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WEATHER Saturday Partly cloudy, warm, chance of evening and night thundershowers, low high 87. Sunday Cloudy to partly cloudy widely scattered thundershowers, low 64, high 84. Friday High 86, low 61, Pearl River at Jackson 6.9 feet, down 0.3 foot. U0U CRIME FBI chief sees Sunday Schools as best weapon against crime. Edi-torial Page.

Mississippi's Leading Newspaper For More Than A Century (Established 1837 AP and UPI Leased Wires JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1960 VOL. CXXI NO. 367 16 PAGES PRICE 5c Coliseum Marion County Sheriff Aid Is Okayed From Ambush Shot Is Senate Votes To Accept Fund From Jackson BY CHARLES M. HILLS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer 2 HEARTS ARE DISCOVERED J. V.

Polk Critically Wounded At His Home IN 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN PARIS The State Senate haslened to unanimously approve acceptance of $1,500,000 from the city of Jack son for a coliseum here Friday, but, balked at consideration of a When he got to the wounded officer, Lofton said Sheriff Polk had pitched forward and his head was resting on the screen door. Lofton said he fired a few mor By WALLACE DABBS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer COLUMBIA The sheriff of Marion county was shot twice in the back from ambush Friday night and is in "critical'' condition bill which would have allowed vot PARIS (UPI For the first 16 years of her life, Carmela de Felice has led a quiet existence almost immobile at times. She complained frequently of tiredness. and chest pains. Doctors in Italy told her parents she would outgrow the symptoms.

But as she got older the pains got worse. Then she moved to France. Three months ago came the startling disclosure. Carmela had been born with two hearts. Officials at Saint Germaine-en-Laye Hospital said they knew of no parallel to the case.

The hearts are located on either side of the girl's body with a total of five aortas, or blood pumping outlets three on the right and two on the left. A normal heart has one aorta. The hearts have enlarged and now threaten her life, doctors said. They hope they can save her by operating, which will take place after several more months of observation. hots into the air to bring aid.

Polk was then rushed to Marion ing machines. In another speedy action, (he upper chamber passed unanimously and sent to the governor for his signature HB 281. prohibiting persons who have within the past County Hospital in Columbia. at Marion 'county General Hospital here. Deputies said Sheriff J.

V. Polk was shot as he was walking up the steps to his home around 11:10 Deputies said they had no idea who could have fired the shots. five years belonged to any type of subversive or Communist-front or p.m. Hospital officials said Sheriff ganization from serving as an officer in any labor organization or union. Polk, who went into office January 1.

was shot with either a rifle or The Senate approved on the Columbia police department, aiding deputies in the investigation, said that no leads were immediately available. The Mississippi Highway Patrol was notified and investigators were en route to Marion County late Friday night. a pistol. Deputy Sheriff Ray Lofton said BEGIN TALKS President Eisenhower and French President Charles De Gaulle reviewed East-West problems at a White House meeting. De Gaulle arrived in the U.

S. Friday for a four-day visit, during which he and Eisenhower will discuss strategy for next month's summit conference in Paris. Clarion-Ledger AP Wirephot'o. he was within 20 yards of Sheriff Polk when he was shot. Lofton said he had earlier left Whitten Seen As 'Keynoter' his truck at Polk's home at Bunk morning roll call a measure SB 1832, authored by Sen.

W. B. Alexander, Cleveland, which will1 allow incentive pay for prisoners at Parchman penitentiary at the rate of one cent per hour, up to $250 at the end of a sentence. CHAPELS VOTED Sen. Bill Jolly, Columbus, chairman of penitentiaries, also pushed through unanimously SB 1865.

au er Hill and had returned with the sheriff to pick up his truck. Lofton said he had started up the truck and was backing out when he heard two shots. Negro Group Enters White Cafe In State 9 Of 10 Americans Have Been Counted WASHINGTON (AP About in every 10 Americans have now been counted in the 1960 census. The Census Bureau said Friday that as of Wednesday night, th total number counted was This represented 89 per cents of the estimated population of 180 million. thorizing the State Building Com Looking out the window, Lofton said he saw Sheriff Polk stumble and fall.

