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The Weather Montgomery: Mostly cloudy with showers and scattered thun-dershowers. Little change in temperature. Predicted high Tuesday 84, low 66. Monday's high 82. low 64.

(Details, Weather Map, Page On Tfit Spot! Adrtrtistr-Journal Telephone Up To Tho MlnuU Ntwt Stnrlct, Dial AM 3-8246 131st Year-No. 102 Full Dj. Night aed Sunday Kerrlee By The Asaeelated Prei Montgomery, Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1958 24 Pages Price 5 Cents Blasts it Jacksonville; Ji.iL r- i 1 in vA 111 f-W 1 MI i Bomb Found In Birniin ghani 11111 ii mi ii I Ml il ii li fjSBI 5-r? PWI 1 Dyiiamitings Jji-j Rip School, Loaded Bag Discovered By Janitor BIRMINGHAM ui An un- 3 exploded dynamite bomb was found outside a Birmingham Jewish synagogue Monday. The police commissioner, Eugene Con JACKSONVILLE, Fla. UTV-Dy-namite explosions damaged a Negro school and a Jewish synagogue early Monday.

The blasts occurred outside each building and resulted mainly nor, said he believed it had been timed to explode at the same in broken windows at the syna-'tl cogue and dislocation of the roof time as two damaging blasts at Jacksonulle, Fla. A canvas satchel containing 54 7,1 and one wall of the James Weldon sticks of dynamite was found beside the Temple Beth-el, Ala KEV FIGURES AT CONVENTION Chatting during the Monday night dinner of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs at the Whitley Hotel are (left to right): Mrs. John L. Whitehurst. Baltimore, past national president: It.

V. Mullin. Chicago, executive secretary of the Sears Roebuck Foundation; and Mrs. S. E.

Neill, Margerum, state president of the group. FEDERATION OF CLUBS Women Urged To End Apathy By ART OSGOODE bama's largest synagogue. Police said an explosion would have wrecked the synagogue and Johnson High School. Mayor Haydon Burns said "it is quite obvious this is the work of an outsider" and asked the FBI to investigate. The FBI, however, said it had no jurisdiction, adding it found no evidence federal law had been violated.

But Fred Frohbose. FBI head, said he was maintaining liaison with Jacksonville police. PRECISE PATTERNS TaL.riaiiii w7-, i i i The State of Alabama has offered a $2,000 reward for in-formation leading to the conviction of whoever placed a dynamite bomb outside a Birmingham Jewish synagogue. Director of Public Safety William Lyerly announced Monday night. AP WlrrphaU OFFICIALS REMOVE FUSE FROM HUGE DYNAMITE BOMB FOUND AT JEWISH SYNAGOGUE Birmingham Fire Marshal XV.

E. Berry (Center) And Officer W. D. Haynie Disarm High Explosive The two scenes are about four HOT ARGUMENTS miles apart. The first blast cam Demos Score A call to women to shake off apathy and take an active interest in world problems was heard by more than 200 members of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs at the Whitley Hotel Monday night.

The speaker, Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, Baltimore, a past presi Ike Proposes Arctic Zone heavily damaged office buildings about 12:30 a.m., the second half an hour later. Gov. Leroy Collins pledged the full force of all government and apartments in the area.

dent of the National federation of SoloilS Approve Blank Check "I'm going to ask the FBI to help me because I have reason to believe it's from out of town," agencies would be used to track down the "guilty hoodlums." called dynamitings a "scrioui crime against every citizen of Florida." Women's Clubs, told delegates assembled from over the state that: "I think it's a disgrace that women pay more attention to flower shows than to world he told a reporter. "It's a hit and run proposition. They blow up Curbs On Cou Defense Plan Navy Attempt At Launching Of Inspection target and keep going and no Burns said the explosions ap- body knows who did it. WASHINGTON uv-Two hotly argued proposals to upset Supreme WASHINGTON Hi The chair- peared to follow precise patterns WASHINGTON wu- President "I just don't believe we've got Interest also focused on awards Eisenhower called on Soviet Pre Court decisions on subversion and Communist activity were approved man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of bombings in Miami and else- those kind of folks in Alabama." presented at the dinner session to mier Khrushchev Monday to join Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Gen.

Nathan F. Twining, went tCi'here. In one of these decisions the court held that states have ro bat for President Eisenhower's de- Six weeks ago the Jewish Beth Connor said that he would ask Moonlet Fails in creating a military inspection zone in the arctic as a significant the Legislature to provide the (Another Picture. On Page 9B) right to prosecute persons for subversion, ruling that the federal reorganization plan Monday El Temple at Miami was bombed and was accused of asking Con- with $30,000 damage. This was on death penalty for persons convicted of dynamiting a house.

first step in reducing world ten sions. women's groups from four Ala gress for a dangerous blank check. Uhe same day a synagogue at Chairman Vinson (D Ga) andiNashville was dynamited, several other Democrats on the The Miami area had a series of school or church. He pointed out that nighttime burglary already He also appealed to Khrushchev CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla.

