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FAIR Fair to partly cloudy and warm. High today will be 88, low 68. Winds will be easterly at to 16 miles per hour. Serving THE BIG BEND in FLORIDA Since 1905 Vol. No.

270 Tallahassee, Florida, Sunday Morning, September 27, 1964 Price: Daily, 10c; Sunday, 20s Florida 16; Miss. State 73 Kentucky 27 Oe Miss 27 N.C. State Clemson 0 TCU Bill McDowell FBI: 'Senseless Attacks' ffl emw oat FSU SMEARS BY 0-0 Keys Defensive isor 3lr2, Riots Race man, Rules Out Extremists Probe Reds, Fl Bwn'iy ii jmmmq''qm fit1- WASHINGTON (AP) J. Edgar Hoover said Saturday summer riots in the North were neither race riots nor the work of Communists or other extremist organizations. Instead, the FBI director said, they represented "a senseless attack on all constituted authority without purpose or object." Hoover reported at President Johnson's request on the FBI's investigation of disturbances in seven Northern cities and two resort areas from coast to coast between July 18 and Sept.

7. The bulk of his 19-page report dealt with the seven cases of big city violence. LESTER ADD OX GOES INTO CAFETERIA BUSINESS Lester Maddox, who closed his restaurant rather than serve Negroes, opened a cafeteria Saturday. He has declined to say what action he will take if Negroes seek service at the cafeteria. A cloth covers the sign of his old Pickrick Restaurant.

(AP Wirephoto) 'All Racial Groups' White Students Enrolled In Two white students are attending Florida University this year, it was disclosed Saturday. Neither was named but at She said "we made no special announcement. They are 6tu- ST. ANDREW'S HEAD RETURNED 10 GREECE A golden reliquary containing the head of St. Andrew the Apostle is carried in a procession from the Church of St.

Andrew of the Valley in Rome to be returned to Greece after 500 years. With the reliquary is Augustine Cardinal Bea who headed the Vatican delegation that returned the skull to Greece in an extraordinary gesture and appeal for good will by the Roman Catholic Church to the Orthodox Church of Greece. (Story on Page 2B) (AP Wirephoto via cable from Rome) spokesman for the previously all-Negro university said one was an undergraduate in the College of Arts and the other was in the law school. No formal announcement was made. Dr.

Gore issued a statement concerning role In the future and in the last paragraph of the two page memo he said we are now beginning to serve members of all racial groups." LIKE HUNDREDS' Dr. Gore was out of town yesterday but Thelma T. Gor-ham, director of public relations, confirmed that two white students are attending classes. In New Viet Showdown Gem By Tribe Scoring Done By Murdock And Spooner By BILL McGROTHA Democrat Sports Editor FORT WORTH, Texas-Slashing, alert work by Bill McDowell keyed a vigorous defensive effort that lifted Florida State to a 10-0 victory over Texas Christian here Saturday night. A junior linebacker from Tallahassee, McDowell, among other things, recovered two fumbles and blocked a field goal attempt that could have brought TCU a 3-3 tie.

The Seminoles muffed many an offensive opportunity on this warm, fair night but took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter and nursed it until they finally got a touchdown with 9:39 left in the game. Phil Spooner scored from six yards out, capping a 63-yard drive that followed McDowell's blocking of the field-goal attempt. TCU was in easy range for a pointer after penetrating to FSU's 16. Les Murdock booted FSU's field goal from the 23, on the heels of a 66-yard push. TENSI FIGURES Steve Tensi's passes figured significantly in both FSU pay- on drives.

But his favorite target, Fred Biletnikoff, doing decoy duty much of the night, caught only two. A crowd of 18,167 saw FSU stopped at the one-yard line on its first offensive venture of the (Continued on Page 7B, Col. 7) John Bond Jr. Is Drowned Skin Diving WAKULLA STATION-John Bond 19, of Tallahassee, drowned while skin-diving with three other men in McBride's slough near here, Wakulla County Sheriff Bill Taff reported. Taff said Bond, of 2005 Old Fort disappeared inside a cave in about 50 feet of water about 6 p.m.

