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163 A. A. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 19G0 ME 8-2111 I'VTt 4-r -i 1 Chicago, Calumet Vote Probes Oj pen 2 New Orleans Schools Integrated In Defiance Of State Legislature GOP Leaders In Two States Contest Election Chucklioles Basis For County's Damage Action By ROBERT J. EARLY Fifteen truck drivers were sued yesterday by tha Marion County prosecutor's office for damages allegedly done to highways by overweight trucks in a crackdown which may bring action against 70 drivers. pi jTlI II grated schools.

Two suits were filed in state courts against the school board's "interference" in operation of the schools by the legislature. As many as 140 New Orleans city policemen ringed McDonogh 19 School, where three Negro girls joined a class of seven white girls, and William Frantz School, which one Negro entered. A total of five Negro girls was scheduled to go to the two schools, but parents of the fifth kept her at home. THE NEW ORLEANS School Board, which went along with U.S. District Judge J.

Skelly Wright's orders to integrate the whole school system, a grade-a-year, beginning with the first grade, refused to identify the Negro girls. But although the board integrated two races in the schpols, classes were sexually segregated. State police merely informed school principals that there weren't supposed to be any classes yesterday. They took no action when the principals opened the schools anyway. Neither did the state police make any attempt to stop the Negro girls.

BUT WHITE PARENTS by the dozens trooped into the schools and brought out their children. One woman said she was removing her three children because. "I don't want them in there if anything New Orleans (UPI) Four fi-year-old Negro girls, escorted by United States deputy marshals, integrated two New Orleans public schools yesterday against one of the most hair-triggered backgrounds for violence since reconstruction. No violence was reported, although: Governor Jimmie H. Davis, a folk singer and cowboy movie actor, swore in campaign speeches to go to jail rather than let a single Louisiana school be integrated.

About 75 state policemen came to New Orleans under orders of the state legislature, which is almost solidly against integration. Hundreds of white persons, many of them teen-aged, gathered in front of the two integrated schools, jeering and chanting: "Two four, mx, eight we don't wanna integrate." The legislature had ordered a state-wide school holiday. NOR DID Davis go to jail, although it would have been simple. Since he is under a U.S. district court injunction not to interfere with integration, all he had to do was to do something to stop it.

The legislature adjourned abruptly at 6 p.m. (CDT) until midnight tonight after approving a resolution urging the legislatures of the other 49 states to join Louisiana in challenging the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution regarding inte TAKES CHILDREN FROM Unidentified Father Waves 3 Revolls Laid To Fidel Crushed In Caribbean By LESTER M. HUNT Republican party leaders yesterday gave the preen light to an investigation of alleged corruption in Lake County and the i 1 i of suits contesting the election. Developments in the reported vote scandal were: 1 State Chairman Edwin W. Beaman will visit Lake County today with Attorney Robert S.

Smith to talk with investigators on the scene. Their report will be laid before a meeting of the State Central Committee Thursday to put the party organization officially behind the challenge. 9 Suits in behalf of defeated Republicans in three congressional districts must be filed with Congress by the candidates themselves. A State suits will be filed for defeated county candidates in Lake, St. Joseph, Clark, Greene and Vigo Counties as a preliminary to contesting the election of Democrat Matthew E.

Welsh as Governor. FT State Vice-Chairman Mar-" tha E. Whitehead reported a number of calls from citizens volunteering to contribute funds to finance the contemplated court actions. AMONG THOSE attending Turn to Page 10, Column 4 152 Pupils Die After Blast In Syrian Theater Damascus, United Arab Republic (UP1) An explosion sent sheets of flame through a movie theater crowded with pupils in the Syrian village of Amude Sunday night, killing 152 children, it was officially announced yesterday. A number of other children were injured.

Officials flocked to the scene to arrange for the care of the injured. Fragmentary dispatches reaching Damascus, capital of the Syrian district of the United Arab Republic, said the explosion occurred in the projection room in the midst of a screening of a special film for pupils. Rescue teams were working their way through the charred debris looking for additional victims, dispatches said. Amude is a railroad town in northeast Syria. Chicago (UPI) Top Republicans yesterday filed formal petitions for a recount of the top-heavy Democratia Chicago vote which gave Illinois' 27 electoral votes to John F.

