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I The Weather Montgomery: Partly cloudy and a little warmer Friday. Partly cloudy to cloudy with a chance of showers Friday night. High 76, low 52. (Details, Weather Map, Page 2.) NEWS FLASHES Direct From Newsroom Of Advertiser-Journal By Telephone Dial 265-8246 137th Year-No. 63 Fall Day, Nifht and Sunday Service By The Asaociatrd Preu Montgomery, Friday Morning, March 13, 1961 2o Pages Price 5 Cents Jtwttffl 1 Refuses Raises, Own Number Included.

Turn Over Fliers, U.S. Tells Reds Russians Block Efforts To Get Men, Wreckage WON'T 'DIGNIFY' HIM Vote Kills 1.7 Million Increases Reynolds Spurns Chance To Debate Gov. Wallace --HI-. J4 Lh PLAN TO 'BUS' PUPILS "9 where the Alabama governor's least one hour-long radio pro unofficial campaign manager, Mrs. L.oya iierosireun, ana iit-r husband live.

The first Wallace bumper sticker crew will crank up Saturday with arrival of 5,000 Wallace banners for Wisconsin automobiles. Wallace will probably be in Wisconsin about three days next week for public speeches, delegate conferences, and at FIRST FOR HIM WHITES PROTEST MIX Thousands Braved Snowfall To March Outside New York Education Board Office Hoffa Draws 8-Year Term, Fined $10,000 White Parents In New York Protest Transfer Of Pupils gram. The public service broadcast will be a question and answer period with listeners phoning in their queries. Some church leaders have entered the picture, urging some of the delegates to withdraw from the Wallace siate. Labor union officials also have urged voters to reject Wallace as an anti-working man's man.

two counts, and sentenced to four consponrivfl vpar on arn nr. me uuitis were seniencea on only one count. Four Elderly Die In Fire In Georgia CLEVELAND, Ga. (AP) -Fire flashed like lightning through a two-story frame home for the elderly Thursday, killing four the College View Rest Home were helped from the burning hniMinn rorto in a state of shock later. One wasiment.

biU" and claimed hi6hcr Fire officials said a kifrhen'Sovernmcn' eincienuy. 7" -J TO OTHER SCHOOLS improving educational services for all children." Board of Education President James B. Donovan and Schools Supt. Calvin E. Gross met with protest leaders in Brooklyn and Deputy Mayor Edward Cava nagh heard complaints at City Hall.

Rosemary Gunning, a Queens lawyer who is executive secre tary of the Parents and Taxpay ers Coordinating Council, said the turnout "exceeded even our expectancies" and would have been greater but for the weather. Police estimated the crowd at 15,000 and described it as one of the largest and most orderly demonstrations ever staged at uty Hall. Rights BiU Filibuster Is Defended WASHINGTON fAP Ron John L. McClellan. TVArk came right out Thursday and told the Senate the civil rights Din ougnt to be filibustered and said he would be willing to fight if it took nine years to kill the measure.

It isn't often that Southern foes of civil rights legislation use the word filibuster to describe their long-talking tactics. They prefer such descriptions as "adequate discussion" and "ed ucating the voters." McClellan denounced the House-passed bill as And he 'told his colleagues that if they refuse to send the bill to the Senate Judiciary Commit tee it would "greatly endanger, 11 not completely destroy, the efficiency and integrity of our legislative processes. A. A To bypass the committee, Mc Clellan said, would bring confu sion, instability and chaos. Other Southern Democrats de nounced a "bipartisan civil rights news letter" circulated by the bill backers as an anonymous and clandestine op eration which improperly set up a "Republican command post in the Democratic Policy Committee." Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, assistant Senate Democratic leader and floor manager for the civil rights bill, denied that the Democratic Policy Committee was involved. He said the document is being prepared daily in his office by his staff and that of Sen. Thom as H. Kuchel of California, as sistant GOP leader, with "funds we have to operate our offices." Prichard Lender Sued By Flowers MOBILE (AP) Att.

Gen. Richmond Flowers filed suit Thursday against a Prichard loan company on charges the firm collected illegal interest rates. Flowers filed the usury suit against Century Discount Co. in Mobile Circuit Court. The company is licensed by the state to make loans in excess of $300.