Saturday. Bond's companions, who were not immediately identified, told the sheriff that they were pre paring to come to the surface and motioned to Bond to get ready, but when the ascent started he was missing. The men, who were all students at Chipola Junior College, dived back into the cave but were unable to find Bond as darkness fell. Sheriff Taff called in a group of divers from Tallahassee to participate in the search for the youth's body but, after several dives in the murky water, the search was called off until daylight. The sheriff said this was the second drowning in the slough, which runs into the Wakulla River, in the past two years.

scores of reports, photos and other exhibits prepared by the FBI and other police agencies. HE ACTED ALONE? It is expected to tell whether the commission is convinced, beyond doubt, that the rifle shots which killed Kennedy were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24 year-old, unstable ex-Marine and avowed Marxist. And it is expected also to ex press the commissions conclu sions on whether Oswald acted alone or was a part of some sort of conspiracy. The report is to cover also the killing of Oswald by Jack Ruby, a Dallas night club operator. two days after the president was slain.

There's no question that Ruby committed this act for which he now is under death sentence because it was carried out in full view ot dozens of police officials and untold hundreds of Purge Of Older Leaders Sought SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) Young military officers Saturday demanded a purge of six older generals, and a high government source said a coup is possible at any time. Troops took up guard posts at strategic areas and set up barbed wire barricades and gun po Chase Of Reds Seen Approved By JOHN HI. IIIGIITOWER dents just like hundreds of others on campus." A white Florida State Univer sity student made application to register at a few years ago but the Board of Control turned him down. FSU, previ ously all-white, began accepting Negro students two years ago and there are a few enrolled, ir. Gores statement, re leased yesterday, was to the effect that was not going to close its doors any time in the foreseeable future.

He said he was replying to "many in quiries received after publica (Continued on Page 4A, Col. 2) to keep the situation as quiet as possible. Immediately following the Aug. 2 attack, President Johnson ordered the Navy to do more than defend itself if attacked but "to attack with the objective of not only driving off the attacking force but of destroying it." This was considered a "hot pursuit" authorization from the President but its extent was unclear from the public announcement. M.

T. Mustian M. T. Mustian Is New TMH Administrator Middleton T. Mustian, a 43-year-old Texan who has spent his entire adult life in hospital work, has been named the new administrator at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.

Hospital Board Chairman W. E. Woodward announced the appointment after several weeks of screening 16 applicants to replace former Admin istrator Lewis Bevis who was relieved of his duties by the Board last month. Mustian will assume the new duties within 30 days. Woodward said Mustian was chosen on a unanimous vote of the Board after extensive inter views with five of the appli cants.

His salary has been set at $20,000 a year. Mustian comes to Tallahas see from Houston, Texas, where he has served since January as administrator of the 450 bed Memorial Baptist Hospital TMH is a 250-bed facility which is currently undergoing an tensive expansion program. IN PANAMA CITY The new administrator is no stranger to Florida. Before moving to Houston he spent 30 years as Administrator of Bay County Hospital in Panama City, a 120 bed facility, and the 200-bed Alachua General Hos pital in Gainesville. He is the immediate past president of the Florida Hos pital a fellow in the American College of Hospital Administralors and was formerly member of the board of directors of the Florida Hospital Assn.

and Blue Cross of Florida. Woodward said Mustian comes to TMH "highly recom mended and "is the best man we could find for the job." "We are very pleased he ac cepted our offer," the board chairman said. "He has a thor ough understanding of the prob lems we face at TMH and the recommendations we have re ceived from his previous posts are excellent." To Mustian, who is a native of Texarkana, Texas and grew up in Atlanta, Texas, the pros pect of returning to Florida is like a welcome homecoming "When we moved to Florida 10 years ago we were told that once the 'sand gets in your shoes' we would never want to leave. "I have a good position in (Continued on Page 4A, Col. 1) thousands of television watcn ers.

But, again, the question ofi" whether Ruby acted alone is one for which the commission is expected have an answer. IT GOES OUT With the submission of its report, the special commission goes out of existence Any fur ther investigations will be in the hands of permanent agencies. The commission is a bipartisan one, although by formal party affiliation the Republicans outnumber the Democrats five to two. In addition to Warren, other Republicans are Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Rep.

