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Tucson. Arlzon TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7. 1966 622-5855 SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES Mm Architect Of Apartheid Knifed By White Assassin Ariionans 'Concede' On CAP Measure Can't Pass Afoktfs Birth Control Pioneer Dies Margaret Sanger Slee Succumbs I In Tucson Rest Home At Age 82 By MARILYN JOHNSON Margaret Sanger Slee, founder of the birth control movement and hailed as one of the most courageous women of her time, died yesterday afternoon at Valley House Convalescent Center." She was 82 years old when she died and she bad given more Prime Minister Dies Instantly sf By DAVID CAPE TOWN. South Africa J. PAINE (AP) Government leaders Tuesday night promised a searching investigation into the back.

I ground of the white assassin who Minister HenariK r. verwoera nearu Than 50 years of her life to tne cause of Planned Parenthood. Mrs. Slee is known all over the world as Margaret Sanger, her name when her world-wide crusade began in 1912. She was born Margaret Hig-gins on Sept.

14, 1883 in Corning, New York, and was educated as a nurse at White Plains, N.Y. Hospital. As a young nurse working on the lower East Side of New York City, Margaret Sanger saw thousands of poverty-stri cken wives facing years of childbirth and the danger of death and she resolved to assist them. In her life-long campaign to bring knowledge of birth con trol, a term sne cornea nerseu, Mrs. Sanger fought powerful opposition, including that of the U.S.

Government. She served one 30-day jail sentence and her husband later served a similar period. In 1912, after she had been married 12 years to architect William Sanger and had borne two sons and one daughter, Margaret Sanger started her crusade. She had little or no help, not even from physicians who privately admitted the justice of her cause. A small publication, "The Woman Rebel," started by the lit "fiM0 Race Equality Foe Slain Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa, is carried on a stretcher down the steps of Parliament Building in Cape Town Tuesday after he was stabbed by a newly hired During This Session By DAVE BRINEGAR PHOENIX Arizona's con- gessional delegation has con cluded that the Central Arizona Project bill cannot pass this ses sion of Congress and Wednesday will issue a statement over the names of Congressmen John J.

Rhodes (R) and Morris K. Udall (D) to that effect. The statement, due at noon Washington time, probably will contain these major proposals as to Arizona's immediate future course, it was learned from a source close within the circle of Colorado River experts in Arizona's capital: 1. That Arizona water people and people in Congress and the Legislature, as well as the governor and members of the Ari zona Interstate Stream Commission and other bodies concerned with Colorado River water, immediately begin exploring and discussing alternative ways to bring Colorado River water into the heart of the state and as far south as Tucson. 2.

That between now and the November general election all persons in Arizona politics, re gardless of party, studiously ref rain from trying to make the Colorado River an issue. It is being handled on a bipartisan basis now and Rhodes and Udall probably will renew their pleas that it continue to be handled on that basis. 3. That all efforts be contin ued in Congress "just in case" some unexpected break should come that would cause the House Rules Committee to send the bill, already approved by the Interior Committee, to the floor. The Phoenix source of this in formation said that a nose count of the U.S.

House of Represent atives indicated that once on the floor the bill would have a majority of about 3 to 1 in its favor. A similar bill has passed the Senate twice, the House always being the stumbling block. Several days ago, Rich John son, director of the AlaC, said in Washington that California congressmen, fearful of a possible amendment affecting their claims to the Colorado River, are keeping the bill from the floor. The Rhodes-Udall statement is expected to amplify this statement and clarify it. It also is understood here that the Washington utterance will remind Arizonans that they have clear legal right to the be neficial use of additional Colorado River water as a result of having won the historic U.S.

Supreme Court suit of Arizona vs. California. The plea for no partisan polit ics in relation to the river between now and after the votes are counted in November is ex pected to be especially fervent. The statement is going to ask that even after election results are known, the persons who will then be aware that they will oc cupy state positions in January in all branches of government, begin getting together on a bi partisan, or nonpartisan, basis. NASA Lets Grant WASHINGTON If) The Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday it has awarded a $1.5 million grant to the University of Wash ington to provide quarters for a e-related research and graduate training, including space for research equipment that can be shared by investigators in aeronautics and astro nautics areas.

