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The Weather Cloudy, mild tonight; Clearing, cooler tomorrow Sun sets today 4:59 Sun rises tomorrow 6:53 (Other Weather Data Page 12) Look Out out when its dark out Now that afternoons are shorter, periods of dangerous darkness lengthen. Remember that darkness doubles a i troubles so make allowance for safety. VOL. XCVI--No. 137 DIAL RE 2-3456 PETERSBURG-COLONIAL HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1960 PRICE--FIVE CENTS (NBA TclGphoi'o) PROTESTING INTEGRATION A policeman grapples wi'h a woman attempting to take his club away during a demonstration against school integration In New Orleans.

More than 5,000 mothers and teen-agers urged to "civil disobedience" by segregation leaders, ran screaming through the streets of the city. Firemen and policemen turned hoses on the demonstrators. Breather Coming Up In New Orleans Fight NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP)--A Wright, also is expected to school recess for a week, starting Monday, today promised a breathing spell for New Orleans in the bitter battle over integration. The recess was announced laic Thursday night by Dr.

F. Redmond, public school superintendent. It will permit teachers to attend teacher association meetings in Baton Rouge Monday through Wednesday. Pupils will observe Thanksgiving holidays Thursday and Friday and classes will not resume until Nov. 28.

The New Orleans School Board Thursday asked suspension of a federal court order directing school integration and a hearing on the motion was set today before a three-judge panel. Filed After 4-Day Tension The suspension plea was filed after four days of tension over admission last Monday of four small Negro girls to two while schools. demonstrations, sporadic violence and an almost complete boycott by while stu- denls of two schools involved. U.S. Dist.

Judge J. Skelly Wright who signed the integration order, has overridden several moves by the legislature to halt racial mixing. The three-judge panel which in- No Challenge Of Vote Seen Education Setup Seen Still Short SANTA FE, M. (API-Education that was good enough for grandpa isn't good enough for today's children--and it wasn't good enough for grandpa either. State superintendents and commissioners of education from across the country have been wrestling with that problem at a three-day meeting that ends here today.

It's easv to talk about the "dream schools" of tomorrow, they said, the new and becfed-up courses of study and the wonderful electronic devices that will make learning easier and better. It's something else to translate dreams into classroom action. "The idea of changing the high school curriculum is not new," J. Lloyd Trump of the National Association Secondary-School Principals told the Council of Chief State School Officers Thursday. GOP Leaders Remain Cool To Recount WASHINGTON (AP) Republican leaders in most of the 11 states where a vote recount was suggested do not plan to challenge the Nov.

election results. When GOP National Chairman Thruston B. Morion proposed the recounts a week ago, he told Republican officials in 11 states to look into "purported vole frauds." He urged investigation and whatever follow-up action was indi cated. A check today with GOP leaders in the states listed by Morton showed: No recounts are planned in Michigan, South Carolina, Illinois, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Delaware. Party officials in Nevada and Missouri were awaiting official state' canvasses before making a decision.

That was also the situation in Minnesota, but any recount move there appeared doubtful. Texas GOP leaders have said Ihey were considering a recount bid, but "It has been talked about for have taken no action. 1 Killed, 2 Hurt In Air Force Plane Crash in Maine LIMESTONE, Maine A A big Air Force lankcr plane crashed and burned on landing at Loring Air Force Bnsc early today, killing one crewman and injuring the other 16 aboard. The Air Force said one of the four crewmen was missing and presumed dead in the burned wreckage. His identity was not immediately disclosed.

The other 16, including the other three crewmen and 13 passengers-- Air Force personnel --scrambled out of emergency exils after the plane careened some 3,000 feel, on the ground. None of the Ifi wns considered in serious condition. The plane was reluming to Loring after a O'i hour refueling mission. The Air Force snid 3 5 of Hie 42nd Uombardment Wing, veered off the loft of the runway on touching down and burst inlo Ground. hear two other cases involving New Orleans schools.

One is Wright's order restraining legislature and top state officials from interfering the integration move. The other is a contempt citation Wright issucc against Shelby M. Jackson, state superintendent of education. The judge said a school holiday or dcred last Monday by Jackson the effective date of the integra lion order, was contemptuous interference. The plea for suspension, filed Thursday by Samuel Rosenberg, school board attorney, was for time to let tempers cool and ,1 return to segregated schools pending a decision on issues on'which the board said the Supreme Court should rule.

