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62 weatbii rostcArr Alexandria and vicinity: CacraT1 fair through Saturday with UtUa Chang in temperature. (Detail, tut Pag 26.) Associated Press, Uuited Pren laternstiomal N.Y. Herald-Tribune. London Obaerver ALEXANDRIA-PI NEVILLE, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1960 Two Section. Thirty-two Pages PRICE 5 -CENTS mm Jtffl BAY I lAf fll III I I 'K se KEY D) mm Veto of Move To Call a New Pledges to Remain In West's Alliance ATHENS, Greece (UPI) Pro-Western army officers seized power in Turkey today in an apparently bloodies coup that toppled the strong-man regime of Premier Adrian Menderes.

They promised to give Turkey "fre elections" and keep it faithful to Western alliances. 'Summit1 Seen By Bruce W. Munn UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) 1 yZ, i It 7 km Menderes, President Celal Ba- Second Victim SAUDf AMIA ri (AP Wlrephoto) strongman Premier Adnan Menderes (right) was toppled and measures against his chief political opposition led by former the Republican People's party. Ankara radio also announced that also was in military custody.

(AP Wlrephoto) Map thews Turkty whtrt armed forces today took ovir nation in bloodltss coup d' ttat sparked by mounting public dissatisfaction with Premier Adn'an Menderes. State Senate Gets House's Herter Admits in Probe U-2 A Factor in Summit Collapse By Warren Duffee WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary of State Christian A. Herter acknowledged today that the American U-2 spy plane incident was one of three major factors which probably prompted Russia to scuttle the Paris Summit conference. Herter, lead-off witness in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's historic inquiry into the causes of the Summit collapse, Demos to Pick yar and National Assembly Presi dent Refik Koraltan were reported arrested. The armed forces seized radio stations and other communications facilities, sealed off the border and set up a "committee of national unity" under Gen.

Cemal Gursel, commander of Turkish land forces, to run the country. The takeover climaxed more than two years of domestic unrest and a month of riotous stu dent-led protests against Menderes' government. The students apparently were inspired by the student uprising wftich toppled Syngman Rhee's government in South Korea With most communications to the outside world cut off im mediately after the army takeover, reports of the coup came from army broadcasts over the Turkish radio and diplomatic dis patches to other world capitals. Trial for Premier The Iranian government was in formed by its representative in Turkey Wat Menderes was in custody and would stand trial. Indications were Menderes had got wind of the uprising and was trying to flee the country.

Ankara radio said he was "caught" on Kutaha road and brought back to Ankara, The armed forces said Turkey would stand by its international obligations and remain com pletely loyal to the United Na tions charter and to the principle of human rights." 'We believe NATO and CENTO and we are faithful them," the original communique announcing the coup said. Turkey is the strongest military power in the Middle East and vital Western bastion. It guards Russia's outlets to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea and forms the Western front line between NATO and CENTO, the former Baghdad Pact which allies Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Britain and the United States. Trained by America The army which seized control is U. S.

equipped and U. and fought valiantly with the United Nations in Korea. It receives heavy U. S. aid.

The army numbers roughly 20,000 officers and 300,000 men. Izmir, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, is NATO's major base in the Middle East. There are vital U. S. air bases serving the Strategic Air Command including Incirklik, home field of the U-2 spy plane shot down in Russia.

The first communique made it clear the army had gotten sick of the iwlitical bickering that had kept Turkey in a turmoil and brought criticism from other Western countries. "Our armed forces have taken (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) Key figures in Turkish coup: arrested in wake of oppressive President Ismet Inonu (left) of President Celal Bayar (center) Bulletin (Special to The Town Talk) BATON ROUGE, LaRep. Harold B. McSween qualified as a candidate for re-election today with the Eighth District Democratic Committee. He and other members of the Louisiana congressional delegation were here to attend a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee.

McSween said he would seek reelection on the basis of his record of accomplishments. He said he would issue a formal statement later. Pilot Reverses Charge Danes Confused Him By Jerry Gilbreath WIESBADEN, Germany (UPI) The pilot of a U. S. plane forced down by Soviet fighters behind the Iron Curtain has withdrawn his charge that wrong information from a Danish airport made him cross the East German border, en Air Force spokesman said today.

