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t-A THE MIAMI HERALD Friday July 15 I960 Congo Premier Slugged US Agrees To Notice On Rights Johnson Choice Seen as Concession Party Needs Dixie New Terror Grips Area New York Times Service WASHINGTON The United States has agreed to a formal arrangement to give Britain advance notice of Air Force flights from British bases that could be interpreted as provoc- nedy and Johnson in the fast-moving series of developments which brought unexpected drama to the choosing of a vice president Rep Robert Sikes chairman of the Florida delegation here hailed the John- ative Prime Minister Harold Mac- son acceptance as "saving Florida from the Republicans" Sikes said he never would have admitted it publicl) but UN Peace Force Is Due Saturday Continued from Page 1 tidans were getting the political shaft as never before from the party of their fathers Smathers called the ticket "a combinaion of the two best men we could get tpr our party" He long had advocated the team but in reverse order "I'm like the preacher who called the girl's name first at the declared Smathers grinning broadly "I've been trying to "marry" these two for some time" Johnson had suggested to Kennedy that he name Smathers as his running mate And the Florida senator had been a probable for the party chairmanship op to the time Kennedy went South for his vice president There never was a chance that Southerners would move into more than one of the top spots Smathers met with both Ken cf them punched Lumumba in the face in an outburst of fury over Congolese attacks on By Herald Wirt S-rvkts LEOPOLDVILLE The Con-go European refugees mob-fetid Congolese Premier Patrice liimumba and President Ttseph Kasavubu at Leopold-irjlle airport Thursday and one Wednesday night after Johnson lost the presidential nomination to Kennedy he felt the South was lost to the Republicans in November "I was seriously discouraged and disheartened although as I said then I was going to support the ticket anyway" he declared James Milligan party chairman in Florida was equally enthusiastic over Kennedy's choosing of Johnson "Johnson gives our ticket strength stature age and experience" said Milligan "It has assured us we can carry Florida with our ticket" whites Screaming "murderers" and "to their knees the Belgians milled around the two leaders of the new Congo state At LeopoldviUe's Ndjili airport a Belgian shook his fist at Lumumba and cried "Why don't you go to see the worn- millan requested the new formal assurance He exchanged messages directly with President Eisenhower on the matter The British leader acted after the running political debate in Parliament on US bases was intensified by the fact that the RB4V reconnaissance bomber downed by the Soviets In the Barents Sea July 1 was based in Britain Moscow has demanded that the UN Security Council take up its charges that American reconnaissance flights are endangering the peace President Eisenhower has expressed US readiness to go before the vorld organization with countercharges of Soviet lawlessness According to authorities here the proposed US-British agreement on flight plans will require no amendment to the existing bases agreements These agreements made in 1951 provide for the stationing of UJS strategic bombers and other military forces in Britain The new document it was said probably will take the form of a memorandum of un Hurricane Advances On Belize en they (Congolese mutineers' have raped" Even when one of the men 1 dashed forward and smashed him on the face with a fist i the 34-year-old Lumumba re The Demo Ticket: Kennedy-Johnson mained calm and intpasMte He and Kasavubu ordered a plane to take them to Stanleyville The outburst occurred as more Europeans fled to airports to quit the new republic that was gripped by terror (Reports in Paris diplomatic circles said some wives of American missionaries had Prasi Wlrepboto Belgian 'Chutist Coders Leopoldville Airfield From Tower young volunteer takeg refreshment to paratrooper Continued from Page 1 marks also from Gov George Docking of Kansas Gov Lindsay Almond of Virginia Rep Bv SICK TI TTLE Herld Staff Writtr Hurricane Abby lunged at British Honduras with new and Bidden fury Thursday after advancing on the coast as a weak-filling tropical storm Forecasters in Miami warned of small tidal waves as the storm rams into the coast about 35 miles south of Belize with winds wind probably won't do too much damage but shallow water along the coast will cause dangerous tidal