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(THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) tmt VOL. 08. NO. 76 KANSAS CITY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 196556 PAGES PRICE 7 CENTS Cub Scouts Depict All of Americas Years NIENCE Roxbury, Man Found Guilty on All Six Counts of Robbery and Murders at the Farmers State Bank in Big Springs, on June 4, 1965 PRISONER CALM Judge Calls Defendant, Attorneys Forward for Verdict AN INDIAN CHIEF Herbert Michael Wait, 9, had his mother, Mrs. Marjorie Wait, adjust his colorful headdress before his pack.

No. 108 from Blenheim elementary school at 2411 East Seventieth street terrace, put on an Indian dance exhibition. Mrs. Wait is a den mother in the pack. Another picture on page 3.

DUANE POPE WAS LED Lincoln, courthouse after robbery killings and sentenced AWAY yesterday from the he was found guilty of bank to death (Wirephoto). THE OLD AND NEW FRONTIER was displayed by Pack No. 412 from Smithville with an exhibit of an old settlement and a modern town. James Darr, Mrs. Lon Darr, his mother, and Randall James, 8, passed out flags.

candy vendors. It was impossible to move through the By Hairy N. Krause (A Member of The Star's Staff) MIN ARE GUILTY All-White Jury in Alabama Rules Against Three Men in Slaying of Civil Rights Marcher, Mrs. Liuzzo usual games of chance ringtossing booths, a toy motor car race plus many educational displays, with the Cubs re-enacting colorful events from American history. Pack No.

108, from Blenheim elementary school, put on an exhibition of Indian dancing, with red, white and blue headdresses, buckskin clothing and tom-tom music. The final performance will begin at 7 oclock tonight in the main arena of the Northeast Jackson County played a recording of a song popularized a few years ago by die late Johnny Horton, The Battle of New Orleans. The Scouts wore coonskin caps and red British uniforms and carried muskets. Brown said the packs in the act had been working two months on the show. Each pack worked out Us own skit within the framework of the theme.

Midway exhibits had the PANORAMA of American history, from precolonial days to the space age, was presented last night by the more than 10,000 Cub Scouts of the Kansas City Area council. The Municipal Auditorium was packed to the ceiling with additional thousands of parents and brothers and sisters and seemingly thousands of ice cream, popcorn and cotton many aisles of display booths because, with every step, a Scout would hand a souvenir to a spectator. So Proudly We Hail was chosen as the theme of the 28th annual Cub Scout show by the council activity committee. We felt a need, said Jim Brown, activity director, for Scouting to show a strong belief for America. The theme E1ECTR0CUTI0H IS SET Date of March 3, 1966, at 1 1 :30 A.

M. Announced by Court By Bill Ellingsworth (A Member of The Star'i Staff) Lincoln, Neb. Duane Earl Pope, standing slightly stooped between his court-appointed attorneys, was sentenced in federal court here yesterday to die in the electric chair at 11:30 oclock the morning of March 3, 1966. It was a hushed but crowded courtroom that the 22-year-old college graduate entered at 4:38 oclock to hear what a jury of 10 men and two women had decided after almost 14 and one-half hours of deliberation. They were given the case at 5:15 oclock Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pope, Roxbury, the defendants parents, were in the courtroom at 4:15 oclock accompanied by the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Earl Wretling of Canton, Kas.

Guilty on All 6 Counts Pope, standing at the head of the counsel table, was found guilty on nil six-counts concerning the June 4, 1965, robbery of the Farmers State Bank of Big Springs, and the murder of three bank employees. As the guilty verdict was read on the first count, Mrs. Pope, who had been clutching a handkerchief tightly to her lips, began to sob softly. When Judge Robert Van Pelt read the guilty verdict on count four, which charges Pope with killing a bank employee, and said the penalty had been set by the jury at death, Mrs. Pope gasped audibly and dropped her head on her husbands shoulder.

