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it-" Pretty A j. LAIS CONSTITUTION THE Net Taid Circulation 202,606 For February, 1963 Clear lo partly cloudy and warm Saturday and Sunday. Extremes predicted Saturday, 32 and f)2: Sunday, SA and M. Atlanta's Friday range: 48 and 78. For 95 Years thet South' Standard IS'euspapcr 32 PAGLS VOL.

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Box 4689 Trice Five Cents ATLANTA (2), STl KDAY, MARCH 30. 196.1 RALPH uba Ease Crisis: Mc GILL Castro Apologizes and. 77ie Lgis Washington Notes: He was troubled and when sleep wouldn't come the hotel i-oom became im Exiles Kennedy Curbs possible. On impulse he dressed and took a cab to the Lincoln a Memorial. It was a chill, clear night and Lincoln was there as before, troubled and yet somehow comforting.

In the floodlight the big But U.S. Refuses to Pay Russia 1 figure of the bent man really did IH MAX FRANKEL ICnnyrijht CWI.1 hy Mi Nnw Ysrti Timai CM Both Cuba and seem to be communicating something to any who came. The onlooker stood, recalling stories from history of the tall shambling man, in rai-pet slippers, walking the coiridors of the White House when the news of the Ciil War was bad. He recalled, too. the description of the Presi- dent, by men who saw him when he was heavv with despair, and 1 WASHINGTON-y h( hp United Slates lff F'riday to prevent WASHINGTON es moved quickly incidents in the Caribbean from getting out of awMJL 1 'V' i MIC, MAKES RUN OVER SHIP DURING ATTACK OFF CUBA Plane (Upper Right) by Crewman Jack Nelson from Deck by those who saw him smile or heard him laugh.

"It is late to be here." the visitor said to the guard. He shrugged. "They come Cuban Reds Fighting in 25 Sit In at Rome; 4 Stores Close Up By BILL SHIPP Constitution State Editor ROME Approximately 25 Negro teen-agers sat in at lunch counters in four Rome stores Friday afternoon, but there were no arrests. Counters in all the stores were closed, and finally the store managers ordered the stores Brazil? at all hours," he said. 27i White House Driving down Pennsylvania Avenue on the way back one saw that the lights still burned in the White House.

No person comes to Washington without thinking of the White House, the men who have occupied it, and the man who now is President there. The problems today are greater in number and perhaps more complex, but this is an estimate distorted by frustration. A new nation hung then in the dreadful balance of civil war. France was already on the move in Mexico. It was the Bri mi mUTiili ii in mm niiifi i f--, i i By STEVE GERSTEL I WASHINGTON UPI Rep.

1 William C. Cramer, Fri- day released purported copies of top-secret Cuban documents show- i ing the existence and professed i closed until the demonstrators dispersed Approximately 35 Rome police Aitociated Prtt Wirephotot GEORGIA MEN IN "FLORIDIAN" CRKW DESCRIRE EXPERIENCE L-R: Ernest Dyer, Cleveland; Ben McLendon, Nelson, Savannah FLORIHIAN MAKES PORT. STIRS DISPUI U.S. Fighters Took an Hour To Arrive, Captain Asserts control. The government of Premier Fidel Castro hastily apologized for shots fired by two of its MIG fighter planes at a U.S.

merchant ship in international waters. It said thp planes "probably fired in error" and had "no intention" of doing so. PROMISES EXPLANATION Castro has promised to deliver an explanation to the- United Stales on the strafing by his jets of an American cargo ship, in-fomied sources in Havana said Friday night. They said Castro had contacted the Swiss embassy, which represents American interest here. The embassy declined comment.

Simultaneously, the Kennedy administration worked out a plan to dissuade and if necessary to prevent Cuban exiles from attacking Soviet and other shipping in open Caribbean waters. But the United States will not assume responsibility for incidents in Cuban territory and will refuse to compensate the Soviet Union for dim-age suffered by a Soviet freighter in a recent rpfugee attack. It has now been established that the exile groups that twice attacked Cuban ports in the last two weeks embarked from small islands in the British Bahamas, although the expeditions probably did not originate there. Officials here have not disclosed the extent to which the raids may have been planned, financed and equipped from U.S. soil, in violation of the neutrality laws.

