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HEWS FLASHES Direct From Newsroom Of AdVertistr-Jourrul By Tcfephon Dial AM 5-8246 mmmt 133rd Year-No. 199 mil MH m4 Madn; ft-rice By Tb Kttocimtri fmi Montgomery, Friday Morning, August 19, 1960 36 IVies Price 5 Cents Soviets Hint Of Leniency Gains For Powers On Minimum Pav Prosecution Hammers The Weather Montgomery: Partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon' and evening thundershowers. Little change in temperature. Predicted high 93, low 73. Thursday's high 92, low 73.

(Details. Weather Map, Page I Victory fx Jr i At Theme U2 Pilot Knew Of Spy Flight Congolese Attack U.N. Senate Adds Four Million To Program WASHINTON (AP)-The Senate Thursday night passed Sen. John F. Kennedy's bill raising the minimum wage from $1 to an hour and giving about four FIRST WOMAN ASTRONAUT Jerri Cobb, 28, was disclosed Thursday to be the first acceptable space pilot candidate.

She is top pilot and saleswoman for Aero Design and Engineering of Oklahoma City. However, at present there is no immediate plan for sending a female into space. AP Wirephoto DISCOVERER XIV Spy Satellite Put Into Orbit 1 -iTir, r8jMwi 4 'J POLIO MOTHER MOVED John Cully (top right) helps attendants move his polio-stricken wife, Ingeborg, in iron lung aboard a truck in New York City. Mrs. Cully gave birth to a daughter, Dolores, a week ago.

She was being transferred from Bellevue Hospital where the baby was born to another hospital where she will remain for about two weeks. She will then be returned to her home in Astoria, N.Y. AP Wirephoto PUNISHMENT AIM Davis Playing Canadians LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) Congolese army rifemen kicked, clubbed and robbed i Canadian U. N. unit at Lepold ville airport Thursday.

Protesting sharply, the U. N. Command cracked down and reclaimed full control over the airport. The savage incident, one of a series of clashes of Premier Patrice Lumumba's Negro soldiers with U. N.

personnel, came as Lumumba himself delivered point ed snubs to U. S. Ambassador Clare H. Timberlake and U. N.

Undersecretary Ralph J. Bunche The Congolese apparently mis. took the Canadians, assigned to signal duty in the interior, for Belgians. Some were aboard a plane and others in jeeps when the Congolese struck. The Con golese totaled about 300; the Canadians few more than a dozen.

TROOPERS ROBBED Thirty Congolese blocked the plane's takeoff. The Canadians, two of who wore wings and chevrons simliar to the insignia of Belgian paratroopers, were robbed of their wallets and some arms. Their Canadian-French protests were shrugged off with a repeated charge that they were "Flemish Belgians." Capt. Andre Taschereau of Mon- er, was knocked unconscious by a rifle butt smashed into his right temple. 1 The Congolese forced some of the Canadians to lie on the ground and made one strip to his shorts.

Signalman Jose Mathieu of Quebec was kicked twice in the face. RUSH TO AID Cpl. Robert Conroy of Kingston, suffered a blow on the back. He said a Congolese broke his rifle stock in delivering that blow. (In Kingston, Conroy's wife, who gave birth to a baby boy Wednesday said: "As far as I am concerned tney can turn our troops right around and send them all home Ghana U.

N. soldiers rushed to help the Canadians. They surrounded the party and, easing the Congolese away by persuasion and argument, took them to their quarters. ADVERTISER i TODAY Pl pfi Clau. Adi 10-13C Movies See.

Comics Obllnarlea Court Decltlotu 1C Pissing Tbronf I A Crossword Society Editorial 4A Sports 4-C Legal Ada IB TV (Local) Markets 2C, Weather Map 1A Columnists: Lyons, Davidson, Tuck- er. 44. Cuba Urges OAS Against U.S., Trujillo MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet prosecution hammered persistent ly mursday on the theme that Francis Gary Powers knew in advance the full meaning of his U2 flight over Soviet territory. But elsewhere, hints were dronDed that the court would deal lenient- Jy with the American flier. The trial may end Friday.

