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XE COURIER NEWS VOL, BLTTHEVILIB, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1962 10 PAGES 5 CENTS Senate Probes Censorship By Pentagon By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) Senate investigators, opening their investigation into charges the Pentagon muzzles anli-Communist speeches by military officers, disclosed today they have obtained evidence Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara declined to give them The evidence: the identity of censors who blue-penciled specific speeches. The disclosure came as the special Senate Armed Services subcommittee called Adm. Arleigh A.

Burke, former chief of naval oper ations, as leadoff witness in what could be long and stormy heai ings. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a subcommittee member and the man whose accusations set off the inquiry, confirmed the subcommittee had the evidence. McNamara had declined publicly to which Defense Department censors made changes in the prepared texts of military men's speeches. He based his refusal on a condition that as Pentagon chief he alone should bear the responsibility.

McNamara did privide a list of the names of 14 censors, without disclosing which had handled spe cific speeches. Thurmond said subcommittee investigators hac obtained that information by checking with the censors themselves. Thurmond said it seems "thej were merely carrying out orders. He said some of them would be witnesses at later hearings. Thurmond set off the investigation with a series of Senate talks charging that anti Communist phrases had been stricken from many speeches by censors.

Thurmond told a reporter in advance of the hearings: "I think the President should have taken action before now to stop this muzzling. I don't mean just the Kennedy administration this practice goes back through several administrations. But this (censoring) has been stepped up in this administration." McNamara maintains there has been no muzzling and that the editing of prepared speeches of military men was designed to keep their public views in line with national policy. NATO Experts ICY CHORE DOWN ON THE FARM Animals get thirsty and it's up to the farmer to provide water no matter what the weather. Here Leonard Peters of Inman, braves six-below-zero cold to remove ice which formed on the tank holding water for his stock.

Spacemen Still Hoping For Orbit Try Saturday Confidence Vote ATHENS, Greeie (AP) Premier Constantine Caramanlis' pro-Western government won a vole of confidence in Parliament early today against charges that it used strong-arm tactics in last fall's national election. By FRED S. HOFFMAN CAPE'CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) technicians, racing a new deadline, worked today to assure astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

a foolproof oxygen supply when he orbit. As they replaced two key parts in the oxygen system, an apparently unruffled Glenn paced his own preparations for his rocket ride about the earth now planned, hopefully, for Saturday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said late Monday the fourth postponement of this first orbital flight by an American was caused by. trouble in the all-important oxygen system in the spacecraft. The technicians, working on the capsule atop a mighty silver Atlas rocket, were installing a new hose and a new device which regulates the oxygen flow inlo the astronaut's helmet.

NASA officials declined to say how long it would take to repair the oxygen system. After that job is done, the technicians must make painstaking checks to be certain the trouble has been licked: NASA spokesmen refused to speculate how much more of a delay would be required if the shot cannot meet its Saturday target dale. Glenn, 40, a Marine lieutenant colonel, altered his preflight routine in one temporarily abandoned a low-waste diet to which he shifted on Sunday in anticipation of a takeoff Wednesday morning. His day Monday was a full one. Wearing his silver-coated pressure suit, Glenn "flew" a simulated 12 miles to the hospital at Patrick Air Force Base.

There, he underwent the first half a detailed preflight physical. Doctors gave him brain wave tests, checked his eyes, ears, nose and throat and examined his heart. On Thursday, Glenn will take the other half of an exhaustive physical vhich NASA officials said is part of the routine planned for this flight. The space agency hopes Glenn will be able to make three trips around the earth, at an altitude between 100 and 150 miles. Each circuit would last about 90 minutes.

This will depend on the time his rocket blasts off from this spaceport. The determining factor is the amount of daylight available for the efforts to recover the capsule after it returns from space and lands in the Atlantic. The present blueprint calls for launch about 7:30 a.m. EST. Experience in the two short-range space flights last year points to possible temporary halts during (he countdown.

If Glenn can be boosted aloft before about 9:30 a.m., NASA au thorities are looking for a three orbit effort. Should the shot come sometime between 9:30 and 11:30, the mission would be cut to two orbits. Tax Suit Trial Date March 5 March 5 has been set as the trial date of an $11 million tax suit against George and Andrew B'lorida of Osceola. United States District Judge J. Smith Henley set the trial date in Little Rock yesterday.

The government is contending that some 40 corporations, in which the Floridas hold an interest, owe more than $11 million in taxes, penalties and interest. Mothers March Is Set for Jan. 31 Blytheville's Mothers March foi the March of Dimes will be on Jan. 31, Mrs. Jack Robinson, chairman for the event, an nounced today.