Roger O'Mara Becomes Tucson's City Manager Reds Don't Want War Peking Willing To Open Talks By ROBERT TRUMBULL 1 W4 New York Times News Service TOKYO Chen Yi, the Communist Chinese foreign minister, reportedly told a group of senior Japanese parliamentarians Tuesday that Peking does not want a "clash" with the United States and is "not necessarily dismissing the thought of talks" Verwoerd, 64, died instantly of neck inflicted Tuesday after noon in the chamber of Parliament where for years he had espoused apartheid racial separation and sworn to keep South Africa free of Communist infiltration. The assassin was identified as Dmitri Stafendas, about 45, a native of Lourenco Marques, in the Portuguese territory of Mo zambique. He was held under close guard. In the midst of their grief over Verwoerd's death, none of the government leaders would discuss publicly the question of his successor. But preliminary talks were under way.

No one qualified automatical ly to take Verwoerd's place, but it was evident that his successor will be in the Verwoerd tradition. The Nationalist party that Verwoerd headed has almost a 3-1 majority in Parliament. Finance Minister Theophilus Donges, who became acting prime minister with tne fatal stroke of the assassin's knife, pledged that police would "leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of this dastardly deed." Donges is high on the list of those who may inherit ver woerd's leadership over this white-ruled nation of 18 million people, of whom 14 million are nonwhite. Strongest support from ex treme rightist elements of the party is likely to go to Justice Minister Balthazar vorster, at 51 one of the cabinet's youngest members Vorster drafted most of the country's suppression of com munism laws, under which apartheid is enforced, and is responsible for internal securi ty. If he should become prime minister, most observers be- UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

If) The blue and white U.N. flag will not be flown at half staff for Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd, a spokes man said Taesday. He explained that the flag is flown at naif staff at the deaths of heads of state, not heads of government. Some exceptions have beea made in the past, but tne spokesman said there would be no exception in Verwoerd's case.

lieve South Africa could look forward to an intensification of apartheid. The assassin knifed Verwoerd repeatedly as the prime minis- ter sat awaiting the start of la parliamentary session, ine bells summoning members to the chamber were ringing and the public galleries were packed. The killer hinged at Verwoerd before members of Parliament could throw him to the floor in a furious struggle. The prime minister died as the knife entered his heart and neck, said Dr. J.

C. Burger, medical superintendent of the hospital to which Verwoerd was taken and where he was officially pronounced dead. Burger said a team of three surgeons, two pnysicians and plunged a knife into Prune stab wounds in the heart and HENDRIK VERWOERD Ave medical students were ready at the hospital but "there was unfortunately nothing we could do" for Verwoerd. His death was expected to mill); uu cuaugs ui uie gvvctir ment's white supremacy policy, since the Verwoerd party con trols Parliament by a wide margin. Doctors who tried to save Verwoerd said he received four stab wounds, one in a neck art ery and three ra tne upper chest.

The wild scene in the all-white Parliament, which has passed many laws bearing on the racial question, was enacted before a gallery of spectators gathered for opening of the session. Many were weeping as ver-. woerd was borne out on a stretcher. Members of Parliament stood in the lobbies discussing the assassination until summoned back into session by the senior Cabinet member, Finance Minister Theophilus Donges, who became acting prime minister. After announcing Verwoerd's death, Donges identified the assassin and said his motives were not yet known.

He said police would "leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of this dastardly deed." He appealed to the nation to remain calm. "I want to record my own and the Cabinet's deep sense Of loss," Donges said. "South Africa loses a dedicated and dynamic leader who stood at the helm for eight years and was in a position to plan and experience the most spectacular progress in every field. His death is a shock for every right-thmking persons." Verwoerd's Nationalist party will choose the new prime minister. Donges is a likely succes sor.

Another possibility is Bal thazar Vorster, who, as justice minister, administers the suppression of communism laws under which suspects can be held without trial The assassination came just two days before Verwoerd's 65th birthday, and was the second attempt on his life. In David Pratt, a wealthy white farmer, shot Verwoerd at a fair (Continued oa IA, CoL S) CB 7-8B CB SB Sports 4S Topics UA Weather 44 Women B-15A J) MARGARET SANGER young nurse, advocated the limitation of families. The booklet enraged Anthony Comstock, author of the censorship law bearing his name. In 1913 Comstock caused Mrs. Sanger to be indicted by the U.S.

Government, on nine counts of violating the Comstock Law, which classified disseminating information about contraceptive materials as "lewd and obscene." The government later dropped the charges, as petitions in be- Continued on 8A, Col. 8) wants a "clash" between the two countries, Kyodo said. After stating that Communist China "is not necessarily dismissing the thought of talking with the United States" on Viet Nam, Chen was said to have re minded the Japanese that Pek ing still carries on diplomatic contact with Washington on an ambassadorial level in Warsaw. However, the Communist Chi nese leader added that a "dip! omatic" solution of the Viet Nam problem is "now impos sible" because the U.S. is "try ing to solve it by armed force, the Kyodo agency reported.

