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2 Evening Journal, Wilmington, Del. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1934 Thousands Carole Takes 5th In Probe Stay in Boston Away (Continued From Ont) year-old lawyer replied in a sort of stern father tone. "YOU ARE NOT on trial, and never have been. There have been no criminal allegations against you," he said.

He said the committee has no evidence that "you nave com mitted any crime against the federal government." chool Boycott But he said sternly the com mittee has been assigned by the Senate to investigate present and former Senate employes and you are a former em ploye." Compiled from Dispatches the second in the city within aJThis compared with 8,121 ab-. iyear. sentees Feb. 4. There are an The vast majority of Boston s( The students singing songs of estimated 12,000 to 14,000 Ne- "I'll not engage in any argu ment about the force of law," he went on.

"The orderly concept freedom, attended "freedom groes in the city, 1 1 i i Negro leaders estimated that sanus oi inem-uoycoueu puuuc scnools which were jammed to schools today to protest alleged it No violence was re is not to accept a witness' con I clusions as to the law." about 9,000 students took part in the boycott. Absenteeism was greatest in predominantly Negro de- lacto segregation in ciass-iporte(j rooms. i SIIPT fP SphnnU William TT THE HEARING, be said, are neighborhoods. It was as much "solely for the purpose of enabling the committee in its good I 1 Negro leaders termed the ille- ohrenb said the boycott gal stay-out a complete da usly undermined a cess." School officials, bitter basic democratic principal of as 99 per cent in some schools. Ohernberger said: 4 I "TfflS FLOUTING of law will 1 cause us all extreme regret in the years to come.

Real free denouncing the Boycott, said ab- respect for law and order. senteeism was double normal. can not view tnis event as Hundreds of students from a victory for anyone," he said, suburban communities poured, Ohrenberger said 20,571 stu- judgment to make its report to the Senate" as required by the resolution authorizing the probe. But Miss Tyler just wouldn't talk, and the hearing lasted less than an hour. Chairman B.

Everett Jordan, adjourned the hearings until 10 a.m. tomorrow when dom is manifested only through obedience to the law. into Boston to join the massive dents out of a total enrollment AP Wlrephoto civil disobedience movement, of 92,844 were absent today Si was put and "Unfortunately, also, today's boycott tends to alienate the white and colored children in our schools. "As a former teacher I know days CORE GOES SHOPPING The civil rights group ran a shop-in last night at a San Francisco Lucky Store. After clerk checks items, customer says he can't pay and abandons groceries, up hy store.

Shop-ins hegan eight have split the Xegro leadership. ago other witnesses are to be called. Miss Tyler read her statement World News in an even voice, protesting "the that the boys and girls of the sole purpose of this investigation seems to be to bring down Lightning Boston public schools were never conscious of the color of their classmates. Unhappily, due to upon me and others the violence boycotts and other events of of public reaction because of my alleged past associations." She San Francisco Shop-In Splits Negro Leadership Theor late, a color line is being drawn Kashmir Line Find Cited now that never before existed," Ohrenberger said. Supported (Continued From Put On) THE BOYCOTT was declared illegal by Atty.

Gen. Edward Brooke, himself a Negro, but the type he said was characteristic of lightning striking metal. emphasized the world alleged. Like Baker, she refused to answer questions on grounds of posible self-incrimination, and also invasion of privacy. Jordan opened the hearing eight minutes past the scheduled 10 a.m.

starting time. Miss Tyler stood up at the witness table, a striking, slender figure in a white suit, raised her gray-gloved right hand and truant officers were ordered by the school committee to wink at offenders. "I HAVE NO reason to doubt that what I observed was pro NEW DELHI, India OR United Nations observers found some weapons and a coat on the Kashmir cease-fire line where India says Pakistanis ambushed a police patrol Feb. 21, Parliament was told today. Defense Minister Y.

B. Chavan said the observer team go along," said the Rev. George L. Bedford. His group agrees Lucky has failed to fulfill a commitment to hire more Negroes.

The Bay Area Independent, a Negro weekly newspaper, commented in a front page editorial that the shop-in is a "malicious idea" and it's highly doubtful whether it's "won much sympathy from The five-member, all-white school board maintains there is no segregation in the system. duced by lightning discharge," he said. He said he found a hole in tne wing wnicn ne believed Until last week it refused to SAN FRANCISCO W-Piles and piles of groceries today represented an anti-discrimination maneuver that is splitting the city's Negro leadership. It's called a shop-in. A number of people enter a supermarket, fill their baskets, check out at the counter then say they can't pay and leave the clerks confronted with piles of groceries.