Time after time in the second day rf the trial, technical witnesses repeated that the May 1 flight was planned and "premed itated, and attempted to link Powers directly with the U.S. military. Powers disagreed with some of the testimony. But once more he told the military section of the Soviet Supreme Court he repent ed his flight. 'ILL SERVICE' The pilot, who has pleaded guil ty to spying, said he regretted "very, very much" that he had made the flight, and expressed be lief he had done his own country a "very ill service." Moscow radio, stressing the flier's expressions of regret, told its listeners this factor olaeed Powers apart, and made "a clear distinction between him and those who sent him." Soviet authorities have made it clear their primary interest is in convicting U.S.

policy in the eyes of world opinion. The prosecution introduced ex pert testimony concerning Powers' U2 plane, its equipment, and documents carried by Powers which the prosecution apparently introduced to link him directly to the U.S. Air Force. RAISED HOPE This testimony seemed to be leading up to a Soviet argument that the U.S. government and its military leadership deliberately carried out a policy which bore a risk of war.

The extent of Powers' repent ance seems to be an important factor. His Soviet defense counsel, Mikhail I. Griniov, told Powers' family after the day's proceeding that the flier's behavior on the stand and his repeated expressions of regret and repentance raised hope that the court would be lenient with him. Griniov's view may reflect official Soviet thinking, since he is a court-appointed lawyer who, under the Soviet legal system, has a duty to the state superseding that to his client. NO REGRET Powers' spirits seemed to have fallen as he finished his second day of testimony, but he was challenging some of the prosecution witnesses.

He had none of his own to testify to his character or to his purpose in making earlier flights along the southern Soviet frontiers, nor to his reasons tor undertaking the ill-fated May 1 flight across Soviet territory. The inference being made by Soviet authorities is that Powers differs from his superiors because they including President Eisenhowerexpressed no regret for (See POWERS, Page 2A) Hurricane Stirs Off Jacksonville MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Hurricane Cleo, the season third tropical storm, spun northeastward in the Atlantic Thursday night without menacing any land mass with us 85-mile peak winds. The U.S. Weather Bureau called Cleo a small, loosely organized hurricane.

It said the storm's di rection and speed may be some what erratic until Friday but add ed Cleo is expected to continue generally north-northeast at about 20 miles per hour a course and speed which would keep the hur ricane well off the South Atlantic Coast. Cleo was centered at 12 mid night near latitude 30.5 north longitude 70.3 west or 650 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP)-lmat has ever attacked Trujillo! BATON ROUGE (AP)-Louisi-Cuba demanded Thursday night! "for all his crimes." lana's battle to keep public schools With Marshals segregated turned into a game of hide-and-seek today as Gov, Jim- mie Davis eluded U.S. marshals for a third day. "If they say he's not at home he's not at home," U.S.

Deputy Marshal Joseph Williams said. "It's his domicile. We can't go breaking the door down. Davis took over New Orleans cr'hnnlc WerlnncHav iirnriQiny thai Goal of Thursday's shot also is recovery of the satellite's instru ment capsule trom orbit, by a tricky aerial catch if possible. Its nose cone is loaded with special instruments designed to help two upcoming series of surveillance satellites one to radio back pictures of terrain it passes over, the other to detect enemy missile firings.

The firing of Discoverer XIV was delayed 15 minutes because Discoverer XIII was passing over head. Scientists feared its signals might confuse tracking equipment of.moonlet No. 14. At Cape Canaveral. a Po laris submarine missile, on the brink of operational readiness, scored another test flight success over an course.

Four teen minutes from its launching pad, the 28-foot rocket dropped a dummy nose cone in an intended target zone northeast of Puerto! IRico. It was the 23rd success in 31 Polaris launchings this year. The Polaris success followed ex- plosion of a Carrier rocket launch ed from Cape Canaveral to orbit a satellite that could lead to a communications network for all U.S. military forces. ROCKET BLOWS The two-stage rocket blew apart in a giant flash of fire and smoke about 2Vi minutes after it left the ground.

It was intended to fling a 51-inch, 500-pound sphere into a circular orbit 700 miles cbove the earth. The sphere was capable of transmitting and sending 68,000 words a minute. A chain of such Courier satellites whirling across the skies would tie together the vast communications network of the nation's military services. At Eglin Air Force Base, also in Florida, a Bomarc-A interceptor missile blasted a pilotless bomber from the sky Thursday. It was the missile's 18th success in the last 19 tries.