Flowers charged the company with exacting interest in excess of $8 per $100 a year, and col lecting high rates in excess of the amount authorized by state law. The Attorney General's office previously filed a similar suit in Montgomery and two others NEW YORK (AP) Thousands of white parents, employing a tactic of civil rights organizations, Thursday staged one of the largest protest demonstrations ever seen at City Hall here. Their 2V'2-hour picketing in swirling snow was against plans to transfer pupils from neigh borhood schools to others nearby to racially balance enroll ments. Anti-Negro Signs Appear In Notasnlga NOTASULGA (AP) Stens saying "Nigger go home" and you had better leave while the leaving is cood" were painted on the recently desegregated Macon County High School Wednesday night. A crude sketch of a skeleton also was on the wall when classes ooened Thursday for the six Negroes, the only remaining students at the school.

There were no broken windows or oth er damage except the signs on the outer walls. -X. A Macon County High School was one of two ordered to ad mit six Negro students each when the only other previously all-white school in the county closed. White students bovcotted Tus- kegee High School when 13 Ne groes entered armed with a federal court order, and the school later was forced to close because of "economic reasons." Macon County High at Nota- sulga, and Shorter High School at nearby Shorter, were ordered to accept six Negroes each from Tuskegee. Students at both schools also boycotted, most of them enrolling in Macon Academy, an all white private school.

The incident was the first since the Negroes were admitted to the schools. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) James R. Hoffa, president of Teamsters Union, was sen tenced Thursday to eight years in prison and fined $10,000 for jury-tampering. U.

S. Dist. Judge Frank W. Wilson passed the sentence, de claring Hoffa was convicted of "having tampered, really, with the very soul of the nation." It was Hoffa's first prison sen tence in five previous federal trials. -A.

-A. A The Teamsters Union is the world's largest with 1.7 million members. Under the sentence, he would be eligible for a parole hearing after about years. Hoffa faces another federal trial in Chicago beginning April 27 on charges of misusing union pension iunus. Three other men convicted with Hoffa drew prison terms of three years each, and defense lawyer Jacques Schiffer of New York City was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $1,000 for criminal contempt of court.

All said they will appeal their sentences, which climaxed a seven-week trial on charges that Hoffa and the others convicted tried to fix a federal jury in Nashville, hearing a con- ispiracy charge against Hoffa. -A A All were freed on bail. Schiffer, cited for a series of outbursts throughout the trial, was allowed to remain free without bond pending an appeal. "I have been found guilty, I have been sentenced, I will appeal," Hoffa told newsmen. The others convicted were Schiffer's client, Thomas E.

Parks of Nashville; his nephew, Detroit Teamsters business agent Larry Campbell; and Ewing King, former Nashville Teamsters president. Two others were acquitted: businessmen Nicholas Tweel o( Huntington, W. and Allen Dorfman of Chicago. AH had been charged with trying to rig the Nashville jury which never agreed on a verdict in Hoffa's 19G2 conspiracy trial. Hoffa was convicted here on WASHINGTON fAP The United States demanded Thursday that the Soviet Union turn over "without delay" the three American crewmen of the U.S.

RB66B plane shot down over Communist East Germany on Tuesday. In the face of Russian rebuffs of U.S. attempts to get back the wreckage and the fliers, Washington stepped up its diplomatic effort by summoning Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the State Department on Thursday afternoon. -A -A A "The U.S.

government expects the Soviet authorities to return to U.S. custody without delay the three U.S. personnel who were members of the crew of the aircraft." He also denied plane was on intelligence mission. State Department press officer Richard I. Phillips earlier had disclosed that the Russians had barred U.S.

military teams from the crash site, about 30 miles inside East Germany, and had supplied no information about the three U.S. officers who had been aboard. Washington had initially voiced regret that the Diane had crossed into Red air space, and nopea tne incident would pass. But, the longer the Russians hold the three airmen, the more serious the affair becomes. Phillips said the U.S.

government still has no official word as to whether the three fliers are alive. Unofficial reports say the men parachuted safely. -A. A A vvnne the department increased pressure for release of the fliers, Foy D. Kohler, U.S.

ambassador to the Soviet Union, said he considers Soviet- American relations "normal" in spite of the latest plane inci dent. ah aucnoruauve source in Frankfurt, Germany, said the American fliers have been taken to a Soviet military installation in East Germany. He declined to be more specific, on security grounds. There was speculation that the Soviet Union might turn the three over to the East German Communists. Fast Answer On 9-8 Suit Is Promised MOBILE (AP) A three- Judge federal court promised Thursday an earlv decision af.

ter hearing arguments in a suit seeking to have a Democratic primary plan for nominating congressional candidates de clared invalid. Judge Walter P. Gewin of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said a verdict would be handed down as soon as possible. The case involves a challenge of the primary plan by which Democratic nominees are cho sen in primaries May 5 and May 19 in the nine old congres sional districts. The nine then would run from the state at large June 2 with the low man eliminated.

