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THI WEATHER Putty Cloudy, Wauner (Mora Weather Dotu on Pago 10) 77th 70 THE POINT ENTERPRISE WHAT'S INSIDI Wtttktr If HIGH fOINT, N. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1961 14 Pogei DAILY Se, SUNDAY CHURCH DEMOLISHED A small explosion set off in a tower sent rubble flying during demolition of war -damaged Jerusalemer Kirche in West Berlin Thursday. Church is being torn down under a rebuilding program. A AMERICAN TRIED BY CUBANS RUSSIA DISAGREE On Docket Items By TOM HOGE UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) United Nations General Assembly wound up the first week of its resumed session today, apparently as far as ever from agreement on whether to lop cold war items off its docket.

The smaller nations still looked for the Soviet Union and the United States to reach some accord on weeding out controversial issues, but they could derive little encouragement from East-West exchanges so far. Main sticking point appeared to be Soviet insistence on a full air- ng of the arms question, high- Jighting Soviet Premier Khrushchev's call for total disarmament. The United States reportedly in favor of disarmament issues, but it wants to defer full debate until next fall and spend the interim in quiet negotiations. Some diplomats were hopeful the talks just concluded in Siberia between Khrushchev and U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E.

Thompson might have a fruitful bearing on the Congo and other issues facing the assembly. These delegates believe Khrushchev's reaction to the message Thompson brought from President Kennedy might decide whether the Soviets will press their demands for liquidation of the U.N. Congo command and their slashing attacks on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Diplomats speculated Thompson Khrushchev talks may also help determine whether the two powers can agree on drop- IN ATLANTA SIT-INS Integration Leader Urges Negroes To Accept Pact By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Negro integration leader Martin Lu-her King Jr. has called on Atlanta's Negro community to calm down and accept the lunch counter desegregation agreement which halted the recent wave of sit-in demonstrations and boycotts in the downtown area.

King urged calmness and unity as a mass meeting held to clarify terms of the settlement worked out with the Atlanta-Chamber of Commerce some students expressed dissatisfaction. The rally, attended by 2,000 Negroes in the Warren Methodisi Church Friday night, was one of three he'd in as many Southern states. Easier shopping boycotts were urged at meetings in Rock Hill, S. and.Louisv.ille. Ky.

The agreement between Atlanta Negro leaders and major department, drug and variety stores, announced Tuesday, re-opened lunch counters on a segregated basis with the provision they would be opened to all when school desegregation took place. Atlanta public schools have been ordered to start desegregation in the llth and 12th grades this fall. The University of Georgia at Athens admitted two Negro students in January. Negro ally. A.

Walden told the meeting the sit-in agreement was a necessary compromise and said that "no other city has made such a sweeping desegregation agreement in advance." But the Rev. Samuel Williams said his understanding was that lunch counters would be opened to all later than next fall regardless of what occurs in connection with school desegregation." Williams said it was agreed lunch counters wmrid desegregate "sometime and September" and that Negro leaders received the impression that some lunch counters would be opened shortly on an integrated basis. At Rock Hill, about 400 Negroes attending a rally voted to boycott all stores on the city's main street for a period of 30 days, extending through the Easter shopping season. James Farmer of New York, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, told the meeting that four Negro girls would apply for admission to Winthrop College, South Carolina woman's college, in September. The rally, followed by a dance, was staged in honor of 13 students who recently served 30-day jail terms in York County rather than post bond for breach of peace convictions in connection with anti-segregation demonstrations.

About 200 Negro youths and three white persons met at a Louisville church and pledged to extend indefinitely the "buy nothing for Easter" campaign-. At Martinsville, six Negro youths picketed two variety stores for about two hours but did not attempt to seek service at the segregated lunch counters. No incidents were reported. In Durham, N. 25 faculty members from Duke University and North Carolina College joined students in picketing two movie houses to protest segregated seating policies.

The 25 were among 2C2 professors of the two colleges who signed a resolution earlier this week condemning segregation at the theaters. The Rev. J. Neal Hughley of Forth Carolina College, chairman of the liaison committee for the faculty members, told newsmen "this picketing by the faculty is not a one-time shot. It will be a continuous thing as far as we are concerned." In another North Carolina development, Joseph Charles Jones, 23, was reinstated in good standing at Johnson C.

Smith University in Charlotte after serving 30 days in jail as a result of a sit-in demonstration. The theology sto dent was convicted of breach of the peace at Rock Hill, S. and went to jail rather than pos! bond. At Oxford, Billy C. Bar ton, 20, of Pontotoc, said pro-segregation forces were circu reports against him in an apparent attempt to prevent his election as editor of the studen newspaper at the University o.