Chen added according to the report, tnat there can be no solution of the conflict until all U.S. troops pull out of Viet Nam." The eight-man Japanese mis sion includes four former cabi net ministers, headed by Zen- taro Kosaka, a one-time foreign minister. The group represents a movement, called the "New Right," among liberal-Demo crats favoring expanded rela tions with Peking. Chen was reported to have told the Japanese that the current "cultural revolution" in Communist China, which critics have called a "puree," is "nec essary to make sure that Communist China's socialism will not turn into the same type as that of the boviet Union or Yu goslavia." He was said to have conceded that the aim of the present drive to "enhance production and create a new brand of cul ture" may take "quite a long time." The foreign minister appeared to rebuke some pretensions of the Red Guards youth move ment "The Red Guards are right," he declared, according to Kyodo, "but national policies are up to the government to de cide, not the Red Guards." Japanese newspaper corres pondents in Peking reported, in dispatches published Tuesday, tnat orthodox leaders of the Chi nese Communist Party are re sisting the Red Guard move ment with physical force in many localities. body.

Verwoerd, architect of would have been 65 Thursday. O'Mara was on the staff of the Star for 14 years and had been a civilian worker at Davis- Monthan AFB before that. Davis said that he and the Council will meet with O'Mara in the near future to discuss ap- pointment oi a aepuiy manager to assist him. O'Mara told Davis and the Council last night that he is very pleased with the present staff at City Hall and expressed hope that all department heads and others "will all stay." Davis said that the selection of O'Mara had been made by unanimous vote of the council. One of the things we dis cussed," said Davis, "was the impact, and we decided the appointment would be accepted in the community and at City Hall." the 52-year-old O'Mara was an employe with the City of New York and the New York Tunnel Authority before coming to Tucson.

He was born in Brooklyn and was educated in New York schools. Under him in his new post O'Mara will have more than 000 city employes. O'Mara resides at 2111 E. Wa- verly St. with his wife, the for- iiici xAuiaiuc iicieuuc.ii, anu uicu dun, Aiuiuuijr.

Senators Begin Long Fight Over Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate set out slowly Tuesday on what promises to be another long drawn-out battle over civil rights legislation. The opening session lasted less than three hours and was forced into an overnight recess by lack a quorum. Southern members blocked the initial attempt by Sen. Philip A. Hart, to bring up the bill which passed the House Aug.

11. Sen. Sam J. Ervin opposed Hart's opening move. He told the Senate that the measure contains "the sloppiest, vaguest, most ill-con ceived and dangerous provisions ever to be seriously considered by the Senate." Proponents of the bill went inta the fight without the aid of Senate Republican Leader erett M.

Dirksen of Wineis. I emolova of the lawmaking Apartheid (racial segregation) (AP Wirephoto) Am, ROGER O'MARA consider many vital city programs that we now have under way." Councilman Kirk Storch, not ing that O'Mara is a Tucsonan bv choice, said that "he has a loyalty to Tucson and is a man of proven ability and we did not have to go tar to una mm. O'Mara covered City Hall as a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star for 11 years before he was picked as an assistant by City Manager porter nomer. After Homer resigned in March 1962, O'Mara served as acting city manager until Keane was given the city's top administrative job in June of that year. Sought him by compulsion and used to promote the ideological, political or economic beliefs of the labor hierarchy?" Larson said an investigation should include the AFL-CIO's five-cent assessment on each of its more than 13 million members.

He called it "a special election fund." An AFL-CIO spokesman said the assessment is for a "nonpartisan" registration drive to get out the vote for this year's elections, and mat it is con sistent with good citizenship. "It is quite obvious to us that the Right to Work Committee doesn't believe in good citizenship," the labor spokesman said. tit Spectacular Fire Razes Rest Home A spectacular blaze, seen across the Tucson vaiiey, ae- stroyed the 115-bed Arizona Desert Lodge in the Catalina foothills last night. There were no patients in the rest home, a sheriff's deputy reported. He said they were moved out last month.

Seven pieces of equipment from the Rural Fire Dept. were on the scene early this morning. The blaze broke out about 12:30 a. m. Flames reached about 50 feet upward, apparently partially held in check by the stillness of the night air.

Patients from the rest home, owned by James P. Hannan, were moved about eight days ago into Las Palmas Nursing Home and the Craycroft Nursing Center, according to Don Connelly, administrator of De von Gables Nursing Home. Muffled exposions were heard several times as the fire reached its height. The size of the fire seemed to overwhelm householders on the north and northwest side of the city. All who called the Star described it as the biggest fire they had ever seen.

