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HAZLETON FINAL Edition EIGHT CENTS WEATHER Clear tonight, 46. 52 partly cloudy i Thursday, 64-70. Temperatures -7 a. m. 60, Noon 67 eatoe continuing STANDARD-SENTINEL continuing THE PLAIN SPEAKER VOL.

98, NO. 27,129 HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1963 2 Sections 20 Page3 Standard 'Unconfirmed' Tornado Hits Town of St. Marys No Wallace Interference As Two Negro Pupils Are Enrolled In Birmingham ST. MARYS, Pa. (AP)-A vio lent storm, described by the Weather Bureau as an unconfirm ed tornado, whirled along the out skirts of this northwestern Penn sylvania town Tuesday, killing livestock, ripping off roofs and knocking house traders and rail .1 road cars about like toys.

Despite the severity of the storm, Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital said only one person was injured badly enough to be ad BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Two Negro brothers entered school with white children today and brief disorders broke out at the elementary school where they registered. Dwight and Floyd Armstrong, accompanied by four Negro men, entered the Graymont grammar school through a side door. They enrolled and 10 minutes later left by the same door. They became pupils in the fifth mitted while eight or ten others were treated for minor injuries then were released.

Mayor Regis Weinveril esti mated the damages would total several million dollars. lew 3KM Iffy wS 0 and sixth grades the first Ne State police said the storm is groes in Alabama to enter an ele mentary school with white chil believed to have originated near Ridgway, travelled northeast to dren. jP sa-5 ward Johnsonburg then turned Demonstrations by about 100 southeast and skirted the business white persons who had gathered early on the sidewalks about the school followed. Police brought in riot squads armed with car bines and rifles. The white segregationists yelled "let's get those niggers out of there" and "nigger lovers." They chanted, "two, four, six, and residential sections of St.

Marys before inflicting damage in Benzinger Twp. Henry Foster, who owns a farm along the St. Marys-Johnsonburg Road, said the storm picked up 14 of his "cows and flung them to the ground. All were killed. At a trailer camp, the winds picked up a house trailer and carried it about three quarters of a mile before it hit a house and knocked it off its foundation.

Nobody was in the trailer or house at the time. Another house trailer was over eight, we don't want to inte grate." Using a megaphone, police Capt. George Wall offered to let one of the group advance and fw- An.iL0, Three unidentified women look to each other for comfort L.OPISOI6 Ullc AnOTMSr outside ruins of home after 'unconfirmed' tornado ripped (AP Wirephoto). talk things over. The crowd shouted back: "We're going to stay here until they close the schools." through outskirts of St.

Marys, Pa. LA IT ii At least three white men and turned, and the windows and doors of nine others were blown one Negro man were arrested. out. Police broke up crowds of Negro Airliner Crash Scene- Swiss jet airliner which crashed outside village of Duerren-aesch, Switzerland, today, plowed through field between two spectators on a corner facing the Near the trailer court, a large tree was yanked out of the ground farm houses, badly damaging both. All 80 persons aboard plane died.

(AP Wirephoto). demonstrators. and smashed against a After about 25 minutes of yelling Lewis Jeter and his family were on the porch, but they weren't and placard waving, the white group led by officials of the National States Rights Party filed back in cars in a nearby parking lot and departed. hurt. The winds overturned four em pty freight cars on a Pennsylva nia Railroad siding and knocked Gov.

George C. who Swiss Jet Airliner Explodes, 80 Killed Tuesday sent hundreds of state (Continued on Page 18, Column 2) troopers, wildlife rangers and other special officers into the city, maintained silence at the executive mansion in Montgomery. The state forces did not show The plane narrowly missed the Turncoat Has Gash Problem HONG KONG (AP) Belgian village. Duerrenaesch, a settlement be tween two small lakes, lies about 30 miles west of Zurich. Aboard were 74 passengers and a crew of 6, Swissair officials reported.

-Whether any Americans were on the plane was not known. The plane was bound for Rome and planned a stop at Geneva! The airliner crashed west of the village of Duerrenaesch at 6:15 a.m. (1:15 a.m. EST). It gouged out a huge crater and ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) A Swiss jet airliner with 80 persons aboard exploded in the air shortly after takeoff from Zurich today and crashed in flames.

