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IN TODAY'S IUILY PRESS Section Churches Classified Editorials Home Improvements A Middle Peninsula I) Ohituarie Radio, TV, Theaters I) Neighboring Communities II Special Features I Teen News Sports Wall St. Review Weather, Tide Chart A Williamsburg Women's Society VIRGINIA WEATHER Mostly Sunny And Hot Today, Highest Near 95, Followed By Scattered Thundershowers In Afternoon Or Night. Monday Partly Cloudy And Cooler NEWPORT NEWS HAMRTON, VIRGINIA HAMPTON ROADS' MORNING NEWSPAPER DDirr. in. ov rot)tro.

je. wftfld Clan Paitf VOL. LXVI NO. 174 NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1961 BYRD-STEPHENS DUEL i British Land In Kuwai Va. Vote Tie UN Slates Review To; lay To 'Question By GEORGE TAYLOR ANTI-PARTITION CAMPAIGN RICHMOND (iP)--Virginia's Democratic primary enters its final full week today aeainst a backdrop of Iraqi Radio Denies Move Near Border Bloody Riots Erupt In Algerian Areas some political imponderables which may bear heavily on the outcome of the July 1 1 voting.

The biggest unanswered qucs- tion perhaps may be how the bal- lot bo will reflect the open flare ALGIERS AP) Militant the Rebel National Libera tin Friday between U. S. Sen, genan nationalists raised their Harry F. Byrd, head of the state's tion Front (FLN) circulated Friday night, calling for a general dominant Democratic organiza tion, and U. Gov, A.

E. S. Steph i 1 I t- I -o i I 1 '('" I 'Cj x. i iwmh if 1 7sf III jfrh 1 "vj i ig I I 1 strike ny tne Moslems. green and white rebel flag and clashed with French police Saturday in bloody street rioting here and in two other Algerian towns.

Maritime Mediation Ends Today ens. The strike paralyzed the sprawl ing port and closed Moslem shops Stephen, who disavowed hi: long-time Byrd organization mem The wild fighting appeared to be in me teeming Casbah and a prelude to a campaign against Moslem quarters on the edge of bership in seeking the nomination partition of Algeria. the city. for governor, uncorked some un- French officials said 10 persons Bands of Moslems, several hun By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS British soldiers, tanks and planes poured into oil-rich Kuwait Saturday to bolster the Persian Gulf sheikdom's stand against threatened annexation by Iraq. The show of force, endorsed by the United States, came as British Prime Minister Harold Mac-millan urged Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem to avoid aggressive action over the former British protectorate.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, Security Council President NEW YORK (AP)-Prospects complimentary remarks about Byrd during swing through the were killed and 71 wounded in Al dred strong, began streaming of ending the maritime strike Southwest. through the streets at midmorn- without a Taft-Hartley injunction giers, at nearby Blida and in the suburb of Baraki. suddenly darkened Saturday. The ing, defiantly waving green and white rebel flags and shouting Stephens' tart comments were prompted by the disclosure in The casualties included five Presidents fact-finding board nationalist slogans.

Moslems dead, and 40 persons in said the likelihood wasn't good Byrds Washington office of a letter the lieutenant governor Most of the Moslems were teen Board Chairman David L. Cole jured in Algiers. The 40 wounded included 25 Moslems and 15 age youths. They were egged on had. written the.

senior senator said all mediation efforts in the by veiled Moslem women who last Dec. 5 expressing the hoie French riot troopers. two-week walkout of 85,000 offi See Algeria, Page 6, Col. SjLeopoldo Benites of Ecuador Byrd would support his candi Flag-waving Moslem nationalist cers and crewmen 'would end at called an urgent council meeting dacy. noon today.

youths staged a series of demonstrationswhich quickly erupted RETURNS "SL-S The board then will start pre Stephens had said in an earlier speech he wanted to make it "crystal clear that I have not at paring its report that will be 'sub nu VAii, vvJUpiC411L UIQL Cllf JO threatening its independence. mitted to President Kennedy There were reports that Iraqi any time solicited the support of Monday and probably will lead troops were massing along the into violence to protest any partition of Algeria between the wealthy and largely European urban areas and the arid, largely Moslem, hinterland. They also were protesting any split of the to an injunction to halt the strike Senator Byrd." The blunt-talking Smithfield at Kuwait border to put teeth into for an 80-day cooling-off period. Kassem claim that the sheik (AP Wlrephoto) 'The likelihood prospects dom is Iraq's southern province. Philippines To Welcome MacArthur WEEKEND WARNING Sahara from Algeria.

torney said Byrd action in releasing the letter "clearly he is not running are not good that we will have But in Baghdad, the Iraqi ra The noting raged through the reached an agreement between dio said the reports of troop all the unions and employer A driver's hand clutching a can of beer, speedometer registering 70 in a 50 m.p.h., zone and a trailing motorcycle policeman visible in the rear-view mirror were combined to illustrate the highway hazards over the long Fourth of July weekend. The New York Daily News' Photographer James Mooney made the symbolic picture. movements were baseless. The morning but by midday police had generally restored order. Two groups by noon Sunday which state-owned radio said they were against Albertis S.