The eight remaining nominees would face any Republican candidates in the November general elec-tion. -A. -A. A State Atty. Gen.

Richmond Flowers, a defendant in the case, and Asst. Attv. Gen. Gor don Madison argued that the plan was a reasonable and rational method since the Democratic nominees face at least two statewide elections. John W.

McConnell attor ney for the plaintiff, Robert H. Moore of Mobile, argued that, because of the preliminary district primaries, the 9-8 at large runoff was not an actual state wide primary. Flowers said in his argument that Alabama now has a two-party system "and the Novem ber general election will determine who will be the con gressmen." Montgomery's New TV Station On Air Channel 32, WKAB-TV, went on the air at 6:30 p.m. Thurs- day and signed off at midnight, restoring three-station television service to the Montgomery area. Operating time for the ABC network station will be from 8:55 a.m.

to midnight, according to owner Cy Bahakcl. He said the success of WKAB-TV is "assured beyond any question." Formal dedication of the station will be Wednesday. WASHINGTON (AP) The House turned down Thursday a pay raise for Congress members and killed with it salary increases for 1.7 million other federal employes. On a 222-184 roll call, the members rejected the measure as a whole after having approved on nonrecord votes the separate provisions calling for increases for the others affected. During two days of debate, opponents of the bill hammered at the idea of members of Con- Reps.

George Andrews, George Grant, Bob Jones. George Huddleston and Armi-stead Selden voted against the congressional pay raise. Rep. Carl Elliott's office said he left for Alabama half an bonr be fore the vote. Kenneth Roberts is in Geneva and Albert Rains is in Alabama gress voting themselves a big pay boost in an election year and just after having passed a hefty tax cut and pledged themselves to economy in govern ment.

Republicans and Southern led the successful fight to scrap the bill, leaving its sponsors undecided as to whether they would seek to revive even the noncongressional sections of it this session. -A. K. frm mV wcre Voting against the bill were ia 00 (Democrats and 35 Republicans. Iorns(K f- Anz" IK fr "3 iPassago, called it "a manage- salaries at the upper levels are needed to attract and hold the motion to trim the congression-al increase from $10,000 to was defeated by a resounding voice vote.

But on the final vote, Rep. II. R. Gross, R-Iowa, quires the support of a fifth of those present to order a roll 'call. locked for the first time since they were completed in 1952.

Outside the floodwall, an estimated 600 families fled. More than 3,000 homes and buildings in Wheeling, W. were damaged as the river leveled off at 47 feet, 10 feet above flood stage. Snow swirled into the region, where an estimated 15.000 to 18,000 had been displaced. There was seven feet of water in New Martinsville, W.Va., and the town was closed.

Mud and debris remained in western Pennsylvania after rivers and streams receded. At Pittsburgh, the Ohio sank below flood stage of 25 feet after Icresting at 31.6 feet. Army engineers figured damage would total $3.8 million and said 1,700 had been displaced. I Cleanup operations started in northern Kentucky but Falmouth on the Licking River 40 miles south of Cincinnati, was forced to haul in water after the system failed. i Mayor Martin Schmidt predicted damage would exceed I over $1 million in the community, which evacuated 1,500 of 80s 2,600 residents.

By RAMOXA MARTIN Special to The Advertiser MILWAUKEE Wisconsin Gov. John Reynolds spurned an invitation Thursday to debate civil rights issues with Alabama's chief executive George Wallace. A member of Reynolds' of fice in Madison said the Dairy State's chief executive aid not consider Wallace a candidate in the presidential primaries and would not dignify him by appearing at such a discussion, a Wallace aide said. Reynolds and Wallace are contending for Wisconsin's nod in the April 7 primary. Reynolds heads a slate as a favorite son candidate committed to Presi dent Johnson at the national Democratic convention.

Wallace tops a delegate slate committed to Wallace as a states rights advocate. John Pemberton, Alabama House clerk, said a conservative students group at Oshkosh State College invited Reynolds to de bate Wallace on issues facing the American people Wednes day. -A. Reynolds' staff member re jected the proposal, Pemberton said, and the student croup then wired one of Wisconsin's U.S. Senators, William Proxmire, to soeak Reynolds place.