"Witnesses said there were no survivors. Four minutes before disaster struck, officials reported they had lost contact with the Swissair Caravelle twin-jet. born U. S. Army turncoat Albert Belhomme of Ashland, Pa.

and his Villagers said they heard an explosion, looked up and saw the blazing plane coming down over family appeared today to be in a Floor of house trailer with bathtub standing on end depicts financial dilemma. the houses. Some said the big rcemuuibui iiuiici up at any of the three schools ordered desegregated by a federal court. A total of 93 schools opened in Birmingham today with enrollment expected to exceed last year's record 72,000. Negroes did not appear as scheduled at the West End and Ramsay high, schools.

A group of about 50 states right-ers appeared at Ramsay. They waved Confederate flags and protested a police barricade. Some wore gestapo-type uniforms. In the gulf coast city of Mobile, two young Negroes accompanied by two city policemen reg violence of storm which hit St. Marys, Pa.

Trailer was blown The 34-year-old Korean War craft grazed the roof of two farm (Ar Wirephoto). 100 feet off its foundation. buildings before crashing. turncoat, accompanied by his Chinese wife and three sons, came Swissair officials confirmed re out of Communist China last week ports from the scene that there were no survivors. South Viet Nam Turns A Swissair spokesman said there was no indication of the Risks Balance Favors Treaty Ratification cause of the accident.

Swissair was checking over copies of tickets to establish a complete passenger list, expected to eaf Ear to Kennedy istered for the 12th grade at the Board of Education office. There were no incidents. No other pupils were present. viet Union in a retaliatory blow." WASHINGTON (AP)-The Sen on his way to Belgium. Belhomme said he did not know when he would be able to return to Belgium.

"I have no money to pay my passage," he said. Press reports from Washington said the U. S. Army had denied Belhomme's application for Army back pay amounting to $4,894. The Army cited a 10-year statute of limitations.

The Belhommes Wednesday moved from a downtown hotel to an unfurnished flat in a suburban community. The former U. S. Army sergeant "The committee finds the balance of risks weighted in favor At Montgomery, Wallace con of the treaty," the report ate Foreign Relations Committee assured the Senate today that the "balance of risks" is in favor of ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty. tinued to decline comment after desegregation had been accom Plea to Support Diem plished.

"It is possible by testing underground that the Soviet Union In a formal report recommend be issued later today. Under new international regulations, companies are no longer obliged to keep complete passenger lists for each flight. The passengers were believed to include 22 married couples frcm the Swiss hamlet of Hum-likon who were on a trip organized by a farming cooperative. Most of the other passengers were believed to be Swiss. ing approval of the ban on at will slowly erase the technological lead the United States possesses in some critical areas of nuclear U.

S. Defector Fails in Bid development mospheric, underwater and outer space testing, the committee said U.S. strategic capability is such that "a nuclear attack against the United States on any scale would SAIGON, South Viet Nam, (AP) The government of South Viet Nam has turned a deaf ear to President Kennedy's pleas for reforms to rally public support for President Kgo Dinh Diem and win the war against Communist guerrillas. While a government spokesman welcomed Kennedy's pledge of continued U.S. aid in the anti-Communist war, he said Tuesday the President's criticism of Diem's domestic policies was "quite wrong" and "based on inadequate information." "But it is equally true, as the hearings indicated, that this gap said he has only $100 left.

The hotel rent and food, he said, averaged $10 daily. "If I continue to live in the assure the devastation of the So- Rescue workers found debris and bodies scattered over an area U.S. officials in Washing. hotel I will be penniless in 10 of several hundred feet. The blazing wreckage lighted up nearby farm houses.

BERLIN (AP) An American Army captain who defected to East Germany four months ago has made an unsuccessful at days," he said. Khrushchev's Tour Hints Belhomme's transit visa to this British colony does not allow him could be closed much more rapidly if unrestricted testing were continued." It added that the treaty would slow the rate and significantly increase the expense of Soviet weapons progress by confining tests to the underground area where the United States has a broad advantage. "In that light," the report con Mrs. Emil Luescher, wife of a Duerrenaesch baker, told news- tempt to regain contact with the to take jobs here. West, U.S.

