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0 Where to Find It: 211 U'rafhtT 11 Editorial II Wilson 15 TV, Radio i Women II THE WEATIIER: Partly cloudy today; high 64. Clearing, cooler tonight; low 47. Partly cloudy, a little warmer Tuesday. Jftoite, The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon Dcs Moines, Iowa, Monday Morninjr, May 13, m- Sections Trice 10 Cents Sunrise sunset 7:25. JVI fo) o) 'fo) 7 AM (7 Kennedy Acts After Night of Bombings, Riots -jit I 'i.

Boat Sinks, Mother, 19, Man Drown HEAVY RAINS, HIGH WENDS LASH STATE Lightning Hits D.M. Home; Cuts Power mm i i i III ill i i i Police and firemen through Negro homes in Study Cites High Farm Birth Rate By Charles Bailey (Of Th Register's Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C. "Surplus duction" by American farm families is a part of the nation's farm problem along with surplus crop production, a study by the Population Reference Bureau said Sunday. The study, published by the non-governmental, non-profit 3 Watch as Homes Burn The scene is a block from a Negro motel which was bombed, injuring four persons.

By Joseph Zobin A 19-year-old mother of two children and a father of five children drowned Sunday afternoon when the out- board motor- boat they were in sanx in me Moines River in Bird- land while th were head for shore to get life pre- servers. Four others in the boat, in- rludine two babies, were res- I cued. Dead are Barbara Ashby, of 919 Grove and James Slaughter, 41. of 1145 Ninth st. Rescued were Barbara's I two dauchters.

Marsha, 3 months, and Jacqueline, 14 months; Barbara's sister, Benita Ashby, 11, of 919 Grove, and James Walden, 29, of 922 Laurel st. Police dragged the river for the two bodies until a storm hit about 8 p. m. Lt. Cleatus Learning said the search would be resumed this morning.

Walden told police the six had gone out in Slaughter's boat about 3 p. m. from Kline's Boat House. After they went "up and down the river a few times," Slaughter said he thought they had bet ter go ashore to rent some life preservers, Walden said. "Pulled Loose" Just as they decided to head for shore, Walden said, the "back part of the boat, where the motor was, just pulled loose." They were about 200 yards east of Kline's Boat House.

Walden said he and Slaughter tried to secure the motor but the boat took on water and sank. Walden said he fell into the water and grabbed one of the children, he didn't know which. He said they all were screaming for help, and he couldn't see the boat. Several other boats in the area rushed to help. Herman Schweiker, 1320 Forty-third and his son, Danny, 13, were just getting ready to leave the boathouse dock.

So was Dr. Robert Young, 5610 Water-bury circle. Police said Clarence Croy, 5411 Fifty-seventh place, and Kenneth Harrison, of Le-Grand, in another boat, also helped. Schweiker said his son, DROWNING Continued on Page Fifteen 1 arkr ey' STONE POLICE AND firemen; 50 ARE HURT Soldiers Sent to Birmingham Area Leased Wire fo The Register BIRMINGHAM, A A. president Kennedy sent troops to bases near Birmingham Sunday night for use 'there if rioting flares again.

Mr. Kennedy acted after a night of bombings and rioting in Birmingham. City police quelled the violence shortly after 3 a. m. with assistance from Negro ministers and Civilian Defense I workers.

50 Hurt Approximately 50 persons were injured, including a Doliceman and a taxicab driver, who were stabbed. Mr. Kennedy directed also that preliminary steps be taken to call out the Alabama National Guard if it is needed to cope with the racial outbreaks in the state's biggest city. Even as Mr. Kennedy was speaking in the White House, troops were moving from outside the state to the Birmingham vicinity, officials said.

The Defense Department announced that Army troops have been moved into Maxwell Air Force Base at Montgomery, about 80 miles south of Birmingham, and to Ft. McClellan at Anniston, about 55 miles east of the city. The Pentagon refused to identify the units moved or to give their strength or their home bases. Wallace Protest Mr. Kennedy's action drew a prompt protest and challenge from Alabama's Gov.