Members of the Congress of Racial Equality have been using the tactic at three Lucky Stores in cross-bay Berkeley and in San Fran cisco for nine days. They contended the chain isn't hiring enough Negroes. The company replies it has many Negro employes and is hiring more but that it won't practice "reverse discrimina-jion" to favor Negroes. Yesterday the president of the Baptist Ministers Union representing 40,000 churchgoers largest Negro group in the city said his group might break the unified civil rights front if CORE keeps up its shop-in. "CORE has a right to picket, but if it continues to use this tactic, we just can't to have been one of the parts swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the to which lightning either had attached or detached.

A verti picked up a light machine gun, a Sten gun, ammunition, a coat, some buttons and pieces of torn cloth. But no bodies were found, he said. "This indicates the bodies of persons killed were thrown into the river," Chavan said. The Defense Ministry announced Monday cal rib within the wing, he said, truth, so help me God." But then she promptly read a statement invoking her 5th Amendment protection and refusing to answer questions. She was described by Baker even discuss the issue with Negro leaders.

The committee members admit that many of the schools are predominantly Negro, but they maintain this is because of housing and social conditions outside their jurisdiction. TO SUPPORT their argument they point to an "open seat" provision in Boston which permits a student in any area to either the Negro or white community." Lucky officials have refused San Francisco police urging that they ask for arrest of the demonstrators. was discolored, possibly by a flame. Boeing 707 airplanes such as the one that crashed have small overflow fuel tanks in the wing tips. Earlier in his testimony, which was largely technical and concerned with the nature of lightning, Kinzer said it was as his cousin when he moved her into a swank four-bedroom townhouse where she still lives.

She now woiks in Baker's law office. The rules committee which attend any school he chooses as long as tnere are vacancies. "possible" that lightning could Cambridge Negroes May Picket Despite Arrests yesterday heard Baker refuse more than 100 times to answer whether to recommend he be Civic Center Bill 2 Votes Near OK cause sparking within the metal wings where fuel is stored. He They maintain Negroes have not taken advantage of this. About 3,000 Negroes crowded into Donnelly Memorial Theater last night to attend a boycott- cited for contempt of Congress, said he could not say one way or another in this case.

punishable by a year imprisonment, a $1,000 fine, or both. eve pep rally during which (Continued From Pag Ont) said the foodstuffs are not needed and that Dorchester is able by a police dog during a renewal of protest demonstrations Saturday. Kinzer said he knew of no practical" way to protect com THE INVESTIGATORS pep- (Continued Prom Pag Ont) leaders pledged to carry out the preed the former senate aide mercial airplanes from lieht of this act shall be null and demonstration "to keep Negroes to carry out its welfare a cross was burned nincr He said he felt installa- void." out of the soup lines in 1984." on the college practice athletic tion of static dischargerS( now MEANWHILE, in Chicago, nem aim a uuu.o cxpmueu recommended by the Federal the lawn of the home of Leon civil rights groups have threat Aviation Agency, would "have Last night the Human Relations Committee here met in city hall and afterward announced it will "explore the federal foods program for Gates, Wilson's uncle. THE AMENDMENT was introduced by House Minority Leader William T. Best, R-Re-hoboth Beach.

The Dover bond little to do with the question of with questions on topics ranging from the gift of a hi-fi set to President Johnson to whether Baker had any dealings with a convicted white slaver. Baker cited constitutional grounds, including the fifth amendment, for his refusal to answer. He also hit at the Senate ened more demonstrations and hinted t)f a Negro voter revolt against city Democratic leaders. not being struck by lightning. Observers said the college campus was quiet last night, but students patrolled the area More than 172,000 pupils The Pan American plane that crashed in Elkton was an early model 707 and did not have the Pakistanis ambushed a border police patrol on the ceasefire line at Keran, 70 miles northwest of Srinagar, capital of the disputed state of Kashmir.

Only two of the 25 police returned. Chavan accused Pakistan's armed forces of the ambush and called it a violation of the 1949 cease-fire. Viet Nam Offensive Set HONOLULU CT) A beefed-up offensive against the Viet Nam Communists is in the offing, according to the commander of United States military forces in the Pacific and Far East. Adm. Harry D.

Felt, who returned last night to his Honolulu headquarters from a tour of the Far Eastern countries, stressed that future military maneuvers in South Viet Nam would see government troops increasingly taking the initiative. "The fight must be carried more and more to the Communists." Felt said. "That now is the big point The Communists have taken advantage of the situation since the coups (which overthrew two governments in a matter of weeks) and now we must carry the fight to 9 Face Death in Russia MOSCOW (UPD Nine persons charged with defrauding the Soviet government of $3.3 million through a black market knitwear business have been sentenced to death, it was learned today. The head of the ring, which used mental patients to make knitted goods and sold them through illegal retail channels, already has been given a death sentence in a separate trial. Six of those receiving death sentences, including the ring's chief, were Jews, reliable sources said.