Harrison "but that I am opposing the head of a machine would be United States senator and governor at similar but minor demonstrations means the ships don't sail," Cole circulated by foreign agencies said. occurred here in the afternoon, and in the suburb of Bouzareah so imperialist quarters can fish COUNCIL FEARS NEW RECORD the same time." Until then, however, the talks in troubled waters." Saturday night. will continue, he told newsmen. NEW YORK (UPI) Gen. Douglas MacArthur took off Satur The fieutenant governor said Along with British forces, help A spokesman for the Rebel Na He said the negotiations had he regarded it as "reprehensible, day to return to the Philippines, tional Liberation Front (FLN) in to put it mildly." for Byrd to was on the way for Kuwait ruler Sheik Sir Abdullah as-Salim as-Sabah from Saudi been making great progress in a number of directions, but he this time on a sentimental jour Tunis condemned the French po Hoffa Seeks Salary Hike, HmherDues release piece by piece corre ney to the scene of nis greatest; lice for the manner in which the spondence "to discredit me In the noted that one union or employer group could prevent a -complete demonstrations were handled.

eyes of the people. World war II victory. The 81-year-old MacArthur, ac companied by his wife and Nevada 's 13 Deaths Pace Holiday Traffic Fatalities By United Press International "The reaction of French author settlement. An aide to Byrd said the only reason the letter was released ities has been, as always, violence The strike has idled some 200 Arabia. The government radio in Kuwait said King aud was reported to have dispatched Arabian troops to supplement the sheik's army and several thousand Bedouin tribesmen.

The British commando carrier. and gunfire against unarmed ci party that included Philippine Ambassador to the United States ships on Atlantic, Gulf and Pa was to correct an Inaccurate vilians," said the FLN spokes cific coasts. statement by Stephens "obviously Carlos Romulo, left aboard man. "The number of Algerian The fact-finding board came gleaming Air Force presidential made for political purposes. victims exceeds by far the cyni here to gather data on whether By NORMAN WALKER Associated Press Labor Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

AP) The National Safety Council Saturday night feared that a record number of deaths Bulwark, put ashore 14 tanks and jet to take part in ceremonies Just how much effect the ex cal official, totals published by the the strike effects were serious 750 troops, most ot them marine marking the. 15th anniversary of. might be set lor a rourth of July holiday or any summer holiday during this Independence French administration. enough to warrant Die President James R. Hoffa was reported to commandos.

A dozen Hunter iets rJtne Pacific island republic. change will have upon individual voters Is problematical. Friday's words may not close the wordy seeking an injunction under the day seeking to boost his Team I A hiirn'o uulntviii him Day period. "The rate is alarming," said a council spokesman, "it threatens to break the highway a massive demonstration, on Taft-Hartley law. However, most aiso arrived.

Two frigates accompanied the Bulwark. Canberra jet bombers were dis duel. sters president's annual salary to $75,000 and raise union headquar Wednesday, July 5, against parti-1 Maia- compieie wiui a pdraue of its efforts have been directed fatality rate tor any summer hou- tion is trie anmversarv nr day." toward ending the strike wihout ters dues allotments by more patched to the Persian Gulf area. Both tickets have unleashed a number of issues in an attempt the French occupation of Algiers an injunction. A United Press International Macmillan expressed horje the in 1830.

After a session of several hours usually only to presidents of addressing a joint session of the Philippine Congress. Word-of -mouth orders and tracts to stir up lethargic voters, but the people who mark the ballots haven't shown much interest. than $10 million a year. The salary tilt would make the head of the nation's largest labor union also the highest paid. Hoffa Saturday agreement was reached count at 10:30 p.m.