surges up to five feet" warned Forecaster Arnold Sugg At 11 pm Thursday Abby fc'AL Loms License Alter Long Probe derstanding It is expected to be similar in its legal formula to the US-British agreements that were developed with the establishment of intermediate range ballistic missile bases In England The Macmillan request grew from purely domestic political considerations it is understood here Shifts Ch 10 Permit been raped by rioting Congolese In New York the National Broadcasting Co reported that all American missionaries have been ordered to leave the country) New rioting and pillaging erupted again Thursday and was announced that advance units of four battalions of United Nations troops will arrive by Saturday to try to cope with the situation Dr Ralph Bunche famed To Cincinnati Operators list along with Gov Orville Freeman of Minnesota and Sen Henry Jackson of Washington Kennedy offered the job to Johnson and the Texas senator soon accepted Johnson said he would "stump the country from coast to coast" in an attempt to win an overwhelming Democratic support of the platform adopted by the party convention which includes a strong civil rights plank In another development Sen Jackson who had hoped for the vice presidential nomination said he was considering whether to become the Democratic national chair-man Paul Butler is resigning this post after a stormy career It is customary for presidential nominees to name their Continued from Page 1 American Negro diplomat who of a TV facility A license is is the UN special delegate to usually granted for three the new Congo republic an-1 years nounced the imminent arrival of a UN armed force as blacks ran riot through Leopoldville firing on cars and looting homes vacated by fleeing whites as skirting along the northern roast of Honduras 800 miles southwest of Miami Her ee was centered at longitude 861 latitude 162 Her full force should strike British Honduras between 11 am and noon today Sugg said Abby has been approaching the Central American coast all week and Wednesday sagged to a 40-mile-an-hour tropical storm But she intensified early Thursday Sugg said she would lose strength as she continued westerly across the Yucatan Peninsula "There is a 50-50 chance that she will pick up steam again in the Gulf of Campeche" Sugg said "It's very likely she will continue on a westerly course after that" (het Holifield of California and Rep Stewart Udall of Arizona The convention adjourned at 11:30 pm (EST) The final session will convene at 6 pm Friday Johnson was the choice of powerful Southern democratic leaders He was opposed by some city bosses and unhappy union leaders who wanted a northern or western liberal Johnson's critics contended that putting him on the ticket would endanger the party's liberal platform Johnson men countered that the Senate leader could match his record against anyone's Johnson got a big hand again by congratulating the delegates on "your decision last night" when they picked Kennedy for the presidential nomination over Johnson's bid "It's good enough we ll support it" said Sen Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota) asked his opinion of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket Humphrey spearheaded a drive for a third presidential nomination for Adlai Stevenson Proclaiming that the party is would rather go along with the finding of special examiner Horace Stern who did not recommend absolute disqualification for National radio station WKAT of Miami Beach and North Dade Video Inc of Miami Stern had recommended that the award to National be set aside and that the FCC have a new hearing on the award of the license He suggested that in the new proceeding the behind-the-scenes conduct of National WKAT of Miami and North Dade Video Inc while the case was originally pending before the FCC be held against them The US Court of Appeals ordered the FCC to review the original grant after the Mack-Whiteside dealings were made public in Congress The FCC then appointed Stern retired chief justice of Pennsylvania to conduct a the corporation which bears his name had been a part-time resident of the Greater Miami area He died before the commission's ruling in 1957 declaring National the winner Wilson's will left the Cincinnati radio station WCKY and much of the stock in the corporation in the hands of the management The Mack-Whiteside trial in Washington last year ended in a hung jury after 14 weeks The jury deadlocked 11-1 ior conviction Mack resigned from his $20-000 a year FCC post