The elder Popes jaw muscles flexed but he did not take his gaze from his sons back. The defendant, according to persons able to see his face, was outwardly calm. After reading the verdict on each of the last three counts, Judge Van Pelt polled the jury each time and each juror answered in the affirmative when asked if the verdict which was read was accurate. Calls Pope to Bench After all the counts and the verdicts were read, the judge asked the defendant and his attorneys, Robert Crosby and Wallace Rudolph, to step before the bench. This was at 4:47 oclock.

You have heard the verdict of the jury, Mr. Pope, the judge said. Under the rules of law, sentence is to be set without unreasonable delay. On counts four, five and six, I see (Continued on Page 18.) Truck Packed With Explosives Blows Up Enlisted Men's Quarters in Saigon, Leaving Two Americans Dead and 67 Wounded was taken from the national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. A variety show was worked out by 12 vpacks with acts showing the flags of the country, American history and the American Indian, the flag raising on Iwo Jima, a parade of Presidents, and feats of astronauts.

One of the acts portrayed the battle of New Orleans, when the young nation fought the British. Pack No. 156 from NEW WAR CRIME CASE Nazi Woman Doctor Charged With Killing Children Ansbach, Germany (AP) A woman doctor has been charged with killing at least 50 children in the Nazi regimes euthanasia program, the Ansbach state prosecutors office reported yesterday. She was identified as Irene Mueller-Bruckmueller, 57, of Tuebingen. She is accused of giving fatal injections or tablets to at least 50 children from 1942 to 1945.

The prosecutors office said it is not known when the woman will be brought to court, because she is ill. Euthanasia was used in a Nazi program for eliminating deformed or mentally sick persons. NEW CHIEF OF SHIPS Rear Adm. Fahy To Succeed Rear Adm. Brockett Johnson City, Tex.

(AP) President Johnson yesterday approved the assignment of Rear Adm. Edward J. Fahy to a 4-year term as chief of the Navys bureau of ships. Fahy, 55, currently is commander of the San Francisco Bay and Mare Island naval shipyards. He will succeed Rear Adm.

William Brockett, who will retire February 1. The Weather Mild Generally fair and continued unseasonably mild today and tomorrow is the weather bureau forecast for Kansas City and communities within 50 miles. High today near 60, low tonight near 40 and high tomorrow in 60s. State forecasts, map and world temperatures on page S3. 1 P.

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59 S9 59 58 52 49 47 0 p. 9 p. 10 p. 11 p. 12 midnight.

1 e. 2 a. 40 39 30 34 35 Unofficial. Forced Break-in Triggers Attack Las Vegas, Nev. (AP) Al-phonso A.

Monaco was flushed from an apartment by 25 sheriffs deputies armed with shotguns and wearing gas masks Thursday. Four tear gas grenades were lobbed into the apartment when Monaco didnt come out. He crawled out four minutes later and was booked for burglary. Too late it was learned Monaco had an excellent reason for not coming out. It was his apartment.

Monaco, 38, a beautician, simply lost the key to his own apartment and had to break in, deputies said. Monaco has been released end the charges dropped. GRONOUSKI IS RECEIVED Warsaw (AP) John A. Gron-ouski, the new U. S.

ambassador to Poland was received yesterday by Adam Rapacki, Polish foreign minister. 12 oclock noon Saturday Is dead line for Sunday Star Want Ads. Place your ads early. Dial BA 1-5500. Easy! Fast! Adv.

RELAX ON EVE OF GEMINI TRIP Two U. S. Astronauts Set for 2-Week Flight in Space TO MAKEA RENDEZVOUS Space Officials Believe It Can Be Done in Mid-Month Cape Kennedy, Fla. (AP) Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Gemini 7 astronauts, relaxed yesterday on the eve of one of mans greatest space adventures a 2-week endurance flight during which two manned vehicles may fly within inches while orbiting at 17,500 miles an hour.