"EST, more than 27 hours after the holiday started at 6 p.m. Friday, showed 134 persons dead in traffic acci between a group of West Coast Toll Shadows Heavy Travel Over Virginia's Highways "I anticipate the next few daysi British forces would need to fight. "I still trust that the threats against Kuwait are no more than words and that he governmen of Iraq will refrain from aggressive action." Mac Regardless of voter indiffer ship operators and the Marine will be among the happiest ot my Engineers Beneficial Association, dents. life," the old soldier told reporters at New York's Idlewild Interna However, the vessels involved now gets $50,000, a sum matched by presidents David J. McDonald of the Steelworkers and Thomas Kennedy of the Mine workers as well as retired Teamsters boss The overall holiday death will remain tied up since no agreement has yet been reached By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tional Airport.

breakdown: traffic 134, drownings "But I shall return," he added Motorists by the thousands took with two other striking unions and Dave Beck. to Virginia's highways the early the Pacific Maritime Association. with a touch of sentimental humor recalling that dark day in March, part of this July 4 holiday week A breakthrough developed Fri Holla formally announced on the eve of a special-Teamsters 27; miscellaneous 22, total 183. Sparsely populated Nevada, usually low in traffic deaths, led the nation with 13. Eleven of these died Friday night when a speeding pickup truck, driving on the 1942, when he originally made the end as many workers sought to union convention that the union's day when the National Maritime Union largest ence, the Byrd organization ticket's campaign manager says the three candidates are taking nothing for granted and are "running scared." Lewis H.

Vaden of Chesterfield, the campaign manager, figures the larger the total state vote, the better majority his ticket may have. Vaden says the trend in the past two weeks has been favorable for Harrison and his running mates, State Sens. Mills E. Godwin Jr. for lieutenant gov-See Byrd, Page Col.

5 famous vow before being driven get the most out of their four executive board wanted to double millan said in a speech at Calne in West England. In Washington the State Department noted that in granting Kuwait full independence recent-ly, Britain had promised to go to the assistance of the ruler when requested. "The ruler of Kuwait has now asked for assistance and the British government has moved to fulfill its commitment," the State See British, Page 6, Col. 6 off Corregidor fortress by superior days of leisure. of the five striking unions- the amount of member dues allot Japanese forces.

hours earlier when the car in which he was a passenger collided with another automobile on U. S. 50 about 2.7 miles west of Winchester in Frederick County. State police said Braithwaite was riding in a car driven by Richard Nathaniel Braithwaite of Winchester. The driver of the other car was identified as Alice Beachy of Rt.

1, Box 158, Salisbury, Pa. Two youths from Palatka, Fla. Willie Frank Hardy, 14, and Freddie Lee Wiggs, 16 were in wrong side of a highway south of reached tentative accord with the For many, the trips that had begun in holiday gaiety ended in ted to run Teamsters national It was a vow he kept in ship owners. Las Vegas smashed into a station wagon and wiped out three gen headquarters in Washington. tragedy.

The pact, granting a 21 per October, 1944, when he led forces back to Leyte to liber This would raise the per capita cent boost in wages and fringe Before the holiday period was erations of a vacationing California family. dues allotment from 40 cents a month now to 80 cents. It would benefits spread over a four-year ate the islands and become, for the Filipinos, the best known and six hours old, two persons bad See Maritime, Page 6, Col. 4 lost their lives in separate single- mean over $14 million a year to most beloved of .11 Americans. Nine of the victims including four children came from the family on its way to a vacation vehicle crashes on State roads.

run the headquarters instead of MacArthur set out on his nine- One of the victims was in a car about $7 million now. day visit dressed in a fawn col jured fatally Saturday morning in Oklahoma in the station wagon. Hoffa, however, reportedly per ored sports jacket, dark brown Cruise Begins Long Weekend A neighbor of theirs asked on suaded fellow union chiefs to slacks, tan panama hat and the School Aid Bill Hopes Fade To Mere Glimmer hearing of the worst traffic acci when the truck in which they were riding went out of control on a curve, went into a ditch and overturned in a field off Virginia raise the per capita allotment familiar sunglasses. Despite his which crashed while being chased by poliee. For statistical purposes, the holiday period began at p.m.

Friday and will extend until midnight Tuesday 102 hours. During the last 102-hour dent in Nevada's history, "Are years, he carried himself with the you sure they are all dead?" still Tiigher to $1 monthly which would boost the annual yield to the national union to around $18 628 a mile west of Shadyside in same strict 1 2anng of a West Point cadet and appeared in ex For JFK, Wife Northampton County on the East Only a cocker spaniel, in the camper-equipped pickup survived. SMART BRIDES COUNT O.N ME I've been helping brides get the extra cash they need to stretch new budgets for years. I'm O. Howie Hustles, a Daily Press Times-Herald Classified Adt If you're just starting out call on me.

I'll quickly find ca'ih buyers for those "extra" things you don't need, so that you'll have the money to buy the thing you do need. Just dial 244-8421. This 3-line ad sold an radio and. bicycle in three days. So don't wait.

