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1961 10 CENTS 32 PAGES nn nncr UV7U UWU THE "mm ASHVILLE Ml Mil Adlai Speech Lashes Gromykds Voice Drones TWW world summit conference on U.S. policy in the Congo, Viet i Gl Dividends Set For State Vets 56,070 Policyholders To Gain by Speedup Of 1965 Payments By NELLIE KENYON A total of $2,703,200 will 6e received by 56,070 Tennessee GI policyholders early next year as a result of the speed-up payment of 1963 dividends, Veterans Administration officials said yesterday. Kenneth S. Craft, manager ef the VA regional office at Nashville, said these payments result from the speed-up payment of $224.3 million in t965 Gl insurance dividends ordered Nov. 30 by John S.

Gleason Jr, VA administrator. This is a continuation of the accelerated dividend payment over the past three years requested by President Johnson. GLEASON advised Craft that the VA hoped the entire payment couid be started Immediately after New Tear's Day and completed by Jan. 10. He said the 1964 dividend of $229 million was paid In the record time of eight days, compared with 31 days In i063 and less than three months In 1961.

In 1962 and previous year the dividend payments were made en anniversary dates of the individual policies. Craft said the regular dividends are primarily a return to policyholders of part of their premium payments, since the death rate among Gl policyholders continues to be lower than the rate upon which payments were established by law. Craft said the dividends will be divided anions: 4 610 000 veterans who held World War 1703,1 U.y Policy, Nuclear Force Stevenson Reacts Sharply to 'Harsh Cold War Talk' UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko placed priority yesterday on a need for progress in disarmament, and said "it would be in line with the present situation" to convene a world summit conference. Later he told a reporter he had no concrete proposal as to a date or place, but that if there is agreement "I am sure details of procedure can easily be worked out." Gromyko also urged that the United Nations be strengthened in its role as peacekeeper, but he denounced U.S.

policy in Western Europe, Asia and Africa as endangering world peace. GROMYKO expressed his views in a policy speech to the 115-na-tion General Assembly which delegates considered as a broad outline of the approach the new Moscow leadership will take In the U.N. Most delegates regarded the speech as relatively moderate in tone, but U.S. Chief Delegate Adlai Stevenson said it contained "harsh cold war In a statement issued through a spokesman, Stevenson said the world objectives of the Soviet Union apparently remain un changed. He added that "even self-defense and aid to countries to protect their security and independence is wrong and illegal if it interferes with Soviet aggressive ambition to communize the world.

"I HOPE THIS told war talk is more propaganda than policy, and that the Soviet Union really does want better relations and progress toward peace and se curity." His statement was much sharper than the reaction of Lord Caradon. the British delegate. who said he was encouraged by hearing Gromyko stress the need for strengthening the United Na tions. Roger Seydoux, the French ambassador said Gromyko alternated between a tough and soft line. Apparently Stevenson was irked by Gromyko's strona eriti- cum oi ins u.o.-Dacnea mumiai- aril 1 I ma i.ii.i -Vl' I- 11111111111111 lJMMMMl AP Wirephotos UNITED NATIONS U.S.

Chief Delegate Adlai E. Stevenson yawns as he listens from his mid-chamber seat to the address of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko at the United Nation General Assembly session Gromyko calls for disarmament, and denounces LBJ, Wilson Discuss NATO WASHINGTON President Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Wilson began yesterday a joint search for guidelines the United States and Britain may follow In tackling the controversial problem of NATO's nuclear future. In the course of a busy SO- a Sudan Arabs, NegroesClash KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) Black Africans and Arabs clashed in bloody waves through the night and into the morning yesterday over the Arab majority's domination of South Sudan's Negro belt. When troops brought the fighting to a halt, the government counted 141 Promotions Await Firemen minute, rnio-aay session, open- i i a tt ing two-day conference, th.i?6"! nd In two men covered not only issues within the Western Alliance but also held a wide-ranging dis I U.S.

Government Life Insur-! anceand World Warn National By JIM SQUIRES Service Life Insurance. MaypJ Bevery Brjey and Metro yin Qommis- iorilrJsioner J- Fetters are exPected to announce more received $2,520,000. About 2,730 than 150 promotions today filling top-level vacan- of L'SGLI policyholders will ji4 ceive $184,200 in dividends. 111 the fire department. Korean conflict veterans hold Fetters disclosed yesterday that all examinations non-participating policies that do not provide regular annual, nave been completed andi dividend payments, according 'that it scheduled to' to craft.

itnal ne cneauiea io( Today eusslon of problems they face herded into jails and police sta-over the rest of the world. tions and the prime minister, These include Britain's press- sir El Khatem el Khalifa, told jured, including an Amer ican couple. a news conference troops were standing by to crush any further rioting. THE FIGHTING started when blacks marched into Khartoum from the airport and the Nezro quarter Sunday night shouting sans ior autonomy in the ouul" ttlm oown AraDS. Nam and Europe in the first new Soviet leadership.