No wire from Proxmire was received immediately. Wallace will make the appearance how ever before students at Ush- kosh. The Alabama governor also is scheduled to address a Rotary Club gathering Tuesday at Ap-oleton. He is expected to arrive in Wisconsin Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, Wallace's four field marshals from Alabama cranked un strategy here sim ilar to saturation tactics which helped elect Wallace to Ala bama's No.

1 post. Alabama Finance Director Seymore Trammell said the Montgomery, Junior Chamber of Commerce will furnish 10,000 copies of the civil rights bill to workers here. "Hundreds of calls have been coming in from our Wisconsin volunteers," Trammell said, "requesting copies of the bill more than anything else." He said the Alabama Jaycee shipment is expected to arrive here Friday. Arrangements were almost poniDlete for setting uo a cam paign headquarters here at the Schroeder Hotel. Pemberton ana Wallace's legal adviser, Cecil Jackson, rented office space Thursday in downtown Oshkosh, REYNOLDS NOW IS SUBSCRIBER Gov.

John Reynolds of Wisconsin, apparently anxious to keep as well posted as possible on the activities of his rival in the Wisconsin presidential primary Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is a new subscriber to The Montgomery Advertiser. The circulation department of The Advertiser received a special delivery air mail letter from Gov. Reynolds' office Wednesday, asking that he be put on the mailing list for three months.

Reynolds is now a subscriber, even though he asked for the wrong paper The Montgomery Adviser. Steer Clear I Us Here 13th Be forewarned. Friday the Thirteenth is here again, the first one of the year. On this day you must be especially careful not to step on cracks, accept gifts of knives, break a mirror, walk under a ladder, open an umbrella indoors, stub your toe, wear your clothes inside out, meet a black cat or a funeral procession, wear a peacock feather, sit on a table or leave a house through the window. If, however, you should find a four-leaf clover or a horse shoe, pick up a pin or return you may be able to make it through the day.

Unscathed. And you can have relative peace of mind until November, when the dire day recurs stove exploded, starting the fire. Besides members of Con-Mrs. Dewey Autry, the nurse gress, Cabinet officials and in charge, said fire enveloped their top aides, Supreme Court the room housing the furnace as justices and the five presidents she passed nearby with clothes'aU would have received the line outside. ja-ycar raises.

"It was like a flash of light-j For the career government ning, knocking me down and workers and postal employes, burning and skinning my legs," raises would have ranged from Mrs. Autry said. three per cent at the lower lev- She led aged patients fromjels to 22.5 per cent at the top, the building, one after another, 'government secretary getting a until she was told to leave. $-l50-a-year increase. Robert Wilcox, manager of radio station WRWH, arrived 'at On its way to the final roll-the scene soon after the fire, call vote the House tenta-started.

The building was "a tivelv adopted every increase in ball of fire," he said. jthe bill by big margins. The section covering career employ- The dead were identified as: es and postal workers was ap-Nan Hooper, 80, of Cleveland. 'proved 92-18. Congressional pav John Jackson, 90, no address.

increases were kept in the bill James Burke, 80, no address. a 505.37 margin. The execu-Vill Turner, 70, of Cleveland. tive salary section survivcd on Two died in the fire, two a 142.50 count and the judges shortly thereafter. increase won approval bv 130- Parlee Beard, 75, was sent to 97 Gainesville Hospital in fair con-i ust hefore th(1 vot.

Some 15,000 persons marched, a few Negroes among them. "For every mother who's here, there's another one sitting at home with both their chil dren, wishing she could be here," said Joan Addabo of Jackson Heights, Queens. Sometimes 10 abreast, they marched around City Hall Plaza, chanting, "We must stay," and carrying placards such as, "Teach 'em, don't bus 'em." The protest began at Board of Education headquarters in Brooklyn where about 10,000 adults demonstrated against the so-called Princeton Plan. This is the boards plan to pair predom-l inantly white with predominantly Negro or Puerto Rican schools nearby and exchange pupils by bus to eliminate seg- regation, stemming from hous ing patterns. -A- -A- Gerald H.