Discourage Demonstrations Fasl and firm police action discouraged new demonstrations against integration Thursday. Rut police arrested 32 Negroes for various offenses Thursday nipht. One was charged with slashing a white man on the during a fight. Twenty two of those arrested were juveniles and seven of their number were picked up after rocks were thrown at passersby and cars. Over a third of the city's elementary school population of 37,726 remained away from classes Thursday.

School officials attributed (heir absence (o fear by parents who did nol want to send Vcars. Rut of all Ihe major proposals that have been made since World War only two have been generally adopted--vocational education and extra curricular activities. "Remember radio? Once radio was going to be a great boon to education, it was going to bring great ideas to all the people. But some people saw it as a threat to the teacher. And others said it was dangerous that some mysterious 'someone' would use it to dictate what-people would learn.

"And the same arguments we once heard against radio we are hearing again today against educational television, teaching machines and other new techniques." Trump referred to proposals for stiff new courses in seven fields of study, presented by a group of experts'here, and asked: "Have we learned our lesson? Are we going to doom these great ideas to failure because we are too busy, because we don't have the teachers, the buildings, or the 2 Soldiers Killed In Bragg Mishap FT. BRAGG. N. C. A Reported voting irregularities were being checked in some of the states.

The reaction of the slate leaders came as John F. Kennedy's victory margin was cut further by late counts--making it almost certain that he would end up with less than a majority of all the votes cast. With 1,549 precincts still out and many absentee ballots still to be counted, Kennedy had votes to' for Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon. This gave Kennedy a lead of only 184,647 out of more than G7'i million votes.

Absentee ballots continued to build up Nixon's winning margin in his home state of California. Hundreds of thousands of voles for unpledged presidential electors and minor party candidates will cut further Kennedy's percentage of the national popular vote. Most slates will not report votes for splinter parties until the official Never Worked At Being Myth, Gable Has Said Movie-TV Writer Says Real Man Lost In Glare of Fame First of two articles on the legend and the loves of Clnrk Gable. By BOB THOMAS AP Movie-TV Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) "I've never worked Vard at being a myth," Clark Gable once said. Yet he was one for the three decades he ruled the film world.

As often happens with men who live their lives in the brilliance of fame, the real Gable was lost in the glare. The myth took over. It was a popular myth, and it blended nicely into the kind of role he played on the screen. But it wasn't Gable. He became the epitome of the American male.

People thought of him as the hard-muscled, wisecracking, masterful man of action. He was indeed a man's -man. He felt uncomfortable in a drawing room and longed to be casting a fly on a mountain stream or drawing a bead on a flying duck. But he was no superman. Despite his great fame and wealth, he had his share of fears and phantoms, drawn from a life that had more than the normal portion of tragedy.

Was Four When Mother Died His mother died when he was 4. Her place was taken by a stepmother who died when he was in his teens. His early years were rootless as his father moved from town to town. Gable was to know three broken marriages and one widowerhood. Though he was a top star to the end, he could never recapture in the last 15 years of his career the magic he had known in the first 10 'As a final, tragic twist, the child he had wanted most of his life was to be born after his death.

Of course, it would be silly to say that he led a tragic life. His triumphs were greater than most people's, but triumphs are not always as helpful in illuminating the man. Let Work Speak Gable was not a good talker about himself. He liked to let his work speak for him, and it did Castro Charges Patrols Smokescreen For Attack canvass. The last of these returns i eloquently.

Only rarely did will not be in until next month. Even if Kennedy winds up with less than a majority, he will of course still be the winner--barring an unexpected upset in the electoral vote lineup. His 300 electoral votes are 3i more than their children out on the streets. Two soldiers were killed on i i i 269 needed for election. Army base yesterday when their jeep overturued on a curve after passing another vehicle.

A spokesman identified the victims as SP.4C. Gordon W. Lightfoot. 23, the driver, and SP.4C. Billy J.

Hincs, 22, both of Headquarters Battery. 92nd Artillery Battalion. Lightfoot was a son of Mrs. Josephine T. Ward of TU.

2, Portsmouth, Va. Mines' survivors include his widow, Jeanie, of Fayetteville and two step children, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis 0. Hines of (21G West nlh Street) Prattvillo, Ala.

8 Persons Perish In India Plant Fire BOMBAY, India (AP) A fire in a bangle factory today killed eight persons and injured 40 others, 15 critically. The flames spread through overhead tenements in the building. Celluloid, used for the bangles, exploded in a ground floor storeroom. The blast ripped out the staircase, trapping more than 400 residents on the floors above. Churchill Has Disturbed Night LONDON A Sir Winston Churchill had a disturbed night, but his back injury i.s creating no anxiety, his secretary said today.