WARNINGS. SYMPATHY The precise measures of persuasion and force that Washington intends to apply against the rival raiding parties will be determined this weekend. President. John F. Kennedy and his main advisers in the National Security Council considered the problem Friday and apparently decided to try to combine stern warnings Continued nn Pace 11, Column 1 failure of a network of Communist, guerrilla bases in Brazil financed by Cuba.

Cramer said the documents were seized from the wreckage of a Brazilian Varig airliner that crashed in Peru on Nov. 27. 19fi2. They were said to be in the possession of Raul Cepero Bonilla, president of the National Bank of Cuba, who was killed in the crash, and included two reports to "Please help us to conduct our business in an orderly way," Beasch told the spectators. A few moved out of the store.

Shortly before Friday's demonstration began, Vernon E. Jordan Jr. of Atlanta, field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Negro attorney Horace Ward visited the jailed youths and conferred with Chief Camp. The arrested demonstrators are scheduled to be tried Monday morning in recorder's court. They are charged with violating three sections of the city code dealing with loitering and disorderly con-Continued on Page II, Column 2 "Cuba" of Lincoln's time.

Warships of the Russian czar came to American harbors in a gesture of support for the beleaguered nation. Had the Confederacy won a few more battles, the great powers of Europe soon would have been pulling at the pieces of the broken union. Lincoln had this in mind when at Gettysburg he spoke of the battle as testing whether this or any nation so dedicated and so consecrated could long endure. In Washington today the Congress is in a mood of acrimony and uncertainty. It includes, however, as always, some who are men stood by while the demonstrations were in progress.

There was no violence. Officers worked quickly and quietly to disperse crowds that gathered in the vicinity of the stores on Rome's Broad Street. FRIDAY ACTIONS Friday's handling of the demonstrations was in sharp contrast to that of Thursday which resulted in the arrest of 62 youths, ranging in age from 13 to 19. About 20 of the jailed youths were released on $102 cash bonds late Friday. One girl escaped while being booked, officers said.

AP An Ameri-1 By JOE MCOOWAN JR. docked in Miami Friday morning. 1 MIAMI. Fla. can merchant ship, strafed off i Havana from Miguel Brugueras ThnrcHau; "1UCSI Hlll-U Hie II HC I r.u,, iin.ni del Valle, loentmea as cuirurai iuun vy jt-i nmeis, night's incident off Cuba's north coast showed that word was re- made port here Friday and new counselor of the Cuban embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

in ni (iol imcu wvri inr nine t- tb nc i i ceived at fi p.m., fighters were or it took U.S. warplanes to reach i riered aloft at and were re the scene. Cramer declined to give his Continued on Page 1(1, Column 2 ported over the 400-foot motor vessel Floridian at The official Defense Depait- given the film and had it flown to Washington. "I could see the wink of the guns." said Jack Nelson, a Savannah, seaman who aimed his camera at a diving MIG which was belching what Nelson believed were 20-millimeter cannon shells across the bow of the freighter. Nelson got his camera and began shooting as the MIGs made Iheir fourth pass over the ship.

He took pictures "when one of the planes came in low off the port how, firing." He said the second Some of tbe jailed demonstrators spat on officers, and Friday night they threw their suppers into (he corridor outside their cells. SING IN JAIL omniscient and know all the answers. One day's news report includes comments from senators and congressmen who obviously consider themselves strong, positive men. They are in no doubt at all about taxes, Cuba, Russia, labor, automation, unemployment, and all the other ills of today's industrial society. U2's Flew Over Wrong Part of Cuba, Missing Red Missile Sites for 3 Weeks Capt.

Curtis Olson of the Floridian which was not struck by the two MIGs' guns complained that U.S. Navy jets arrived 55 minutes after the vessel put nut an SOS at 5:55 p.m. The Miami Coast Guard said it received the SOS at 5:58 and relayed it immediately on "hot lines" to the Navy. It was the second such attack were finally discovered. Under questioning, Ihis was the story pieced together by McNamara and Gen.

Carroll: By E. W. KENW0RTHV (Cnnyrifht IW3 by tht Yiirk Tim Co delay. The U.S. intelligence community, he insisted, had done "a remarkably good job." At.

no time, Mid stayed up higher, covering. The Floridian. returning to Miami from Puerto Rico, was running parallel to the north Cuba in five weeks on American vessels. On Feb 19, two MIG fighters from Cuba fired rockets while flying low over the disabled can shrimp boat Ala in the Flori- U2 missions wwe flown on Sepl. he sa.d.

were the intelligence 2fi a)( 5 There also is a claque that wants the President to "lead." At least, it complains he is not leading. By this its members seem to mean the President compromises too often merely to get a bill passed or to obtain half a legislative loaf. Tbe truth is that the organization of Congress and its mood requires this approach. The senior-ity-s a and rules-protected committee chairmen are ar barrier against which only public opinion can prevail. ports seriously late, or in error da Straits, 90 miles from Key 1 West.