Dallek, president of the Brooklyn Joint Council for Better Education, said: "They are here to demonstrate to the Board of Education their deep resentment and unalterable opposition to the destruction of the neighborhood school concept." The Brooklyn pickets then marched 2V2 miles to City Hall in Manhattan, where 108 char tered buses had brought groups from parents and taxpayers or ganizations in the Bronx Queens and Manhattan. The board's pairing plan also has been attacked by civil rights bodies because it does not go far enough, fast enough to suit minority groups. It sparked a one-day school boy cott last month which was the largest single civil rights dem-onstration in U.S. history. A- Spokesmen for the parents and taxpayers groups say they do not oppose integration, or the so-called open enrollment program whereby parents who want to may shift their children They do object to involuntary movement by bus of their chil dren away from neighborhood schools.

"Instead of spending money to pair schools and pay trans portation costs," Dallek said, "the money can better be spent the ordeal beean when a man clubbed her with a Distol in her backyard garage apartment. "This is a holdup," the man was quoted as saying. "I want all of it. the $300,000 in the house." The four men entered the home and went to Schepps upstairs bedroom. Schepps said the men beat and bound him and then bound Mrs.

Schepps and began beating her. The men pulled up rugs, cut the telephone line, turned over sofas, threw items out of closets and drawers, and dumped all the food out of a refrigerator After about three hours. Mrs Tuck said, the men eave un. cursed Mrs. Schepps, shot her in me leg and leu.

Their Life Savings Taken By Robbers DALTON, Ga. (AP) An elderly Whitfield County couple lost its life savings of about $21,500 Thursday when two men tied up the wife and took the money from a box hidden be hind a chest of drawers. The couple, Mr. and Mrs Gordon Edwards, lives in a small house about six miles from here. dition.

Cleveland is 75 miles northeast of Atlanta. Plane Is Mk-iiu: MILES CITY, Mont. (AP) demanded a roll call and about Miles City police said Thursday one-third of the members president the Federal Aviation ent rose to support him. It re- 4 Bandits Torture Couple, Escape With Cash, Jewelry 9 DEAD, MILLIONS LY DAMAGE Flood Worsens In Kentucky, Indiana Agency reported a Frontier Airlines plane missing over east em Montana. stream, it was 14 feet above flood level.

No official estimate) was available on the number of Kentucky evacuees, but 30 counties suffered water damage. At least 4,000 were homeless in Indiana and residents in the southern part waited anxiously for the Ohio to crest. New Albany and Jeffersonvillc, opposite Louisville, were safe behind their concrete shields, ADVERTISER TODAY Page Classified Ads 23-27 Comics 16 Crossword 7 Editorial 4 Markets 18,22.23 Movies 17 Obituaries 2 Society 12-13 Sports 19-21 TV Logs 16 Area TV 9 Weather Map 2 Columnists: Tulley, White 4 HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) Four masked men tortured a wealthy Houston couple three hours Wednesday night and escaped with $3,900 in cash and an undetermined amount of jewelry. Armed with guns and an electric cattle prod, the men wrecked the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Mair J. Schepps, insisting the house held $300,000 in cash. Mrs. Schepps, 52, was shot in the left thigh after being beaten to the floor, burned with a knife and shocked with the cattle prodder.

Schepps, 53, president of a tobacco firm, was beaten severely. Schepps said the men also pistol-whipped a nurse, Mabel L. Tuck, 60, and threatened to brand the Schepps' adopted 10-month-old daughter with a cattle iron. The baby was not harmed. Schepps said one of the men said the money was needed to free a brother "who is on death row" pt the state prison in Huntsville.

The Schepps and Mrs. Tuck were left tied up. Mrs. Tuck freed herself and her employers, and telephoned a neighbor, Dr. William Durden, 60, and police.

Mrs. Tuck was hospitalized with lacerations, bruises and possible broken ribs. She said LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-The OVPrlnaHnrl Ohin ctrontrtVi ened its assault Thursday oni Kentucky and Indiana. Each' waited for near-record crests as! uivj iivtri luac llim uy 1111.11.

The worst appeared over for other states lying in the river's path but snow added to the discomfort of flood refugees in West Virginia's northern Panhandle. The Red Cross opened disaster headquarters in Cincinnati to aid approximately 110,000 persons in five states whose; property has been damaged by floods. Of the nine deaths blamed on high water, seven were in Ohio. One was reported in Kentucky; the other in Indiana. Property damage soared Into the multimillion-dollar category, particularly in areas with out floodwalls.

After a slow start, Louisville, got its floodwall into position asi the Ohio reached 46.1 feet, or 18.1 feet more than flood stage. This still was 11 feet under the pne. ine unio is expected to rise another foot. At Cincinnati, 120 miles up-' mm.