George Wallace. He said the President's statement "only tends to aggravate and inflame," and asserted that Mr. Kennedy has no authority to send troops into a state unless they are requested by the Legislature or governor. Wallace added "we have sufficient state and local forces to handle the situation and order will be maintained." The legal basis for the use of federal troops, if they are used, will be Title 10, Section 333 of the United States Code. It allows the President to use the armed forces or other means to suppress "any Insurrection or domestic violence." The President issued his statement after a three-hour White House conference with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, Sec- RACIAL Continued on Page Three Urges a Cut in Religion Rates LONDON.

ENGLAND UP IThe Rev. Lewis Roberts, An-Iglican rector of Highampton jwith Sheepwash Parish in Devon, has called on fellow 'churchmen to cut prices for their services to keep pace with the supermarkets. "Catchpenny price ticketing in our supermarkets is part of our money mad world," the Rev. Mr. Roberts declared.

"Why shouldn't religion and the churches follow suit?" He suggested these bargains: Weddings marked down from $5.88 to funeralsregularly $4.90, now at a special baptisms free, with a 10-cent charge for souvenir cards. AFRICAN REDS IN CUBA FOR PUSHONHAIT! Some There Now, Expert Says NEW YORK. N. V. A.

A. Bcrle. former assistant secretary of state, said Sun day in Reporter maga I that thousands of French-speaking Africans are in Cuba presum- ably waiting to move into Haiti. He said the nl tuna nart of a Commu-f. nist plot to infiltrate Haiti.

EtLt Berle, who headed a task force on Latin American affairs in the early days of the Kennedy admin i a i wrote that "the growing chaos clears the way for a seizure of Haiti by someone, and the Africans in Cuba are obviously there to back a candidate." Berle said a number of the Africans, believed to have come from Guinea, now are reported concentrated in Santiago and some already have crossed over from Cuba to Haiti in small boats. He said the number of Africans in Cuba is estimated at from 2,500 to 10,000. "Early in May," Berle wrote, "these French Africans were seen on the streets of Havana. The general assumption was that their destination was Haiti." He said the current crisis in Haiti is more dangerous than the "already perilous Cuban situation." Red Target Berle, who has been a practicing attorney in New York City since leaving federal service two years ago, wrote: "Several years ago the Communist high command began paying attention to Haiti. "Instructions and ideological strategy were handled through France under supervision of a French Communist, Pierre Herve.

One tenet of the party line laid down for Haiti was racial whites, including Haitians having any white blood at all should be considered class enemies and agents of American imperialism and liquidated." EXILE GOVERNMENT SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO Two exiled Haitian political leaders announced Sunday they had formed a Haitian government in exile to oppose the dictatorship of President Francois Duvalier. They are Louis Dejoie, 68, and Daniel Fignole, 48, both of whom were candidates in the 1957 elections. Dejoie has a wide following among Haiti's influential mul-latto population. Fignole, a provisional president for about three weeks in May and June, 1957, claims a wide following among the Haitian Negro majority. BAHAMA Sci of Milei zoo ISLANDS 4(ianlic Ocean 9 CUBA A DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CT se San Jinn QW PUERTO Rico Cnn'Utenn Sett stand by as flames roar Birmingham early Sunday.

"1 1 it, Heavy thunderstorms, spawning strong surface winds and two tornadoes, lashed Iowa again Sunday, drenching some communities with nearly three inches of rain. A series of thunderstorms ooured nearly an inch of rain on Des Moines early in the morning and again during the night. The Weather Bureau at Municipal Airport reported .94 of an inch for the day. Since Saturday, when the rains began, .98 of an inch has been reported at the Weather Bureau station. One resident, however, reported 1.15 in his rain guage for both days.

Lightning from the storms struck the Alva Long home at 3103 Garfield ave and knocked out power in the Des Moines area. There was little damage and no fire at the Long home. Areas without power were the Highland Park area and along Ingersoll avenue in Des Moines, an area off Ash-worth road in West Des Moines, and the Adel area. Whole State The storms touched all parts of Iowa and sent some rivers and streams out of their banks. The central section of the state seemed hardest hit.