in the midst of the Congressional investigation but denied that Whiteside his boyhood friend had influenced his vote for National with loans of money and other favors After the trial Mack and Whiteside appealed to the Supreme Court for a directed verdict of acquittal The request was denied The new trial has Cash-Short Cuba Airline Suspends Aerovias a Cuban airline that has had half its fleet seized by American companies for non-payment of bills suspended operations Thursday Roberto a Miami manager said however the airline would be operating again today "I just talked to the Havana headquarters and a told the money would be sent right away to pay the bills" Chomat said Aerovias has had a total of four planes seized by court order Its total fleet is eight Three of the planes have been attached by Harris and Co a Miami advertising firm that says the Cuban government hasn't paid a $250000 bill for tourist Dromotion Commission Chairman Frederick Ford told The Herald that Wilson was given the short-term license "in order to permit competition for the channel" by new applicants when the license comes up for a renewal after four months He said the commission has found that competition is very rare in cases of renewal for three years "They won't have to wait for three years in this case if they feel they want to compete for the channel" Ford said He said that this case was unusual because Wilson got the license only because the other three applicants The rioting through the new-born republic severed normal supply lines and the spectre of famine rose In Leopoldville where the Congolese quarters had only three days supply of food The arrival of the UN troops under Swedish Gen Karl van Horn threatened to increase rather than ease tensions As the crisis deepened there were these main In Elisabethville the Katan- i ga provincial' assembly ratified were disqualified by the com- mission vice presidential partners while letting it appear that the convention was making the choice Actually open convention selections are rare In 1956 Adlai Stevenson threw the vice presidential race open to the convention on the second ballot Sen Estes Kefauver of Tennessee nosed out Kennetiy for the role One congressman from a northern industrial state said the Kennedy-Johnson ticket would mean that the Democrats would carry every southern state with the possible exception of Mississippi But he said he knew organized labor and civil rights groups would not be happy wtih Johnson on the ticket The selection of Johnson met with outright hostility from some members of the Michigan delegation Detroit called the choice a "double cross" of Gov Mennen Williams a Johnson critic She said that "we are all burned up" Paul Silver also of Detroit said "I say it publicly Johnson can't win in Michigan" North Carolina Gov Luther Hodges said he was "pleasantly surprised" that Johnson took it He said "it makes the ticket much stronger for the whole nation and especially for the South Gov Lindsay Almond of Virginia "I think it a most fortunate selection combining qualities of leadership and experience which will greatly strengthen the Democratic ticket been set in Washington for October This came after illnesses of both Mack and Whiteside had halted several attempts By the government to re-try the case within the past six months The FCC Thursday also vacated the award of a TV channel in Boston Mass The commission revoked the It's doubtful that National Airlines will be going out of the television business immediately It was considered a certainty that National and probably the other applicants will appeal the commission decision to the courts and ask the courts to stay the FCC order pending outcome of the appeal Informed sources said they would be surprised if the courts did not grant such a stay But they also said that the courts probably would act speedily on the appeal united Johnson said "we have resolved our differences" "We have the will to win We have the people to do it" Johnson held up a for Victory as he posed for photographers with his wife and one of their daughters Lucy Bird The second daughter Linda missed out because she went to Disneyland and didn't get word in time that her father was Kennedy's choice to run with him Less than 24 hours after winning the presidential nomina secession from the Congo as proclaimed by Provincial President-Premier Moise Tshombe Tshombe is relying on Belgian forces to restore and keep order and declares Katanga will not admit UN troops In Brussels the government said it