In nn official bulletin, his secretary snid: "Sir Winston has had a rather disturbed night, hut his spinal injury is progressing and i.s giving no anxiety." Britain's World War prime minister, who will be flfi on Nov. .10, broke a small hone in his bnck when he tripped over a rug in his bedroom Tuesday. The movie industry is engaged in the business of putting beautiful frames in pictures. Kennedy and Dulles To Confer On Critical Caribbean Situation he provide much insight on what he believed. Some samples: On his wealth: "I'm not rich by any means.

But I'm comfortable. That's all I ask of life--to be warm, well-fed and comfortable." His favorite films: "If you really want to go back, can pick ones like 'It Happened One 'Test 'San 'Boom And 'Gone With The of course. shot for seven and a half months, but I don't think I worked more than seven weeks. I even got married (to Carole Lombard) and had a honeymoon during the picture. There were whole stretches I wasn't in.

But when Rhett Butler did make an appearance, he made it count." Friends Something Else On making friends: "I've given no thought to whether I make friends fast or slowly. I don't have a lot of friends: I do have a lot of acquaintances. Friends are something else." On using makeup: "I hate it. I only use it when I have to." About beint; an actor: "I've RICHMOND AP) Some 175 Virginians who call themselves "loyal Democrats" have taken the first steps toward working as a potential force in the 1961 Democratic primary' campaign for governor. At a closed dinner meeting here last night, they voted unanimously spent a lot of lime learning to sct up a 'steering committee be nn actor.

I'm still learning. I oac jed by Dr. Edward E. Had- PALM REACH. Fla.

know how you go about dock a slate senator from Rich- (Staff Photo by Kzzelt) A. S. Harrison (center) Discusses Virginia's Political Situation With Area Solons W. Roy Smith (left) Of The House of Delegates And Staie Senator I. H.

Temple Harrison Keeps Silent On Va. Governorship By JIMMY EZZELL "It's no comment at the present time." They were the words of Albertis S. Harrison Virginia Attorney General, in answer to a question last night on whether or not he has made up his mind to seek the governorship of Virginia next year. Harrison, in Petersburg to speak at an Optimist Club meeting honoring the city's outstanding boy and girl, would not be pinned down -as to when he will announce his decision to run for governor. He also had no comment on last Saturday's announcement from Lieutenant Governor A.

E. S. Stephens that he plans to offer as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the office of governor, subject to the 1961 primary. Statewide Move However, informed sources say that a statewide move is on to get Harrison, a former Brunswick- County attorney, to seek the post. It is a known fact in political circles that Harrison would like to succeed Governor Lindsay AJmond and the assumption is that the distinguished-looking attorney general would get the backing of the Byrd forces, most of the Democrats for Nixon-Lodge, and an undetermined number of Democrats who supported the victorious fight of Senator John F.

Kennedy for the post of president. Harrison also supported the Democratic nominee in the presidential election. State Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Winchester, also is considered a possible candidate for the governorship.

As of today, Byrd has made no disclosure of his intentions. However, politicians say it is unlikely that Harrison and Byrd will be in the fight next July on opposite sides. Harrison has been in New York his week and reportedly has not discussed the situation with young Byrd. Several persons have stated that should Harrison seek the 3ost, his running mate for the lieu- governor's post will be eith- 'Loyal Dems Look Toward '61 Primary President-elect John F. Kennedy! learning to be a personality, but! i.

today Rots a top secret i i I do know how you learn to go Thev on the lease Caribbean which led President Eisenhower to dispatch American warships and planes on an anti-Communist mission. Kennedy arranged to confer on the mailer with Allen W. Dulles, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is known a the president- elect requested Dulles to come to the work-and-vncntion hendquar- lors here for the specific purpose of reporting on the worrisome situation in (lie Caribbean. The session was put on Ihe Kennedy schedule three days ago-about 4H hours in advance of Eisenhower's order to U.

S. naval units to defend revoll-threatened Guatemala and Nicaragua agninst any Communist-led attack. Exprcst Briefing After the Eisenhower order--issued at the request of Gualomnln and Nicaragua--the president- elect was reported to be expecting a detailed briefing from Dulles on the background which brought on the President's action. Kennedy declined comment on the action. Kennedy returner) to Palm Beach late Thursday night after a round of conferences--and several hours of successful deer hunt- about being an actor, and I work at it.