Gerald Ford of Michigan, Allen W. Dulles, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, and John J. McCloy, New York financier and former high commissioner to Germany. The Democrats are Sen. Richard B.

Russell of Georgia and Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana. WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson reportedly has decided that if Communist planes attack U.S. naval forces operating off Viet Nam, American fighters can chase them across the Red China fron Johnson responded to one off Hoover's recommendations by ordering the FBI to make riot- control training available to all police departments in the coun try. The President also directed the Defense Department to increase National Guard riot-control training throughout the country and to make that training available to local police forces.

TENSIONS FACTOR While racial tensions contrib uted to the city rioting, Hoover said, none of the disturbances was a race not "in the accepted meaning of the phrase." "They were not riots of Ne groes against whites or whites against Negroes, he reported. "And they were not a direct outgrowth of conventional civil rights protest. "Victims of the rioting were often Negro store owners as well as white. Their assaults were aimed at Negro as well as white police officers struggling to restore order." Hoover made short shrift of charges that the riots were in stieated by the Communist party or other organizations. NO EVIDENCE He said: "No evidence was found that the riots were organized on a national basis by any single person, group of persons, or organization." In all cast he said, mob violence was "dominated by the acts of youths ranging in age up to the middle 20s.

They were variously characterized by responsible people as 'school 'young 'com mon hoodlums and 'drunken Hoover had an endorsement (Continued on Page 4A, Col. 2) BITS Helpful PARIS, Ky. (AP) Deputy Sheriff Fred Boling and Con stable John Lee drove through a heavy rain, then stopped in front of the home of a wanted man. The suspect came out, got in their car, and asked, "What's the matter? Broke down?" "Nope," Boling replied. "Who are you?" The man identified himself.

"You're the man we're look ing for," said the deputy. "You are under arrest." mote christian unity and racial equality. Page 2B Politics Sen. Barry Goldwater, lacking Gov. George Roney's endorsement, campaigns by plane and motorcade in Michigan, deliv-Page 2A National The Rio Grande, flash-flood- upstream, forces another Negotiations Set Up Today In GM Strike DETROIT (AP) General Motors and the striking United Auto Workers set up a quick resumption of negotiations Saturday for a contract agreement to get the corporation's para lyzed car plants back into production.

Talks, suspended since Friday when more than a quarter-million workers walked out, will start again at 2 p.m. today. GM and United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther announced the scheduled resumption in separate statements. Both announcements came approximately at noon, or in the 26th hour of a UAW strike that closed most of GM's plants from coast to coast.

'SELECTIVE STRIKE' The UAW walked out in its "selective" GM strike at 10 a.m. Friday, the union deadline, after failure of negotiators to agree on a new three-year con tract. Neither the company nor union elaborated on the statements on the resumption of talks. The government hailed the decision. William Simkin, head of the U.S.

Mediation and Conciliation Service, said the government was "encouraged." Simkin, though in Detroit recently, has kept aloof from the negotiations. Both the union and corporation have indicated a preference to negotiate privately although Reuther, a day before the strike deadline, had proposed arbitration. General Motors rejected the proposal. The union said its strike had nothing to do with a worker's pay check but was called over working conditions, including production rates. Mayors Vote A $10,000 District Fight ST.

PETERSBURG (AP) The Mayors Council on Fair Reapportionment voted Friday to spend $10,000 in a campaign against the legislative plan to be voted on Nov. 3. City attorney Reese Smith of Tampa, who argued before the Florida Supreme Court last week for removal of the plan from the ballot, told the mayors "your guess as to when and what the court will rule is as good as mine." Mayor Herman Goldner of St. Petersburg was instructed to ask city and county commissions in populous counties to pass resolutions against the air iorce installations. military personnel to fight the Communist Viet Cong.

According to this informant, Khanh fas undecided on what to do about the ultimatum. It carried a deadline of Oct. 25, two days before Khanh has pledged to restore civilian rule But the informant said a coup could come from either the young generals, who defended Khanh in an unsuccessful coup Sept. 13, or from the older military men. He identified the targets of the ultimatum as Lt.

