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Es
SEPTEMBER Z, 1861 No. 1877
moval system.
S. The diligence with which we
search for an answer to the
problem posed by the UNI
certain future of the Virgin
Islands Corporation.
s.. The earnestness with which
we seek to correct current
housing shortages, increase
food. production, and reduce
the everspiraling high cost
Of living.
z. The extent to which we pro-
vide for cushioning the
plight of our older and less
fortunate citizens.
These are but SINE of the vital
" important and pressing issues
facing these Virgin Islands. It is
to the solution of these problems
that this Club and the Democratic
Party of these Islands and each
and every one Of their members
should direct all of their efforts,
energies, and strength. It is to the
accomplishment of such goals that
the Democratic Party in these Is
lands desperately needs and must
face up to its responsibility to the
people of these Virgin Islands by
providing responsible and pur-
sCserul leadership, as well as by
,-nerating a new and deep sense
III urgency in meeting and correct
-ng the problems which beset it.
AS Democrats we are part of an
organization the history of which
has been distinguished by its con
Germ, its service to. human needs;
an organization which, unlike its
counterparts, puts people before
property, human rights before
property rights; an organization
which adheres to principle rather
than yield to opportunism.
AS Democrats we should not
only be proud Of our history as an
organization-but we should or
ganize, close ranks, and 60 out on
the highways and byways spread
ing before the people Of these Vir-
gin Islands the enviable record of
progress of the Democratic Party.
We should be to the people of
these Islands what the National
Party it to the world. We should
be ever mindful Of the Importance
Of the lowliest Of us. We should be
mindful, too, that only to the ex-
tent that even the lowliest of us
, 1961-09-07

Government Secretary
of the
Virgin Islands Of the U. S.
Christiansted Democratic Club
st. Croix, Virgin Islands
Concluded from yesterday
To quote from the words of one
of the greatest Presidents in the
HISTORY OF the United States, a
most distinguished Democrat,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
There is a mysterious cycle IN
human events. To some genera
tons much IS given. OF other
geAIeIal4ons mucn IS expected.
This generation. has q rem
dezvous with destiny"
The Democratic Party and this
Administrator, OF which ! am
pr4vAeged TO pc a part, have been
entrusted WIN me destiny of these
lsIanus and their people. With
these Islands at the threshold OF
VIVA, i believe to be a new and
exc1t4ng era a grave responsibility
anu a great cnanenge are ours,
Our success in meeting these
r1..onsaDllIlles and the extent to
wll-uA W. raAe advantage of the
a1ea. opportunities when are ours
vii oe ae.er1nlned largely by:
The extent to which we ex-
erclse responsibility the politi-
cal autonomy which is now
ours.
y. M forthrightness with
which we are prepared to
move IN protecting the civil
rights of eachsand every resi-
T. dent of these Islands, regard
less of race, creed, sex, reli-
gion, or national origin.
8. The extent to.which we hon
estly face. UP to and the
speed with which we move
to correct the inadequacies
in our educational system.
a. The urgency with which we
undertake to meet the grow
ing need of these Islands for
increased medical and health
facilities-including the eli
mination of the nightsbil re-
Evening star., 1961-05-24
The NEGRO NWASHNGTON-CHAPTERN "
Patience No Virtue to Bold New Generation With Cause

white mans Negro" they will say. That
role didn't work for the race in the past
and 1t won't today, they feel.
II think we're always going to have a
few Uncle Toms" a recent college graduate
said. "The world is so complex, so flexible,
there's so much corruption You're always
going to have few like that, but they are
not respected, to put it mildly"
Many Of the young educated Negroes
believe they are part of new movement
which is going to elevate their race.
II do feel a part of new genera
ton of Negroes, a generation which has a
chance to achieve things we couldn't be-
FORE" senior at Howard University said
education brings about leaders. Now we
have no reason not to speak out about
America Now we know what to expect
from democracy We want what is right
fully ours"
when we're in school we learn every
Continued on Page A-4, Col.
Evening star., 1961-05-24

directing Federal operations
from his headquarters at Max
well Air Force Base outside
Montgomery.
Over the open line he can
hear conversations between To-
cal and State officials of both
Alabama and Mississippi re-
porting the progress Of the
Freedom Riders.
Plane Watches Bus
An airplane under the con-
troll of Alabama authorities
circled over the bus convoy to
report its progress. A Missis-
sippi plane was to pick up this
duty at the State line.
Elaborate precautions are
being maintained to insure
against incidents. The bus
carrying the Freedom Riders
is followed by a second bus
with newSmen and passengers
who chose not to run the pos
sible risk Of riding with tine stu
dents.
The bus with the Freedom
Riders was behind schedule be-
cause Of the precautionary
measures. Before going through
towns, the State troopers rid
ing the convoy halted the lead
bus and sent troopers into town
to reconnoiter.
It was understood here that
other bus passengers who
wanted to debark in Meridian
Miss. would be dropped at the
city line instead of at the local
terminal.
The Attorney Generals min
ute-by-minute report of prog
ress Of the bus began at 7:17
See JUSTICE, Page At
Evening star., 1961-05-24

