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Cloudy THE DAILY TIME Tonight 'and Tuesday cloudy and mild. TEMPERATURES Todiy. M. TttMdiy. uppr M'l lew i.

HUMIDITY Sunday, SI Rtr Mil. TMiy, to SS ptr ttnt. EDITION TeepJion 325 DAVENPORT BETTENDORF, IOWA 51 1 1 Monday, Sept. 16, 1963 26 lfte Carn'rDUvry 77THriAt .6 Children Die U.S. Mm Copy Jury fill 300 Troopers In City; King Urges Calm BIRMINGHAM (AP) Against a background of violence and death, a special federal grand jury was ordered today to investigate racial outbreaks that continue to plague this city by U.

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I Bv HOYT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. extraordinary steps today to head off any new 2 -J mU: I III L1 -trtn lf ii2 racial violence in bomb-shaken Birmingham after a dynamite blast killed four Negro girls, caused hours of terror and brought outraged protests '4. from national Negro leaders. frit I Lower Acts K0 fir; 2 TREATY Sen. A.

Willis Robertson, D- Russia. and the free nations of the world will then be confronted with terrifying blackmail. "In my opinion, there can be no doubt that our leadership of the free world depends upon our recognized ability to defend it from Russian aggression, and we stand to lose that ability by ratifying the test ban treaty." Sees Necessity McGovern said that as a former combat soldier he knew of the necessity of a strong and alert national defense. 2 Street Baptist ham, Ala. V' 1 'Xr J' I AP Wirtpholo The quintuplets born to Mrs.

Andrew Fischer in Aberdeen, S. D. are shown in these exclusive pictures. Of the four girls and one boy, only the boy, lower left, has been fully named James Andrew Fischer. Others are baby "E' upper left: baby upper right; baby center left and baby center right.

fo). U9 HARWELL (AP) Officials took 4 Kennedy: Bombing Is Outrage WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy expressed "outrage and grief" today over the bomb killing of four Negro children in Birmingham, Ala, He said he hoped the incident would awaken the nation to "the folly of racial injustice and natred and vio lence." Kennedy said if there is this realization, "then it is not too late for all concerned to unite in steps toward peaceful progress before more lives are lost." In a special statement, Kenne dy said the United States stands for "domestic justice and tran quifity." Calls on Citizens He added: "I call upon every citizen, white and Negro, North and South, to put passions and prejudices aside and join in this effort to promote justice and tranquility. Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, said Kennedy conferred several times during the morning with Atty. Gen. Rob ert F.

Kennedy on the situation in Birmingham. Salinger also reported that Kennedy had some official discussions of the Birmingham situation shortly before midnight Sunday night on his return from a long weekend Newport, R.I. JFK On Air WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy will speak to the nation over television and radio on his tax bill Wednesday night, the White House announced to day. The speech is scheduled for 6 p.m. CDT.

Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the White House asked the radio and TV networks for time, which was granted. Church in Birming- i Ambulance attendants load the body of a Negro girl, one of four killed in the bombing of the 16th ON A-BAN Healthy Char Sen. Robertson Sees Blackmail by Russia The U.S. Justice Department sent in three top officials and a force of FBI agents with bomb experts. City officials joined with church leaders in a special telecast, urging citizens to be calm.

Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy canceled two speaking engagements in Philadelphia to stay in his Washington office, Dr. Martin Luther King a Negro leader, flew into town to urge Negroes to be nonviolent-just as he did in May when the bombing of a Negro motel touched off rioting by Negroes.

National Guardsmen were placed on alert. Gov. George C. Wallace sent 300 state troopers into town at the request of Mayor Albert Boutwell. Meeting Site The Sunday morning blast at the Sixteenth Street Baptist BOMB (Continued on Page 2, Col 1) Mansfield: Hurry Up RightsBill WASHINGTON (AP) The bombing of a Negro church in Birmingham, was deplored in the Senate today as a tragic blow to race relations.

It also brought a plea for quicker action on civil rights legislation. Majority leader Mike Mansfield, called the bombing, in which four little girls were killed, "rsprehensible and outrageous." He expressed hope the guilty will be quickly found and punished. He told the Senate "this tragic occurrence does not represent by any means the feeling of the great majority of the people of Birmingham, of Alabama, and of the United States." He said it has set back the difficult road to better race relations in the country. Sen. Jacob J.

Javits, R-N. said one of the lessons to be learned is that "delay in civil rights legislation clearly cannot be justified if we can avoid it." WASHINGTON (AP) said today that ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty could confront the United States with "But I also know that there is more to the defense of a nation' than the size of its nuclear stock pile," he said. I Sen. Neuberger said in a prepared speech that the "mothers' vote" supports the treaty and a curb on nuclear fallout. But she denied this support is based on either sentimentality or a lack of i concern for national security.

Flows From Concern "It is a vote that flows from the national concern of any mother for the welfare of her children and her natural and TREATY I (Continued on Page 2, Col 3) Quints Doctor By DAN ABERDEEN, S. (AP) going strong on tiny feedings fine today as they neared the considered critical by doctors. Indonesians Hit British Embassy JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)-A mob of 5,000 Indonesians stormed the British Embassy here today, shattered windows with rocks and set fire to the British flag to protest the British-sponsored Federation of Malaysia, officially proclaimed a nation only hours before. Another jeering, fist-waving mob of 3,000 earlier stoned the Malayan Embassy. Malaya is the core of the new nation which also includes Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo.