Jumping out of the truck, Lofton mission to accept donations for construction of chapels at Parchman penal farm. He said that an automobile dealer group had indica'ed interest in financing such a plan, and that said he fired two shots in the direction from which he thought the By GENE WIRTH Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Congressman Jamie L. Whitten of Charleston is expected to be named "keynote" speaker at the State Democratic Convention here on June 30. The selection of a speaker is to be made by former Lt. Gov.

Bid-well Adam of Gulfport, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee. Adam, a long- shots and come. Two Negro businessmen and a then entered the cafe and asked others might also volunteer aid. The Senate at Jolly's urging, lawyer reportedly put up $200 bail for each of the Negroes. also passed without question three bills affecting the State Parole Judge Throws Out The sheriff said that three cars waitress for water, crackers, and cokes.

While they were there, the cafe cook opened the kitchen door and told the visitors that the cafe was for whites only. Board. One, SB 1893, provides that carrying Negroes nad arrived at aiue-H-idije appointee on me time state political power, was the Amoco Station about 11:30 Wednesday morning, and that sta parole hoarrt snail resrie at Parch- closely identified with the success- Trespassing Cases Nevertheless, the waitress help tion attendant Vernon Eugene Croft man; another SB 1394 that the ful campaign of Governor Ross STARKV1LLE Charged with "trespassing on unauthorized property," seven Negroes are to he tried Saturday in Justice of the Peace Huey Blankenship's court at Osborn, in Northeastern Oktibbeha county, according to Oktibbeha County Sheriff Tom Cook. After the defendants had visited Weaver's Amoco service station and the adjoining cafe on Highway 82 about three miles east of Stark-ville Wednesday, they were arrested on their way to Tuskeegee, by Miss. Highway patrolmen near Mayhew Junction in Ixiwndes membership of the parole board R.

Barnett. titular head of the shall be permanently set at four, Mississippi Democratic Party, and ed them obtain what they asked for, and they paid for what they got. RALEIGH, N. C. (AP) A U.

S. Negro attorneys cited a 1946 U. S. ana a tnird, tB 1896. increasine has worked closely with the Gov- Supreme Court ruling that a side Supreme Court decision and asked If the defendants do not appear ernor since he took office.

greeted them and was asked about a rest room. "WHITES ONLY" He replied that the station has none for Negroes. He said that the Negroes apparently disregarded his reply, and that they entered the rest room. added that seven of them for dismissal. That decision reversed the trespass conviction of the number of field employees of the board or parole officers to 15.

Ten are now employed. for trial Saturday, they will forfeit the $1400 put up as bail. If they walk even on private property is open to the public brought dismissal of trespass charges against 43 Negro college students VIEWED WITH FAVOR It is understood that Congressman Whitten, a 50-year-old veteran It was explained by Jolly that do appear and are found guilty, the parole board had been started the justice of the peace may sen Friday. several years ago as largely ex fence them to imprisonment up to county. They were theft plsned -iJ of 19 years in the Congress from this state's 2nd District, is viewed with favor by a number of the But the trespass convictions of two other Negro college students perimental, but that it has been six months and may fine them up JAMIE WHITTEN found that circuit judges were to $500 each.

state's top political leaders. He is stood. The difference in the two epi The state legislature recently using the parole system ciose personal and political and more with increasing need for passed this law against trespass friend of Rep. George Payne Cos sodes. said Superior Court Judge parole officers.

ing. speaker highly respected by Mls-sissippians and possessing national stature. NATIONAL ATTENTION Whitten drew national attention in mid-March when he took the Jack W. Hooks, is "that one hap pened on the sidewalk and the otiv er happened in the store." PAY RAISE SOUGHT The Senate rushed to the rescue Plane Crash when Sen. Hayden Campbell told He told the freed students, "If the UKtihbena county jar in MarK-ville under the jurisdiction of Sheriff Cook.

Mrs. D. W. Watson, operator of the cafe, signed the official complaint against them. $200 BONDS The defendants were listed by the sheriff as follows: M.

C. Jef-fers, 43; Henderson F. D. Cheeks, 18; Thurston Crumpton, 19; Wil-lard Parks, 16; Edward Smith, 18; Winston Whitfield, Ifi; and Edgar A. Whitfield, 16.

All gave Little Rock, as their home town, and their cars bore Arkansas tags. you had gotten in the store and the story of a forgotten capitol receptionist hasn't had a floor of the House of Representa SEX. A ST LAX BARXETT COMER IT. S. Senator James O.