Call today. program, tried to take care of million. Average union member WASHINGTON (AP) The bright hopes of the Kennedy ad ern Shore. day period the Memorial Day Its mate died ship is 1.5 million but it climbs cellent health and spirits. His visit will include tours of historic World War II battle them all.

The three bills that resulted are State police said Hardy was ministration for a broad federal seasonally to 1.7 million. By WHITNEY SHOEMAKER HYANNIS PORT. Mass. (AP- The George Gibson family was weekend earlier this year 12 persons died in Virginia traffic acci killed instantly and Wiggs was aid-to-education program have An increased per capita allot grounds, including "The Rock' a five-year program en route to Oklahoma tity, plan Colorfully outfitted for an after dead on arrival at a hospital at dents. Corregidor from which he es ningto stop and visit Bryce and The two deaths, plus five more ment of this size would probably require local unions to raise monthly dues collection amounts caped in a PT boat nearly 20 to aid the public school system, a five-year program for colleges and a four-year extension on a greatly in three crashes Saturday, boost Zion canyons in Utah on a leisurely trip.

It had picked up Gibson's Nassawaddox. State police identified the driver of the truck as Willie James Perry of Palatka, Fla. years ago, the landing site a from individual union members Leyte and the military cemetery ed Virginia's holiday toll to seven and raised the State's traffic toll for the year to 372 compared with The Teamsters union said its expanded scale of an existing a Fort William McKinley, where parents and a brother in ban Bernardino after leaving the family home at Big Crc Calif. noon at sea, President and Mrs. Kennedy went nautical at the start of their holiday weekend Saturday for a cruise on blue, Nantucket Sound.

Seeking genuine relaxation, Kennedy boarded his father's 52-foot cabin cruiser, Marlin, with the first lady a small party Victims in another two-fatality present 40-cent per capita is the RCA TABLE MODEL AM RADIO $15. 26" FIRES LONE BICVCLE M5. CALL PA O-WWO 51 many of the victims of the in famous "Bataan Death March' crash were Bentley Albert Rose- 357 at the same time a year ago. In addition, two drownings were The family was driving toward See Death. Page 6, Col.

4 program, the National Defense Education Act. The public school bill is considered the heart of the Kennedy program. The sheer magnitude of the are buried. lowest of any union in the country, and even at 80 cents would be lower than only one or two unions. The teamsters said the' per- reported to raise the holiday ac Las Vegas on U.

S. 91 about 32 miles south of here when the pickup hit. cidental death toll to nine. faded to a glimmer as Congress heads for a holiday breather. Caught in a political and emotional tangle from which it may be impossible to extricate them are three bills that would provide $6.1 billion for a variety of assistance to all levels from grammar to graduate school.

The very brightness of the hopfcs for such programs six months ago is in large measure responsible for the mess they are in today. Everybody wanted to get into the, act. i Teachers, school administrators, college presidents, parents and spokesmen for the Roman Catholic Church descended on Washington to back proposals they of relatives and friends on a Two Botetourt residents Gil programs l'as proved a handicap, Dead in the station wagon, in especially in the House of Repre mer Douglas Booth, 27, and Judy Ann Broughman, 17, both of near addition to Gibson, 35; was his Troutville drowned Saturday aft wife Laura, 33 their four chil peaceful voyage along Cape Cod's southern shore. The chief executive had kept up to date on events at home and abroad before departing shortly after noon for the 24 hour cruise. Secretary of Labor Arthur J.

capita increase is justified because inflation has depreciated the dollar and expenses have increased. Hoffa called for a per-capita tax increase on the union's average 1.5 million membership at the special convention summoned to sentatives, which has always been somewhat hostile to the idea of federal aid to education. Having three bills, each with a different ernoon in Craig Creek in the dren. Tommy, 11. Margie, 10, northeastern section of Craig Marilyn, 8, and Sherill, 7.

Also County. sponsor, has created its own con Gibson parents, Wilbur Gibson, 77 his wife, Stella, 70 and Gib Authorities said Booth wife flicts over priorities and strategy. NT Goldberg reported to him by elect him to a new five-year There are other problems. The had to go on foot to summon help. Both bodies were recovered about son's brother, John, 48, all of ian Bernardino.

phone on the critical penod of fear of Southern concressmen that maritime strike negotiations. And wanted induced. Administration federal aid would hasten school The couple in the pickup, Leo Brig. Gen. C.

V. Clifton, the mili term. Getting himself re-elected, a matter regarded as a mere for-Soe Hoffa, Page 6. Col. 4 an hour after the tragedy, but resuscitation efforts proved futile.