young Negroes who are fighting for civil
rights, but at the same time they wonder
If they aren't going too far too fast
1--WE just had to accept things when
we we're youngsters" a retired Govern
ment worker in his late COS said Now
it's changing. We have some young people
who are down-to-earth, people who are try
ing to do something to make it better
And we have some who are trying to go
a little too fast. They are a little over
bearing.
There's lot of things the colored
man has to face and swallow, but believe
you have to take 1t as ladies and gentle
men,"
Many in that age group feel the same
way The difference is that the younger
Negroes are not going to swallow any
thing. To them, patience is not virtue
Often they are contemptuous of anyone
who feels 1t Is.
They've had enough of Uncle Tom, or
Evening star., 1961-05-24
g 1861 by The WASHINGTON Star
BY HAYNES JOHNSON
Star staff Writer

There was time when many Negroes
believed they we're inferior. They had been
told so all their lives, and they came to
accept it.
In time, they were told, the situation
will improve. Just be patient and things
will be better.
"The old folks prayed, hoped and
waited" prominent Washington Negro
said. But the day never came when we
got our full rights. The young people to-
day are out and doing it.
II know in my own generation the
older heads advised us to 60 slow. Where
the new life comes from I don't know.
But these young people today are bold,
unafraid and determined I don't care
where the trouble comes, they're not afraid
And believe me that takes guts-especially
in the South.
Evening star., 1961-05-24
President
ToAddress
Congress
By the Associated Press

President Kennedy will Ad-
dress a Joint session Of Congress
in person tomorrow to ask in
creased funds for space, for
eign aid and other spending.
House Majority Leader Nc
Cormack. Democrat of MaSsa-
chuSetts. interrupted debate on
a $12.5 billion defense authori-
zation bill to announce the
Joint session to be held at 1890
pm. tomorrow.
Among other things, Mr.
Kennedy is expected to ask
Congress to support q sharply
increased fallout shelter pro-
gram for the protection OF
civilians against sneak nuclear
attack.
The entire message is under
stood to be designed to provide
q powerful stimulant to the
American space program and
to both the military and assist
ance arms Of United States for
eign policy.
1t has been estimated by
some informants to cost around
81 billion. There will be en-
phasis on aid to Asian and
African countries, 1t was un-
derstood, but less money than
originally contemplated for
programs Of public works and
other measures designed to re-
duce unemployment.
Evening star., 1961-05-24
AT&T Probe
On Antitrust
Charge Opens
Action by U. S.
Told in Letter
To Union Chief
By the Associated Press

The Government has started
an antitrust investigation Of
the American Telephone &
Telegraph Co.
Lee Loevinger, Assistant At
torney General in charge of
the Justice Departments Anti
trust Division. said that as a
result Of "a number Of COM
plants concerning activities"
of AT&T. the division is in
vestigating various aspects of
the telephone industry.
AT&T stock slumped $7.37 a
share to $117.75 on the New
York Stock Exchange on sales
totaling $4,000 shares by noon.
Letter to Union
Mr.. Loevinger disclosed the
investigation in q letter to
E. L. Hageman, president Of the
Western Union division Of the
c o m m ereial Telegraphers
Union. Mr.. Hageman had COM
planned specifically that a new
Telpak service is tending to
take business from the Western
Union Telegraph Co.
Telpak is q leased wire kerv-
ice Offering various forms Of
communication.
Mr.. Hageman said that, al
though AT&T was forced to
divorce itself from the tele-
graph communications business
many years ago, It retained the
word telegraph" in its COM
pany name and by 1860 was
taking in a per cent Of the
total telegraphic revenues in
the United States through tele-
typewriter and other forms Of
service.
Telpak Still Offered
THE time has come for our
Government to take action
against this gigantic communi-
cations monopoly" Mr.. Hage-
man wrote the Justice Depart
ment. The Bell System has
had o monopoly in voice COM
munications for many years.
1t should be confined to that
field aHd should be eotapSlled
to get out Of the record
(written) communications
field"
In New York. an AT&T
spokesman said the company
had not heard directly from
the Justice Department on the
subject. He said the company
did not have O copy OF the
Loevinser letter.
Evening star., 1961-05-24