It's a profession I'm proud of. It's my job. Not that I am the best, but I try." These are mere fragments, and Gable seldom revealed more, in public or private. More can be deduced from his personal story, especially in the women he married. That will be the subject of the next article.

also suggested that the committee interview candidates who enter the race for governor and determine how they stand on various issues and consider wheth or, Dr. Haddock said, they might "if necessary, encourage prominent people to run" for governor or other state office. Not Endorsing Anyone Dr. Haddock, who organized the meeting and gave out information on it later, emphasized that the group did not endorse any candidate for governor. He said.

too. no names of candidates or potential candidates were discussed during the mooting. Those present nil were active supporters cf the Kennedy Johnson ticket in the recent presidential election. Many were loaders ing--with Lyndon B. Johnson, the i this series.

The scoreboiird read: vice president-elect. 37 successes, 10 successes Navy To Work On Developing Long Range Polaris CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. A --The Navy will concent rale on developing longer range Polaris submarine missile now dial the or associates of tho Virginia Dem- last test rocket in the 1.300-mile oe.ratic Straight Ticket Commit series hns been fired. The final A I Polaris vehicle fizzled in flight Thursday when the second stage cut off too soon and the missile plunged into Ihe Atlantic several miles off tho Cape.

The malfunction, which the Navy is attempt ing to pinpoint, warred an effort to close nut the A I program on a successful note. A total of 52 missiles were fired in Ihe M-month test program for 'I TOUCHED HIM' An unidentified youngster in West Palm Beach, has a thrilling moment as she roaches up lo touch the sleeve o( President-elect John F. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy was signing autographs af (lie airport before taking elf lo confer with Vice President-elect 'Lyndon B.

Johnson at the Jailer's Texas ranch. Before leaving Johnson's LTU Ranch near Johnson City, Kennedy put out a statement saying they had a profitable discussion of plans and programs for the new administration which will take over from the Hepublicans Jan. 20. Johnson and Kennedy plan to meet again for more, planning after I ho vice president-elect rclurns from a NATO conference in Pans, (roiitiitiicil On PJIRO 2) and 5 failures. F.ight of the successful Polarises were fired from the nuclear submarines George.

Washington and Patrick Henry while they were submerged. The Al became operational last Tuesday when the George Washington went to sea with Ifi of the niu'lenr-nrmed missiles, ready to five on a minute's notice, The Patrick Henry will go on patrol next month. Cuban Chief Sees Threat To Peace HAVANA (AP) The government-controlled press here and Soviet news outlets charged in rather similar terms today that U.S. Navy patrols in the Caribbean are an intervention in Latin-American affairs, a threat to world peace and a smokescreen for attacking Cuba. President Eisenhower Thursday ordered U.S.

warships and planes to be ready to seek out and prevent Communist-led attacks from abroad on Guatemala and Nicaragua. Three Cuban newspapers carried a story by the Soviet news agency Tass warning of invasion plots against Cuba being prepared Nicaragua and Guatemala. Said Fraught With Danger A Moscow radio broadcast recorded in London asserted the U.S. Navy alert is "fraught with the danger of a military conflict." The broadcast, noting the White House statement that the move was requested by the Guatemalan and Nicaraguan governments, said: "The rotten antipopular regimes of these two countries can exist only with U.S. support." The semiofficial newspaper Rev- ohicion in Havana ran a huge banner headline saying "U.S.

endangers world peace: Yankee military occupation of Central America could be step toward attacking Cuba." El Mundp's banner said "U.S. intervenes in internal straggles in "ruatemala and Nicaragua." President Eisenhower Thursday ordered U.S. warships and planes to seek out and prevent Communist-led attacks from abroad on Guatemala and Nicaragua. The President acted on the written request of the two govern- er Senator Byrd or State Senator Mills E. Godwin, a lawyer of Suffolk.

Some political observers saic they thought it was a bit too early to come out in the campaign. "Maybe Stephens is trying to get all the support he can early," commented one observer. W. Roy Smith, of Petersburg, a member of the House of Delegate, in introducing Harrison last night said: "He has contributed great deal to Virginia and we hope that he will be of service to Virginia on a higher level for the next four years." This was an apparent endorsement of Harrison for the governorship. neys-general to the effect that a Virginia Democrat may vote for the GOP or other presidential ticket without forfeiting his gooc standing in the Democratic party Among the speakers were State Sen.

Blake T. Newton of Westmoreland County, president of the Straight Ticket Committee: Johr B. Vance of Amelia, president of the Virginia Farmers Union: Francis Pickens Miller of Charloltesville: Harold B. Boyd of Richmond, president of the state AFLCIO: H. Graham Morison of Fairfax.

