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Daily News from New York, New York • 195

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'mil- 6 sS dN Ei 1 yjwwwsc ax -i jl--t -a CO 5o EWS photos bv John Duprev Gov. Rockefeller (right center) listens as arry Van Arsdale (left) speaks at conference. By GENE SPAGNOLI Staff Correspondent of The News Harriman, N. Nov. 3 Ten demonstrators were arrested by state police here today as they noisily sought to join in the conference which Gov.

Rockefeller called to help the nation's poor and to make such demonstrations unnecessary. to to -J State police cart off Hulbert James, one of 10 demonstrators arrested in protest at Harriman, N.Y. Chief executives of 40 leading firms, labor leaders and educa tors knew nothing of the arrests. They were in Arden House, five miles from the scene of the disturbance. One of those arrested, Hulbert James, director of the militant citywide Coordinating Council of Welfare Recipient Groups, was dragged to a paddy wagon when he refused to move.

The 60 demonstrators bused up from New York City to try to attend the conference. The persons arrested were charged with criminally trespassing when they marched on the private road to Arden House. Meanwhile up on the hill the 100 delegates were exchanging aid said Rockefeller woud ask the legislature for $50 million at the next session. Rockefeller announced the formation of an ad hoc committee, with Wilson as chairman, to follow up recommendations offered by the conference. He said the New York Board of Social Welfare will a series of seven public meetings in the state in February and March to give citizens a chance to be heard.

On Relief 8 Years Also arrested today outside Anden House were Jeannette Washington, 32, of 183 W. 87th Eleanor Bel ton, 18, and Virgil West, both of 112 Legion Brooklyn. Miss Washington, Cmideiv Is Imposed After Carolina Eliot Winston-Salem, N. Nov. 3 (UPI) About 1,200 riot-equipped national' guardsmen and police imposed an 11 p.m.-to-dawn curfew on this tobacco town tonight to prevent recurrence of North Carolina's worst racial riot ideas in closed sessions as to how to break the welfare cycle.

Joseph Wilson, chairman of Xerox said that one plan favored by all delegates was that ot setting national standards for welfare. This, it was hoped, would help end the mass migration of residents from poorer states to those such as New York with a relatively high welfare allowance. Rockefeller said he was gratified that businessmen were now accepting it as part of their responsibility to" try to solve the welfare situation. He said he would set up a New York State urban development corporation to help rebuild slum areas. An wild last night, smashing windows, burning and looting stores and sniping at police and firemen who tried to put an end to the disorder.

44 Are Injured Forty-four persons, including eight policemen, were injured in the rioting and more than 60 arrests were made. The rioting broke out following the burial of James Eller, 32, a Negro who died after being blackjacked by a white policeman who picked him up for being drunk. The officer said it was necessary to subdue Eller when he became disorderly. Lawyers fo Monitor Mississippi Voting Councilman Theodore Weiss and former Councilman Paul O'Dwyer will be among a group of lawyers who will leave for Mississippi by plane tomorrow "in an attempt to avert wholesale fraud and mas3 intimidation at Mississippi polling places next Tuesday," according to the National Committee for Free Elections in Mississippi. "With 225,000 Negro voters on the rolls, where there were only 25,000 three years and with black majorities in more than one third of the state's counties," O'Dwyer said yesterday, "local Negroes expect retaliation from whites who fear losing control of county government in the state." About 30 lawyers are traveling to Mississippi-at the request of William Kunstler, an attorney for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

co-chairman of the welfare recipients organization, and mother of 6 children, said she had been on relief for eight years. She had been in a film shown to delegates last night as she protested the welfare setup. Arrested also were Mrs. Sydel Charge Voting Rolls Padded Gary, Nov. 3 (AP) The Justice Department charged in a Federal Court suit today that Lake County election officials were attempting to dilute Negro votes in the city election Tuesday, in which a Negro is running for mayor, by padding white rolls.

Based on a three-week FBI investigation, the suit charges that the names of fictitious and ineligible persons were added to voter rolls in predominantly white Moore of 840 Columbus and Mrs. Sarah Plotkin of 119 W. 106th St. Those arrested were previously warned by Trooper Lieut. Peter Gromacki that they would be arrested if they stepped on the private property.

House to Get Poverty Bill; Cut Expected By CHARLES RABB Washington, Nov 3 (News Bureau) The House voted 262-39 today to take up the administration's embattled $2.06 billion antipoverty program Monday. The procedural vote was no test of strength for the Great Society measure closest to President Johnson's heart and the GOP's favorite target. Ford Raps Administration Earlier, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford at a GOP congressional leadership press conference, ripped into the administration antipoverty efforts as "tragically weak, wasteful and ineffective." House Speaker John McCor-mack (D-Mass.) predicted that a povertv bill would pass "after a hard fight." Almost everyone agrees that the House will pass an anti-poverty program in one form or another but the Republicans want to reshape the whole effort and virtually wipe out Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity. Senate OKs Full Amount GOP leaders said they had the votes to carve up the administration program, but doubted they could push through their own plan. In any event it was not expected that the House would approve a package anywhere near the administration's $2.06 billion request.

The Senate voted $198 million more than the President asked. Rock to Keep U.S. Post Washington, Nov. 3 (UPI) President Johnson will reappoint Gov. Rockefeller of New York to a two-year term on the Advisory Commission on Inter Governmental Relations, the White House said today.

Rockefeller has served on the 26-member commission since 1965. His term expires Nov. 11. UPI Tclephoto Dr. Martin Luther King speaks with newsmen after he was freed from jail in Birmingham.

With him is the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker. King and 3 Released From Jail a Day Early Birmingham, Nov. 3 (AP) The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

and three other Negro ministers were freed from jail a day early today by a judge who said he did not want to "work a hardship on anybody." ing of the century. Police Chief Justus Tucker saifl his men would not shoot except "to protect the city and the citizens of the city." Mayor M. C. Benton acting under emergency powers voted him by the Board of Al- UPlTelephoto Police Chief Justus Tucker talks with newsmen in Winston-Salem, N. C.

dermen earlier in the day, announced the curfew at nightfall. Forces Bolstered Shortly before the mayor acted, authorities disclosed that an additional 600 national guardsmen had moved in to bolster the 200 troops already at hand. Added to state and local police, this gave the city of 144,000 persons a police force of about 1,200. About 500 young Negroes ran Zt? I I The move caught King's sup porters by surprise. They had planned to demonstrate at the courthouse upon his release, but only a handful were there when the ministers left.

The four had served four days of a five-day term. The jail terms for King, his brother, A. D. King, Wyatt Tee Walker and Ralph Abernathy stemmed from contempt of court convictions involving street demonstrations in 1963. Circuit Judge William C.

Barber said of King: "He has this virus condition and has served enough time. As far as ,1 was able to tell, he was a model prisoner.".

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