Army authorities said JFK to Name Three Neutral Rail Panelists The Salvation Army and British Red Cross gave the Belhommes a today. Change in Soviet Strateg helping hand today. mea she and her family "first thought the cork factory across the road had exploded. The whole house shook, all the window panes went to pieces. "The plane came down about ton privately voiced disappointment over the negative reaction to Kennedy's plea for reforms.

The Saigon stand was considered a blow to a solution of deteriorating U.S.Vietnamese relations. The American President appealed to the Vietnamese government Monday to rally public support by changes in policy "and perhaps in personnel." He apparently had in mind Diem's brother-adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu. Washinston believes Nhu BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP)lassigned to a largely agricultural tinued, "now would seem to be a Premier Khrushchev's tour of role in Comecon good time to stop." If one country under Comecon's 200 yards from our house. When The renort. aDDroved hv a 16-1 Near Normal In Folcroft committee vote last week, will be got there we saw only a part the basis of debate starting on! tne fuselage sticking out of a the Senate floor next Monday.

deep crater. The rest of the plane so-called "socialistic division of labor" specializes in a certain product or line of products, it will become fully dependent upon the WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy is expected to announce today or Thursday his selection of three neutral members to serve nn an arbitration nanel in the rail- (Continued on Page 18, Column 2) (Continued on Page 18, Column 4) A U.S. Army spokesman said Capt. Alfred Svenson, 30, of Scranton, made contact with a Western newsman in East Berlin Tuesday. When U.S.

Army officers attempted to meet Svenson they couldn't locate him, the spokesman said. It was the first that had been hard of Svenson since he defected on May 4. U.S. authorities in Berlin were informed early Tuesday by the British news agency, Reuters, that Svenson had contacted their correspondent. Svenson was reoorted to be Soviet Union and its neighbors for those items it does not pro FOLCROFT, Pa.

(AP) State road work dispute. Yugoslavia has convinced many here that Moscow has changed its strategy for dominating the Communist world. In every speech, Khrushchev insistently argued the necessity and advantages of economic cooperation among Communist countries. Students of Communist affairs believe a primary goal of Khrushchev's visit was to draw Yugoslavia into closer economic ties with the Soviet Union and other coun police reduced, their patrol force Under legislation enacted hur duce. Export possibilities to the West also would appreciably di minish with the curtailment of Say Marriage of Negro Coed to White variety in goods produced.

and eased automobile restrictions today at Delmar Village, where last week racial demonstrations greeted the first Negro family to move into this all-white neighbor-Police said only "suspicious" The loss of economic independ riedly last week to avert a nationwide railroad strike on Aug. 29, he has until Saturday to name three neutral arbitrators to the seven-member panel which will rule on two prime issues in the dispute. ence would mean the restoration of Moscow's political domination. Khrushchev's speeches in Yugo cars would be stopped. Previous was responbile for the anti-Buddhist crackdown Aug.

21 when martial law was imposed in South Viet Nam. A Roman Catholic, Diem has denied Buddhist charges of religious discrimination. The Vietnamese government spokesman noted that "Kennedy said the United States should not withdraw its support of Viet Nam, and that is heartening." U.S. military and other aid to Viet Nam is running $500 milloin a year. Washington reacted sharply to a story published in Saigon that the U.S.

Central Intelligence Agency had. plotted to overthrow the (Continued on Page 20, Column 8) slavia repeatedly stressed his de- ly, all cars were banned from "parties intending at the time to; bleeding and ill and to have corn-reside in this state" shall have Ulained he was beins ill-treated sire for Yugoslavia to join in this entering this Delaware County A high government, source mai-cated today the President would announce his selec- the same legal consequences as; by East German police. He indi- community outside Philadelphia. if they were solemnized in Geor cooperation. Yugoslav Communists made it clear they want an observer post tries of the Eastern bloc.