OR The Navy failed Monday night in an effort to fire America's fourth satellite into orbit around the earth. to reconsider Russia's opposition government has pre-empted this field. This is known as the Steve Nelson case, after the Pennsylvania Communist who was its central figure. The committee sought by its ac bama cities honored for cum-munity achievements. Receiving checks and certificates from the Sears Roebuck is a capital offense in Alabama.

to East West technical studies The dynamite was found while Welfare Fund Bill Passed Bv Senators House Armed Services Committee bombings in 1931 in which a hous. shot sharp questions at the Air'ing center and several synagogue Force general about the proposed were damaged. The blasts haa which would consider concrete The Vanguard rocket roared Alabama Region of the National Foundation of Chicago were worn beautifully into space at 9: 53! Conference of Christians "and moves, to police a broader disarmament agreement, including a gone unsolved. Pentagon shakeup. en from Hartselle (the state prize tion to restore the power of the P-m- but minutes after it blinked Jews was meeting at a down- TT L-X-l winner), Montgomery, halt to atomic-hydrogen tests.

states to pass and enforce their SHOCK, HYSTERIA The synagogue blast here broke Twining told the committee, which is holding hearings on the reorganization bill, it might be urn, msii in me riuiiu skjt isirminsnam notei. I'urpnse Navy announced the third stage the meeting was to present Eisenhower set forth this dou own laws against subversion or lass in a two-block area. Shortly ble appeal in a new message re did not fire. awards to persons furthering the WASHINGTON Senate sedition, passed Monday night a bill to In the other decision the court and Trussville. Mrs.

Whitehurst pointed to the "great potential power" of women's clubs, but warned that wom-(See WOMEN. Page 2A) possible for a combined staff of.after two women living in the military nlanners to hoonme An area were admitted to a hosDital leased at his vacation headquar Thus the rocket failed to attain, cause of brotherhood. ters. Augusta, a few hours regulate employe pension and held that the Smith Act did not all-nouerful renoral staff unWV suffering hvsteria and shock. Th the necessary speed of at least The last previous church bomb- before he flew back to the White 18,000 miles an hour to place its.ing in Birmingham wrecked the welfare funds after voting down forbid the advocacy and teaching Congress put a limit on its is located on the edge House.

basKetball-sized satellite into or- church of Negro integration lead repeated ctlorts to broaden it into oi iorciuie overuirow oi me gov- The 500-word Eisenhower letter a general labor control measure. and authority. of the business district. The school But he played down the idea 'in a Negro section, there might develop in this coun- Shortly after the synagogue ex-try something like the "notori-Jplosion Rabbi Sydney M. Left- went to the Kremlin only six days ernment as an abstract principle, provided it was not linked to any positive action.

er, the Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth. It was blasted by an explosion on Christmas night, 1956.

bit. The Navy announced its failure in Washington 20 minutes after the launching. It said the second after Khrushchev had fired off a letter 10 times as long to the The roll call vote was 88-0. The bill now goes to the House which already has 15 proposals on Shuttlesworth is a leader in To "correct" this finding as ous. as he put it.

German general kowitz. who lives across town White House demanding agree and third stages of the vanguard jegai attacks on Birmingham's Chairman Eastland (D Miss) apparently plunged into the At ment on Soviet disarmament pro the same subject in its Labor Committee. Chairman Bardcn (D- Folsom Race Role In Doubt Gov. James E. Folsom's office says he will be in Alabama for the Democratic primary and runoff, but it remains to be seen if he will take any part in the phrased it.

the committee voted posals. NO of the House group has said to make the act read The swift Eisenhower reply, the staff of World Wars I and II. from the scene, received an anon-As a matter of fact, Twining j-mous phone call. He told polica said, even the German general man said "this is the confedcr-staff has been overrated as a mil-1 ate center of informrtion. We itary factor.

He said the Allied have just blown up your Jewish victory in World War II would All integration In the (See DEFENSE. Page 2A) ISouth must stop." "Without regard to the imme he would conduct hearings once the Senate acted. latest move in their continuing segregation laws. Several Negro homes in former all-white sections have been dynamited since that time. The canvas satchel containing the huge cache of dynamite was found outside the Birmingham (See BIRMINGHAM, Page 2A) diate probable effects of such ac lantic about 1,500 miles down the test range from here.