Eastland conferred at length with Governor Ross R. Bar-nett in the letter's New Capitol offices late Friday afternoon. The nature of tie business discussed by the two high state officials was not learned. Governor Barnett returned to his office a short time earlier from Holly Springs where he officiated at the formal opening of the annual carried on the same type of con salary raise in 10 years." Grace Marsh for distributing Jehovah's Witnesses religious literature on the streets of a company-owned town. Chickasaw, Ala.

Judge Hooks granted the motion after Solicitor Prosecutor Lester V. Chalmers conceded that under the ruling he had no case. "While I wish the law was different," Chalmers said, "I respect it and abide by it." SUSPENDED SENTENCES In the Alabama case, the Supreme Court ruled: "Ownership does not always mean absoluta dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it." In granting the motion, Judga Hooks dismissed charges against Thomas Hairston, 19, of Raleigh: and Henry Edward Moss, 19, of Monroe. Solicitor Chalmers then decided not to prosecute the 33 other students.

tives to warn Democratic leaders that a group of 26 Southern Demo Campbell's almost tearful plea auct as on tne sidewalk, you would be just as guilty as these sar of Tallahatchie county, who is chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, a "three-time" Barnett man and a top lieutenant to veteran House Speaker Walter Sillers of Bolivar county. Sillers was recently named by Chairman Adam to serve as chairman of the convention's resolutions committee. It is reliably reported that both Governor Barnett and Speaker Sillers are warmly receptive to the suggestion that the convention be keynoted by Whitten, whom they are said to regard as a forceful served for naught at last, how crats in the House had pledged to In Jungles Fatal To 35 two." WERE FOILED ever, wnen ne himself, after a take whatever steps necessary to protect their positions in the or The 43 were arrested in Feb hour of work by the Senate, came back and asked reconsideration of ganization of the 1961 Congress. "If the division here in the next ruary on a sidewalk in the pri After $200 bonds were posted for his bill. vately owned Cameron Village Congress is as close as expected," shopping center here.

Two of them STANLEYVILLE, Belgian (AP) A Belgian airliner circling in heavy fog crashed Friday' "You see," he explained crest-Continued on page 3 Whitten said, "Southern Demo each defendant Wednesday afternoon, they were released from jail about 6 p. m. They agreed to return for trial Saturday. crats will have the balance of near the top of a mountain in the power." Noting that Southern Democrats testified they were attempting to stage a lunch counter demonstration in a Woolworth store, hut were foiled when the manager closed the store. At the end of testimony in the trial of the first four of the 43, NEWS IN BRIEF hold many major committee chairmanships through the traditional seniority system.

Whitten asked "what good are chairman Atlas Missile Fired From 'Coffin' Setup jungles, killing all 35 persons aboard. The Sobelair Belgian airliner, a DEC4 bound for Elizabethville from Brussels, exploded after crashing soon after dawn. Officials in Brussels said that all 28 passengers, except one girl, were Belgian nationals. Three missionaries and five children were on board. The plane carried ships if the Speaker packs committees against us?" BAND FESTIVAL COULD BE SIGNIFICANT The expected selection of Whit ten could have far reaching polit ical significance.

It has been free seven crewmen. VANDENBERG AIR FORCE Big news was the new firing BASE, Cali. (AP) An Atlas mis- setup. ile shot skyward Friday in a long Past Atlases, like other big mis-delaved first test of a new coffin siles, have been kept in vertical ly predicted that when the Mis Starkville Is Winner Of 3 Superior Ratings sissippi legislature, in 1962, faces up to the task of agreeing on a posture on their pads until launch type launch complex. congressional re-districting plan in ing.

They have been serviced by The four-engine plane, named "Lualatoa" after a Congo river, reported shortly before the crash that it was circling the equatorial forest regions over Bunia, in the northeastern Congo. Fog was blanketing the area. Reports from order to reduce the state's delega huge gantry cranes, rolled away added a superior in signal drum tion by one member, the results just before firing. majoring to make the total of will find Congressman Whitten and me so-called coffins are con three superiors. Congressman Frank Smith from crete hangars, about 35 by 00 feet the scene said the plane hit only Three bands rated one superior Whitten neighboring county of The target was an area near Wake Island, 4,300 miles west.

