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THE ROBESONIAN VOL. XCV--No, 130 PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY TO FH1DAY IN KOS-SOH COUNTY LUMBERTON, N. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1964 Cross Is Burned On Governor's Mansion Lawn RALEIGH (AP)-A cross was burned Thursday night on the back lawn of the governor's mansion, the governor's office reported today. The governor's office said the governor had called in the State Bureau of Investigation to probe the burning.

Robert Jones of Granite Quarry, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, said he knew nothing about the cross. "I had heard nothing about It until now," he said. W. Giles Mebane, who lives near the mansion, reported the cross at about 8:15 a.m. No one reported seeing it while it was burning.

The cross was made of pine wood wrapped with burlap and was about four feet high by three feet wide. Gov. Terry Sanford went to the scene and inspected the cross. He later commented: "It is a badge of honor to have such hoodlums against you, but it Is a mark of shame for the State of North Carolina to have such childish activities going on. "There is no reason for us to have extremists' actions stirring up bitterness and hatred.

We need always mature reactions and sensible appeals to orderly solutions. "If this particular cross was planted by kids, it can be forgotten as a dangerous prank. If it was done by adults with kids' minds, then it is the kind of thing we don't need in North 1 Carolina." Moore Chooses Broughton As State Party Chairman RALEIGH (AP) Raleigh Attorney J. Melville Broughton son of the former governor, Is the surprise choice of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Dan Moore for the state party Chairmanship. Moore's recommendation of fre former state highway chairman is subject to approval by the State Democratic Executive Committee.

The committee, Which traditionally honors the wishes, meets Sept. 2. In making the announcement Thursday, Moore said Broughton "will help to unify and give cur party militant and wise leadership in the fall campaign." Most observers were expecting Moore to name Enfield attorney Joe Branch for the post. Branch managed Moore's successful campaign for the nomination. Moore said Branch had urged him to recommend Broughton I for the chairmanship and prom- ised "wholehearted help" in the I fall campaign.

Broughton declined to discuss I campaign plans pending the Ex- ecutive Committee meeting. Broughton. 42. would succeed i State Sen. Lunsford Crew of i Roanoke Rapids, picked for the 1 post last September after Bert I Bennett of Winston-Salem re- i signed when he was considering running for governor, Broughton was picked by for! mer Gov.

Luther Hodges in 1957 to head the highway commis: sion. He served until 1961. I A graduate, of Wake Forest College and the University of North Carolina Law School, Broughton also served from 1935 to 1957 on the State Hospitals i Board of Control. ESTABLISHED TITO COUNTRY. aOD AMB THUTM TWELVE PACES--Price Five Cents Berliners Attack ill Soviet Car LBJ Signs Bill Federal Payroll People Look To Bigger Incomes CD WASHINGTON" (AP) President Johnson signed the feder- sl pav-raise bill today and said It will enable the government to attract and keep employes of outstanding ability.

He said he already has signed 25 pieces of major legislation, and the pay-raise bill ranks near the top of the list in importance. Johnson signed the bill in a ceremony in the White House flower garden attended by members of Congress whose committees handled the legislation, government officials, and labor leaders who supported it. 1. Members of Congress will have to wait until next Jan. 1 to get their increases.

The act provides raises ranging from 2.7 per cent to 30 per cent, with the bigger boosts going to the highest level officials, including federal judges. The biggest raises a-year will go to the nine members of the Cabinet, making then- annual salaries $35,000. The next vice president and the speaker of the House will get S3.000 a year, putting their annual salaries at $43,000. Members of the House and Se- MAYOR WILLY BRANDT of West Berlin stands in silent tribute after placing a wreath at Bernauer Strasse at the foot of wooden cross along the Berlin Wall. Brandt laid wreaths at memorials along a part of the 26- mile long Communist wall on its third anniversary, paying homage to the memory of 53 persons who died trying to flee Communist East Berlin.