Capt. James P. Lundy, of Find-lay, Ohio, told a news conference Thursday that wrong information on winds between Copenhagen and Hamburg had made him cross the Iron Curtain accidental- An Air Force spokesman said today that Lundy told the board of enquiry invesitgating the incident that the wind readings were apparently correct until the plane reached the island of roedbyhaven. Then the winds changed suddenly and the plane shifted off course, the spokesman quoted Lundy as saying. The Danish Air Force has refused official comment on the charge made -yesterday by Lundy in his news conference.

The plane was freed by the Soviets Wednesday after having been held five days behind the Iron Curtain. It flew back to Wiesbaden with its five crewmen and four passengers, one of them a woman. An Air Force board of en quiry began sitting Thursday to determine why the plane went be- (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Western diplomats predicted today Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko would veto a small power appeal for the resumption of East-West peace talks under United Nations auspices. Gromyko, voted down in his de mand for a Security Council con demnation of American U-2 flights and needled by the dramatic dis closure that Soviet agents had planted listening devices in the great seal of the United States in the Moscow embassy, conceded the resolution had some merits. But he claimed its main effect was to shield America's "Hitler ite" policy of aggression a policy which he charged was openly em braced by President Eisenhower in his report to the nation Wednesday night.

That report, he said, had "placed mankind on the brink of war." 'Fantastic Allegation' "That is a fantastic allegation U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said of Gromyko's remarks after the council meeting had ended. "One could only wonder what might cause the Soviet govern' ment to say such atrocious things." Lodge earlier had made mock ery of Russia's indignation over the U-2 flights by showing the council a wooden, disc, engraved with the great seal of the United States, which came apart to re veal an electronic listening de vice installed "right wider the beak of the eagle." The State Department later dis- closed that the "bugging" of the seal was discovered in the Mos cow embassy in 1952 when George F. Keiman was ambassador. Former New York Gov.

Averell Har- riman said the seal had been presented to him as a gift by a group of Russians when he was ambassador to the Soviet Union ic 1945. Gromyko Outraged Gromyko seemed outraged when the council rejected his mo tions to condemn the United States and order a cessation of U-2 flights by a vote of 7-2, with Ceylon and Tunisia abstaining. As the debate turned to the proposal of Ecuador, Ceylon, Tu nisia and Argentina for a resumption of Big Four negotiations, and as Gromyko's attacks on the United States grew more bitter, the cool objectivity with which veteran diplomats usually act and react all but disappeared. At the end of the session Gro myko and Lodge, who had been sitting with dark faces only a seat apart, rose, turned their backs to each other and walked out. Eisenhower Golfs, Rests at Pa.

Farm GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPI) President Eisenhower played gol today in cool, cloudy weather to start off a long Memorial Day weekend here. William E. Robinson, board chairman of Coca-Cola, and Arthur S. Nevins, manager of the Eisenhower farm, joined the President on the links.

They teed off shortly before 9 a.m. The chief executive hit three drives from the first tee before he was satisfied. The first two were high and not too long. "I do that so often I get fed up," he complained. Today's Extra The American television audience has resigned itself to the fact that it will either have to watch the presidential candidates for good many hours this summer and fall or tum off the sets.

What kind of TV personalities are the top candidates? Dick Kleiner, television specialist for the Newspaper Enterprise set out to find out. And, horrors, he discovered that Sen. Hubert Humphrey was potentially the best TV speaker among Democratic hopefuls. But Mr. Humphrey is now an ex-candidate.

Another aspirant not so hard on the eyes and ears is Vice President Nixon; after all, he's experienced. The Kleiner-ratings of all leading candidates will be found in Today's Extra, on Page 23. Of Accident In Avoyelles Dies (Special to The Towe Talk) MARKS V1LLE, La. Nestor Laborde, 70, retired Marksviile drug store owner and pharmacist, died at 4:25 p. m.