Klan Attack Denied By Pastor PHILADELPHIA, Miss. tJP-A young Methodist minister was quoted by the New Orleans States-Item yesterday as saying the Ku Klux, Klan a secret so has ruled the Phita area for the past six months. The minister later denied say ing it "For all practical purposes," the newspaper quoted the Rev. Clay F. Lee, 34, as saying, "the "Masked, Secret Klan A Refuge for Scoundrels," aays columnist Ralph McGill, page 13.

Klan has taken ove'r the guidance of thought patterns in our town. It has controlled what was said and what was not said." The Rev. Mr. Lee, reached by phone, denied using the word "Klan" or having the Klan in mind. He said a third party present at the interview bears him out.

"Even though I deny saying (Turn to Page 6, Column 2) is. VJ major policy declaration of the Raid To Spark Saigon Attack? SAIGON, Viet Nam LT) Communist Viet Cong forces smashed defenses of a district capital 260 miles northeast of here yesterday and seized two 4.2 inch mortars and 300 high explosive shells possibly for a planned shelling of Saigon. This was believed to be the first time in the war the Viet Cong have captured weapons this hsavy. The 4.2 mortar, tha largest mortar in standard use, is used her as artillery. The attack on an Lao district headquarters began about dawn yesterday, military spokesmen reported today.

The 18 defenders of the post reportedly were overrun and a nearby mortar position was seized. YESTERDAY afternoon, gov. ernment relief forces moved up on the Viet Cong and retook the headquarters but continued to draw heavy enemy fire. Casualties for the two sides were not initially reported. The action occurred In Binh Dlnh province, where territory and population have been falling increasingly under Viet Cong control in recent months.

The 42 mortar is much mora powerful and has a greater range than the mortars used by the Viet Cong in shelling Bien Hoa Airfield Nov. 1. In that attack tha Viet Cong damaged or destroyed 27 planes, including 20 U.S. Air Force jet bombers. There have been reports the Viet Cong might be planning a mortar barrage of Saigon soon.

Warmer NASHVILLE Sunny and warmer today, high in 40s. Fair and cold tonight, low in 20s. Wednesday, fair with slow warming trend. Map, other data page 27. John Grenier Strongly deftndt Burch i 1 1 I meet wun Druey mia to ai8CU" .1 i tie possibility of announcing the appointments.

the way for nuclearjcost and distribution of defense me American couple, not and several Euro- ciety delphia I BMAi! Vanderbilt 15 Obituaries Anne Adams 14 Radio-TV 18 Crossword 19, Word Game 19 i rs r-M Amusements 19: Editorials 12. 13 ed At that same time the in south Viet Nam mil-Service CommiMion released a '1 25 which nski list containing the names of 118 FKl? police officers who are eligible Classified 27-31 omen haps the world. iComics 24 World 14-16 Gromyko also assa led the Unit- weapons "to slither all over the world." and criticism of the U.S States, Belgium and Britain I (Turn to Page 6. Column 1) Charges Mount Against 'Phony7 Ex-Tennessean Tied To $250,000 Fraud ipeans apparently were mistaken by the blacks for Arabs and attacked in the darkness Sunday night. After the fighting ended, a crowd of tattered Arabs sur-rounded El Khalifa's residence and demanded protection.

They said they lived in an area bordering the Negro quarter. At the news conference. El Khalifa came under fire of Sudanese newsmen charging the police took two hours to intervene In the rioting. "THE FORCES of order wprp simply not keyed up to this situ ation," the premier reDlied. 'They expected a friendly gauienng.

xnia was a rererence to a crowd of blacks who had gone to the airport to greet a Negro public official on his return from the south. The crowd swelled to about 10,000 and marched into Khartoum attacking Arabs and smashing their shops and cafes. Arab cars were overturned as their driver fled for cover. Police dispersed the mob but an hour later thousands of Arabs armed with sticks and iron rods Ciiarged Into the Negro quarter snouting "Kill, kill, kill." The (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) ne saia dividend payments win tie made automatically and' correspondence sbout them might delay process. the distribution State Police Just Taken For Ride The Tennessee Highway Patrol cot a prompt answer yester day when it broadcast an alert! for a Highway Patrol car miss-j lng from Central State Hospital.

The mental patient who had taken it heard the alert on the; er' rarfta. nii.H. He quickly replied: mis is Kaymono truise. ne said. "I'm just taking a little ride In the car.

If you'll wait, I'll be back In a minute." And he was. Patrol Capt. A. M. Lashlee said the car had been parked at Central State by Trooper Jack Charlton of Dover, who had brought a patient to the hospital from Stewart County.

While the trooper was having the new patient admitted to the hospital, the other patient disappeared in the car. Lashlee said no charges were filed. Politics for promotion. THE OFFICERS took examinations last month for superior officer vacancies in the department. Indications are that between 40 and 50 sergeants will be named before the first of the year.

On the list weer the names of 21 officers regarded as "out Undin8" candidates for the Qf effjcer, takin8 th, test yvjjam B. (Shag) Hutcher- son. an investigator, recorded "1rk 90Z- Other officers in the top group were John Dodson. 88.3, Charles L. Stoner.