The motor vessel Floridian was i pounced on by two MIGs an hour before sunset Thursday as she cruised 20 miles off thp north I Cuba coast in a regularly used They sang from mimeographed sheets: "Go down Kennedy. Tell Ole Nelson (Rome Police Chief Nelson Camp', way down in Georgia land, to let my people go." Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday the youths sought service at two drug stores and a variety store. At one store, the stools were removed from the lunch counter and the counter was closed. At three other stores attendants closed the counters as soon as the Negroes arrived and began washing the counters down with ammonia.

They then convened at another variety store and staged a sit-in for more than an hour while a crowd of about 100 looked on. No one offered to serve the Negroes and signs reading, "Fountains closed for cleaning." were posted. After about an hour H. R. Beasch.

store manager, used a and 14. The mission on Sept. 5 was over San Cristobal in Pinar Del Rio Province in western Cuba. This flight. McNamara said, "showed absolutely no activity whatsoever." REPORTS RECEIVED However, from Sept.

18 to 21, reports arrived of offensive mis- WASHINGTON For over three weeks last fall, Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba went undetected because U2 planes were photographing the wrong end of the island despite the fact that intelligence reports had indicated their location. This new light on an old and much-debated question was shed by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara under persistent questioning last Feb. 7 by a House Appropriations subcommittee. The testimony was released Friday.

ANY U.S. DELAY? The question was: Why did it take until Oct. 14 to confirm the existence of missile sites which earlier intelligence reports had located near San Cristobal. 100 miles from Havana? Republicans have pressed this question relentlessly since the Cuban crisis Even with the advantage of hindsight, McNamara told the subcommittee, he was convinced that the first ship carrying the offensive missiles did not arrive in Cuba before Sepl. 8, that the initial construction of the sites did not begin before Sept.

15 to 20, and that none of the systems was operational prior to their discovery on Oct. 14. NO PLANES SENT coast in the channel between Cuba and the Bahamas Islands. Norman Teeples of Dania, second engineer, said U.S. jet fighters didn't swoop in from Key West until 55 minutes after the Floridian sent its distress message.

The ship's cook, Sidney Z. Ber-ger of Baltimore. said "We were all angry. It took so long for an American plane to come out here after the SOS went out." The crewmen agreed the MIGs apparently were out to scare the ship and not hit it Sygmunt Osm ski of San Francisco said, "If they had wanted to hit us, they could have." shipping channel. Inside Today 17 KILLED in Congo Page 2 Rusiness 21-23 Church News fi, 7 Classified Ads 24-31 Comics 12 Crossword Puzzle 12 Editorial Page 4 Eugene Patterson 4 Jesse Outlar 13 Jumble 12 Ijpo Aikman 4 Obituaries 23, 24 Sports 13-lfi Star Gazer 12 Teen-Talk 17 Television and Radio 10 Theater Programs 1R Weather 23 Women's Features 19 Partisan Petulance Today there is more partisan petulance than public opinion.

The country is more prosperous statistically than ever before. About 00 per cent of its people are doing rather well. The 6 per cent unemployed are not seen in the Crewmen of the Floridian praised two of their group "with a lot of guts." The two stayed on deck taking pictures of the strafing runs so they would have proof of the attack. Those pictures movie and 35mm stills were being studied by intelligence experts in Washington. Navy intelligence officers boarded the Floridian before she mass.

The stagnant industrial Nevertheless his testimony, and that of Lt. Joseph F. Carroll, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, marie clear that from Sept. 21 to Oct. 14.

no 1 siles near San Cristobal. Hun-i dreds of similar reports had been received; investigation had proved them erroneous or re-j vealed the missiles to be defensive SAM2's surface-to-air mis-) siles The reports of Sept. 20 and 21. McNamara said, "were suggestive enough to arouse the i suspicions" of intelligence ana-1 lysts because they were more i specific. cities, the rural towns, dying of Topples said hp didn't think the last October.