Gen. Tran Thien Khiem, a member of the ruling military triunvirate, and five generals whom the young military officers accuse of fa voring the neutralization of Viet Nam, as suggested by France. Khanh and Maj. Gen. Duong van Menh, the chief of state, are the other members of the triumvirate.

The young officers include sub-Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, the air force commander who threatened to bomb rebels who held Saigon for a short time two weeks aco in the coup that failoH Nation Awaits Disclosure Of Assassination Report sitions outside navy and Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, premier for nine months, was out of town to deal witn a iriDai uprising in the central moun tains.

The spate of military activity in Saigon came after nightfall. Two main roads leading to the naw base on the Saigon water front were closed by barbed wire barricades and three 20mm cannon mounted on trucks guarded each entrance. Machine guns were spotted alongside the base and rolls of barbed wire were at various locations ready to be strung across the streets. MARINES IN TRUCKS Marines whisked through the city in trucks, others were guarding the zoo and roads leading to navy headquarters. Fifteen soldiers in combat dress were on guard inside the main post office.

A 50-caliber machine gun and rocket launcher were perched at the gates of the military air field. Troops bivouacked on the lawn nf the Dremier's office n7 joint general staff headquarters, There were reports tnat otner marines had converged at the suburb of Thu Due. The government source said Cli dllil ICwCiVCU Lilt UJkiiuavuiu Ban Thuot "1 Khanh received the ultimatum kUJ JUUCo liui tilt ao i. vi kaiguu iu try to que.l a revolt by moun tain tribesmen who had been trained and equipped by U.S Index Crossword 4D Datebook 6D Editorial, Columns 6A and 7A Obituaries 2A Society News Sec. Sports 7B through 11 TV-Radio 5D Vista Section Want Ads 7D through 11D Weather 2A tier if necessary The decision to provide more precise authority for U.S.

pilots to apply the principle of "hot pursuit" and deny the Communist "privileged sanctuary" reportedly was prompted by the Red Chinese movement of Soviet-built jet warplanes into Communist Viet Nam early in August. The aircraft were introduced into the area after American planes blasted torpedo boats and other installations in North Viet Nam following attacks on American destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf Aug. 2. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS The sequence of events indicates a slow and cautious escalation of the danger of direct U.S.-Chinese clashes in south east Asia. This situation is likely to become more tense, and probably much more serious, if deteriorating political conditions inside South Viet Nam tempt the Communists to exploit the disorder and political instability.

A buildup of military pressures inside South Viet Nam by increased Red guerrilla strikes and parallel external actions could produce a very grave crisis in short order. From Washington's point of view, however, the South Vietnamese situation is subject to so many unpredictable developments that no one here can say whether the worst possibilities of increasing danger are likely tt he realized or not. What is said authoritatively is that administration leaders, deeply occupied at home with the American political campaigns, would like to do what they can within the limits of U.S. policy Digest Of News By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) The nation awaited Sat urday the imminent disclosure of official conclu sions on the how and why of the assassination of President John F. Ken nedy.

A seven-man commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, was charged by Presi dent Johnson last Nov. 29 with finding and disclosing "the truth as far as it can be discov ered" about the tragic events of last Nov. 22-24 in Dallas. On Thursday, the commission delivered to the President the digest of its findings a 4-inch thick book. Later, the White House announced that the report will be made public Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

EST. The book is the fruition of the questioning of scores of persons, many on-tbe-scene studies in Dallas, the. examination of Washington FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover submits his report on causes of racial riols in the North. Page 1A The nation awaits the Warren Commission conclusions on the of President John F.

Kennedy. Page 1A Vict Nam Young military officers demand a purge of older ones in South Vie: Nam and another coup appears possible. Page 1A Vatican The Roman Catholic Church takes three major steps to pro- 000 persons out of homes in amendment. Laredo and Nuevo Laredo as The council also agreed to op-crest passes major gateway to pose an amendment which would Mexico. jcontinue the present system of Page 2A; distributing gas tax monies..

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