The statement issued by the Navy at the Pentagon, based upon preliminary readings of data received by the Naval Research Laboratory, said that "test range public letter writing campaign, re tions, whoever knowingly or wu Four days of politically charged flected the White House decision to answer more quickly to blunt fully advocates, abets, advises, or debate preceded final senate pas 'teaches the duty, necessity, desir sage. The fight was not on the (See IKE PROPOSES, Page 2A) welfare-pension bill itself, but on'ability or propriety of overthrow I instruments indicated successful The primary is May 6 and tne0peration of the rockefs first two runofl June 3. stages. However, the third stage efforts to convert it into general or destroying the government of the United States by force Wallace Favors Including Counties In Industry Act Prosecution Demands Deatl labor legislation. The governor at first said nejdid not fire.

(See SOLONS FAVOR, Page 2A) The Democratic leadership fought off all far ranging amendments offered by Republican Leader Knowland of Califor- Kuliii" Judge's Penalty For Mrs. McCollum Later a spokesman for the U.S. National Committee on the International Ceophysical Year said that the Vanguard was the last of the "test vehicles" and that the (See LAUNCHING. Page 2A) Swinging through north Ala-(league and opponent in the lieu- I nia anH nthor son.itnre Rut bam a Monday, gubernatorial, wnant governor race, and guber Shields Ex-Red 50, killed the TUSCALOOSA The prose- attorney! to da lhis it hafl ta nil r. natorial aspirant A.

W. Todd candidate George C. Wallace pro cution Monday asked a circuit court jury to send Mrs. Elizabeth McCollum to the electric out oi pure meanness. Defense Atty.

Ryan deGraf-fenried argued that the state had expected to take his family to visit the Holy Land at the time of the elections. Later, he said he planned to visit the World's Fair in Brussels. His office said Monday he is scheduled to leave for Brussels June 11, eight days after the runoff primary. June 23 has been designated Alabama Day at the fair. Folsom says there's no politics or speechmaking involved in his current tour of Alabama.

SAN FRANCISCO civ-Federal District Judge Edward P. Murphy pcatedly that an over-all labor bill would be brought to the floor later. signed an order Monday restrain chair for the death of her hus-lfaiied to prove that Mrs. Mc Sponsors of the pension-welfare ing the U. S.

Immigration Service Dana- iCollum had a motive for billing claimed he had saved state cotton farmers 250,000 acres in cotton allotments. Wallace, in speeches at Oakland and Waterloo in Lauderdale called for expanding the legislative act to authorize revenue boi.d issues by counties for industrial purposes, such as ob fund bill said amendments would from taking into custody or de 900 Rebels Killed ALGIERS UP) French authorities said Monday 900 Nationalist rebels were killed last week through Algeria. There was no estimate of French losses. lUSCdlOOSa COUllty fcOUCltOr hiishanrf Shi. innn.

l-ill if posed expansion of the Wallace Industrial Act to include counties and offered a plan for reapportionment of the Legislature following the federal iwu aiiu uiua uut lutcri; porting William Heikkila pending cent Fred Nicol argued that the 30-year-old widow, charged with the final determination of his appeal. poLrrics poison murder of James A. Mc- The county solicitor in his closing argument called the death of McCollum "horrible, despicable taining property or construction years work on the legislation. One Republican amendment was accepted by the Democratic leadership and adopted 90-0. This was a proposal by Sen.

Mundt (R-SD) to make it impossible for a criminal to serve as an officer, trustee. buildings for lease to industry and insidious." He asserted that a pet monkey which has figured coming South. Heikkila, an alien and an admitted former, longtime Communist, was picked up here April and flown to Finland, where he was born. The Immigration Service, after the case had been widely publicized, returned him at gov crnment expense a week later. census every 10 years.

Under the act. sponsored by In other developments. State in the case -vas brought to test the effectiveness of doses of ar Fourth District Pits Eight States Righters Against 11 Pledged To Retain Loyalty Oath Wallace in the 1952 legislature, custodian or employe of a pension Sen. Sam Engelhardt tore into senic. or welfare plan.

Albert Boutwell. his Senate col- An autopsy performed on Mc Republicans generally scoffed at the idea that any general labor Collum after his death disclosed the Fourth 1 i ii hi. i bill considered in June or July cities may now issue tax free bonds for industrial purposes. Th bonds are not issued against the cities' credit nor charged against their debt limits. "With continued river development making many rural sites (See WALLACE, Page 2A retain presence of arsenic in his three incumbent members Cur wnen tne adjournment rush is Lapsley is opposed to it.

body, state witnesses testified. (See WELFARE, Page 2A) tis C. Gauntt of Talladega. Leonard Goldberg of Sylacauga and John W. Lapsley of Selma.