Kennedy. The Republicans charged that Chicago's Democratic machine stole the Illinois election for Kennedy. Democrats retaliated with charges that voting irregularities had been turned up in downstate counties outside Chicago where Vice-President Richard M. Nixon scored heavily. THEY SAID any recount of the Cook County (Chicago) vote should be part of a statewide tally.

Kennedy led Nixon in the battle for Illinois by fi.397 votes in complete unofficial returns. The official canvass, which won't be completed until Nov. 21, could reverse the decision. Cook County State's Attorney Beniamin Adamowski led off the GOP recount drive. Adamowski filed preliminary petitions with county officials asking a recheck of the unofficial returns which had him losing his bid for re-election by 25,000 votes.

A NEWLY ORGANIZED "Nixon Recount Committee" followed up later in the day by filing petitions for a recount of the Cook County vote on the presidential level. Adamowski deposited to pay for his recount, as required by Illinois 1 a w. Sources said the Nixon recount committee had raised an fund since it issued a public appeal for contributions Friday. A RECOUNT needs the for-mal approval of a judge before it can get under way. But such an order is usually automatic if the complaining party or candidates can come up with the money to meet the costs of tabulation.

Adamowski and Cook County GOP Chairman Francis X. Connell led the Republican charges of dark doings at the Chicago polls. Adamowski, the Republicans' ranking Cook County officeholder, charged "frightening skullduggery" in last Tuesday's Democratic sweep. Connell said "there is no doubt that they stole the election." Connell said "professional vote thieves" managed to get at least 100,000 phony votes counted in 12 Chicago wards and parts of two others. Kennedy, Nixon 'Talk It Over' By FRANCIS L.

McCARTHY UPI Latin American Editor Central America yesierday crushed three alleged Fidel Castro attempts to his Cuban revolution to his Caribbean neighbors by armed revolt. Guatemala stamped out what it officially described as a Cuban-sponsored revolt movement in 24 hours of bitter and bloody fighting. Guatemalan Foreign Affairs Minister Jesus Unda Murillo said the government has requested the United States to patrol its Caribbean shores with ships and planes to deter any invasion plans Cuba might entertain. He said both Nicaragua and Guatemala had proof that the Cuban government had "aided and abetted" the rebels in their countries. NICARAGUA repelled invasion by armed guerrilla bands in Cuban army fatigue uniforms and wearing Castro "Fatherland or Death" insignia (AP WirepholO) INTEGRATED SCHOOL to New Orleans Crowd in three days of combat and siese.

Costa Rica dispersed what officials said were Cuban-led and supplied irmed bands seeking to use the country as a springboard for attack on N.caragua. Cuba officially denied the charges of complicity in the revolt movements but Castro's enmity toward the regimes involved has been long evident. THIS WAS the three-nation situation: 1 Guatemala announced of the revolt movement and filed formal charges of "complicity" against Cuba before the Organization of American States. President. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes said documents taken from the rebels showed they had orders to capture the military airport at Puerto Barrios to enable the Castro regime to fly in reinforcements and supplies.

iy In Nicaragua. 14 hard" rebels surrendered 7:30 p.m. Sunday while returning home from a movie with her vounger sister, Sherill, 5. The sister ran to a nearby home and police were notified but no trace of the girl was found until her body was discovered by two coon hunters, Joseph C. AvFrance and Kenneth V.

Nelson, both residents of the Paulding area. KEELER SAID it could have been weeks before the body was discovered if the hun'ers Four more suits will be filed tomorrow, bringing the total indemnity sought by the state for road damage to $13,166.60, PROSECUTOR Phillip L. Bayt said he will continue to file suits against drivers who refuse to pay damages which have been assessed against them by magistrate courts when they are found guilty of driving overweight trucks. All 19 of the truck drivers being sued have been convicted and have paid fines, Bayt said, but have refused to pay civil damages to the State Mo- to government troops at Diri-amba, near Managua, and released, unharmed 250 school children held hostage since Friday. The government guaranteed the rebels, described as "Castro mercenaries," their lives and a fair trial but rejected demands for a safe-conduct out of the countrv.

