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1 1 11 7 i LB-THINK-IN1 WEATHER Mostty sunny today, doads to-ralgftt' SijfrfiyWraw.HIghntddayabdcT& Complete weather on Ffcge -i MAPS PROGRESS hid Report, hM B-I," 4 Phone ttE 5-1 161 Reunified Only HE 2-5959 44 PAGES LONG IEACH, CALIFORNIA 90tOIFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1964 VOL 21 NO. 155 HOME EDITION I Oe- "Moves toPrevent 'Interest Conflicts by State Officials By RONALD L. SOBLE SACRAMENTO CD Gov. Brown moved Thursday to On'ong state ordered key state officers to disclose their financial ofOusterin China LAGOS, Nigeria (UPI) The last resistance to a military coup that overthrew Ghanas president-for-life Kwame Nkrumah crumbled Thursday when Soviet-trained presidential guards surrendered to rebel forces. ELBA, Ala.

(AS Two heavy explosions wrecked a wing of Elba High School Thursday night, less than an hour after banquet attended by some 200 people had ended. Police Chief FTDunaway said the area around the explosions smelled just like dynamite. The governor also.ap-pointed advisory panel of three legal experts to study conflict of interest problems in government and recom-- mend legislation. Browns seven-page executive order, entitled the Gov- emiYtS CrAm nf FtViir. gf arris," outlines rules of conduct for executive department I ippointendeffijploye PRESIDENT COMFORTS HEROS DAUGHTER; Rebel army units under Col.

E. K. Kotoka struck before dawn while the left-leaning Nkrumah was 3,000 miles -away in Peking. Radio and diplomatic reports reaching -here said they were firmljr in control -12 hours later. They charged Nkrumah, called "The Redeemer" by the 7J2 million peoplelnhi West Africa nation over whom he has held almost mystical sway, with running the country as "his own personal property" and bringing the nation "to the brink of national bankruptcy." "KWAME Nkrumah is dis-missed from- the- a rebel radio broadcast said.

"The myth of Nkrumahism is dead." Lt. Gen. J. A. Ankrah, who recently had been placed on foe retirement IlsLwa named to head a national liberation council to run the country, Accra Radio reported.

Ankrah earlier Thursday appointed' new commander of the Ghanlan armed forces and was elevated from major general to lieutenant general. Accra Radio said the Ghana police commis-sioner was appointed deputy chairman of a seven-man council which has set up four committees to run affairs of state. President-Johnson comforts 5-year-old Theresa Pierce after awarding Medal -of Honor posthumously to her father, Army Sgt Larry at White House Thursday. Mrs. Pierce holds citation, as she stands next to her 4-year-old son Kelly.

(Another picture on Page A-6.) KWAME-NKRUMAH JjOOOMUesFrom Job Coup Blow to Nationalists By LAWRENCE MALKIN LONDON MB The coup againit. President Kwine Nkrumah of Ghana dealt heavy Mow Thursday to foe movement for bladrAfrican superstate. It also was widely regarded as a painful new source of frustration to foe Chinese Communists in Africa. In Salisbury, Rhodesia, a bastion of white Africa, foe news of Nkrumahs ouster raised spirits higher than they have been since foe Rhodesian white minority regime declared independence from Britain last Novi 11. Nkrumah has been looked upon as the fkther of African LBJ-Gives-Medal- WASHINGTON UPt Army Sgt Larry Pierce, who threw himself a mine in Viet Nam and saved his squad members from death and injury, received the Medal of Honor posthumously Thursday from President Johnson.

rowj said die-code applies to all appointees and employes in the executive department, including over 1.10,000 civil service workers. THE FINANCIAL interests sectiortofthe' order'requires that by May IS of this year confidential jtktemo Statements detailing fiscal holding and business connections of state officers be forwarded to- the governors, office; Included ere agency admin JsttorsdepartmentJieads, members of the governor's staff, salaried members 'of boards and commissions appointed by the governor and all other salaried officials appointed by the governor. Excluded are state civil, service workers. The order, for requires the reporting of stock -Interest in any company in excess of $5,000. BROWNS action came as the legislature recessed for a weekend.

TheSen-'ate ind'Assembly met briefly with Republican lawmakers anxious to get an early start to the Republican State Central Committee meeting in San Diego. -Brown' gaid the advisory panel "will- recommend legie-jatioin concerning conflict of interest problemslntheTeg islature. In the past some law- makers who ere lawyers arid businessmen in private life, have been accused of favoring their client's interests in the Capitol. California has a national reputation for clean government and haa been free of any conflicts pf-Jnterest scandals Dunaway said there were no injuries as a result of the biastsfwbich occurred about 1030 pun. The blew chief said the blasts wall and a classroom right out of existence and left another room, and the haU-in a shambles.

