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P-S Prize See Page 8 METROPOLITAN FINAL THE POST Weather DARD OffMtt StrmniM ftmtlar Cloudy, warm today; clear, HIM May 7t Uw inlrht SI Report Page 7 134th YEAR 1J4 Number N. MONDAY, MAY 13, SEVEN CENTS RIOTS BIRMINGHAM ic ir Kennedy Sends Troops to Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP) -Thousands of enranged Negroes rioted until daybreak Sunday after bombs had damaged the home of ft Kegro integration leader and a Negro motel. Dr. Martin Luther King whose brother's home was the one damaged, said later he hoped the violence would not jeopardize a move to bring racial peace.

Late Suntfay more than 1,000 law officers roamed a 28-block area where the riot had occurred, carrying machine guns and rifles in an awesome quiet. Negroes sat on then- front porches, but none moved in the streets. King returned to Birmingham Sunday from his home in Atlanta. Meanwhile, President Kennedy cut short a Mother's Day weekend in Maryland mountains and returned to Washington to keep in iouch with the racial crisis in Alabama. King was met at the airport here by Joseph Dolan, a represen- tative of the Justice Department.

King said he believes a settlement of racial issues will proceed despite the violence. "Naturally, it was very shock-' ing and unfortunate that these place at a time when we 60 near a settle- on 9, Col. 1) WASHINGTON (AP)--President Kennedy pledged federal power tonight to preserve order ana fives in Birmingham, and troops were sent into two Alabama bases for use if noting flares again. The Defense Department announced that Army troops have been moved into Maxwell Air Bullets Pepper Homes ANNISTON, (J) Homes ot two Negro families and a Negro church here were peppered with high-power rifle fire Sunday, police reported. No injuries were reported.

Officers said the home of Jesse Clark was struck by 12 rifle bullets and the home of Tok Dokes by 10. Six shots were fired into the 9t. John's Methodist Church for Negroes, officers said. Police said three white men are being sought, Anniston is about 60 miles east of Birmingham. Force Base at Montgomery, about 100 miles south of Birmingham and to Ft.

McCiellan at Anniston, about 60 miles east of the troubled city. The Pentagon refused to identify the units moved or to give their strength or their home bases. Kennedy's action drew a prompt protest and challenge from Alabama's Gov. George Wallace, He said the President's statement ''only tends to aggravate and inflame" and asserted Kennedy has not authority to send troops into a state unless they are by the legislature or governor. "We have sufficient state and local forces to handle the situation and order will be maintained," Wallace added.

Kennedy directed also that preliminary steps be taken to call out the Alabama National Guard if it is needed to cope with the racial (Continued on Page 9, Col, 2) Dr. Martin L. King Negro Leader The face Of Birmingham Chief Inspector Bill Haley of the Birmingham Police Department is taken to a hospital after being hit above the right eye during rock-throwing Negro riots early- yesterday. (AP Wirephoto) Congress Sounded U.S. May Resume Ties With Hungary WASHINGTON (AP)-The State Department is seeking congres- support for reopening full diplomatic relations with Communist Hungary at an early dale.

The basis for the change in S. policy toward Hungary, officials said, is provided by relaxation of Communist oppressions of the viewing developments in Hungarian policy under the Red regime of Premier Janos Kadarj during the past seven years. While the State Departmen could restore full diplomatic rela tions with Hungary on its own, i naturally wouid be reluctant to so if it felt such action would stir up strong protest on Capitol Hill. 'The developments that hav Hungarian people after the 1956 uprising, which was crushed by Soviet troops. The State Department, it was taken place are encouraging." th learned, has circulated an infor- department memorandum says mal memorandum am9ng members of Foreign Affaire Committees of the Senate and House, re- "for they have substantially im (Continued on Page 2, Col.

3) Trapped in Phone Booth Violence Seen from Front Row EDITOR'S NOTE: Phil Gram- ous, an Associated Press staffer. how it feels to stand for more than two hours in a telephone booth on a Birmingham street with police armed with shotguns, rifies snd submachine guns in front of him and a jeering, yelling mob behind him. By PHTL ORA.MOUS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)-The teething crowd surged toward an Intersection near a motel which wa headquarters for the recent Integration drive in Birmingham. Police brandished weapons.

The crowd retreated- Police relaxed. The crowd advanced again. i Rocks and sticks that had been hidden behind backs came into full view. Police again moved toward the teeming Negroes. A loud jeer went up when rein- forcements of state patrolmen arrived and look shotguns, rifles, submachine guns and tear gas launchers from their cars A cheer went up as a policemen was hit by a large rock.

Negro leaders dispersed a knot of onlookers on a corner. Then slowly they came back. None paid any attention to me. I was in a glass-en closed telephone booth on the corner. I remained there for more than two hours, watching a not which broke out after the home of a' Negro integration leader and a Negro motel had been attacked by night bombers.

The line was open to the Associated Press office. I stayed in touch more for company than anything else. I had never felt so alone or so afraid. Tension built up after I arrived on the scene. The taxi driver re- fused to go closer than three blocks from the motel.