The Atlas, this nation's first operational missile, has a range of more than 6,000 miles, but the target for shots from this base has always been near Wake. Impact was "well within the target area," the Air Force said. A few moments after launch, 105 feet from the summit. out of the big three and two Leflore in the same district. This i it.

HOUSTON, Tex (AP) A teenage boy too shy to ask a girl for a date admitted the fatal stabbing of a 13-year-old girl when she ignored him, authorities said Frday. The youth said in a written statement he stabbed Linda Faye Ruble with a 12-inch hunting knife. SEOUL, South Korea 'API-President Syngma Rhee Saturday was reported thinking of yielding much of his power under a new government reform. Word of Rhee's possible action came shortly after Korea's lame duck Vice President John M. Chang resigned and Lee Ki-poong, vice president-elect, said he might step down too.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. W-A Columbia Broadcasting System outlet here said it would refuse to show a CBS-TV program on sit-in demonstrations because it "reflected propaganda rather than objective reporting." The show, "Anatomy of a Demonstration," purports to show the training of Negro sit-in demonstrators in Nashville. MODESTO, Calif. (UPD -A 23-year-old suspected rapist shot to death a Stockton policeman Friday and was captured after a wild chase and a gun battle. Elbert Carter, Negro applicant for a police officer's job, held a terrified housewife and her small daughter hostage before he surrendered.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)-A '1 refrigerator door that had been leaned against a grocery store wall fell on a 5-year-old boy Friday crushing him to death. He was Larry W. Pearson, son of Mr. and Billy Pearson of Memphis.

The door was part of a walk-in refrigeration room that was being dismantled. woma mean mat tney would op with walls about 20 feet high. The 83-foot Atlas is stored horizontally inside. In preparation for firing, the roof slides back and the missile is erected before being fueled. It blasts off from inside It was the 13th major plane disaster of the year.

A total of 501 persons have been killed in pose each other in the elections that year. crashes in various parts of the Jn this connection, it is recalled that Congressman Smith's 3rd District Democratic caucus four years From a field of 13 consisting of the larger bands in the state, only one emerged with superior ratings in the big three during Friday's activities of the Mississippi High School Band Festival being held here this week. Starkville, the home of Mississippi State University, marched oft with top medals in sight reading, concert and field maneuvers. Robert Sheely made the day complete for the Northeast Mississippi band by picking up a superior medal for signal drum majoring. The 1 1 a's representative.

Greenwood, almost made the top of the list but fell behind in concert and picked up an excellent rating. Greenwood's Charles Minyaro." world. It was the first crash of a So Gen. David Wade, commander of the 1st Missile Division, announced that both the missile and ground- belair aircraft. The company has been operating nonscheduled but ago failed to select him as a delegate or alternate to the national convention.

Fireworks erupted on the state convention floor when Jackson's representative, Pro-vine, was one of the three which included Columbia and Laurel. Provine rated excellent in field maneuvers and concert and superior for sight reading. Both Laurel and Columbia picked up superiors in field maneuvers and excellent medals in concert and sight reading. Saturday's activities will brinj to a close the annual event with Continued on Page 18 iupport equipment are of an oper-ational-or combat ready-type. The missile did not carry a warhead.

frequent flights to and from the Congo since 1946. the coffin, its mighty exhaust delected by baffles. Officers say the procedure, from alert to firing, can be done in 15 minutes. It took longer Friday because of technical delays in the countdown. The hangar protects the missile from weather.

The horizontal position makes it less vulnerable to sabotage. This means vandenbers now then Gov. J. P. Coleman brought The plane left Brussels Wednesday.

After a stop in Rome, where lias two operational launch com' it picked up two additional the matter up and Congressman Smith was put on the state-at-large delegate list by Governor Cole plexes previously completed con passengers. it headed for ventional launch sites plus tne new Elizabethville. man. coffin complex a-ip' a II ii jA twAl AxrrV Sf fsf 1 iiiriiMiinr 11 jut a 4 rr uMifiuMMMMiui JUDY WILLIAMS Brookhaven DIXIE ANN SELF ClarksdalB ROSEMARY CORRERO Greenwood CINDY VAUGHN Yazoo City LOUISE DAVIS McComb BETTY THOMPSON Columbia JANE CLARK Jackion Central SANDRA HARRIS Provine.