Success of the marathon mission and the planned rendezvous with Gemini 6 would topple all man-in-space records and considerably enhance Americas confidence that it can land aStro-nauts on the moon in this decade. Odds on Success Most space agency officials feel there is slightly better than a 50-50 chance that the Gemini 7 and 6 rendezvous can be accomplished in mid-December. Russia yesterday continued its push toward the moon by launching the unmanned Luna 8 (Continued on Page 18.) 10-YEAR TERMS Defendants Are Stunned; Their Lawyer Says He'll Appeal Montgomery, Ala. (AP) Three Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted yesterday of criminal conspiracy by a white jury and sentenced by a Federal judge to 10 years imprisonment in the slaying of a civil worker. In my opinion, Judge Frank M.

Johnson, told the jury, that was the only verdict'you could reach in this case -and reach a fair and proper verdict. Given Maximum Terms A short time later, Johnson imposed the 10-year sentences the maximum prison terms upon the three stunned defendants: Collie Leroy Wilkins JC-. 22, of Fairfield, and -Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, both of Bessemer. Wilkins, a stocky, crew-cut former mechanic, had been acquitted earlier by a state court jury of murder In the slayipg March 25 of Viola Gregg of Detroit. The three Klansmen were convicted under an 1877 statute of conspiring to violate the diiil rights of Mrs.

Liuzzo and other participants in a Selma-to-Mont-gomery march climaxing E-violence-marked Negro voting rights drive. To Appeal Verdicts Their attorney said the verdicts will be appealed. Appeal bonds of $10,000 ea(h were set by the judge and the Klansmen were taken away by a Federal marshal to begin serving their sentences. They will be eligible for parole after serving one-third of the 10 years. It was the second guilty' verdict in two days by white juries in trials growing out of Alabama racial incidents.

A jury at Anniston convicted a white man of murder Thursday in the slaying of a Negro and set the penalty at 10 years in prison. In Washington, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach indicated the convictions were a victory for equal justice in the South. He said, however, 'that the Justice department will continue working on proposed legislation aimed at insuring equal justice by Southern juries. Picasso Gains After Surgery Paris (AP) Pablo Picasso, artist, underwent a gall bladder operation' two weeks ago, a team of Paris surgeons, announced last night. They said he was recuperating extremely satisfactorily.

The reason for the secrecy, they added, was that the 84-year-old painter had demanded the maximum effort in protecting his privacy. Earlier yesterday, the American hospital in Paris first announced and then denied that Picasso was operated on there. 13 oclock noon Saturday ta deadline for Sunday Star Want Ada. Place your ads early. Dial BA 1-5500.

Easy! Fast! Adv. Would Qualify Reports in Crime Cases Tucson, Ariz. (AP) The press should report the facts of any criminal case from the time of arrest until trial but not speculation of public officials or its own, the chief judge of the New York state court of appeals says. Judge Charles S. Desmond was in Tucson to address the annual Arizona judicial conference at the University of Arizona.

STRIKE ON A RAILROAD Southern Railway It Target of Trainmen Washington (AP) The Southern railway said last night a strike had been called against it by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The railroad said the question involved as apparently whether trainmen on freight trains should ride in the engine instead of in cabooses at the end of the train. L. G. Tolieson, assistant vice-president in charge of labor relations for the railway, said the strike is an illegal action and an unconscionable disregard of the public interest.

Tolieson said the railroad is seeking injunctive relief in the courts. The Southern system extends for about 10,400 miles with terminals in East St. Louis, 111., Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. UNION OF BLUE BLOODS Princess Marie Cecilie Becomes Bride of Duke Berlin (AP) Two German blue bloods, Princess Marie Cecilie of Prussia and Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, were married yesterday in a civil ceremony.

Princess Marie, 23, is the great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last monarch of Germany. The Duke, 29, is the son of the grand duke of Oldenburg. HINT OF ROMNEY PLANS Governor Indicates He Will Run for Third Term Lansing, Mich. (AP) Gov. George Romney has told Michigan Republican leaders to find a U.

S. Senate candidate, thus all but declaring his own intention to run for a third term as the states chief executive in 1966. On Inside Pages Police Get a Pay Raise City council approves request to compensate officers for time spent testifying in court. 10. De Gaulle Ends His Campaign-Five rivals also wind up campaign.