Mississippi. The college senior showed cop ies of letters originating from the Citizens Council in Jackson anc sent by the State Sovereignty Commission. Defenders Routed By Lao Rebels By JOHN RODERICK VIENTIANE, Laos Pathet Lao forces, showing-a new strength that thrcalens peace plans, sent government troops fleeing in two directions today! ping cold war items from the agenda. number of African delegates have been pressing for immedi ate assembly debate on the Congo crisis, but with the Security Council scheduled to continue discussion next Tuesday on racia violence in Portugal's West AM can territory of Angola, it was doubtful the Congo would corne up until later in the week. Authoritative sources here said Friday night seven more Asian African nations are considering sending troops to beef up the U.N force in the Congo.

If all seven go through with their plan, the force will be bolstered by more than 6,000 men, it was learned. India said Friday night it would send a full 5,000 the Congo "to fight for the very existence of the United Nations." 'Kidnaping' Baffles Cops GASTONIA, N.C. (API-Authorities reported no leads today in the case of Eugene Williams, 16 who has been missing from his home since Wednesday. Actress Suffers Slight Setback LONDON (AP) Actress. Elizabeth Taylor suffered a slight setback in her recovery from double pneumonia early today, and doctors were summoned hurriedly to her hospital roem.

A friend of the movie star said the complication was not serious enough to put Miss Taylor back on the danger list, "but her doctors are taking no chances." Miss Taylor, 29, has been under treatment at the hospital since she was stricken with the pneumonia a week ago. She was twice on the point of death before she began responding to treatment. She was able to dispense with an electronic breathing aid Friday for the first time in six days. But she still has a tube in her windpipe to make breathing easier and is being fed through a tube in her nose. A medical bullentin said: "Miss Taylor's doctors had hoped to remove the tracheal breathing tube today, but in view of her condition at the moment it had been decided that this would be inadvisable.

Treason Verdict Expected Today By RICHARD VALERIANI HAVANA (AP) Military authorities said today no verdict has been reached in the military trial of American adventurer William A. Morgan and 13 others accused of conspiring against the Castro government. A military tribunal was reported Friday night to have sentenced him to death. But defense attorney Jorge Luis Carro said this morning he had been advised the tribunal had not yet returned its verdict in the trial, which ended Friday. Carro had announced Morgan and his aide, Maj, Jesus Carreras, had been sentenced to be shot and the same information appeared in.all government papers this morning.

Nevertheless, military authorities said no decision had been reached but that one might be announced later today. The earlier accounts said Morgan, a 31-year-old soldier of fortune, had been convicted of treason. These accounts continued: Morgan's Cuban defense lawyer promptly filed an appeal. He said "hope is not lost" and that he expects "good results." But military appeal courts rarely overrule sentences handed down by revolutionary tribunals. Agreement Sought On Grain Issue from a showdown battle for the Sala Phou Koun Road junction.

The rebel assaults drove government defenders eight miles north to the high ground of neighboring Sala Pou Keng. Other royal troops abandoned the strategic road completely, near Muong Kassy, 22 miles south. The junction controls the nortb- i Friday. Donald Roney, special agent in charge of the Charlotte FBI office, said only, "The case has been referred to us. We are making inquiry to determine whether any federal statute has been violated." The youth's uncle, E.

L. Williams, a septic tank contractor, told authorities he received a telephone call Thursday night from a south highway in Central Laos erson who instructed him to de- and lies less than 100 miles north liver 2 000 to a man at a of Vientiane and only 40 miles nated spot on a road near here. NAME CLEARED 'Deserter's' Body Found In Grave WINDOW, Minn. (AP)-The belief that their son was "too good a boy" to desert the armed forces has been justified for a father and mother after 16 years of effort to clear his name. Mr.

and Mrs. John Sogge have been informed by the U.S. Army adjutant general that the remains of their son. Gehart, have been located and that an honorable discharge would be forwarded. The information climaxes years of research by the Red Cross, the FBI, England's Scotland Yard, a Windom law firm, the armed services and the Sogges themselves.

The mystery began in the waning days of World War II at St. Dizier. France, where Gehart, a staff sergeant, reportedly had booked passage on a channel- crossing flight to England after SUNDAY ENTERPRISE FEATURES TOMORROW tombstones and many of the names arc straight from Germany, but the cemetery is that of Old Pilgrim Reformed Lutheran Church in Davidson County. Two patriot-soldiers of the Revolutionary War are buried there, along with many of the forefathers of families prominent in the history of Thomasville and Lexington. Staff writer Bonnie Moore writes of the historical church and its cemetery in a special feature for the Sunday Enterprise.