Negroes cursed as I walked past several bars toward the line of policemen at the intersection. Groups with crowbars were piy- ing off pieces of curbing breaking them op into mtssiies. Windshields were shattered on. passing automobiles; rocks peppered them from every direchon. Two policemen on the corner would not let me get to the motel half a block away.

I went back across the sutet to the phone booth. After I had given a brief description of the scene, a crowd of Negroes, mostly teen-agers, gathered around the phone booth. In view were the motel, he (Continued on Page 9,. Col. 1) Bullets Stop Dozen Fleeing East Berlin BERLIN lAP)--A desperate attempt by 12 persons to escape from East Berlin in a bus collapsed Sunday in salvos of submachine gun bullets fired by border guards at point-blank range.

West Berlin police said a woman and three men were' wounded by the gunfire. They added that, judging from the appearance of one man, believed to have bee" the driver, and the way he was handled he could be presumed dead The incident occurred at the Sandkrug bridge border crossing point in the center of divided Berlin. The blue East Berlin airport bus drove through long slalom course the 300-feet of concrete British Threaten to Grab U. S. Planes in Fare Fight LONDON (AP) The British was not learned immediately Aviation Ministry threatened Sunday to American airliners landing in Britain if they carry passengers at rates lower than those agreed on by European competitors The warning was in a memorandum seM Jo the two transatlantic American earners --Pan American and Transw.orld air- whether it had received a similar British warning.

There also was no immediate word whether the French, Dutch or other West European governments might take action against the American earners. The impression was, however, that there would be more negotiations on ihp controversy before lines-- asKing whether they an major action is taken, put into efiect a five per cent British AvjaUon Minister Julian increase on transatlantic econ- Amery will jpeak in the House of omy-dass lares or if they plan Commons Monday and is expect- to do so. ei tj comment on the controversy. The fare hike, adopted at an in- -ph difference fares between ternational air conference last British and American lines did not The fare hike was adopted last October at a meeting of lie International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Arizona. All West European airhnes plying the transatlantic trade have either put thf new rate hike into efiect or are expected to within a (Continued on Page 2, Col.

1) Inside Today Li uritisji fiiJJtniidij mica LUU iiut year, has beer etfcct in Erilam pro duce any wholesale switch in barners, designed to slow down vehicles heading toward the border point trom the East. It sideswiped a tree near the end of the zigzag course but continued on don Sunday night, and an Aviation toward a 10-foot wide gap in thel Mmi slry spokesman said no ac- and several other European countries since midnight. But the American carriers, acting under orders of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, have stuck to the old, lower Both Pan Am and TWA operated normalix in and out of (Coitlmued oa Page 2, Col. 2) Worm Today And Cloudy Today's weather will be marked by increasing cloud- ness and ill bring warmer.

Tomorrow clear and cooler The high temperature today vill be near 70 degrees, with a ow between 50 and 55 degrees Yesterday's low of 30 degtees 4 a.m. equalled a record low emperature lor May in yracuse, set in 1907. The high vas 58 degrees. tion on the Darning would be rak en until the ministry had received the lines' replies and studied them In New York TWA officials said the airline had answered the British memorandum saying it hat asked the S. State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board "for their views as to TWA's obhga tions and responsibilities." The officials said TWA had promised additional replies "when it has ohfained the view of gov ernment authorities." It said its transatlantic flights were operating "routinely, at fare levels on Me pith the CAB." Pan AM officials in New York had no immediate comment.

The Canadian airline Trans- Canada alst has declined to go along with the rate hike, but it; search of Icv.cr fares. I "There is no evidence," said a TWA spokesman in London, "to suggest thai people booked with BOAO (British Overseas Air- ways Corp.) and other airlines at' the increased rate are transfer ring to us in order to travel more cheaply. The passenger flow has been norms! QUEI AND OTHEK DUTCH 5 1 2 54 91011 2021 22 2524 25 26272829 50 UAOEtSS ARRIVED IN ENGLAND AFTER NAZI INVASION. Baseball Scores INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE 3-4, Syracuse 1-5 Atlanta 4-1, Indianapolis 2-0. Rochester 8-3, Toronto 2-1, Little Bock 5-6, Buffalo 1-9, Jacksonville C-6, Columbus 4-5 NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis 2-3, Pittsburgh 1-4.

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Taylor 4 A police riot tank, left, stands by as a Negro housing project is destroyed by in Birmingham, yesterday. Police and firemen, center, are powerless to the roaring blaze in the housing project. A Yellow Cab, right, burns on the street in Birmingham Birmingham in Early after it was turned over and set afire by rioting Negroes. The driver was taken from the cab and slabbed. Rioting, looting and arson broke out in the Southern cily yesterday morning after bombs were thrown ut the home of Negro leader and a motel, used as in- Morning Racial Violence tegration headquarters.

Thousands of enraged Negroes joined in the riots which lasted until daybreak. Nearly 50 persons were hospitalized, including some policemen and firemen, during the riots. Large rocks thrown by rioters o( police and fire vehicles. Peace came with dawn, but heavily armed and, reinforced police continued to patrol the streets after the riots 'had ended. The riots climaxed an intensive desegregation campaign led by the Rev, Martin Luther King, whose brother's home was bombed, touching off the riots.

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