received a note from the national Congo government severing diplomatic relations The African nation of Ghana sent a delegation to Lumumba to offer armed support Belgian Premier Gaston Eys-kens announced he would indignantly protest a Russian special investigation and make recommendations Lee said he would recommend such a new proceeding and that in the meanwhile National be permitted to stay on the air under temporary authority The commission majority however said that the facts in the case involving these "off-the-record" pressures of the three losing applicants "reflect so adversely upon their character as to demonstrate that they lacked the qualifications to operate the station "None of them was satisified to be judged upon the record Convention Hi-Jinks or Confusion again reigns over television schedules as networks are torn between showing revenue-producing westerns and celebrity laden pre-convention entertainment WTVJ (Ch 4) plans to carry a half-hour of the variety show outside the Los Angeles Memorial Arena at 8:30 and the acceptance speeches and a news summary from 9 to 10:30 pm followed by "Hotel de Paree'' WCKT (Ch 7) will broadcast the convention from 8 to 10 pm and follow with "Moment of Fear" WPST-TV (Ch 10) is not scheduling any of the entertainment but will broadcast the session from 9 to 11 pm then local news and a movie Radio station VVKAT will go on the air from Los Angeles at 7:30 pm and VVGBS at 9 pm Drunk Driving Trial Delayed The drunk driving trial of Coral Gables Attorney Thur-man Whiteside was postponed in Hialeah Metro Court Thursday because his lawyer is on a vacation Whiteside who recently had his gall bladder removed did not appear in court One of his attorneys said his chief lawyer Richard Hunt was away and asked for the continuance It was granted by- National and the other ap- note branding Belgium an ag- plicants can either ask the award of Channel 5 held bvj WHDH-TV subsidiary of The! Boston Herald-Traveler and put the station on temporary operating authority FCC questioned the proprie- ty of two luncheon meetings which Herald-Traveler Publish- er Robert Choate had with the then commission chairman George McConnaughey while the Channel 5 contest was pending The commission said there was no evidence the merits of the case were discuss-! ed but that "Choate demon-1 strated an attempted pattern of influence" tion Kennedy swept through a round of strategy conferences with party leaders from every section and of every conviction He broke them off to race down two flights at his headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel to see Johnson the chief challenger for his own nomination They talked about the vice presidency Kennedy surveyed the field Sen Symington was on the gressor in the Congo FCC to reconsider its deei- sion or they can appeal directly to the US Court of Ap-Roar Raul peals in Washington LONDON (UPI) Cu- The vote was 3-1 with two ban Defense Minister Raul! members of the commission Castro was awarded absent and the seventh com-Czechoslovakian Order of the i mission seat being vacant White Lion the Czech News The dissenter Commissioner made in open hearing The majority said National WKAT and North Dade Video were guilty of "misconduct" Industry sources estimated that National has built up a property in Channel 10 worth about 10 million dollars and they foresaw a stiff legal battle to protect its franchise Wilson the founder of Judge Edward Nelson Whiteside who still faces an-: other Channel 10 trial with Richard Mack is accused of drunk driving speeding careless driving running a red light and not displaying a proper auto inspection sticker Agency reported Robert Lee said that he I Low-Pressure Trough Centers Over Jersey Bringing Rain To East Coast National Local Temperatures THE WEATHER TODAY In 2 a MAP PREPARED AT UAWfATHEl 1UIEAU MIAMI FLORIDA Sunrise FRIDAY 5 38 AM Sunset FRIDAY 7:15 PM Solunar Tables Mowt FRIDAY 1233 PM 7 PjM THURSDAY MY 14 I960 3" AM rM MM Ml Min Mil 1 llnui 1 -rY LcJr-" JS') 1 1 11:10 4:5 11: 11:35 5:40 12:40 Today Saturday Sunday Monday 1:00 7:15 1:30 7 Today's Forecast MIAMI AND VICINITY Partly cloudy through Saturday with a chance of brief showers tonight High 87-92 South and southeast winds 8-15 miles SMALL BOAT BULLETIN South and southeast winds US knots with sees less men two feet and Inland waters enoepv A tew scattered mostly nighttime showers MARINE Jacksonville through Florida Straits: Winds S-lS knots with partly cloudy skies and widely scattered showers East Gulf: South