The brilliant flames licked high in the night sky, illuminating a wide section of the Cata lina foothills. "Very big. Never saw such a fire," said Mr. and Mrs. James Osborn, who watched the blaze from their home four miles west of Oracle Rd.

An awful lot of smoke awful big fire," reported Mrs. Nicholas Sakellar, 7 E. Ina Rd. "The activities of the trade! union movement in the field of political activities are strictly within the law something that cannot be said for the activities of the National Right to Work Committee." The Internal Revenue Service began what it called a routine check into the committee's tax status last year during the congressional battle over union shop legislation. The committee, which holds a tax-exempt status, led the battle that sidetracked the AFL-CIO's top legislative goal, repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act President Johnson, in a Labor By DON ROBINSON Roger O'Mara, a smiling Irishman who came here from Brooklyn in 1943, last night was appointed to serve as city man ager at a salary of fzi.ouu a year.

The appointment was an-1 nounced by Mayor Lew Davis shortly after he and tne uty Council ended a two-hour meet ing at the Pioneer Hotel. O'Mara former city government reporter for the Arizona Daily Star, has been serving as acting city manager since Mark Keane resigned the post effective Aug. 8 and went to Washington to accept a position with the federal government. O'Mara went to the city as assistant city manager in 1960. Shortly after Keane left, the council expressed its approval of O'Mara by raising his salary from $18,000 a year to $20,500 a year.

Mayor Davis said last night, "We are exceptionally pleased at the way he has conducted the office as acting city manager and before that as assistant city manager." Although "a half dozen or a dozen applications" for the job have come to City Hall from over the nation, Davis said that he and the council had so far considered no other person but O'Mara. O'Mara, a happy grin on his face, told reporters that he "thanked the Mayor and Council for expressing their confidence in my ability to carry on what I Actions newed battle to repeal 14B, which authorizes the states to outlaw contracts under which all employes must join the union. The revenue service declined to comment on the committee's demand for an investigation, or on the status of its inquiry into the committee's own tax situation. Organized labor, a heavy backer of Johnson and other Democrats in the 1964 elections, is expected to engage heavily in political activity in this year's congressional elections. "Yesterday was labor day," Larson said, "but what freedom does the rank-and-file employe have if dues can be taken from with Washington on Viet Nam, Chen was quoted as saying that a solution in Viet Nam would require the withdrawal of U.S.

troops. However, he apparently did not make this a condition for diplomatic exchanges on the Viet Nam question between Peking and Washington. According to a report of the meeting by the Peking correspondent of Kyodo, the Japanese news agency, Chen added that a conflict between Communist China and the U.S. "is still possible, depending on the Americans." Chen declared that neither Communist China nor the U.S. Thant Stands Firm; Won't Renew Term UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

If) Despite continued pressure, Thant stood firm Tuesday on his announced decision to quit as U.N. secretary-general when his five-year term expires Nov. 3. Thant received a procession of diplomats who relayed to him the hopes of their governments that he would reconsider his de cision of last Thursday and ac cept at least a part of another term. His visitors said he listened politely, but made no comment except to refer them to his letter to the 117 member nations which outlined his reasons for declining a second term.

These included unhappiness over the inability of the world organization to set up satisfactory peace-keeping machinery and over the failure of all effort to end the Viet Nam war. One of those who met with Thant was Ambassador Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of ttfghanis- tan, slated to be president of tne uenerai Assemoiy wnen opens its 21st session Sept 20. Pazhwak has been active in be hind-the-scenes talks among U.N. diplomats and is under stood to have urged Thant to re consider. Probe Of Union 1 Today's News Index WASHINGTON (ft A new battle flared Tuesday between organized labor and the National Right to Work Committee, which demanded a federal investigation of union political activities.

"The flagrant political activities of labor unions are largely ignored, said the committee's executive vice president Reed Larson in asking the Internal Revenue Service for "a sweeping investigation." Larson said the government should "revoke the tax exempt status of any union that engages in such political activities." A spokesman for the 13 million member AFL-CIO retorted: City cobdcQ adopts Avra Valley water program, IB. Democrats' campaign apparently lot hart by Viet War, 12A School bells ring again for ever 48,000 District 1 children, IB. First sarvivw of mechanical heart pomp epertaioa bad near fatal attack, SA. Asw Andy (B Bridge 7A Comics 14-15B Editorial KB Crossword Financial Movies Pab. Ree.

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