Deaf Woman Walks Into Path Of Train ROME. Ga. (AP) While! horrified and helpless witnesses looked on, a deaf 80-year-old woman Thursday walked into the path of a Southern passenger train at a crossing here and was killed instantly. County police identified the woman as Miss May Clark, retired school ioacner. They said, Miss Clark wa 1 into the train's path while the red danger lights and warning system were in full operation.

At one time Miss Clark was an art instructor at the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Springs. state by the eariy timing andSlinpOrt Ticket swiftness of the move. He actedl Roa went on to accuse the Unit ed States of economic aggression against Cuba, apparently refer iring to the slash in Cu ba's sugar quota ordered last month by President Eisenhower. If the OAS approves penalties against the Dominican Republic, (See OAS, Page 2A) Shelby Man air "I Cf Ynnic Iii Poisoning COLUMBIANA (Special) 39-year-old Harpersvule man was sentenced to 15 years im- Drisonment Thursday for the poison slaying of his brother-in law last March, climaxing a trial which pitted father against son in prosecutor and defense roles XT TTM1 ,1 -1 million more workers the protection of the wage-hour act. The roll-call vote was 62-34.

On passage 47 Democrats were joined by 15 Republicans for the bill, while 16 Democrats and 18 Republicans opposed iL The vote marked a victory for the Democratic presidential nomi nee. CHIEF SPONSOR He was chief sponsor of the leg islation and shepherded it through the Senate, successfully fighting off nearly all limiting amendments of a major nature. However, to win the closest battle of all during Thursday's session, he had to agree to cut down the new coverage in the bill by about 900,000 workers. Originally he had sought to bring five million under the Fair Labor Stand ards Act. The measure, one of the items placed high on their list of major legislation by Democrats in the abbreviated pre-election congressional session, still has a rocky road ahead.

It now goes back to the House. which passed a much less com prehensive version in June. That measure would boost the wage floor to $1.13 and cover about 1,400,000 new workers. STUMBLING BLOCK Supporters of the legislation now will try to get it into conference but the conservative House Rules Committee may prove a big stum- onng DIOCK. And, if the conference is allowed, the House delegates are expected to be set against taking the broader terms of the Senate bill.

Even if the House accedes, President Eisenhower micht veto the measure, since the adminis tration advocated an increased minimum only to the $1.15 level (See WAGES, Page 2A) Eastland, Stennis WASHINGTON (AP) Missis sippi's two senators announced Thursday they will support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket and urged the people of their state to do the same. The two. Sens. James A. Eastland and John C.

Stennis, said in a joint statement they will support the Democratic ticket but will actively oppose portions of the party platform. They said also they feel that a plan to name independent electors which is being urged in Mississippi, would be In a separate statement Rep. Frank E. Smith D-Miss also announced support for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. Chicago because of an article in Jet concerning his troubles with Abernathy.

The Supreme Court gave Davjs 30 days to accept the reduced judgment or let it go back to the circuit court in Montgomery for another trail. Davis was reported jut of the city, and his attorneys declined to comment. A jury awarded the football and oasketball coach $67,500 because -f an article in Jet which said A) that Davis attacked Abernathy with a hatchet and a pistol and (Bi that Davis' conduct in past years had been questionable. The Supreme Court held that there were mitigating circum stances in the statement about the difficulty with the Negro integration leader, and ordered the judgment cut to $45,000. Davis was indicted in 1958 on a charge of assjilt with intent to murder after he confronted Abernathy in his Montgomery church inlliro arnwl aith a hnfehot rnrf cpvlia'i rp1atinn u-ith hi vifn The Negro minister, who succeeded -the Rev.

Martin Luther If in ft Ti ae nvacii-lAnt nf Vi nnt. r' MWMMBMilMnMBMHMNMna under a new state law empower ing him to assume control of to prevent integration. The marshals sought to serve jcourt papers notifying Davis of an 26 hearing for an injunction Aitha' strikes at the legality of the law under which Davis acted. The governor and Atty. Gen.