One Negro senior and one Negro Junior had enrolled -in the i school in September, he said, bjitJfoere Was absolutely no roub 1 'betweenlhe two races, and, frankly, we never expected any." Jets Crash in Mid-Air, Pilots Safe Pilots of two Navy Sky-havdc jets ejected to safety after mid-air crash Thursday night within two miles of the Laguna Hills Leisure World retirement community. One pilot stayed with his crippled craft for nearly an hour, finally guiding it into an open area On Camp Pendleton. The other plane crashed in ndnreridential arestwo miles touth of Leisure World and two miles west of the Santa Ana Freeway and U.S 101. A SPOKESMAN St El Toro MarineAir -Base -said -one piloted by Lt Gmdr. Stewart Blair of Lemoore, was struck in foe rear about 7:15 pm.

by the second aircraft, piloted by a Navy commander identified only as King. Blairs plane crashed lm mediately, but foe second jet stayed aloft until Qndr. King had maneuvered it into the Camp Pendleton area near Oceanside. Blair and King were picked up by a search-end-rescue helicopter and taken to the Naval Hospital -at' El -Toro. man was reported The planes were making a practice ground control ap- proa on a routiM inuta curred, the Marine Corps said, nationalise and the movement.

for an aU-Africa Mate. NKRUMAH, who beard the 415-MiUioii Dollar Aid for S. Viet WASHINGTON W) The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to authorize a $415-million emergency program jo help bolster the sagging economy of South Viet Nam and to aid several other nations. The bill was sent to the Senate by roll-cell vote of 350 to 27 after several attempts tocuForresfricf it werebeat-en down. The amount approved, subject to later appropriation, was.

what President Johnson requested list month in two-package program for the remaining months of the fiscal year ending'June 30. A SEPARATE bill authorizing a $43-billion military buildup in South Viet Nam is pending in jhe Senate, None of the funds authorized would be used for. military assistance. The bulk, $275 milion, is for economic support of South Viet Nam and fat community development Economic aid programs for Thailand and Laos would receive. $73 jniUknTeachthe Dominican Republic program would be.

given $25 million arid the Presidents contingency fund far unforeseen emergencies would receive an 1 (XHniHion. The Chief Executive brought Pierces widow and children from Wasco, to the White House for presentation of -foe nationa highest mili tary honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond foe call of duty." Pierce was leading his rcy, connaissante squad near Ben Cat yietNanv when. he gave his life to protect it He forew himself on the" mine just as it exploded. That was last Sept 20. THE AWARD of foe medal recognized his indomitable courage, complete disregard news efter arriving in Peking to 21-gun salute from the Communists, gave no indication he was aware of the trouble at home.

He went to Pricings on. a misslpnjp. rn pwee in Vjet Nam jbut was rebuffed on this by his Red Chinese liostsT Jin London, Khow Amihyia, chief strategist for the Ghana Revolutionary- i 1 in Exile which planned the operation. Mid the coup origi nally had bem schieduled for next August, but army officers In (Hume decided to act while Nkrumah was out of the country. Anyi.

who said be was trainediby; the U.Sr-Central-Intelligence'. was formerly head Nknunaha secret police split with the dictator in 7 the the He was preaching it when most of black Africas leaden were itM picking at chains of colonialism. RHODESIAS Prime Minister Ian Smith, the sworn enemy brArricaif nationalism, has pledged that there will be no African nationalist government in Rhodesia in his lifetime. He broke with Britain because- foe mother-country favored eventual rule by foe African majorityi The Yugoslav news agency Tan jug said, the report at foe Ghana coup provoked consternation among representatives of. African liberation movements-farC a 1 rorThe ageikty said African" and Arab circles in Quro considered foe event as part of an of ensive o-Wharthey called neocolonialist forces.

I9pces: -1 't FATHIA NKRUMAH Allowed to Go Nkrumah. Wife Safe in Egypt CAIRO, Friday CD-Ousted President Kwame Nkrumah's Egyptian wife end three dm trere allowed to fly to Cairo early today. Fathia Halim Risk, 30, and the children, Gamal 7, Sarnia, 5, and John, 4, arrived bboard a United Arab" Airlines pteas which had been held up at Accra Airport following foe coup, airport authorities said. THE COUP leaders, after surrender of foe Flagstaff Palace a in-Accra. agreed to-allow Fathia-and -her children to take refuge hi Egyptian Embassy.