George Cornell Braithwaite, 63, forces in Congress, anxious to get integration has added the race is- H. Watkins, 52, and his wife. the broadest possible support fori Se School, Page 6, Col. 5 See Council, Page 6. Col.

3 tary aide who accompanied him to Hyannis Port, briefed him on of Winchester, died Saturday aft 41 ernoon in a Winchester hospital intelligence reptnls. Assistant press secretary An IGNORES WARNINGS ON 'LECTURING' of injuries he received abmit two rt. drew T. Hatcher said Clifton's summary covered developments affecting Kuwait, where the Brit- Eichmann Tries Patience Of Judges sh landed troops earlier in the day to confront Iraq's attempt to Ulbricht To Air Own Peace Plan BERLIN AP East Germany's Communist Imss, Walter By THOMAS A. REEDY of it.

Then he scolded Eich- envelop the shiekdom. would simply cloud his replies injto have hatred for the Nazis, for the Nazi government. But he him Kennedy was in telephone com bureacratic terminology, mann'g counsel, Robert Servati-'l munication with Goldberg even self was just another job. Now From time to time, the judge warned Eichmann. we have forgotten our hatred for Ulbricht.

will offer "the peace iiefore getting out of bed this morning at 10:15. Goldberg will report in person Sunday night. Servatiu apologized. Once Eichmann also apologized and said he plan of the German people Thursday, the official news agen A sparkling afternoon with tem- would try to be briefer but a mo cy ADN said today. ment later he was more long- Llbricht will announce the plan in a statement to the People's in the high 70s and only gentle ripples on the sound provided a perfect setting for a the Nazis.

And he is making us hate him. If that's what he wants, he is managing it very well." To the Israelis watching the case, the edge of the horror as presented by the prosecution has worn off. To many, Eichmann's explanations are becoming ludicrous. Once when he gave an in winded than ever. Once Landau, us.

On top of that he chided Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor, for laxity in numbering documents. Finally he warned the interpreters to pay more attention to their work. Equal asperity was demon-i strated by Judges Benjamin Ha-levy and Izhaak Raven.

For nine days, the Judged have heard Eichmann describe detail the workings of his office, IV-B-4. and the SS and referrinl to a confusing state Chamber, the Soviet-style parlia ment by Eichmann, said. That anguid afternoon afloat. Joseph P. Kennedy, the Presi- uaswer contributes nothing." dent's father, was host.

mann in nine days on the witness stand has tried the patience of his judges. The former Gestapo colonel in charge of Jewish affairs has rejected all responsibility for the extermination of six million of them during gworld War II. That was to be expected. But he Is doing it with long and involved statements and the three-judge court is President Judge Moshe Lau-datl, a gentle-spoken man known for his tolerance and chosen for this job for just that reason, lost his patience completely this week. After repeated warnings to Eichmann about his "lecturing." Landau said he had had enough Then the Judge turned to the ment in East Germany.

There was no indication if Ulbricht would offer new proposals for solving th'e German issue. He said on June 23 that "a peace treaty with both German The first lady, who takes to volved answer in the special language the Nazis devised to bright attire, was spotted in what defendant and "You peed no answer what I just have said." I The fripn etiardinff Eichmann AP Wlrephoto) inpeared to he a cerise flat- cloak the plot against the Jews, Whenever the problem involved states will peace and liddtd bat, ytllow shirt and calf-length orange britches. Kennedy happiness to the German people. somebody else in the Nazi hier-ljrvery minute of a 24-hour day archy, Eichmann spoke at con-iiilso are "irked by his perform- the audience burst into laughter. And this time the court did not demand order, which has been the consistent practice.

BACK TO FAMILIAR GROUND General and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur prepare to board an Air Force plane at New York's Idlewild airport Saturday on their way to the Philippines. Accompanying the MacArthurs are Philippine ambassador to the U.S. Carlos Romulo and Mrs. Romulo, who Hank the MacArthurs.

The general will attend the 15th anniversary celebration of Phillpinc independence and tour the island's battlefields on what he termed a "sentimental journey." siderable length with authority onimco. i v.ore a blue polo shirt and Khaki trousers. His lather came off in a floppy straw hat and black pullover shirt, and rode from the end The 'Soviet Union, has warned that if the West did not sign a German peace treaty en Soviet terms it would sign a separate "IfT Eichmann knew how silly he sounds, he'd stop it," one just why this was. when his namej "Wheti he came here he was came into it, the defendant said fust anil her job for us," a (senior he could not remember. Or he officer declared.

"We had a right See t'ruUr, Page Col. 7 treaty with East Germany. i. court -attache said. I It A-.

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