U2 reconnaissance aircraft were MIGs intended to hit thp ship, but added, "They were bum shots anyway." public address system to attempt to disperse spectators. In his testimony. McNamara did i sent over San Cristobal, where not concede there had been any the sites had been reported and It was not until Oct. 14. how-! ever, that a U2 was sent over a "specific flight path" in the San NEW U.S.

TAX RUI.KS DISCLOSED The Censors and Ilie Schools Travel Most Entertaining, population losses fixm adjacent farms, the crowded, dreadful slums in which are herded thousands of unskilled, unemployed white and colored peoples who left the farms and small towns all this is a part of the unseen and uneomprehended America. Since there is no great mass opinion demanding legislation, which is badly needed to correct abuses, to provide employment and to make work camps for the young men deteriorating in the fearful slums, it is not possible to interest the Congress. This is a cool and competent Administration in Washington. The Soviets, Chinese and the Communist world have their problems. Latin America has at least four or five countries near the breaking point.

They could become Tough Texan Battles SMU9 Then Shoots at Textbooks Cristobal area. Rep. William K. Minshal). R-Ohio, asked why more flights were not flown immediately over the San Cristobal area.

This exchange then took place: Gen. Carroll: "During mucn that period of time we were most Continued on Page II, Column 6 till Deductib Ic fo usiness By JACK NELSON and GENE ROBERTS JR. Except for his education and I dtjeribed as a "Hell of a Fellow." By EILEEN SIIANAIUN (OnrlM liy thi Vr TlnM C.l band alone would be deductible. Roth the wife of the man being entertained and the man picking up the check can be included elocution, J. Evetts Haley could He is daring, dogmatic, damning WASHINGTON The major portion of business expenses for travel and entertainment will remain deductible on tax returns under proposed new regulations issued Friday by the Internal Revenue Service lls iii the JiOs have stepped from the pages of W.

J. Cash's classic study, "The and a stringent segregationist. He talks tough. He once wrote that he was "born to battle." iicl NO KA1 would be allowed as a tax deduction. Goodwill entertaining will he allowed, in some cases, even if the "business discussion" which, by law, must precede or follow such entertaining, occurs the day before or the day after.

Virtually all entertainment associated with business conventions would be deductible. Travel expenses of people who combine a business trip with a vacation will be fully deductible to and from I he business destina- Continued on 11. Column 1 research post in the university's history department. He remained for seven years, becoming so bitter with the New Deal during that time that he asked for a leave of absence "to fight the Roosevelt regime." When the refjiiest was rejected, he accused the university of "firing me by inaction." Haley began ranching and soon became gcnerpl manager of more than 300,000 acres of ranee operations. Meanwhile, he continued his running diatribe on the Roosevelt The proposed regulations, which are still subject to revision after taxpayer comments have lcen received, implement legislation passed lasi year by Congress.

2 Rusiness need not be discussed to insure tax deductibility of the cost of either meals or drinks with someone a taxpayer does business with or hopes to so long as there a'e "no substantial distractions, such as a floor show" in the place where the brushfires. This is a time to be cool and competent. It is not a time to invade Cuba. It is not a time for a peevish Congress, prodded by lobbyists from great corporations, to be playing partisan politics with the Defense Department, but there are those who do these things. It is a good thing now and then to remember there is just one man who makes the decisions and that when he does, for jetter or worse, they are made for us all.

Haley rode the range as a boy. Later he went to Texas State College and the University of Texas for his B.A. and M.A. degrees and began research for his first book, "The XIT Ranch." The volume, the first of 10 he was to write on cowboys and ranch life, appeared in 1920. Temperatures in the 80s.

clear skies AND NO RAIN That's Atlanta's weekend forecast, and i( sounds like summer. Saturday, the mercury is due to hit 82. after a morning low of 52, and Sunday, it should rise to an e'er, warmer 84, after a 56 low Atlanta's range Friday was nice, from 48 to 78. Sevpvih of 12 chapter condensed from a book written by Constitution reporter Jack Nelson in collaboration with the political editor of the Raleigh News and Observer. Mind of the South." He fits almost to a fault that rugged frontiersman Cash so appropriately among other They provide, things, that: I.

The cost of entertaining meal or dridjvs are served. The wives is deductible in any case cost of drinks alone, as well as where entertainment of the hus-, meals, with or without drinks. The same year accepted a Continued on Page Column 1.

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