Thursday injuries sustained in an auto smashup which also claimed th ife of his wife. Double funeral rites were to held at 11 a. m. today at the St. Joseph Catholic church here with Msgr.

H. van der Putten officiat ing. Graveside rites were to be con ducted by the Rev. Daniel Cork-ery. Burial was to be in tht church cemetery under direction of Hixson Bros.

Funeral Home. The, Labordes were out for an evening ride Wednesday wnen they were involved in a two-car collision on La. Hwy. 115 about eight miles south of here at 6:40 p. m.

Mrs. Laborde, the former An- gelle Zanella, died at the Marksviile Hospital less than threo hours after the accident. Died 7 Hours After Wife Her husband died about seven hours later of skull fractures and other injuries. The couple is survived by one son, Fenwick Laborde of Marksviile. Laborde is survived by a brother, Delta Laborde of New Orleans, and a sister, Mrs.

Eva Laborde, also of New Orleans. Mrs. Laborde is survived by thrqe brothers, Victor Zanella of Moreauville, Noah Zanella of New Orleans and Dewey Zanella; four sisters, Mrs. Estine Lacour of Moreauville, Mrs. James Guil-lol and Mrs.

Thomas Normand, both of Hessmer, and Miss Annette Zanella of Moreauville. Also hurt in the accident which resulted in fatal injuries for th Labordes were four teenager! from Hessmer, occupants of th second car. Freddie Normand, 16, was the most seriously injured. He was taken to Baptist Hospital in Alexandria where his condition was described as "satisfactory" early today. REJECT RED REPORT SEOUL, Korea (UPI) Tht United Nations Command Thursday rejected a Communist report that North Korean fortifications in the demilitarized zone were of a non-military nature.

The senior member of the U.N. Joint Observer team, U.S. CoL Jeffrey G. Smith, told the Communists ht rejected the report "for the crass Communist concoction that it is its disgusting deceit." Gus Voltz Jr. Ear Assn.

and has served as an officer in the association. He also holds membership in the Louisiana and American Bar Alexandria Rotary Gub, Alexandria-Pineville Chamber of Commerce and George M. Simmons Jr. Post No. 3 of the Ameri can Legion.

He is serving on the advisory (Turn to Pag 2, Column 3) Parish Demo Unit To Meet Saturday The Rapides Parish Democratic Executive Committee is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Saturday to call a primary for parish and ward offices. Chairman Lamar Polk said the meeting will begin at 10 a.m. on the sixth floor of the courthouse. Tha committee will set July 23 as the election date to run concurrent with the primaries for congressmen and U.S.

senator. Parish and ward elections are to be called for: district attorney, two district judgeships, Alexandria and Pine-ville city judgeships, Alexandria and Pineville city marshal, five Ward 1 school board memberships, and the Ward 11 school board membership. The committee will set a qualifying deadline for candidates, fix qualifying fees, set the deadline for selecting commissioners, and take care of other legal procedures in connection with the primary. The Inside Story U. S.

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JOY DRIVE IN The Gene Krupa Story. KINGS DRIVE IN The Treasure of Pancho Villa. PARAMOUNT The Sword and the Cross. REX Bend of the River. Aircraft Emergency At Esler Field By Arthur H.

Matthews Procedures for coping with aircraft emergencies at Esler Field, were put to a test for the first time Thursday, and when it was all over official observers agreed that a passing grade was in order. The crash and fire off the southeast end of the parish com-merical airport's southeast runway was simulated, but there were touches of realism in the exercise. Some of the 45 men involved in the run-through had rehearsed their parts, but for pilots and passengers in two private planes overhead the crash might as well have been the real thing. Their aircraft were diverted to the Buhlow Lake landing strip when Esler was closed for the emergency. Closing the field to all air traffic will be a part of the emergency procedure, Louis Harrell, Esler manager, explained to personnel of participating public safety organizations.