NEW is what Randolph County is offering with its new jail in Asbeboro. When the old jail was condemned in 1959, the county set about buildin" one of the most modern jail facilities in North Carolina. A feature article by staff writer Braxton Younts in the Sunday Enterprise tells the new facility. being granted a seven-day pass. When he failed to return he was listed as AWOL.

As the facts unfolded, Sogge actually had boarded, as an unlisted passenger, a cargo plane taking the same route. Why he had forsaken his seat aboard a passenger plane isn't certain. Minutes after take-off the plane was shot down by German antiaircraft (ire. All occupants were killed. The date was Sept.

25, 1944. First definite information on Sogge came June 13, 1945, when his commanding officer replied to a letter from the missing man's sister, explaining that young Sogge never had returned from his seven-day pass. But the Sogges didn't give up. From that moment until now, they and a handful of official and private agencies pressed for action. The climax came in a letter from Maj.

Gen. R. V. Lee, stat ing: "I am happy to inform you that after a thorough analysis of statements and documents contained in your son's records, not one shred of evidence was found to corroborate statements that Sgt. Sogge had ever arrived in London." Gen.

Lee said further checks of the burial records of an unknown solSier near the St. Dozier airstrip indicate Gehart had gone down with the cargo plane. So the record has been cleared, and with it comes a big relief for Mr. and Mrs. Sogge.

"It still was a shock, though," Mrs. Sogge said. "In the back of my mind was always the ray of hope thnt some day he would walk in the door." It is not so bad when you think of all Uio other people who lost boys," added her husband. "Four of ours came back." south of the royal seat of Luang Prabang. He said the voice sounded like that of a teen-age boy.

Police took a box to the desig- The Pathet Lao guerrilla actionj naged spot Friday, but no one ap. apparently stalls the government's I reared. ji intended invasion drive into the Plains Des Jarres, the rebel Police Chief G. F. Peninger said "No one seems to believe stronghold eastward along that this is a kidnapping, but until Queen Astrid Highway.

Loss of a big stretch of the road from the administrative capital of Vientiane to Luang Prabang is the government's biggest military setback since January. But systematic destruction by government troops made the route useless to the advancing rebels. The government said the northern sector around Sala Pou Keng was holding firm, with royal artillery in command. The fighting near Muong Kassy was said to Be guerrilla style, with no heavy losses on either side. Vientiane remained quiet Three was no public announcement the setback.

Royal military sources said the outcome would be doubtful for a few days. The strong rebel offensive came after leaders from two rival Lao tian factions met in Cambodia anc put forward a program for stabilizing Laos. we know differently, we've got to treat it as one." Peninger said officers still were without any concrete clues. By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON Kennedy administration is working on a compromise plan to settle differences between the Senate and the House over the emergency feed grain program.

The chief point of controversy between the two houses is a provision which would give Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman authority to sell government owned surplus grains at Jess than support and market prices. Such sales would depress prices and encourage farmers to comply with the program, which is designed tb reduce feed grain production this year because of huge surpluses. The presented to offer higher supports at $1.20 per bushel for corn and payments to farmers who reduce grain acreages in line with the program. Those who did not cut back would be left to the mercy of prices which the secretary could depress by dumping surplus Jrain on the market.

Crest Creates Crisis By ANTHONY WHITE LONDON (AP) Francis Edward Lascelles Hadwen's wife got up in arms when he wanted to paint the family coat of arms on the baby carriage. "Extremely vulgar," she called the idea. And she swore she wouldn't take the baby out in the The story of the crisis over the family crest came out in the di- vorce court Friday when the wife, Sibell Julia, daughter of Viscount Tarbat. won a divorce on the grounds of cruelty. Justice Hewson described Hadwen, 34, a former honorary secretary to Sir Winston Churchill, as "a man strongly imbued with conservative doctrines and prin-i ciples, a man with a deep regard for Ciings of heredity and 'families of a long history." i The Senate passed a version the program Friday by a 52-26 vote which did not carry this sale authority.

Many senators claimec such authority would give the sec retary too much power mar kets. The House, on the other hand passed a bill Thursday carrying this sale authority. Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D-La.

who steered the Senate bill, saic House compromisers must drop the provision "or there will be no bill." Ellender added, "I hope the House agrees to a conference when it meets Monday and that we can get a compromise later that day." A March 15 deadline has been set for passage of a bill if it is to have any effect on this year's crops. Anticipating trouble and delay, administration farm officials have started drafting a compromise plan that avoids the controversial sale authority for the secretary of agriculture. One plan under consideration The appeals court agreed to icar the arguments of lawyer is Carro this morning. The death sentence must be carried out within 24 hours if the appeal is rejected. That means Morgan and an aide doomed with lim, Maj.

