as communi- j Wilmington. ago in move to Nationalists, aided the school board had refused to t a avoid immedi-' could lead to disastrous con- by United cations with the disaster areas pnSeo Island Winds of near hurricane ate integration, appealed for a force enroll the Negro students when sequences for the Nation. States advisers, have found a were fully restored. f.Bcunswidt battered beaches near ! Heavy turnout at the noils. r \ the they showed up at the school Reiterating that he tiad a formula for breaking the block-I coastal village of Shal- He assailed Little Rock Buried by Landslides lotte. C., board office. sac- workable plan for placing pub- ade. greatest N. and blew waves , tions which have been pro- Their need now A half dozen villages on the; IN HURRICANE'S PATH—Vacation communities Mr. Phillips replied that the lic schools under private opera- across the beaches. Several school board had been advised I moting a vote for integrated is for more World War H Alli- scenic 70 miles along the lower North Carolina coast today awaited persons drowned in this . tion on a segregated basis. Gov. Tokyo by area the school no longer was under schools. But he said he was gators and similar amphibious; belowj were struck 100 the full force of Hurricane Helene. The center of the in a 1954 hurricane. , not trying to Faubus added: landing supplement mile an hour winds and raging pointed local control, but was in the influence the get into situa- craft to the storm was toward Cape Fear after shifting Whiteville. N. C„ a town 36 election. “The decision ‘‘l do not a United States-supplied supply! ! floods. Newspaper reports said Governor’s hands. is knowing course.—AP Wirephoto. milts inland, lost its power yours.” he locally tion without what 1 ships. bodies were recovered from "Then, it is a fact that they declared in a doing.” 180 Continued on Page A-3, Col. televised speech. your pub- am The convoy the swollen Kano River and 1 concluded to disobey the order “As The clergymen appealing arrived after a lie servant, I will abide by your for ; heavy night-long bombard- 600 were missing. Police con- of the court?” asked Judge i a favor of decision.” vote In Integrated ment which failed stop firmed at least 38 killed in that Soper. schools were the Rt. Rev. Rob- to Na- agreed A plea for approval ' tionalist planes from para- area. He said he the school i of inte- ert R. Brown. Episcopal Bishop reported was a difficult po- grated schools was made last chuting: in high priority sup- Entire families were Hurricane board in , of Arkansas: Methodist Bishop buried alive in landslides. lisa sition. but observed that it night by four of Little plies such as medicine. Hurricane to Go East, Rock’s; Paul E. Martin: Dr. T. B Hay, drenched by a They appeared , In Tokyo, rec- 400 looked as if the school board I church leaders. a Presbyterian pastor, and Dr Part of the aerial drop con- rainfall, police Now Miles a lettei the Gov- televised program ord 15'/2-inch obeyed from or. a spon- Dale Cowling, Baptist pastor sisted of 80.000 moon cakes by a said 23 persons were killed and ernor instead of a Federal court sored a women’s group president Moon cakes arc to the Chinese Missing From San Juan and of the Greater missing electro- District Area 14 Four were integration order. He asked I which contends that the high autumn harvest festival what See LITTLE ROCK, Page A-2 cuted by broken power lines. MIAMI,Fla.. Sept.