At the British Embassy, demonstrators knocked down part of the embassy compound's iron-grill fence, rolled out an embassy car, turned it over, then set it on fire. be ed Are Won't PEEKES The Fischer quintuplets, of sugar water, were doing end of the 72-hour period The four girls and a boy may switched to a formula diet to day, Dr. James Berbos, who delivered the babies, said. The quints were born early Saturday to Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew Fischer. The babies rounded out their first 48 hours of life early today. Fischer, 38, busied himself get ting his other five youngsters ready for school this morning and milked his two cows. He didn't plan to go back to his job as a billing clerk for a wholesale gro eery firm just yet. Official Sympathetic "He can take as long as he needs," said a sympathetic offi cial of the Nash-Finch Fisch er's employer.

Mrs. Fischer, 30, continued to rest in her hospital room. Late Sunday, Dr. Berbos report that the four girls and a boy were being fed about four cubic centimeters of sugar water every two hours. Berbos, who has delivered 3,607 children in his 16 years as physician, said both mother and children were doing extremely well.

The first 72 hours were con Sorensen Women's Features 4' Society 5 And More! Connolly 20 Crossword 22 Abby 21 Dr. Molner 21 The Girls 10 Grin, Bear It 10 Word-A-Day 20 Uncle Ray 19 sidered to be the most dangerous for the newborn quints, but there was no sign of trouble. Gifts of money and merchandise continued to pour in for the family, and Dr. Berbos added one of his own. "I don't think I'll charge them anything," Berbos said.

He indicated that St. Luke's Hospital, where the infants were born, also would forget about a bill. Dr. Berbos told a news conference that he hadn't delivered any QUINTS (Continued on Page 2. Col 3) QUEEN ELIZABETH British Royal Couple Awaits Fourth Child LONDON (AP) Queen Elizabeth is expecting a baby early next year, Buckingham Palace announced tonight.

It will be her fourth child. The announcement came from the palace while the Queen was on her annual holiday with her family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Her press secretary said: "Both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are, of course, very happy about it." "terrifying blackmail" by Robertson, in a prepared Senate speech, said that he would "violate the dictates of my conscience" to support the pact. On the other side of the debate, Sen. John Sparkman, de clared that "if this treaty doesn't work, then a future nuclear war will in all probability 'solve' our problems." Support for the treaty also came from Sens.

'Maurine Neu- berger, and George Mc- Govern, Sees Russ Gain Robertson said he believes that as a result of the treaty "the Soviet Union will first gain equality with us in atomic weapons." "Then, he said, "if it develops before we do a satisfactory and operational antimissile millie, we Viet Nam's Martial Law Ends SAIGON. Viet Nam (AP)-Mar- tial law was lifted throughout South Viet Nam at noon today, 26 days after it was imposed in the wake of government raids on Buddhist pagodas Aug. 21. Vietnamese authorities also an nounced that press censorship had been lifted. The end to Viet Nam's state of siege, as President Ngo Lhnh Diem put it, came after the Sai gon government had put down Buddhist opposition and student unrest.

Saigon still bristled with sol diers. They guarded a dozen girls' and boys' high schools, focal points of 10 days of antigovcrn- ment demonstrations by stu dents. MARGHERITA'S VIEW: Fight Hands Italian Opera a 'Black Eye' -a Pittsburgh Boy Is Speed Reading Whiz; PITTSBURGH (AP) Teachers say a Pittsburgh boy can read 10,000 words a minute, has been clocked at 30,000 on several occasions and once hit 40,000 words per minute. The ability of Bill Carmak, 17, of the City's Mount I Washington section, was discovered last spring while he was taking a speed reading course at South Hills High School. In a copyright story today, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette quoted school principal Roy T.

Mattern as saying: "He's just one of those people who can 1 glance at a page and tell you what's on it." Last week Bill demonstrated his reading ability 1 for a reporter. The boy was handed a magazine story about Alexander the Great. Bill started reading. The reporter opened his note book to record the time Bill started and the boy said: "I'm finished." Fifteen seconds had elapsed. The article was 1,500 words long.

The boy then correctly summarized Alexander's military strategy and gave two dates correctly. The 10,000 words a minute is about 40 times faster than normal. At top speed, Bill could breeze through about 50 newspaper columns in one minute. y. INSIDE THE TDIES Red Cross Reflects World: Dr.

Sorensen Page 13 Never Say 'Charge You're Rare Page 19 By MADDY OC1IELTREE Music Editor The "scandal" that rocked the Edinburgh Festival was reported by Margherita Roberti (M s. Tom Nobis of Davenport) to reporters at the Milano airport up on her arrival from the Festival at which she sang the title role of "Luisa Miller." A fist fight between two "Luisa" cast members, bass Paolo Wash ington and tenor Renato Cioni, has given Italian Opera a black eye, according to Miss Roberti. The Davenporter reports that between the second and third acts of the performance Cioni and Washington exchanged glances and words that were far from kind. She didn't hear the last words FIGHT (Continued oa Page 2, Col 7) Amusements 21 Bettendorf 11 City 13 Comics 22 Editorial 10 Classified 17-23 Markets 14 Obituaries 3 Rock Island Moline 6 Sports 8, 9 Television, Radio 20.

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