In a critique after the "crash," Harrell expressed thanks to all the participants and led a discus-ion aimed at working coma of in to of a to Gas Tax Bi BATON ROUGE (AP) The administration bill to renew the 55-million-dollar gas severance tax. passed 99-0 by the House, today went to the Senate for ac tion. Tfco legislature went home Thursday and returns to work Sun day at 7 p.m. when the big revenue hill suDDortine public schools may be referred to committee if bill introductions don't interfere. Sunday night is the deadline for bil introductions other than con stitutional amendments.

Another 300-400 bills are expected. The total already is 1,134223 the Senate and 911 in the House where the money bills orig inate. Gov. Jimmie H. Davis continued ride victorious in the Legisla ture on his peace and harmony mount.

The administration's state sov ereignty commission bill comes up for committee assignment Sunday night, after delay in yes terday's busy session. It got 38-0 Senate passage. Chairman Bryan Lehmann the House Appropriations Com mittee plans to start hearing the $489,775,595 general appropriations bill at 8:30 aa Monday Hearines will be ooen but the committee will vote in secret or openly, he said, as the committee sees fit. No Immediate Vote Likely Lehmann, of St. Charles Parish, Davis whip, emphasized that at least a week will be needed to send the bill to the House floor possibly more.

Until the big omnibus money bill clears appropriations, none of the millions in special appropria tions bills can receive attention, Davis says there is no money for the.m anyway. Rep. T. T. Fields, another whip for Davis, won 85-4 passage of the administration bill to make the state custodian of voting machines a constitutional office and 94-0 approval of the companion measure to abolish the voting machine board.

Fields, of Union, put off until (Turn to Pago 2, Column 3) Is Simulated Train Personnel the kinks out of the plan. On hand were representatives these agencies: Rapides' sheriff's department, state police, Eng land Air Force Base, Nationa' Guard from Camp Beauregard Rapides Fire Protection District 2, Pineville fire and police departments and the U. S. Weather Bureau. The Alexandria Fire Department, which was to have been included in the operation, was not notified because of a snafu that added realism to the rehearsal Another dry run was scheduled for June 21, and as a result of the Thursday oversight the Alex andria firemen are now on the list of agencies to be called.

The next drill will be held in conjunc tion with a familiarization on the aircraft that will land at Esler The familiarization was re- quested by fire chiefs taking part in the Thursday exercise. Har- rell promised to get descriptiv material on the planes that wil regularly use the field. M. T. Cappel, assistant sher iff, reviewed the procedure for notifying agencies that will as- defended the administration's handling of the spy plane incident.

Herter suggested that another key factor was possible outright opposition within the Kremlin to Khrushchev's visits with Western leaders, plus bitter Chinese communist opposition to a soft line toward the West a possibility raised Thursday by President Eisenhower. As the third factor in the Soviet action Herter listed the belief that Khrushchev discovered that, In the face of Allied unity, he had little chance of having his way" at the Summit. Non-Partisan Hearing Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) launched the committee's closed hearing with a statement in which he assured Herter the inquiry would not be conducted on a "partisan basis." Fulbright emphasized that fail ure to "review and assess" the Summit conduct would be to "neglect our responsibility and to lose an opportunity to improve the procedures and the execution of our foreign policy." Fulbirght also made a point of noting that "the black arts of intelligence operations involved violations of every commandment." The Senate inquiry had President Eisenhower's "wholehearted" support. Herter said in an opening statement he doubted that any different White House or State Department wording of the state ments on the affair "would have made any difference in the arbitrary Soviet demands that followed." But he said the plane was one of three factors, which in "com' bination," resulted in Soviet Pre' mier Nikita Khrushchev's "bru tal decision to disrupt the Summit conference." The secretary, repeating Eiscn (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) of School Bill states required to match all fed eral funds received.

For the first two years, local school funds as well as state money could be used for matching purposes. Rejected were amendments to permit funds to be used for teachers' salaries and to authorize con' struction loans to private ana parochial schools. Both proposals were ruled out of order on parliamentary points and did not come to a vote. As finally approved the money would be allocated to the states on the basis of their school-age population and could be used only for school construction. Rep.