9 Costa Rica Threw all available troops into the border fighting to kill or capture the armed rebel bands which shot and killed the civil guard commander, Col. Jose Monge. The capture of nearly a dozen fully armed rebel guerrilla fighters by Costa Rican patrols indicated the invasion force had dissipated its strength. Hondiyas mobilized its small army along the Guatemalan frontier on reports that scattered rebel groups defeated by Ydigoras' troops were attempting to make their way across the frontier. had not stumbled on the scene.

Keeler said marks on the ground and the disarray of the girl's clothing indicated thre had been a struggle, but the only blood at the scene was found in a pool under her head. The sheriff said this indicated she was killed after being forced from the car. SHERILL EAGLESON was able to tell Keeler and Ohio State Patrol investigators that her ss.ster was dragged into a large car. widespread searches for aircraft wreckage in all three states. Indiana State Police, deputy sheriffs and volunteers combed the Ohio River bottomlands of Switzerland County after residents of Warsaw, Ky just across the river, reported seeing a "large red ball of fire fall to, the ground" on the Indiana side.

Searchers said they found tor Vehicle Highway Account, as ordered by the magistrata courts. They have continued to Ignore the orders despite repeated warnings, Bayt said. He explained that the stataf highway system loses thousands of dollars each year because there is no way of forcing payment of magistrata court judgments except through civil suits. Meanwhile, overweight trucks continue ti batter and rip apart the state's highways, Bayt declared. "The purpose here is to prevent these trucks from pounding to pieces our state highways," Bayt related.

"As long as the magistrate courts convict these truck drivers and assess a civil penalty we'll file suits," he declared. Because of the legal work involved and the time it takes to process a civil suit, Bayt said only two or three other prosecutors in the state presi the convicted drivers for payment. IN JULY, the prosecutor'l Turn to Page 10, Column 3 The Weal her Joe Crow Says: After a taste of Indian summer we are in favor of giving winter back to the Indians. Indianapolis Warm and windy today, with chance of a few scattered showers by nightfall. Scattered thunder-showers possible tonight.

Cooler tomorrow. The girl's father, Donald Eagleson, was working at a Paulding bowling alley and their mother was working at a drive-in restaurant when she disappeared. GLORIA KOWALEWICZ, victim of the latest in a series of Chicago child slaying, was shot in the head and her body left in Palos Hills Forest Preserve southwest of Chicago after being picked up as she went to Mass on Saturday near her home on the South Side. nothing to indicate a plane had crashed. U.S.

ARMY helicopters from Fort Knox and Kentucky State Police conducted an intensive hunt after reports that a. plane ima exploded and plunged to th? ground near Hardinsburg, Ky. However, the mission wai called off when it failed to disclose wreckage and th Turn to Page 10, Column 'Beatnik' Questioned At LaPorte As Police Hunt Killers Of 2 Girls Picture on Page 38 Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP) John F. Kennedy paid a perhaps unprecedented call yesterday on the man he defeated for the presidency to discuss in an atmosphere of cordiality the great problems of a political transition and world affairs.

Side by side in a villa, with the sound of the surf outside, Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chatted for 63 minutes. In separate news conferences afterward, each said the session was cordial and helpful. IT WAS KENNEDY who made the overtures for the meeting. "The fact he wanted to come here, I think," Nixon said, "is a very excellent example to the American people and the whole world how our system works." Ridley, searched down the alley.