A 6 p.m. siren will signal the beginning of the door-to-door cam paign. Residents will be'asked to turn on their porchlights during ths solicitation period. Area chairmen currently ap pointing block chairmen, Mrs Robinson said. Area chairmen are Mrs.

James Nebhut, Mrs. Maurice Sanders Mrs. Edward Ertel, Mrs. James Tully, Mrs. Jack Tapp, Mrs.

E. Spaeth, Mrs. Robert Jamieson and Mrs. C. R.

Newcomb. Plane's Film By BENNET M. BOLTON ROME (AP) NATO experts oday were completing development and study of films from the Bulgarian jet that crashed near secret NATO base in southern Italy. The pictures were expected to prove.that the young pilot was a spy 'mission. The Italian Defense Ministry in i communique Monday said a 'final judgment on the nature of he episode" could not be given yet.

But it said there were "indi- of a true and proper case of aerial espionage" which needed only to be "further substantiated." One high Italian government official went farther. "We can say now that (he mission of the Bulgarian aircraft was unfriendly," he said. "We expect to slate flatly in the next few days that the plane was flying a spy mission." A Defense. Minislry source pre dieted that the Bulgarian pilot, Lt Milusc Solakov, 22, would be put on trial by the Italians for es pionage, as American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was by the Russians. If convicted of espionage, Sola kov could get 5 to 15 years in prison.

The Russians sentenced Powers to 10 years. Solakov was held under guard at the civil hospital at Acquaviva. Italian intelligence officers planned to start questioing him after he is transferred to a military hospital 'i Bari. Doctors said he was recovering from fractures of the left collar bone and lett arm and a head concussion, but the fractures were complex and it would be awhile before he could be transferred. The Defense Ministry commun- ique said Solakov, after he was pulled from of his jet "said that he escaped from Bulgaria in order to evade the politicaLregime of that country" and "asked r.jt to be put into contact with Bulgarian dip lomalic authorities in Italy." An authoritative Foreign Ministry source comment- that "the fact that the pilot asked for politi cal asylum does no change the nature of his mission." Big Latin Nations Line Up Against Censuring Castro By WILLIAM L.

RYAN PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay, United States fought an uphill battle today in an effort to convince its big Latin-American allies to close ranks against the threat of Castro communism and give the Alliance for Progress program a chance to cure the hemisphere's dangerous economic ills. President Kennedy's team faced an array of conflicting fears and aspirations that produced at least a temporary deadlock on what to do about Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime. The States apparently abandoned any hope of unanimity of the 20 nations on strong collective anti- Castro punishment and sought to salvage at least a forthright majority condemnation of the Cuban Communist regime. The deadlock involved sharp differences of approach between big Latin-American nations advocating a soft policy toward Cuba and smaller ones feeling Castro pressure acutely and anxious for quick, positive action. The impasse plunged the foreign Alarm PHILADELPHIA (AP) A general alarm fire destroyed a five, story building housing several clothing manufacturers today but 300 firemen kept the blaze from spreading to several historic landmarks including the Betsy Ross house.

ministers of the Organization of American States into complex quarrels that threatened lemispheric unity. However, hopes were expressed that the broad dif- erences of opinion would be' Slossed over by some compromise brmula. At Brazil's urging, today's formal sessions were pushed back until a p.m. to permit another round of hotel room bargaining. The Brazilian a.id Argentine delegations arranged a number of sessions in the hope a steady exchange of ideas would bring a See CASTRO on Page I CRAM COURSE Japanese college students don uniforms of Japan's national railroad service to act as "pushers loading commuter coaches to sardmehke capacity in Tokjo It's one way to add to funds necessary to their education.

Study of Americanism Is Undertaken in BHS Program A series of assemblies designed to encourage Americanism are being held at Blytheville High Shool. Squealing On Rivals Gave Luciano Boost By Harry J. Anslinger U. S. Commissioner of Narcotics And Will Oorsler To understand Lucky Luciano's role in crime and political maneuvers one needs uncontaminated facls.

Some of Lucky's publicity people have tried to present him as the most misunderstood public benefactor of our times. The records, however, show that he was first arrested for a narcotics violation in 1918, at the age of 19. The government had him on two counts of selling the stuff, plus possession of two ounces of heroin. Lucky idmitK. the heroin was his, but agreed to provide narcotics agents with information and got off with a light sentence a minor rap; all the main narcotic were dropped.