Both Gauntt and Goldberg are Two prominent Black Belt figures arc the most outspoken members of the States Rights (See 4th DISTRICT, Page 2A) Nicol also referred to romantic letters from a Bronx, N.Y., man whom Mrs. McCollum helped obtain a divorce in Tus Confederate Benefits OKd FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT caloosa County. She had served as a secretary in her husband's office. The letters introduced as evi Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles on the candidates seeking membership to the State Democratic Executive Committee. The purpose of this series is to inform readers of The Advertiser as to how the candidates stand on the "Loyalty Oath," the primary issue in the campaign.

By BOB INGRAM In the odd-shaped Fourth Congressional District, which extends from Calhoun County in the northeast to Dallas County in the Black Belt, the lines are clearly drawn between Loyalists and State Righters in the race for the State Democratic Executive Committee. WASHINGTON W) Payment dence were written before and Voters residing in Autauga, Calhoun. Clay, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore. St. Clair and Talladega counties will elect eight of the candidates listed below.

We suggest this box be clipped for use at the polls May 6. of pensions to widows of veterans of the Army and Navy of the after the death of McCollum. 'LOYALTY OATH' Against For Circuit Solicitor Olin Zeanah contended earlier that thev showed Confederacy was approved Mon day by the Senate Finance Com mittee. ik av i 1 had carried on a love affair. It accepted a proposal by Sen.

Long (D-La) to add the Con DeGraffenried attacked what he called inconsistencies in the federate widows to those eligible to receive pensions for service state's case. VOST-HERALD FOR PATTERSON BIRMINGHAM tfWThe Kir. mingham Pout-Herald Monday rndursed Atty. Gen. John PaU terson for iTtriir of Alabama.

"Alabamiant have learned from long experience that if we are to have good government it must start at the very top In the office of governor," the Post-Hrrald said in an editorial. "Because he is a newcomer to politics, if the people see fit to elect him, he would en ter office largely free of old line political entanglements such as would encumber some of the others In the rare. Ho would be free to represent all of the people of the state and to act, as he has as attorney general, in the best Interests of the majority." by their husbands in early wars. The women, the committee said, "Why did he (McCollum) leave large sums of money around if he A full slate of eight men who strongly oppose the "Loyalty should receive the same pensions now paid to widows of Union veterans and to widows of men Oath" are in the race, pitting was afraid she was killing him to get deGraffenried asked the jury. their strength against 11 other ROBERT M.

ALTON JR. TALLASSEE TRAVIS L. ARNOLD, ANNISTON EARL V. ATKINSON, SYLACAUGA HORACE R. BATC1IELOR, ANNISTON TOM COPLEY, TALLADEGA P.

H. FARN1IAM, TALLADEGA WILEY F. GAFFORD, BILLINGSLEY CURTIS C. GAUNTT, TALLADEGA WALTER C. GIV11AN, SAFFORD LEONARD A.

GOLDBERG, SYLACAUGA M. ALSTON KEITH, SELMA JOHN W. LAPSLEY. SELMA J. P.

MILES, ANNISTON R. H. (DICK) MONK, ANNISTON JERRE W. REYNOLDS, ANNISTON CHARLES THOMASON, ANNISTON SAM VENABLE TALLADEGA JOHN W. WALKER SPRLNGVILLE A.

J. (JACK) WINFIELD. ANNISTON who served in the Spanish-Amcri can, Mexican and Indian wars. Estimates before the commit' candidates, all pledged to retain the oath. Only four of Alabama's nine Congressional districts has a full ADVERTISER TODAY tee were that about 1.000 women whose husbands fought for the Confederacy still are living, and slate of States Rights' candidates been entered all four are in South Alabama.

A total of 19 men are running for seats on the Committee in rate Market! til Mevlea II Obltnariei IB Society It 8perta J-5B Weather Map 2A Par Batiaeat Review 7 Clam. Ada V-11R Camica Ill Crasawarf Edltarlal 4 Legal Noticea Lacal Radla-TT 11A that their pensions would cost $50,000 a year. The Confederacy amendment was added to a bill to increase pensions for the other widows. It still is subject to Senate and THEY'RE MARRIED Barbara Burns, 20-year-old daughter of the late comic Bob Burns, poses with David J. Mack, 24-year-old film technician, outside of a Los Angeles courtroom after telling newsmen that she and Mack were married la Las Vegas.

April 10 by a justice of the peace. Mack is charged with selling narcotics to her and she has refused to testify against him. AP Wirephoto Doea hlihway trafflo mak jtm Sir Walter never had It so rood. Travel Trallways to Raleigh Convenient tchedules dally. Ph.

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