11. TFX Version Ordered McNamara gives green light to reconnaissance plane. 12. Ultimatum by African Bloc Unity group demands Britain stop Rhodesia. 19.

Spotlight on Do Gaulle In Dramatic Role leading editorial. Sports 34,36,37,38,39 Deaths 42 Markets 40, 42 Comics, Fsaturas S3 Editorials 54 News commentators 55 HIGH VIET TOLL Fifty to 100 Believed Killed or Wounded in Attack PICTURE ON PAGE 421 Saigon (Saturday) (AP) With machine guns, grenades and an explosives-laden produce truck, Viet Cong terrorists attacked and blew up a U. S. enlisted mens billet in downtown Saigon just before dawn today. First official reports said two American servicemen were killed and 67 were wounded.

A New Zealand artilleryman also was killed and four New Zealanders wounded. Viet Toll High Estimates of the number of Vietnamese killed or wounded ranged from 50 to 100. A terrorist bomb believed to have been a concussion hand grenade exploded near the top floor of a 3-story officers dormitory about two blocks from the Metro pole but no one was injured there. An officer said that explosion followed the big one by about five minutes. It broke windows and damaged a wall.

Navy Capt. Archie Kuntze, commander of headquarters support command in Saigon, gave the first report on casualties from the scene of the explosion-ripped Metropole hotel, which housed transient enlisted men moving through Saigon. He gave this account of the assault: Shortly after 5 a. m. a hand grenade was thrown at the international enlisted mens quarters, which is near the Metropole.

The grenade did not go off, but about 10 minutes later a truck filled with farm produce pulled up in the front of the Metropole. Fire on American Five or six men jumped out and fired machineguns at a U. S. military policeman on guard at the billet. The military policeman returned the fire with his shotgnn and revolver.

He was hit in the shoulder hot continued to fire at the running men until he was out of ammunition. Earlier reports had said the M. P. on guard duty was killed, hut this proved to be erroneous. As the terrorists ran to a nearby intersection, the produce truck exploded with a thunderous roar, knocking out electric power over a wide area and ripping through the billet, Kuntze said the truck must have been carrying about 250 pounds of plastic explosive, and did not arouse suspicion because (Continued on Page 2.) U.

5. and Reds Trade Verbal Blows at N. (Herald Tribune News Service) United Nations Secretary General Thant told the General Assembly last night that the war in South Vietnam seemed to be gathering fresh and dangerous momentum. Earlier, Nikolai Fedorenko, Soviet ambassador, attacked the U. S.

during a debate on a declaration of nonintervention in the affairs of other states. In reply to Fedorenko, Charles Yost, U. S. ambassador, said Fedorenko had chosen to introduce a grossly discordant note by his out-r a and groundless claims. Soviets View U.

S. Newsmen As Hostages New York (AP) Stephen Ro-senfeld, expelled Moscow correspondent of the Washington Post, said on his arrival yesterday at Kennedy airport that the Russians apparently regard foreign correspondents as hostages for the performances of the organization they represent. If a newspaper or a network does something the Russians dont like the correspondent is the hostage and out he goes, Ro-senfeld said, adding: Its a silly idea and they (the Russians) dont seem to learn, he said. They dont have a free press themselves and by using foreign correspondents as hostages they attempt to control the foreign press, but of course they cant. Rosenfeld said that he was given seven days to leave Russia after he was asked to have his newspaper halt the publication of the last two installments of a series of 14 from the Pen-kovsky Papers.

ONE ZOO SHOWS WAY Fifth Offspring in 2Vt Years for Portland Elephant Portland, Ore. (AP) An elephant was bom yesterday in the Portland zoo, the fifth fathered here by Tbonglaw in 3 years. It is the second calf delivered by Rosy, and is a 200-pound sister for Me-Tu, bora October 2, 1962. Rosy, 15 years old, was brought to Portland from Thailand in the fall of 1953. Today's Chuckle A man who says he understands his wife probably Ho about other things, too.

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In the capsule are the backup pildts, Edward White (left) and Michael Collins. The man in the center is a space technician (Wirephoto)..