Lucky continued to feed them government information about other in dope. As a result, one by one his competitors were sent away. Thus unwittingly the American government helped him rise to power. Here is more of Lucky's early record, before his conviction as the greatest white slaver of all times: In July, 1928, he was arrested again for possession of a revolver; in December, 1926, he was arrested in New-Vork City for felonious assault; in August, 3927, he was arrested on several counts involving violation of the Prohibition laws; in December, 1928, he was arrested for assault and robbery; in October, 1929, in New York, he was arrested on a charge of grand larceny; and in February, 1930, he was arrested in Miami for running an illegal gambling game: At'that time, Lucky's power was so great that uost of the charges could be quieted before any indictment was pressed. I knew, everybody in law enforcement knew, Lucky had virtually taken over the Mulberry Street mob which proceeded the 107th Street mob as a major factor in New York ai.

national dope distribution. I knew also that Lucky was tied up with prostitution. 'Lucky liked the ladies. He developed his personal technique of taking Uie girU working girls usually, waitresses, manicurists, shop girls, of- fice workers, youngsters eager tor a way but of the slavery of drab routine. Lucky gave them plenty of excitement and love making, and wound'up turning them into heroin kicks, that's all." But soon they were addicted and to pay for their heroin "ration" Lucky turned them over to his lieutenants who ran the call- girl branch of his expanding rackets.

Lucky's prostitution parade became so big thit it was making him more money than the drugs he was feeding the girls for which they had to pay out of their earnings. Testimony indicated that Lucky at one time took a cut from the daily "ticks" of more than 5,000 prostitutes in cities across the country. In 1935, racket smnsher Tltomas E. Dewey brought Luciano to trail on a charge of forcing women into compulsory prostitution. The trial was long and sensational.

Luciano was found guilty and given 30 to 50 years in prison. Dewey received national cheers for putting this criminal behind DOPE Pap by Mrie trial Kendall Berry spoke to the students recently on conditions in Russia and used color slides to illustrate his talk. Berry, Who visited Russia in 1959, told the group of living con ditions there. C. C.

Coulter, past president of the Arkansas Temperance League and an active member of the Christian Civic Foundation, ad dressed the school on moral issues facing the American people anc the effects of alcohol and nar cotics. Other assemblies are being planned with guest speakers t. talk to the students on various phases of Americanism. Carter Probe Clears Hicks Caruthersville Sheriff's office reported today that the disappearance of an elderly Wardell fann- er has no apparent link to confessed murderer Willie David Hicks. Hicks signed a formal confession admitting the strangulation murder of Mrs.

Annie Neal last Tuesday, Pemiscot County Special Prosecutor James A. (Tick) Vickrey said the murder and missing Wardell farmer, John H. Carter, have no connection. Carter has been missing from his home since Dec. 21.

Hicks is due to be arraigned today at Caruthersville. DAILY RECORD Municipal Court Earnest Singer, running fed light, $5 bond forfeited. Wayne Wright, reckless driving, fined $20 and costs; no driver's license, fined $5 and costs. Robert Gene Cox, running stop sign, $5 bond forfeited. Clifford B.

Mosley, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $116.73 bond forfeited. Hosie Lee Cook, assault with deadly weapon, fined $50 and costs and 16 days in jaiL Gerald Eugene Galley, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $116.75 bond forfeited. Edward Dempsey, no driver's license, $20 bond forfeited. Cornelius Barnes, assault and battery, fined and costs, fine suspended. Traffic Accidents A two-car collision yesterday at 4:25 p.m.

at North Tenth.and Rollison resulted in damages to both vehicles. City Police said Mrs. William H. Wyatt, 800 West Main, and Ewie Harris, 1524 Stewart, were driving the cars. Another two-car accident damaged one car yesterday at 4:40 p.m.

at West Walnut, and North Tenth. Police said Edgar Solon Buffaloe. Memphis, and Mrs. Willis Jo Lewis, Madison, drivers of the cars. Icy roads caused two accidents on Highway 61 last night.

State Trooper Gilbert Mann said Clarence J. Barnhart of Florida was driving a tractor- trailer about a half-mile south of Arkansas-Missouri state line at 8:45 p.m. when he collided with a car driven by Finis of BlytheviUe. No injuries were reported. Both vehicles were damaged heavily.

Cope has been charged with driving while intoxicated, officers said. A truck-car collision last night at 6:45 at the over-pass just north of BlytheviUe damaged both vehicles. Mann said Carnes Edwards, Blytheville, was driving a State Department truck when he collided with a car driven by William Bcason, BAF3. Actress Ailing HOLLYWOOD (AP) Gigi Perrcau, actress on the "Follow the Sun" television series, became ill Monday with a combination of intestinal virus and food poispning, Weather A A A Considerable cloudiness south to partly cloudy north and colder this afternocc and tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and not so coto.

High this afternoon 20s northwest to 30s southeast. Low tonight 10-15 north to 20 south. High Wednesday in the 30s. High Overnight Mean Precipitation pwt hours (7 7 a.m.)—1.00 Jan. 1 to this Sunlrt This Dftt A Yeu JUo High Overnight Precipitation jta.

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