Jack Gre million have been named, defendants in the suit. The injunction, asked by attor neys for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People and by 31 white parents, would In the afternoon, a deputy U.S. (See DAVIS, Page 2A) that the Organization of American States condemn both the United States and the Dominican Repub- lie as aggressors and take puni tive action against them. Fidel Castro's foreign minister, Raul Roa, lashed out at the two countries in a fiery speech before the sixth conference of hemispher ic foreign ministers.

Earlier, Secretary of State! Christian A. Herter asked the OAS to condemn the Dominican Repub lic for aggression but opposed Venezualan demand for immedi ate penalties against that Caribbean nation. Roa. speaking after Herter, told the conference that justice demands they "censure both the creature (the Dominican Repub lic) and its father, (the United States)." The Cuban contended the Dominican regime of dictator Rafael Trujillo rose to power as a result of U.S. assistance "and has fol lowed the line established by the United States." He charged that no U.S.

diplo- Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov, British Minister Harold Beeley and French Ambassador Armand Berard The U.N. secretary-general also! held another group meeting with the ambassadors of Ecuador, Ar- gentina. Ceylon and Tunisia-all smaller countries on the 11-nation Sccurity Council. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The satellite Discoverer XIV, crammed with secret sky-spying gear, was launched into polar or bit Thursday on the West Coast.

Across the continent, two other missiles were successfully while a third exploded and was wrecked after launching. Discoverer XIV roared aloft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, only a week after a predecessor. Discoverer XIII, dropped a nose cone which was recovered. It was a spectacular first recovery of a man-made object from space. Court Balks Plea To Void Files Demand U.S.

District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. Thursday denied a motion on the part of the state of Alabama to stay his order compelling members of the Montgomery County Board of Registrars to allow federal agents to see their records. Johnson had given the local voter registration officials 15 days in which to comply with his order. The state had subsequently an nounced it will appeal his decision, in which he upheld the constitutionality of the 1960 Civil Rights Act and denied state courts the right to decide legal questions arising under the act.

WARNING SOUNDED In seeking to stay the order, state attorneys had urged that "irreparable injury can be done to the local registrars through enforcement of Johnson's order. They also asked for' the stay "to preserve rights of appeal." Johnson issued the order Aug. 11. Registrars thus have on 1 a week in which to comply, while the process of appeal might take several months. The state also urged that "sub stantial questions of law" are involved in issue.

TEMPORARY ORDER Judge Waiter B. Jones of the local Circuit Court had initially issued a temporary injunction, asked by state attorneys, which closed voter registration records in every county in Alabama to scrutiny by federal agents. Jones' order came as FBI agents were already inspecting records of voter registration officials in Sur.ter County. The three Montgomery registrars, Crum Dinkins, Mrs. R.

L. Lampley, and George Penton, had denied the federal agents access to tiieir records. tion in Opelika on May 3, the date of the first Democratic pri mary. That procedure is 'necessary under Alabama law to get independent or new party candidates on the grneral election ballot. The party emblem is a red thunderbolt in red circle.

The motto is "Hrnor-Pride-Fight! Save The While!" John Douglas Hr.owles of Ope lika was listed as party chairman and Les J. Crowder, also of Opelika, as secretary. qualifying pajieri were received from Edward R. Fields of Birmingham, who identified himself as tue information di rector for the national party. The party platform is strongly pro-segregation.

It calls for the prevent Davis from interfering SISJSU integration in this city of der in the death of Dag Calls Joint Conference On Preventing Africa Chaos Ruling Against Jet Upheld By Alabama Supreme Court A jury's libel suit judgment bama State College football star, against Jet Magazine was upheld sued Johnson Publishing Co. of UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) Dag Hammarskjold called in the chief U.N. representatives of the Big Four powers Thursday for a joint conference aimed at keeping! the Congo from collapsing into chaos.

Reliable sources said the U.N. secretary-general bluntly told them that Bi2 Four unanimitv was imperative In order to avoid a drastic deterioration in the al ready turbulent newborn African: republic. i African sources said that Ham-, marskjold also had warned Africa's U.N. representatives that il disagreement persists with Premi-j er Patrice Lumumba's Congo gov- ernment, the United Nationsj would have no alternative but to pull out the more than 11,000 U.N troops in the country. Leon9 Bodes No Good 55-year-old Albert Howard The circuit court jury deliberated two and one-half hours.