The trial, one of the largest held since the Soviet Unioi, Imposed the death penalty for economic crimes three yers ago, was barred to Western newsmen. There were 24 members of the ring, the sources said. Four of them received 15-year prison sentences and 10 others got lighter sentences. bill received 30 favorable votes. Five members were absent.

missed their classes in Chicago armed with baseball bats. A TELEVISION cameraman from Baltimore was arrested yesterday when he failed to AT ANNAPOLIS today the yesterday in the second public school boycott there in four months. Both bills require three-fourths approval, 27 votes in the House' and 13 in the Senate. I discharge devices. Asked if he thought it would be possible to eauiD aimlanes Rules Committee'3 probe as a "legal jungle" and an unlaw House Judiciary Committee dis-j heed instantly a local police aDDroved four biUs to outaw ful "legislative trial." Henry B.

du Pont, chairman order for newsmen to clear thel rinting or broadcasting of false The boycott was sponsored by the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations. The a i mi 13 iv i ot tne Greater Wilmington De-i streets, me cameramen, ouu or inflammatory news accounts THE COMMITTEE is investi with instruments to warn them of impending lightning, Kinzer said this would be possible only if the planes flew much slower than in normal jet travel. velopment Council board, sentjthluig, 0t wbaiwv, was Maryland. gating whether Baker was in absentees were 52,420 less than the 224.770 who were absent volved in conflict-of-interest business deals or other impro during the first boycott Oct. 22.

The lesser participation was prieties while employed by the senate. HE SAID IT would be impossible to develop a system to give advance warning of a telegrams to Carvel, Mayor i leased in wo Dona autx uemg John E. Babiarz and members, charged with obstructing police of the General Assembly that in the preformance of their urged legislation to permit the 'duty. construction of an architectur-J Gloria Richardson, leader of ally coordinated group of public the CHAC, promised there will buildings in the proposed center, be more demonstrations here. No count has been made, but Negroes are disgruntled at the caused by several civil rights groups which opposed the boy The investigation was ordered The action on each of the measures, sponsored by Delegate Richard M.

Matthews, D-Dorchester, came on a voice vote. By a 10-9 voter, the committee then agreed to refer the bills carrying the unfavorable vote to the Legislative Council, be-tween-sessions study arm of the cott. single stroke of lightning. He said, however, he felt in after Baker, 35, resigned from the post after allegations he was using his Senate position to further his pri strumentation could be de 10 Minutes Pays veloped to determine "likely many around Legislative Hall Jack of progress toward de-yesterday expressed the opin- segregation, she said. For Housewife ion that the Senate would pro-j Yesterday's demonstrations legislature.

regions of lightning." He said an airplane could be equipped with instruments to determine if a cloud being approached was highly charged electrically, RENO tfl Mrs. Sonja Mc yjuc me uiu mine broke a seven-monm mora- a seven Matthews, sponsoring the tonum on civil rights protests sajd thgy wefe an out. vate tortunes. McLendon said Miss Tyler will be asked what she knows of stacks of cash Baker reportedly kept in his Senate office. Mrs.

Gertrude C. Novak, a former business associate of Baker's has testified Miss Tyler Vioro ipnnpri acrppri Neil of Reno won first prize in a contest for hunters' wives. The award was 10 minutes alone in a (J1 1'fl 1 ii i tl growth of what he called dis- TWO MEMBERS reasons for voting "no" ves- suspend demonstrations in a or sIanted reporting of'but implied this to be imprao tical in actual operations. meeting July 23 with local offi-' in Cambrrdgei his home. supermarket.

She could take.terday. Rep. John H. Annett. rials nnH TI Attv Gen Robert home all she could crab off the R-Stavtonville.

said hp nhiwl. town, last year. ill II. m.lL ri I i w- a imilhuay, Kooert J. Au shelves in that time.

ed to the powers of eminent Kennedy in Washington once helped to count out from such a hoard. However, in recent weeks. One bill would have made it a crime to print any knowingly misrepresented "material fact" burn, a supervisory engineer for the Federal Aviation Agency, disclosed 3 new Droioct in in- Mrs. McNeil went straight for domain which could be used to the meat counter to haul in acquire the nroDertv. ReD.

Har- McLENDON SAID he also Negroes charged that a biracial commission established to seek P. Fifer. R-Risin? will want to know who is mak Sun, very saiH he wa? nnt satkfipH with solutions to the dispute has ana anomer wouia nave appueo vestigate effects of lightning on the same prohibition to Tadio flying aircraft steaks, bacon and ham and then moved to such high-priced specialities as wild rice and olive oil. The housewife admitted tiring ing the monthly payments on the townhouse Miss Tyler occupies. The committee has been answers given by Babiarz.

jmade no progress. The other renresentativp nnt! Q' prevailed this morning Land television. The project, he said, would ii i i I i I i i Pr nrP AnnP a Marv and "lcuula "uuiuunrt uui-iuiuuue a aiuuy 01 me relative tU in it is a luxurious lavender voting was Ralph S. Keenan, R. in tne stretcn, but managed to win groceries that would have State College students continued priming or uroaucasung merus 01 iuei used in commer- Wilmington, who voted present.