87.9. Frank G. Hancock. 87.4, Paul H. Uselton 87.4.

James C. Abernathy, 86.S. Melvin A. Baker, 86.3, James A. York, 83.6, Kenneth D.

Reasonover. 85.2. Robert W. Rogers, 84.9, James P. Gossett, 84.7.

John H. Aired. 84.4. Tillman A. Fox.

84.1, Robert E. Oogglns, 84. Tom H. Phelps, 83, Ready B. Owen 82.9.

Brode Prultt 82.9. Josh A. Carney. 82.6. Malcolm C.

Akin 82.2. James C. Williams. 82.1 and Lucian F. Stewart, 82.1.

THERE WERE 58 other of- (Turn to Page 6. Column 1) By Joe Hatcher ins i i a i a i aiincuiues, me "LBJ-Wilson Meeting Mustn't Be Misread." says columnist Max Freedman. page 13. forces, efforts to raise world living standards and the con- flict with Communists in east Asia. U.S.

officials predicted that no "blueprint" for 'a NATO nuclear force will emerge from the conference which runs through to- (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) Lawmaker DETROIT Federal agents yesterday arrested Tennessee native Daniel W. West a Detroit Democrat and mem ber of the Michigan House of Representatives, on charges of filing: false information on in come tax returns in what they say may amount to a $250,000 tax swindle. Ironically, the arrest took place as West was posting bond on ether charges resulting from a vote registration fraud charge being heard in Detroit Recorder's (Criminal) Court. Federal officials also said they are preparing to go before a federal grand jury today to seek other indictments against West. WEST ALREADY Is accused of hiding a prison record by masquerading for 10 years as a prominent New York attorney who died In 1961.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Secret Service agents said in the alleged tax swindle case more than 120 charges could result, each carrying max imum penalties of up to 10 years In prison andor up to $10,000 in fine. (West, a Negro, was born In Algood, In Putnam County. He has been a frequent visitor to Cookeville and Algood, where his mother died last year. (West has said that his grandfather, Crusoe Buck, was once honored by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House as the nation's oldest living Negro.

Buck reportedly died at the age of 110. (WEST ALSO had said that Buck had earlier driven the late Cordell Hull's buggy during (Turn to Page 6, Column 3) Burch, Barry Back Governors' Stand WASHINGTON (AP) Dean Burch, seeking to stem a rebellion against leadership Wnmrtn fiianrc'of Republican National Committee, announced OTun DeurSiyesterday he and Sen. Barry Goldwater could en-Cnn nn Cf rnf rorse a Plicy statement issued over the weekend by OUn On Orreer; republican governors. GOP Governors' Influence May Be Too Little, Too Late Again The statement had been in terpreted by many at slapping at Burch, chairman of the national committee, and at Gold-water. In another move in the Repub lican tug-of-war over the party's leadership in the aftermath or its shattering No.

3 defeat, John Grenler resigned as the executive director of the GOP Na tional Committee. THE PARTY'S 18 governors and governors-elect, who held a special two-day meeting in Denver Friday and Saturday, urged a drastic reshaping of the party's national organization In a statement many of the governors an id was a clear call for the ouster of Burch, handplcked by Goldwater as national chairman, But Burch said that he could endorse the governors' statement "without hesitation." "Sen. Goldwater and I have discussed the statement In detail and I can report that he con. (Turn to Page Column 2) Gets No Help OKLAHOMA CITT CP) A 31-year-old woman gave birth to a six-pound boy In 34-degree weather on a downtown Oklahoma City street yesterday. A crowd gathered around, but did little to help as the Infant lay screaming on the sidewalk.

A taxi was summonded. but the driver refused to load the woman. Finally, former state Rep. Robert O. Cunningham, attracted by the crowd, stopped his csr and when he saw what had happened, notified the fire department.

A rescue squad soon arrived and the mother and baby were rushed to a hospital, where both are doing well, hos pital spokesman said. The woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, said the babv had not been expected for i another month. the Goldwater emblem of control of the national committee, nor did they put Goldwater in his place by name. CLEVELAND was the site where the Republican gover-nors might have preserved the party image and might huve made a race for the presidency last November. But the governors see-sawed ineffectively.

Actunllv President Eisenhowers indoclion wrecked plans at Cleveland. He had inspired Gov. William Scran-ton to arch his bnok and he-come a candidate for the GOP nomination. But as Scranten travelled to (Turn to Page 6, Column 4) The Republican governors, reaching for influence In the Republican patty affairs, may well have been "too little and too late" again, as they have been on several occasions. The indecision and throat-cutting at the National Governors' conference in Cleveland, Ohio, paved the way for the nomination of Sen.

Barry Goldwater, although 14 of the 16 Republican governors did not support his candidacy. Now th 17-itovcrnor conference at Dmivrr supposedly voted unanimously to reorganise th Urpuhllian party, but they did nut apnriniHlly demand ouxler of K'Mii Uurch, AP Wlrephoto DETROIT Rep. Daniel W. West, Michigsn is placed under arrest ss he leaves a phone booth. V..