Immediately following Hill's sentencing, Mrs. Louise Howard, 37. Hill's sister and the victim widow, went on trial on an iden tical charge. Prosecutor Frrnk Head called the same witnesses who earlier had testified in the Hill case. Their testimony as similar to that given Wednesday.

Head's son, Oliver, is the court-appointed attorney for both Hill and Mrs. Howard. Hill was the only defense witness to be called in Thursday's hearing. He testified that his sister asked him to buy the rat (See TRIAL, Page 2A) AMnn iniS'ba emba maCt nf rfnninwnlt pnn frCl i 1, Kudrayavtzev left Ottawa. wnerf secretary pi tne, soviet tmoassy, oeiore uou z.enK0 oisciosea me esiMenu sPy nng mere.

Ul BU-" in Havana certainly could fit into; the pattern of events already of'shaping up under the Castro re Su. one -official here said. Kudrayavtzev, 52, described as Soviet citizens served in Bonn i Thursday, but the amount of die award was cut by one-third. The suit, filed by a Montgom ery Negro high school coach, was the outgrowth of an alleged love affair between the coach's wife and a Negro integration leader, the Rev. Ralph D.

Abernathy. Edward Davis, a former Ala He speaks English, German, Spanish, and Italian, in addition to Russian and dialects. Previous ly he had served in Ankara and. Berlin, sometimes as a correspondent for Tass, the Soviet news agency; at other times with diplo matic rank States Rights Parly Files Faubus-Crommelin Slate SOVIETS TAP MASTER SPY AS CUBA ENVOY WASHINGTON (AP) The manl Identity of Kudrayavtzev andjBerlin, Vienna, Moscow and Par-known by the code name other soviet officials came af-jto. Hammarskjold and other U.N.in the infamous espionage case officials made no secret of theirjthe Soviet Embassy in Canada iuulciu uvci suui luiiucuia oa; ijw, uos milieu ui xiavaiia Thursday's savage attack by Con-jMoscow's ambassador, and A slate of presidential elector candidates pledged to support Orval Faubus of Arkansas for President and retired Adm.

John G. Crommelin of Montgomery for vice president will be en the general election ballot this November in Alabama. The electors, running under the banner of the National States RJ eh ts' Party, were officially filed in the office of Secretary of State Bettye Frink Thursday. This increases to five the number of elector slates which will be on the ballot in this state. 'Previously qualified presidential elector shtes represent ing the Democratic, Republican, Prohibition and Afro American parties.

The Faubus Crommelin electors were selected at a conven Cuba is considered by anA ar 'A golese army riflemen on a Cana- dian U.N. unit at Leopoldville Air port. A U.N. spokesman comment- ed that directives to U.N. troops make clear they have the right to1 shoot in self-defense if attacked, To underscore his nammarsKjoia seni a icuer 10 me ambassadors of all countries which have, contributed U.N.

forces to the Congo operation, de- tailing the incident involving the! Canadians. The letter stressed the. perts here say this bodes no good jfor the United States and hemisphere nations. A Canadian commission listed Sergei Kudrayavtzev. new ambas- sador to Prime Minister Fidel Castro's government, as one of memoers oi me lormer uttawa embassy staff "who encaged in esDionace activities." U.S, officials made no secret their interest in his appointment to Havana where the Castro" govern- on Communist activities here as a new local poini lor Kea espionage propaganda work in this hem- isphere.

Mexico City and Monte- video, Uruguay, formerly Were consmerea cniet points for 8ucniment A managed to get away activities but diplomatic circles from the athletend run dowJ say their importance as centersu role the U.N. played in restonnglment has announced Increasinglyja smooth, personable, intelligent order" I close ties with both Moscow and man who after the Ottawa inci NEW CHIEF Gen. George Henry Docker was named Thursday by President Eisenhower to be chief of staff, for the Army. AP Wirephoto. Ul VVUUliUUIdk BVWT IV1V0 UOJ UiHI' Peiping, and has given free reignldent involving both Canadian and Summoned for the rare meeting! that lasted 45 minutes were U.S.

I inished because of opposition In KtVl both nations to the Castro regime. Ar rm Bn -d?" Triv Bom on a Trtlwy-ir rid. Thin rvv-e- liuih du. pB. am 4-5324.

aov. 1 to Cuban and other Communists (See SLATE, Page 2A) I.

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