They found the garage Turn to Page 10, Column 2 While there were, deep differences during the campaign, Nixon said, now that the decision is made, the meeting yesterday is "notice to all the world there will be no differences we will have in the next four years based on personal considerations-." WAS THERE any reference to the possibility of bringing Republicans into some Cabinet or other top spots in a demonstration of bi-partisanship? Both Kennedy and Nixon left this up in the air. The Vice-President said it was up to Kennedy to do any talking on that subject. But the President-elect said he preferred to stand on his own statement that problems of transition, and problems which face this nation around the world, were the subject matter yesterday. The two men appeared completely relaxed, at ease, and friendly, as they have been through 14 years together in Congress. THE MASSACHUS senator flew down in his private plane and rode through Coral Gables and the outskirts of Miami to the Key Biscayne Hotel.

Thousands cheered him along the route. Nixon w-as waiting for him on the steps, a smile playing, across his face, a hand out-thrust and a "glad to see you" welcome. 13 8 TV-Radio Want Ads Weather Women's Pages .19 30-37 ..17 ...8,9 26-28 ..22 Top Man Of '10 Wanted' Seized In $4, 000 Holdup A LA KM I KIT IN HH'K STATUS Possible links between the brutal sex murders of two young less than 24 hours and 250 miles apart, were being investigated last night by police in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Victim of the latest savage slaying was 14-year-old Nancy Eagleson of Paulding, whose ravished and bullet-punctured body was found at 2:30 a.m. yesterday near the Indiana state line in Paulding County.

An autopsy in St. Joseph's Hospital at Fort Wayne showed that she had been raped and showed she had been shot through the neck with a small caliber bullet, hospital officials said. WHILE POLICE probed the similarity between the Eagle-son murder and that of Gloria Kowalewicz, 9, at Chicago, a "beatnik" suspect in the Illinois slaying was being questioned by detectives last night at LaPorte, lnd. The suspect, a goateed, sideburned and mustached 22-year-old man, was wearing an overcoat and trousers which appeared to be bloodstained when he was arrested while driving a car stolen at Chicrgo, police said. Sheriff John Keelcr of Paul-ding County said the Eagleson girl was forced into a car at Plane Crash Reports Traced To 'Shooting Star' ing the Northwestern Branch of American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Company to deposit the day's receipts.

Ridley told police he was nearing the branch at 1100 West 30th Street about 1 p.m., when a Negro wearing sunglasses, a gray hat and gray topcoat came up to him, pulled out a revolver, forced him into an alley behind the bank and took the bank bag. Inside was $4,114.16 in cash and checks, Ridley said. THE BANDIT told Ridley to keep walking or "I'll blow your head off." Ridley, looking back, saw ihe bandit go into a garage in the alley and called police. Coates and Bryant, receiving a brief description from Detectives yesterday posted for the first time a list of the 10 most wanted men in Indianapolis and caught the man at the top of the list about five hours later. He was Joseph Jerome Rice, 34 years old, 332 Vi Indiana Avenue, sought on two warrants and seized yesterday as the suspect in a $4,000 robbery.

Sgts. Chester Coates and William M. Bryant may be cited for their action in rounding up Rice, said Inspector of Detectives Carl C. Schmidt. Rice is accused of taking a bank bag from Clarence Ridley, 30, 464 West 30ih Street, manager of the Seven to Eleven Super Market at 2907 Northwestern Avenue as Ridley was approach IXSIDK TODAY'S STAR NEGRO VOTE TRIAL ORDERED-Supreme Court directs hearing of case involving redrawing of Tuskegee (Ala.) boundaries in alleged effort to keep Negroes from voting page 2 COLDWATER URGES 'OFFENSIVE' ABROAD-More aggressive foreign policy is proposed by Arizona Republican senator Page 3 DOCTOR DRAFT THREATENED Defense Department soys physicians moy be called up unless more volunteer for duty Page 15 Brilliant flashes of light in the skies over the Midwest set off a flurry of plane crash reports in widely scattered points in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois last night.

But no wreckage was found and United States Air Force officials said the furor may have been started by a meteor whizzing to disintegration in the earth's atmosphere. THE REPORTS, originating between 6 and 8 p.m., set off Editorials Food Bridge 13 Campbell .29 Comics 18 Crossword ..14 Deaths ...6,30 Sports Pages Theaters I.

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