Following the ceremony, West Berliners surged against the wall and attacked a Soviet army car. (AP Wirephoto via rable from Berlin). Legislative Wrangle Reapportionment Delay Bill Gets Opponents By Surprise BERLIN (AP) West Berliners observed an hour of silence Thursday on the third anniversary of the hated Communist wall. Then silence turned violence as rioters surged to the barricade and attacked a Soviet army car. "The wall must go," shouted the demonstrators.

Others sent a truck trailer smashing through barriers put up to keep West Berliners away from the wall between East and West Berlin. West Berlin police, swinging clubs, dispersed the rock throwing demonstrators. One leather jacketed youth was knocked to the ground, where he lay bleeding and unconscious. The Soviet army car, containing at least one Soviet officer and a driver, was traveling back to East Berlin. It was attacked near the wall's Checkpoint Charlie, a crossing point for foreigners.

A mob of about 500 West Berliners surrounded the car and battered it with their fists and feet. It was heavily dented and a license plate was ripped off. The Soviets stayed inside the car. which roared off into East Berlin after West Berlin police cleared a path through the jeering mob. Demonstrators pushed the truck trailer from a parking lot and sent it speeding down the street toward the police barriers.

The police jumped aside and the trailer smashed several barriers before stopping some distance from, the wall. The demonstrators raced for the breach in the barriers, but police clossed rank, swung their clubs and held off the demonstrators. The wall was built three years ago by the Communists to stop the westward exodus of East Germans. Since then, 53 East Germans have died trying to scale the wall. To pay homage to the dead, the West Berlin government omts asked all West Berliners to observe an hour's silence Thurs- i border guards.

day. Public transport stopped, and streets generally were deserted. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and other members of his government laid wreaths ai where refugees were gunned down by East German People Going Hungry Turkish Leader Calls For End To Greek Blockade Judges, government officials and about 1.7 million other federal The boost ranges from $100 a year for the lowest-ranking Civil Sen-ice or postal em- plove uo to $10.000 a year for fcigh officials. It is estimated to acid $558 million to the yearly federal civilian payroll which now runs about S15.5 billion. Johnson lauded the bipartisanship displayed by Congress In passing the bill, as well as in enacting other legislation, saying the legislators put the country and the people first.

Johnson said the continuing goal of the government is to make federal salaries reasonably comparable to those of private industry. For most of these covered the raises will show up on the next pay check retroactive to July Weather That will give the appellate judges annual salaries of and the district judges and members of Congress $30,000. WASHINGTON (AP) Congress was caught today in a deepening controversy over the Supreme Court's ruling that state legislatures must be reapportioned on a "one-man, one- vote" basis. In the Senate, opponents of any delay in carrying out the court's ruling threaten drawn- out debate on a delaying proposal that Senate leaders want to attach to the foreign aid bill. In the House, a tough new bill that would strip the federal courts of any jurisdiction over state reapportionment cases has suddenly been dumped on the speaker's table, where it is ticking like a time bomb.

The House bill, authored by Rep. William M. Tuck, was sprung on the unsuspecting supporters of the court by Rep. Howard W. Smith, the chairman of the House Rules Committee.

He won a 10-4 vote in his committee to send the bill to the House floor before his opponents had time to figure out what was happening. By the time they did, the Tuck bill was in their laps, and after a close look at it, a lot of them have decided that the proposal looks good. and Republican leader Everett i The other says the federal dis- M. Dirksen in conjunction with trict courts shall have no juris- the Justice Department, it diction over any state reappor- would permit states to delay reapportionment until Jan. 1, 1966, in the absence of highly unusual circumstances." It was the addition of those last seven words to Dirkseu's original proposal for an unconditional delay that triggered Smith's action on the Tuck bill.

Tuck's bill, which he called "a simple measure," has only two provisions. One says the Su- tionment cases. In sending it to the House floor the Rules Committee resorted to a little-used procedure that permits it to take any bill away from a House -legislative committee in this case the Judiciary The net effect of it all is to leave both houses in a highly uncertain state over ail pending legislation and in a gloomy con- reapportionment cases coming from any federal court or state supreme court. i journing before the Democratic i National Convention starts in Atlantic City Aug. 24.7' Top Demo Chairman Spanks 2 Contesting Miss.