Ray Niblack of Chariottes- ville. Fred (Bingo Slant of Norfolk. Judge Richard R.iiley of Southampton County and Dr. Tinsley Spraggins of Richmond. rrients, targets in the past week of unsuccessful uprisings which they charged were assisted by Cubans.

The action came as plots and possible uprisings were reported in two other countries, Bolivia and El Salvador. Warships Patrolling The U.S. State Department said warships, including at -least four destroyers and the aircraft carrier Shangri-La, were already patrolling the high seas between Cuba and the Central American coast. The department said, however, that any action against invasion forces would be limited to the three-mile territorial waters of Guatemala and Nicaragua. The reaction of Cuban officials and the government-controlled press and radio was indignant.

The newspaper La Calle said the President's action was an intervention in Guatemala and Nicaragua and a grave threat to world peace. Pastorita Nunez, a high rank- Plane Propeller Grazes Airliner DENVER, Colo. W--The spinning propeller of a light plane grazed the wing of a big United Air Lines DC6 1.500 feet over Stapleton Airfield here late Thurs- in Cuban official as head of the day. Both planes landed safely. There were no injuries.

The 14 passengers aboard the government savings and housing institute, said in a television program that the uprisings in Central America, were a smokescreen to airliner were unaware of the plans for an invasion of lision until after Cnpt. W. A. Tall- Cuba. man of Seattle landed the four- OJ weeks Castro officials have engine a It received a charging that slashes in its left wingtip.

were being assembled and drilled Allen Altorman. a Dor.verj'" Central American countries fin- business executive, landed his! a U.S.-finaneed invasion of Cuba, single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza! despite a crumpled wing and a Predicted Rebellion Castro predicted last August bent propeller. His piano skidded that bis revolution would light a across a runway at Stapleton rebellion against "Yankee im- i perialism" Suipleton came to rest in a wheat field. Tough Policy in Dealing With Castro Is Indicated throughout a i America. The United States later charged that thousands of tons of Soviet arms have been shipped to Castro.

Plots and uprisings were reported afoot in Kl Salvador and Bolivia Friday even as the last embers of revolt appeared snuffed AUGl'STA. Ga. A I The; waters around Formosa to in Guatemala and Nicaragua. United States has served notieei a Chinese Communist Troops were reported it will use military force instead i La Paz, capital of Bolivia, us of diplomatic protests lo Cuba's Fide! Castro from sub-j Instructions to fleet units dis- verting anti-Communist countries in the Caribbean. President Eisenhower signalled patched into the Caribbean trou- a precaution against a possih' uprising.

Communications were cut Iv- ble zone. Ihoy noted, are not only twccn La Pnz and Cochabamhn. country's second largest i to prevent but to "seek out anv sections. Dr. Haddock described them nil as "good loyal Democrats" who were interested in working for "good Democratic government.

thai will represent Ihe best interests of all the people of tho state." Would Avail Escape Hatch In addition to possible a i i in the gubernatorial campaign, ho said the group is interested in "gelling through proper legislation to lot Democrats )x? Democrats. and avoid giving some an escape hatch to bo He declined to go inlo particulars, but presumably he meant the group would seek action to override tho prevailing opinion of several Virginia attor- cmcrgcncv action be. interpreti-cl to allow U.S. war-! Lost reshadowed similar American shl(1s ani1 liinos to TM sh any' Carl Stro fore military help for any other Caribbean nntion which might request invasion ships or supply vessels headed toward either of the two it. Hold Rhint Wnrniitir Sunday U.S.

Ambassador Strom wns stoned and jeoiYil (Continued On Page i) Central American republics. Two factors were reported lo guided tho President and Top officials said movement of nis top ai i visors i deciding on iJnc four U.S. destroyers and an air- a carrier into the area was a blunt warning to Cast re that ho will not be permitted to export his left wing revolution to other La)in-American nations. They acknowledge that the President's action carried a step further the exist inc; policy of op- the move: 1. There seemed to be genuine icasons for (earing that pro-Castro fanatics might follow up week's unsuccessful revolts in Guatemala ami Nicaragua with new, stronger armed attacks.

2. Castro secretly has been smuggling and diverting some of; f.nciil iVc posing by words what are re- his vast quantities of Communist- Ilml'to, Ranted as Castro's pro made weapons to leftwing groups 1 nisi maneuvers. who are plotting pro-Cnslro re-1 nisi maneuvers. They compared it to warships of the 7th I'Mcet patrolling Ilia ii-t? 6 I I volts throughout the Caribbean; area..