Fathiss mother and other relativesras weli is UAR -presidency representatives, were at foe-ahpoit-to amort -Fathia to" one of Egypts official guest palaces. Pitchln for VietOrphan Twenty men wifo munbera on their pints end compassion in formed iCiub(he other day at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. 1 The convicts call them selves the "New Chance and voted to'con tribute 5 of their monthly prison wages to help eh unknown orphan girl in South Viet For a convict, thats 50 Cents month out of a $10 salary paid for workjn prison industries. "These men, like millions of others, had read about hungry little kids fa Yiettfam little kids scraping fa refose dumps and garbage heaps trylng to find some--fofog anything to eat," the prison newspaper said edi torially. Each month, foe group will turn its funds-over to foe Christian' Childrens Fund, which will use foe money to help rare for this girl.

1 "We wonder," concluded the newspaper, how many of -our brethren fa foe free society would tribute the same of their salary to hungry Utile kids they bad never --The coups camonlyafew of but 1962.) Boy Killed 7-year-old Long Beach was killed Thursday, as he attempted to follow a playmate across the Long Beach" Freeway- Charles B. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dodald Brown, 1970 was on arrival at Pacific Hospital at 630 p.m. Highway Patolman Preston Ldfland said fhe youngster's fiiaid, Lmmie J.

McClure," 0, said he and Charles had been playing in the flood-ctmtrol diunel about one-half mile north; of fticific CoastlHigh way minutes before foe accident. The patrolman said foe hoys -were" crossing foe- free way to return home when Charles ranlritofoe slde bf a car dri venTSy StephenJ. Riehle, 29, of 3900 E. 14th St ACCORDING to Patrolman Jim Smith, thiTtwb boys had crossed foe freeway, to the flood-control channel earlier when there was less traffic. On the way back, foe Mc-Cjure- youngster- ran-westbound across foe northbound lanes and turned to watch his younger companion cross.

Officer Smith said foe Brown boy started across and ran into the side of Riehles car. The impact hurled the youngster about 50 feet into the center of foe freeway, but other motorists managed to' stop before striking him. HE WANTS TO GO BACK TO VIET NAM for many years," Brown, said. -'Tieverthless, there are serious problems raised in. a legiUature-Whose' members tu-osce peddled -fish-in-Harlem -and slept on park bendies while attending Fhileddphies Lin- colnwOTitybias-pr (Continued Rage A-4, CoL 1) dayi before a scheduled meeting of -foe council of ministers of the Organization of AfricaLlInityJnLAddiKba- (Continued Page A-4, Col.

2) FEMININE LOGIC. STATUS Is simple matter of Insincerity. for his own safety end profound concern for his fellow soldiers." "Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara readthe citation. Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor and foe chairman of foe' Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Earle Wheeler, attended foe Wheeler, attended foe m6hyidbogWithVariouS members of foe SenafiTand House 'arid'brofoers and sisters and other relatives pf Pierce, Mrs.

fierce brought along her three children, Theresa, 5, Kelly, 4, and Gregory, II months. The Whits House said the last Medal of Honor award was made Dec, 5, 1964, to Army Capt. Roger H. Donlon. JOHNSON CALLED Pierce one who has been -first among foe brave and told foe-sergeants wife and children their own bravery was no less heroic.

Mrs. Pierce obviously had been sobbing before Johnson spoke. After- foe the President stood beside Mrs. Pierce posing for pictures, while foe two younger children Kelly didnt. pay much, attention, but he waved the knife Johnson had given him, with the blade out Wascv where foe Heroes live, is 17 miles -northwest of Bakersfield.

ADM. NIMTTZ is burled in simple rites, Page A-9. In a just-released interview, Page B-12, -JEAN FLYNN C-ll. i fa says Paul Harbor was not a disaster but in fact averted larger losses. fr KOUFAX and Drysdale finish out of money i iif running of million-dollar Dodger Holdout -Derby.

Read George Lederer on Page C-l. PONTIAC, Mich, Back to Viet Nam: Thats where Jerome Robb, a r-old Michigan osteo- Arent you going to get up wants to go after ihere and pay any attention to me at alP. Wheres your pocket kriife? spending last sunimer there at his "own expense. played on the floor in front of them. Johnson called 'out to 4-year-old Kelly: FOR THE EIGHTH consecutive session, stock jnarket Kinks, with Dow Jones industrial aver ts age down, to 850.66.

Page Qagsified -r'-Cendcs spokesman, for the Michigan State Jaycees Hid in Pontiac a drive has been to, raise -enough money for Robbs airplane fore and. for hospital sup plies to treat 1J500 patients. TROUBLE SPOTS in Africa and Near East are in black. In Uganda, Premier Milton Obote bad five cabinet ministers arrested Tuesday and. took over, "all the powers of the government" Wednesday in Syria, left-wing elements staged a cotqx.

Thursday an umy revolt overthrew Prerident Kurama Nkrumahs government In Markets Glt-11 Radlo-TV D-l ffhipring Death Nodcea B-t mnvwit.ww Editorial -B-2 Wosas aB-ld-lB Out i.C-lS JL Tti..