Groups NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -Turkish Cypriot leader Dr. Fazil Kuchuk said today it is "only a matter of days" before his people will be without bread as a result of a Greek Cypriot blockade. He called upon the Turkish government in Ankara to take immediate political steps to bring pressure on President Archbishop Makarios, the Greek Cypriot leader, to raise the blockade. He told reporters bakeries will be forced to shut down in two days due to lack of kerosene ovens in the Turkish quarter. "Thirty-five thousand people will start to go hungry.

We are bread eaters. Bread is necessary to us," he added. "We do not have communications everv- where and I am certain there are villages even now with absolutely nothing. "Turkey must find the poBH- cal means to raise the blockade --I am not asking for any attack." He said he had communicated the situation fully to the Turkish government and awaited a reply. The cease-fire brought about by the United Nations Security Council still is being observed by Greek and Turkish Cypriots today, and a U.N.

spokesman said no violence had been reported on the island for third straight day. Nevertheless, the U.N. commander on the island says halt in hosilities "is only a breather" and Secretary General Thant asked for soldiers to bolster his force. Thant's request came amid signs that relations between Greece and Turkey were worsening. Ban On Aid To Indonesia Tied To Foreign Aid Bill WASHINGTON (AP) John M.

Bailey, Democratic national chairman, says he will recommend that two contesting groups of delegates from Senate Mississippi be placed on the temporary roll of the Democrat- Worked out by Senate Demo- ic National Convention, cratic leader Mike Mansfield 1 The decision, disclosed by Bombs, Bottles, Bricks Shatter In New Jersey i PATERSON, N.J. (AP)-Gas- oline bombs, bottles and bricks crashed in the streets of Pater; son's Negro district for the third successive night, but city offi- cials called the vandalism and disorder less serious. In Elizabeth, police swinging i nightsticks a street clear of hundreds of Negro and white youths at midnight after a po- I lice car was struck with a bot- tie. There too, on the third night of violence, authorities said ten- Variable cloudiness today and sion appeared to be subsiding. Saturday with scattered showers I The pattern three nights of likely by late Saturday.

Not so violence in a row matched cool tonight. that of recent racial rioting in Generally mild through Wed- Harlem, Brooklyn and Rochest- resday, i temperatures er, N.Y., and Jersey City, several degrees below normal, Paterson police reported that Some warming Sunday and between 50 and 60 incidents Monday with scattered showers occurred Thursday night in and thundershowers likely. I near the city's predominantly high on Thursday was 80.1 Negro Fourth Ward. They ar- The mercury dropped to a cool rested 23 Negroes, one white last night then rose to 74 at man and a dozen juveniles. The unidentified white man alleged- ly was arrested with a bottle in his hand.

Threa policemen and a teenager suffered minor injuries. A police car was "extensively damaged" by rocks and bricks, Mayor Frank X. Graves said. Graves, who promised to meet street violence with total force, said late Thursday night: "I'm very encouraged at this point. I think they know we mean business a year in jail for fooling around with a cop." In Elizabeth, the midnight clash climaxed a night of milling in the streets of the city's multiracial Elizabeth port district by Negroes and whites.

Shortly before midnight some 40 Negro youths began a march on one side of First Street, but they broke into a run when a white man in a telephone booth yelled, "Hey, get that boy in the gray jacket." A bottle struck a police car; others smashed in the street. The milling crowd of between 200 and 300 persons began running and shouting along several blocks. Twenty squad cars roared onto First Street from all directions', and helmeted policemen with clubs took command immediately. Six Negroes were arrested in Elizabeth, five of them in a car allegedly containing rubber hoses, gasoline bombs and bottles. There were no injuries reported.