a on Was nrotpits. cost Sfin 75 HOWEVER, JOHN Wilson. tends" to incite persons toj The project involves a techni-crime. A fine of up to $5,000 cal committee of representa-would have been provided forjtives of government agencies Chicken Pox Hits Kennedy Children leader of the Student Appeal for Equality group, said demonstration will resume if the bi- eacn violation carpeted place, with "French on tiie aIL." The committee has received testimony that Baker listed Miss Tyler as a cousin when he bought the town house apartment on a time payment plan, for occupancy by her and Miss Mary A. Martin, a former secretary to Sen.

Georce A. Queen Frederika's Health Restored ATHENS, Greece (I'PD Queen Frederika's health is "completely restored" after an at gatnenng data on past experiences of airplanes with lightning. Auburn also said the FAA now WASHIXGTON (UPD Caro-' racial committee fails to get Chiang Gets U.S. Planes TAIPEI, Formosa UV-The United States bolstered President Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist air force today with more than 30 F104G Starfighters, fighter-bomber-interceptors capable of speeds in excess of 1,500 miles an hour. Pearson in Close Shave OTTAWA In the closest shave since it came to power 10 months ago, Prime Minister Lester B.

Pearson's minority Liberal government survived a Conservative motion of no confidence by eight votes. Support from five opposition members three Social Credit and two New Democratic helped the government squeak through 128-120 in the House of Commons last night. The motion by Conservative opposition leader John Diefenbaker attacked the sales tax imposed in last year's budget on construction materials and production machinery. Malaysia Talks OKd DENPASAR, Bali LP In an effort to keep the Malaysian crisis from exploding into war, Indonesia and the Philippines yielded today to Malaysia's demands for ministerial talks on the saky cease-fire in Borneo. Presidents Sukarno of Indonesia and Diosdado Macapagal of the Philippines, Malaysia's two chief opponents, announced the decision after a conference on the holiday island of Bali.

Macapagal is on a state visit to Indonesia. the city's nine restaurants to line and John F. Kennedy Jr. Blast, Fire Kill 4 Maine Children encourages nignt crews to tack of pneumonia, a medical avoid areas of thunderstorm Smathers, D-Fla. Miss Martin 1 1SS a end segregation today.

City Solicitor Alexander Jones, who heads the 14-man biracial commission, today said he has bulletin said today. WEST GARDINER. Maine Inactivity as far as possible." andlT I have had a bout with chicken pox and apparently are none the worse for it. Mrs. John F.

Kennedy's social seeretarv. Nanrv Tiirk-pr- King Paul's "post-operational condition continues to develop -Four children died in an exr pilots in flight to exchange! lo Miami plosion and fire in the cellar Qf( information about storms. Bakpp scheduled a meeting this after- quite smoothly," another bul man. said todav that Carolinp inoon with student leaders, their uncompleted home yester letin said, and hereafter onlv 'esterday; $125,000 mansion in another he felt lightning did only; tion of Washington. Mr, RakPr day.

6 was afflicted along with "a ne pec 10 ouiune progress lot of other kids" in her first integration efforts at the erade class and 3-veflr-olrf town's eating places. The victims were the children minor structural damage to the 'is employed by the Senate in-Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth jet. I one bulletin will be issued daily on the 62-year-old king who underwent serious stomach surgery last Friday.

brother picked it up. I Wilson lead a small group. Thompson, who were awayi Robert A. Peterson, a Boeing'and is nnt a ot man in inTOtrraTO rocr an u. ik.

mi i i i iiuuie utc uiue. ineyjw- engineer, saia ne naa in- committee members said. ranu, inursuay. me enon as were isaryi, Kaye, Karl, spected a wing section of the resumed Friday. There was a 2.

and Kellev ThomDson. 11 Diane that harf hpon Ruby Tax Debt Toltl Campus Raided BOULDER, Colo. cfi-Thir- Musial Is Consultant DALLAS (UPD Internal Reve- scuffle at one place and Wilson weeks. Firemen said a can'structed bv investigators ASHINGTON (UPD Base- teen present or former Univer nue Service agents said today said he was punched. found near a wood-burning; "We've had cases Ot Worse' ha 1 aroot Cto thA n.llnil L.

ujiu nun sity of Colorado students have w.w ivuviaij otuutnw ni, in uic tciidi iidu vum-i luguuung damage Ulan that SWOrn in tnHav 'A government $781 in excise taxes and a state tvilir official u-a tainH a been arrested in raids on mari-juana users on the campus. on his Vegas Club. istruck and a duSTbitten tu in a ch saw? jof rV. i CnSU'tant.

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