and southeast winds S-15 knots Widely scattered showers Western Pirect for mmed ia'e area Hurri Summary A low-pressure area centered over New Jersey during mid-day spread showers and rain occasionally moderate to heavy from Pennsylvania Into New England Showers and fhundershowers pelted the South Atlantic States and drooped over one inch of rain in one hour on Philadelphia Except tor cloudiness along the West Coast skies were mostly sunny from the PecHic States through the Middle and Upper Mississippi Valley into ma Great Lakes region The tCs were reported from the South Atlantic States Into the Gulf Region and were mixed with a few 100s in the Desert Cooler weather and clearing Is e-pected In most of the Atlantic States except Florida where a tew showers may- linger Sunny skies and pleasant temperatures are predicted from Carolines Into New England and westward into the mldde and upper Mississippi Valley The schedule of solunar period! as rinted above has been taken from John Aden Knifht's Solunar Table your days so that you will be fishino in good terrfory or huntint In sood cover during these times It you wish to find the best sport that each day has to offer The Major Periods art shown in bold face type These begin at the time shown and last for an hour and a half or two hours therefafter The Minor Periods shown in regular tvpp art of somewhat shorter duratfoon cane Abby east to southeast winds 15-35 knots Cloudy with showers and i the Suit 0 nonouras I HI Miami Airport 91 79 i Miami Beach 89 81 Bay Front Park 89 81 1 South Miami 91 73 FLORIDA Clewiston 93 73 Ocala 90 72 Daytona Beach 92 73 Orlando 97 74 Ft Lauderdale 89 78 Pensacola 88 79 Ft Myers 92 74 Tallahassee 92 72 Gainesville 89 72 Tampa 88 76 Jacksonville 94 76 Vero Beach 89 74 Key West 90 82 West Palm Bch 89 75 SOUTH Asheville N'C 80 68 Louisville 78 64 Altanta 88 74 Memphis 88 74 Augusta 95 73 Nashville 84 66 Charleston SC 89 80 New Orleans 74 Charlotte 83 73 Raleigh 85 71 Jackson Miss 95 74 Richmond 90 73 Little Rock 86 76 1 Savannah 94 73 EAST Albany NY 62 58 New York 72 63 Baltimore 79 71 Philadelphia 77 70 Bermuda 84 74 Pittsburgh 70 63 Boston 64 61 i Washington 81 69 MIDWEST Chicago 66 57 Duluth 76 44 Cleveland 70 63 Kansas City 79 64 Columbus 71 64 Mpls-St Paul 77 53 Des Moines 77 58 Omaha 78 58 Detroit 72 58 St Louis 76 60 WEST Albuquerque 87 64 Oklahoma City 86 68 Bismarck 92 53 Phoenix 107 80 Denver 88 56 San Antonio 93 74 Galveston 89 74 San Diego 75 60 Las Vegas 109 71 San Francisco 59 53 Los Angeles 85 64 i Seattle 79 55 PAN AMERICA Balboz CZ 81 74 Nassau 91 79 Havana 91 75 San Juaa PR 88 76 Tides Miami Harbor Entrance (HI new Jetties) HIGH LOU Statistics 7M am July 14 IN BerajMRar II ft am pm 733 7 51 1:31 154 4:21 4 57 10:51 00 pm S-r tl 7 15 S3 Relative Today Saturday Sunday esjesM 101 141 2 04 2:5 3 53 4:43 Highest pest 12 hours Lowest past hours Normal temperature Accumulated excess in tempera ture since Jon degrees Accumuia'ed deficiency since 1st hkhv- ne lowest t- Zht £fl Hrrw Ph FR 3-4411 Classified Ads FR 4-3711 Subscription Rates (By Carrierl Oeily I Daily Sunday Sundar 1 Wee I 30 I JO I 50 i ewari i Jf i7 3 Months J4B 3 1 4 SI 4 MMM 7 521 1306 1 Year T5 4C 10 41 3400 Subscripts Rates fBv Mail) US and Possessions MM Daily Sunday Sunday 1 VVsnth I 175 I 1 11 I 3 40 3 Worths 5Jt 2 35 7Je 4 10 40 I SO 1540 IS 20bJ 1301 31 Mall subscriptions art payable advance by post offrc or express money order bank draft or per-sonal check Sand to The Miami Herald Miami Flo Entered at A Ja--o MEXICO ff Z- Jj'V AWOWS FIT TTH THE WWD Rk Vx'" I smT iSI I xrv i Li 1 33! smce 1 and 71 Local rainfall for 24 hours Note- For tides at other points add or subtract these corrections In hours and minutes to the Miami time: Fort Pierce (city nocks! add 1 00 (inlet) tub tract 1:15 St Lucia inlet (Jetties) sub tract 0:20 Palm Beach (ocean) subtract 0:20 HiHsboro inlet add 0:25 Port Everglades entrance I etties) no change County Causeway test and add C't vacht Bas scayre Bay add Florida (west side) Key BViceyne add 0:55 Soldier Key add 1:05 Ragted Keys Blscavne Bay add 2:00: Angelflsh Key add 0:25 Pumokin Key Card Sound add 3:00 Garden Cove Kay Largo add 0:55 Largo Sound Key Largo add 3:20 Tavernier add 0:31 In the eastern part of Florida bay the period tc tide rtaj' plble at i am this month In Incites 54 WM r- spaa (Inches) Rainfall smce Jan 1 In inches 233 OoflfcPpncv sine Jan 1 inches 1M at Uooer Keys LUM-hovee 7 pm (rnpn) Ceryotert VI eil'lr N3 mm.

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