Frank Thompson Jr (D-NJ), author of the bill, said it should provide for more than 50,000 classrooms. The vote on the Powell amendment found 100 Democrats and 118 Republicans favoring the anti-segregation clause and 160 Democrats and 21 Republicans in opposition. On final passage 162 Democrats and 44 Republicans voted for the bill and 97 Democrats and 92 Re publicans voted against it. A loud cheer went up from the winners La. Delegates To Convention BATON ROUGE (AP) The Democratic State Central Com mittee meets at 11 a.m.

today to choose national convention dele gates. Gov. Jimmie H. Davis says they probably will go to Los An geles uninstructed. The governor says he believes the Louisiana delegation to the Democratic national convention will "look for somebody accept ablesometimes you don't always have a choice acceptable to Lou isiana and the South." The state committee also was expected to name 10 presidential electors.

Davis has declined to name his choice for the Demo cratic nomination for president, He also declined to name his choices for national committee man and committeewoman. One committee duty was to for mally call a new congressional primary July 23. Davis-sponsored legislation signed into law this week changed the primary date from Aug. 27. Davis said yesterday he may or may not attend the meeting of the 101-man committee.

In a press conference yester day, uavis declined to answer whether he thought the centra' committee should grant the tra ditional rooster emblem of the Louisiana Democratic Party to the national Democratic nominee for president. Mrs. Davis Mentioned Davis previously has mentioned that he has been approached about his wife being named the next national committeewoman. "I talked to her about it," he said this time, "and she said if she can do any good, and can help the cause, she would consid er it." Davis, asked if he believes Louisiana will turn Democratic in the presidential contest this time said: "If the Democrats have a man it likes. I think the majority of the people of Louisiana would prefer to go Democratic but our people, you know, sometimes they get very independent.

Louisiana, always Democratic in state and local politics, backed President Eisenhower in 1956. Asked his personal choice for the Democratic nomination, Davis countered, "I don't know who's in there yet." Davis wouldn't even hint about his choice for national committeeman to succeed Camille Gravel. Gravel was voted out by the former central committee, because of his moderate views on (Turn to Page 2, Column i) AD RECORD TODAY Today's Town Talk sets an all-time record in classified advertising lineage. The classified section contains more than 650 inches of regular ads plus 168 inches of legals. The total is the largest classified lineage ever published in one day by this newspaper.

Gus Voltz Jr. Issues Statement As Candidate for City Judge Here Anti-Segregation Clause May Upset Progress Alexandria attorney Gus Voltz Jr. today entered the race for Alexandria city judge. Voltz, son of the late city judge, is a candidate in the July 23 Democratic primary. He has been practicing law since 1051 and for the last five years has been attorney for the Tcwn of Chcneyville.

Voltz, 39, is the son of the former Ulma Chambers of Liberty, Texas and now a resident of Alexandria. He was born here in 1921 and was educated at Providence Aca demy, Menard Memorial, West End Grammar school and Bolton High school. He entered Southwestern Lou isiana institute prior to World War II but his education was interrupted when he began flying commercially for the military. He was later a flying instructor and was on the faculty of North east Junior College in Monroe. In 1943 Voltz was commissioned a second lieutenant and served in every theater of operations during the war.

He was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1945. Voltz graduated from Louisiana State University Law School in 1H61 and was admitted to practice law by the State Supreme Court. He is a memi)or of the Executive Committee of the Alexandria By John Beckler WASHINGTON (AP) Inclusion of an antisegregation amendment raised questions today about Senate acceptance of the first general school construction bill ever passed by the House. A long, wrangling session ended in a 200-183 House vote Thursday to authorize $1,300,000 in federal grants over a four-year period to help with construction of public school classrooms. Sponsors had hoped for quick approval by the Senate, which already had passed a more com prehensive measure.

But before passage, the House voted 218-181 to deny the funds to any school judged to be in defiance of court integration orders. That amendment was sponsored by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY) Southern Senators were expected to object strongly to that provision. And efforts to work out a Senate-House compromise would have to be cleared through the House Rules Committee, which had held up the bill for months. The bill would authorize 323 mil lion doilars a year to the states for each of four years, with the i wten the vote was announced.

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