Approximately 3.5 inches of rain at Ames filled the nearby Skunk River to bank-full early Sunday. The Weather Bureau said the Skunk would crest l'i feet above flood stage Wednesday near Oskaloosa. The Cedar River flooded Cottage road north of Cedar Falls Sunday morning. Small creeks and streams in a 25-mile wide area from northwest of Jefferson to northwest of Sig-ourney filled rapidly just after midnight Saturday. The Des Moines River at Des Moines stood at 15.78 feet.

Flood stage is 23 feet. Two tornadoes were reported in western Iowa. Predict Rain In a 20-minute period just after 6 p. Audubon was soaked by .88 of an inch of rain. Storms still were in Iowa early today but the Weather Bureau said their intensity had decreased.

Rain was expected to stay in the eastern counties part of today. Agnes Samuelson Headed Iowa Schools I 'V It LI -1 mil I 7m pi' tf-zi k'i i St- i 4. hi' J' ft i 1 Liquor Agents CHURCH of Scotland assails Roman Catholic rules on mixed marriages and Mormon methods of seeking converts Page 13 ARGENTINE President Jose Mario Guido's cabinet resigns, plunging the nation into a new political crisis Page 2 THE DEATHS of three persons involved in auto accidents Saturday boosts weekend highway toll in Iowa to six Page 15 I Jf Agnes Samuelson Is Dead At 76; Educator 30 Years Miss Agnes Samuelson, a former state superintendent of public instruction who was both a beloved and controversial public figure, died early Sunday at Iowa Lutheran WIREPHOTOS (AP) A Negro woman, shoeless and hysterical, is rushed from the scene as homes go up in flames early Sunday in Birmingham. Her rescuer was Norris, a Civil Defense worker. organization, said: "There are two major components to the nation's farm problem.

One is economic surplus production. The other is demographic surplus reproduction. "In trying to cope with the former, the nation tends to ignore the latter." American farm women, the study said, "average 3.33 children compared with 2.88 children for rural non-farm women, and 2.26 children for urban women." High Fertility "Thus, at a time when the farm segment of the economy is declining drastically and when there is pressing need for farm people to move out of agriculture, the high fertility of farm women simultaneously abets the nation's rapid population growth and complicates demographic aspects of the farm problems." The study points out that in the south this "higher fertility" is "heavily weighted by the Negro in the farm population." Non white farm and rural non-farm women, it said, have about half again as many children as their white neighbors. But it noted that "racial fertility differences" are less among urban women, and said this indicates that "urbanism tends to depress the fertility of all women who migrate from farms, whatever their color or the FAMILIES Continued on Page Four 4l Broad Powers to BROAD NEW powers for state liquor agents are included in Iowa's new liquor bill Page 6 STATE Department is considering restoring normal diplomatic relations with the Communist government of Hungary Page 4 BRITISH AVIATION Ministry threatens to seize American airliners landing in Britain if they carry passengers at rates lower than those agreed on by European competitors 26 Hospital here. Miss Samuelson, 76, of 722 Polk was also president of the National Education Association and executive secretary of the Iowa State Education Association during her more than 30 years of active public life.

Services Set She died at 2 a. m. Sunday of cancer after an illness of more than a year. Services will be at 4 p. m.

Tuesday at First Lutheran Tell Red Military1, To Button Lips MOSCOW, RUSSIA UP) Soviet military leaders, apparently shaken by security weaknesses spotlighted by the Greville Wynne-Oleg Penkov-sky espionage trial, Sunday ordered Russian servicemen to button their lips. "There are chatterboxes among us who violate conversational discipline on the telephone, radio and other means of communication," the newspaper Red Star complained. A front-page editorial on the spy trial that ended Saturday said careless military men "give out information that should not be given out." Church in Des Moines. Burial will be Wednesday in Rose Hill Cemetery at Shenandoah after 2 p. m.

services at the SAMUELSON' Continued on Page Five Map Locates Haiti and Cuba.