In Stalin's day, Moscow con-tolled its satellites and other communist parties by tough discipline. The situation has greatly changed in the past few years. Yugoslavia escaped from Moscow's orbit in 1948, the only Communist nation to do so up until tions before riaay. man uk day on which Secretary of Labor cated he was trying to get in touch with American authorities. The Army spokesman said U.S.

officials had no doubt the man The Negro couple, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Baker, took an uneventful shopping trip Tuesday and Mayor Hugh McVicker said the situation in both Comecon and the Common gia. The attorney general said he is investigating to ascertain where the marriage took place. Market.

ATLANTA (AP) The marriage of Charlayne Hunter, first Negro girl to enter and graduate from the University of Georgia, to a white Southerner is void in Georgia, says Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook. Miss Hunter, 21, disclosed Monday in New York that she secretly married Walter Stovall, 25, of Douglas, last spring. She said they are expecting a child in December.

"They are not married under Georgia law," Cook said Tuesday. who went to Reuters office was Svenson. He had been identified Cook said he would submit his I Stalin's death. Since then, Albania and Asian -Yugoslav trade is almost equal- is back to normal, ly distributed among Western, The Bakers also received some Communist and nonaligned coun- encouragement from an unsigned tries of Asia and Africa. The telegram to them that read: emphasis is on developing further "Don't give up hope the decent trade with new nations and con-people of Delmar Village are be- W.

Willard Wutz meets wun ran and union representatives to discuss procedures for arbitration of the issues of locomotive firemen's jobs and train crew makeup and for resumption of negotiation of other issues. "It would be presumptuous to hold the meeting Friday without having learned who will serve on on the basisof information sup-piled by the correspondent, the spokesman said. Communist nations led by Red findings to the solicitor general and a grand jury to determine if the couple may have lived in violation of Georgia's criminal law. He said a grand iurv would hav-p China have adopted independent News Index and anti-Soviet lines. Signs of dis tinuing the upward trend with! bind you." obedience also have recently ap- to return an indictment against ROY M.

COHEN INDICTED Western countries. The Bakers moved into Delmar neared in Romania. the couple in order for him to NEW YORK (AP) Roy the arbitration board," the source Village amid violent demonstra tions last Thursday and Friday. Observers now believe Moscow is trying to regain control through take any action. was indicated today by a Mrs.

Stovall graduated from grand jury, charged with "It's unlawful for a white person to many anyone except a white said U. N. CONVENES SEPT. 17 UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.

(AP) With the exception ot the shop person, and any marriage in vio A list of possible arbitrators to be added to four already selected ping trip, the couple remained in The U.N. General Assembly ses side their two-story, row home. two by the railroads and two sion opening Sept. 17 is expected to consider charges that the gov the university in June with a conspiring to obstruct justice and journalism degree. Stovall lacked commit perjury, only one quarter of work to getf Indicted with Cohn, former aide his journalism degree.

I to the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy University officials expressed and former asst. U.S. attorney, shock at the marriage. University was Murray E.

Gottesman, also by the unions apparently was un Page Freeland 2 McAdoo 2 Conyngham 2 Nuremberg 2 Editorial 4 Social 10 Comics Theatres 15 Sports 1G-1T Stocks Classified 18U Deaths 20 The trip, which included a stop at a market and notions store, ernment of South Met Nam is re lation of this law shall be The couple, who met at the university where they were students, declined to give the exact time and place of the wedding, but said it was in the North. der study by Labori Department subtle economic means. The idea is to dominate Comecon, the Communist answer to the European Common Market By centralized planning of production, Moscow could impose its will and ultimately wreck the economic independence of its members. This idea is behind Romania's discontent. It resented being was made without incident.

officials and White House staff pressing Buddhists. The Asian African group de Baker said he and his wife, members. President O.C. Aderhold said that i an attorney manded Tuesday that the Assem Indications are that two of the Both were accused of testifying neither of them would be permit- Cook said any marriage so- Sarah, "shopped like normal people" and the store employes were "very courteous." bly debate the Buddhist question false before the grand jury. (Continued on Page 20, Column 2)llemnized in another state to enter the university again.

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