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NEWPORT DAIIY Ni-WS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1961 ILeaders Refused To Find Answer, I Events Did And Civil War Resulted I Editor's Note--Reasonable dis-1 'Hie area of choice does not ret cussion and compromise had been ma open (orever. After the stale ''spurned by the Congress, the con- iventions, the people. Now the is- isue was changing and a decision 'which affect the lives of 30 million Americans passed by default as I860 ended to a pair iof obscure officers, fn the third jot four articles on the needless historian Bruce Cation points to the possibility of a modern parallel. By BKUCE CATTOX Written for The Asuoclated Press Instead of any compromise, th of Abraham Lincoln i was followed by the secessio 'of a number of the Southei jstates. i At least in the beginning, th ract of secession was much mor political maneuver than a real! warlike gesture.

It was a mear putting on the political heat The tragedy was that it evoke defiant reaction in the North-- at the same time, changec fundamental issue from th question of slavery, abou nether side was ready 'fight, into a question of Union about which a great many people would fight. After Lincoln's election Con igress and the country had a little jnpre than five months to settle These months were who! jy wasted. Efforts indee made, in and out of Congress, to work out a compromise, but they failed completely--chiefly because nobody really wanted to compromise. machinery of democracy, still available, went unused. There were no real debates: there was a great deal of oratory and there was much editorializing, but almost all of it involved nothing much more than calling one's opponent a scoundrel.

The notion that this scoundrel might have at least a little of the right on his side, and that sooner or later he would have to be dealt with, seems to have entered nobody's head. Panama Moving Toward Cuba Break PANAMA CAP) Sentiment was rising today for a break in diplomatic relations with Cuba as Panama called home her ambassador in Havana. Official sources said Ambassador Alberto Obarrio was returning for consultations but refused further comment. Cuban exiles charged in a statement that Castro sympathizers were planning acts, of terrorism and street that could lead to armed irpurrectlon in some provinces in the interior. ADENAUER IS BONN, Germany (AP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer celebrated his 85th birthday today, the oldest government world.

chief in the ot South Carolina announced secession the area of choice tween North and South grew very narrow. Originally it had embraced the whole country--natio al party conventions, nationwic campaign, national election an- all. These had made no choic Then Congress had its chanc and Congress made no choice. Now the thing was delegated a fantastic extent. In Charlesto harbor there was Ft.

Sumter, an in nearby Ft. Moultrie there wei 70-odd federal soldiers under major in the regular Army. Th officer, Jlaj. Robert Anderson was told, from Washington, tha he was to keep the peace, bu that if in his judgment the Soul Carolina authorities were menacing he could move his me over into Ft. Sumter.

which wa much more defensible than Moultrie. At the same time, suspectin that Maj. Anderson might do this South Carolina authorities anne a steamboat and put it to patro ling Charleston harbor; and th militia captain who eommandec this bbat was told to prevent thi federal soldiers from occupyTM Ft. Sumter. using force if in hi judgment that might be neces sary.

And there, as I860 ended, the power to make th fateful decision lay--in the hands of an obscure major of regular? and an equally obscure captain militia. They had the authoritj begin shooting if in their opiniof shooting was called for. The fact hat 30 million Americans woult carry on the shooting if they be it was beside the point. The errible question--war or no wa. somehow been evaded by the people and their political leaders uring all of the months when the machinery of democracy was vailnble for the solution of that uestion.

Now the question could answered by a major and aptain. (There is something hauntingly amiliar about that situation. Can ve imagine anything like it to- ay? Are there somewhere on u's globe, a ma.ior and a captain yeiiig--let us say-their radar creens, given the authority rhich ought to lie somewhere arther up the line, to transmit ie signals that will envelop civili- ation in earthquake, wind and re?) The point of all of this is that hen we fail to cope with a prob- we do not necessarily dispose it; we simply decree that the nswer to it will be made by omebody else. In 1861 the people of America were plunged into the costliest war in their entire experience simply because they and their leaders had refused to try to find an answer to the most momentous problem that they faced. Events themselves at last forced an answer, and it was fearfully expensive when at last! it was made.

4 AFMen Killed In Bomber Crash PEASE AIR FORCE BASE, N. H. (AP) Ah Air Force crew of four perished last night when their B-47 jet bomber crashed in 'aking off, exploded and burned. Killed were: C. T.

Wellcr, 28, Germantown, pilot; First Lt. J. A. Wetherbee, 27, Marshall, navigator, and First Lt. Ronald J.

Chapo, 26, Allen Park, coypilot. The fourth man, identified today, was S.Sgt. Stephen J. Merva. 23, crew chief, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Steve Merva of Box 11, Whitney. Pa. The plane left a trail of wreckage and woodland growth 75 yards wide and half a mile long beyond the runway before disintegrating in a deep gully. There it burned fiercely more than two hours.

The accident occurred as the' bomber, a unit in the 100th Bomb! Wing, was being taken into the air for a scheduled training flight. Gen. Jack Catton, commanding the 817th Air Division, appointed Col. James Keck of this base to head an (mitigation. CASH LOANS or on ethtr Mr You can get the cash you want promptly-- usually in 1 day -and select a sensible monthly payment plan.

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Gets $4,503,961 For Roads WASHINGTON (AP)--Secrctaryf New Hampshire, $1,045,939 Frederick H. Muel- 910.938) Wednesday parceled out to Die Rhode Island, $4,503,961 ($10,091,813) Vermont. $3,499.071. ($20.421,844) tales $231,250,000 in federal aid or building primary, secondary, nd urban highways in the 12 i months starting next July 1. "Die amount is in addition to the 693,750,000 apportioned to lates for these programs on July 6.

The extra amount was with- eld at that time pending comple- on of the 1960 census. Population one of the elements involved in lloting road funds to the states. a apportionment ave no effect on the $2.2 billion pportioned on July 26 for the in- erstate superhighway program. The amounts allotted to each 'ew England state, including the uly 26 amounts, for primary, econdary and urban highways vith funds provided earlier for ie interstate system are listed in arentheses) include: I Connecticut, $7,440,726 Maine, $5,744,242 ($11,131.313) Massachusetts, $14,378,440 ($60, .2,656) V. N.

REPULSES TRIBE ELISABETHVILLE, the Congo (AP) Nigerian U.N. troops riding guard on a pay train drove off a band of attacking Baluba. tribesmen and killed 14 "of them, the U.N. Command announced to- dav. Blood Batik Drive Set By VFW Posts The Veterans of Foreign Wars will conduct a blood bank drive among members in this area next Sunday.

The program is being i sponsored jointly by the posts in Newnort, Middletown and Portsmouth. They are asking all VFW members to take part between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Conover- lyary Dugout on Pelham Street. The Newport Hospital blood bank staff and the Rhode Island VFW! bloodmobile will be in attendance.

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