Jesus Carreras, former chief of staff in the Castro army might be executed early Sunday. During his two-day trial at La labana Fortress Morgan was accused of supplying arms to anti- lastro rebels in the Escambray Mountains the same rugged leaks where he joined Castro's guerrillas in 1957 as a major. Before the trial ended, Morgan beaded innocent and.insisted his 'aith still lies with the revolution. VIorgan has been locked up at Ja Cabana since his arrest last October. "I stand here innocent," he told lis five judges in English.

Speaking slowly and almost inaudibly, he continued: "I guarantee this court that if I am found guilty I will walk to the execution wall with no escort, with moral strength and with a clear conscience. I have defended this revolution because I believed in it." Morgan looked haggard, with traces of a blonde beard snowing on his face. The head of the tribunal was a captain who wounded a U. S. embassy employe during a row outside a Havana nightclub last December.

At another trial 18 months ago, when a group of Cubans faced death for an anti-Castro plot that Morgan himself pried open as a counterspy, Morgan suggested hard labor for the guilty instead of execution. Some were shot later anyway. would retain the present $1.06 a bushel support for corn. All growers would be eligible for the support, but farmers who cut back acreages in line with the program would get government payments sufficient to bring their return on corn up to the $1.20 originally proposed. In other words, the support would be supplemented by a 14- cent payment.

This payment would be in addition to what the government would pay on land withheld from production. Skies Clear Over Most Of Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fair weather covered most of the country today but rain, snow and snow flurries continued to plague some northern areas. A succession of lows off the Pacific Coast maintained showery weather from northern California northward with scattered snow flurries in the interior. Snow also fell in portions of the Upper Great Lakes, Southwest Lower Michigan and widely scattered areas of the Northeast. More rain or snow is expected during the day in the upner lakes with an area of scattered showers spreading from the Lower Ohio Valley southward to northeast Texas late in the day.

Scattered showers or snow flurries were forecast for the central Appalachians with more rain due in the Pacific Northwest. Fair weather covered most of rest of the nation with readings generally in the 40s and 50s south of a freezing line extending 'rom the northern Rockies eastward to the Great Lakes, down nto the Ohio Valley and eastward to the Atlantic Coast. CARMICHAEL HANDS $240,000 OVER TO FBI Jobless Father Finds, Returns Money LOS ANGELES (AP) A canvas bag containing $240,000 in cash fell out of a Brink's, armored truck into a street. A father out hunting a job found it and called the FBI. "I thought if I kept that money I'd never be able to look my three kids in the face again," said Douglas William Johnson, 50.

When he works, which has been about half the time in the last six months, the neatly dressed, Negro maintenance man washes windows and hauls away rubbish. He averages, when working, about $100 a week. Friday, with his wife Helen, 38, he drove to an apartment under construction where he had an appointment to see about cleaning up the debris. The man he was to see wasn't in. As he drove away the canvas bag lay in the street in front of his car.

The Brink's truck had been taking it from the United California Bank to the Federal Reserve Bank. Fifteen money bags were piled high inside the truck. One apparently slid off the pile, hit horizontal inside handle that released the door and fell into the street. A guard inside the truck sat facing forward updating his records, and didn't notice the open door. Driver Robert Downs.

42, saw It when ho happened to glance back through a rear window in his compartment. Scores of police and FBI agents were scouring the truck's past route when Johnson telephoned the FBI: "I've got something here you folks might be looking for." Mrs. Johnson told a reporter what had happened. "We saw this bag laying in the street. My husband picked it up and threw it in the back of our station wagon.

We drove about a block. "Curiosity got the better of me and I turned around and looked at it. I said, 'Do you know what you've picked up? There's $240,000 in that He said And started shaking all over." Johnson said: "I was knocked off my feet. I never dreamed I'd have my hands on anything like that." The bag was sealed but bore 'a tag stating the sum it contained in 10s and 20s. The Johnsons drove on home.

He called a friend, pavie E. Taylor, a. former Chicago policeman. "Taylor said, 'Don't call the police. They'll have every car in the city out at your house with sirens blowing and people coming around and the neighbors wondering what you have done." Mrs, Johnson recalled.

Johnson and Taylor agreed Johnson should call the FBI in- stead. Four agents in three cars were there almost immediately. The Johnson's 16; Clement, 13, and Dorance, 11 in school through what Johnson called "more excite- ment than I've ever had for anything." Had anyone mentioned a possible reward? He said no one had. He planned to call the man about the apartment job. HE GAVE MONEY BACK.

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