Asked to compare the moods of the Wednesday and Thursday night crowds, Elizabeth Police Capt. Walter Truzack said, was much better tonight, crowd was almost jovial." Bailey Thursday in an interview, was hailed by Joseph L. Rauh Jr. as a skirmish line victory for a predominantly Negro group of delegates in what could turn into the hottest fight of the convention. Rauh.

a Washington attorney and delegate to the convention, is seeking recognition for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party, a group which was organized this year with the strong support of most civil rights groups working in Mississippi. Rauh is representing the Freedom Democrats. It is challenging the right to convention seats for the all- white and pro-segregationist regular Democratic party delegates from Mississippi. The Freedom Democrats say the regulars rebuffed ail efforts by Negroes to take part in the selection of convention delegates. Bailey said he will recommend to the national committee, which meets Aug.

22 in Atlantic City to make up the temporary roll for the convention, that all contested delegations be kept off the roll. MRS ETHEL T. HAYSWOOD, who retired in the spring alter serving as supervisor in Robeson county schools for 45 years, has been appointed an advisor to the Lumberton City School Board. The appointment was made by the board meeting last evening. Mrs.

Hayswood has accepted and will attend meetings of the board. The action came after a recent request that a Negro be named to the board. The board has no authority to increase its size. The appointment of Mrs. Mayswood is a compromise.

Mrs. Hayswoci's experience is to be used particularly in decisions on academic problems. WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has tacked to the foreign aid bill a ban on any aid to Indonesia. Then, after adding another amendment also opposed by the administration authority to use U.S. foreign currencies in Poland to repair a cemetery in Warsaw it settled down i Thursday to what may be a protracted debate over legislative reapportionment.

Until the scrap over the purely domestic issue is settled, the foreign aid authorization will have to wait. And unless it is settled quickly, plans to wind up Congress at the end of next week may go up in smoke. The inflexible prohibition against any assistance to Indonesia and suspension of the training of Indonesian military and police personnel at American bases was offered by Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex.

He was backed by his leader, Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who quoted Indonesian President Sukarno as having said "the United States can go to hell with its aid." Tower said his amendment was precipitated by Indonesia's recent recognition of Communist North Viet Nam. The Senate gave him a 62-28 victory. The cemetery amendment was offered by Sen. Thomas J.

Dodd, and opposed both by Dirksen and the manager of the aid bill. Sen. J. W. Fulfaright, D-Ark.

Dodd said "tens of thousands of Polish resistance were buried in the cemetery ia 1944. The Senate supported hira 51 to 37 despite Fulbright's contention that the United States can hardly maintain cemeteries in all.nations in which Congress members' constituents personal ties or interests. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -There was no immediate official comment here today on the U.S. Senate's move to prohibit further American aid to Indonesia. Diplomatic observers, however, said that although the Senate's amendment to the foreign aid bill still is subject to action, it is expected to hava sharp reaction here and influence American-Indonesian relations which are not at their best.

The United States has given Indonesia about S700 million in aid since 1950. There has been a slowdown, however, since Indonesia started its campaign to crush neighboring Malaysia. BULLETIN- Officials in both Elizabeth and Paterson, about 20 miles apart, GREENSBORO, N. Some members of the North Carolina delegation to the Democratic national convention are "It i spurring a drive to place the the I name of Gov. Terry Sanford in nomination for the vice presi- have blaroed "hoodlums" the disturbances.

for dency. The entire delegation is being polled in an effort to enlist support for the J. S. Ballenger PERSONNEL CHANGES affecting the Am21-0tron plant at Red Springs have been announced by R. M.

Cushman, president of the Amerotron Division of Deeving MilUken, Inc. J. S. Ballenger has assumed duties as general manager of the Robhins and the Red Springs plant J.D. Myrick J.

D. Myrick R. C. Self, Jr. (center) has been named plant manager of the Red Springs plant.

R. C. Self, is the plant manager of the Robbins plant. All duties began August 11. On August 11, C.

T. Mont joy resigned as plant manager of the Rubbins plant..