McCHORD AIR FORCE
BASE, Wash. May "a (AP).-
A big military transport return
ing servicemen from maneuvers
met disaster five miles from
takeoff today in a flaming crash
which killed 18 men and criti-
cally injured four.
The CHA Globemaster fell
in a wooded area minutes after
it lifted from a McChord run
way in predawn darkness and
headed for Fort Sill. Okla, with
Is Army men and its Air Force
crew Of seven.
Five men got out Of the shat
tered, burning plane and were
rushed to Madigan Genera,
Hospital at nearby Fort Lewis
One died a few hours later.
Three Army men and one All
Force crewman remained al
Madigan in critical condition.
lone Of the first men at the
scene heard a man calling fol
help" said Capt. Joseph Wig.
gins, McChord public informa.
ton officer. THE survivor, ir
shock, was found sitting on 9
log near the wreckage."
The Globemaster. based al
Donaldson Air Force Base, S
c., took off in foggy weather
about 2::20 am. Pacific day.
light time).
There was a flash In the
sky" said a sheriff's officer
I'VE could not tell whether
it came from an explosion in
the air or after the plane hit
the ground"
The SIS million plane ap-
parently came down sharply,
Although it landed in a heavily
Evening star., 1961-05-24
18 Servicemen Killed,
4 Injured in Air Crash

wooded area, 1t cut no swath
and knocked down only a few
trees.
Hours after the crash the
wreckage still Smouldered.
The injured were evacuated
by a helicopter crew who
brought their craft down In q
narrow clearing between power
lines and trees.
The C-124 was returning
men who had participated In
recent Army-Air Force maneu'
vers, called Exercise Laws
Plains, at Yakima, Wash. Isl
miles east of McChord.
In addition to the % service
men aboard, the GlobemaStel
carried a 16,230-pound truck
a 5,120-pound trailer, a jeer
and a light trailer. 1t was moi
a heavy load for the CHA
which can carry up to 200 men
The plane came down on the
edge of the Fort Lewis military
reservation, adjacent to Nc
Chord. The bases are 10 miles
southwest Of Tacoma, Wash.
and about 20 miles south oi
Seattle.
Air Force officers said they
were checking flight record.
to determine whether the pilot
radioed any word Of trouble.
Donaldson AFB sent an in.
vestigating team by plane. The
CHA was attached to the
Donaldson's SD Troop Carrier
Wing.
The is Army men were from
B Battery, 26th Field Artillery
4th Army, at Fort Sill.
The names Of the victims
were withheld until notifica-
Ition of relatives.
Evening star., 1961-05-24
This series 10 result Of four months Of interviews
with hundreds Of Negroes in oil woIks Of life. The
drowins on Pose A. is by Lily spondorf, Washington
artist

II think they're right. They're going
to do or die. Theirs is an approach that
we've needed for long time. I don't know
where they get the courage, because don't
have it. But I'll tell you this: I'd be willing
to follow them"
That man was 46 years old. 1t would
not be fair to say he speaks for his genera
ton, for he does not; but his opinions re-
fleet those Of stable number Of his age
group in Washington
In Washington, as in any city, there
are distinct differences in attitudes be-
tween the generations. This is particularly
so among the Negroes.
The older group appears torn between
pride and doubt. They are proud Of the
Evening star., 1961-05-24
kurrow Blasts
Bias 10 ENJOYS
suys Practice Here
Hurts U. S. Abroad

Edward r. Murrow, head o1
the United States Information
Agency, today said discrimina-
ton against Negro diplomats in
Washington hurts the United
States more in Africa than ra-
cial violence in the South.
This "encumbrance on our
African relations" can lose US
as much influence as anything
the Soviet Union might do, he
said.
Mr.. Murrow issued perhaps
the most singing public attack
on Washington treatment OF
Negro envoys delivered by a
high administration official SO
far. \ USIA, the Governments s
overseas propaganda agency,
spends 500 million a year try
ing to combat Communist prop
aganda abroad.
In his first major speech In
Washington as USIA chief, pre-
pared for q National Press Club
luncheon, Mr.. Murrow said:
These are representatives Of
Negro nations led by Negro
leaders. 1t is bad enough that
they read headlines of. Birm-
ingham bus burnings and beat
ings.
Impossible" in d. C.
"It Is even worse that they
find 1t near impossible to live
in the Capital Of our Nation.
Landlords will not rent to them;
schools refuse their children;
stores will not let them try
on clothes; beaches bar their
families"
Mr.. Murrow said 80 African
diplomats here currently live
with what is euphemistically
called unsatisfactory housing.
Fully one third of these are
termed emergency cases."
There will be some so more
families arriving in the next
six months, 100 in the next
year. he continued.
I'VE would have them join
our company Of honorable men
See MURROW, Page Al
Evening star., 1961-05-24

harmful to his mission" the
Presidents brother warned.
The Attorney General, who
remained at his desk until
Text Of Kennedy Reply to AIobOmo
Delegation. Pose As
after 2 am. today. talked to the
President several times during
the night and informed him
when the first Of two buses left
Montgomery today for jackson,
Miss.
In q formal statement issued
shortly after II am, the At
torney General said he had told
the leaders Of the student
groups testing segregation in
interstate bus facilities that no
Federal marshals would accom-
pany the buses.
Contact State Officials
Justice aides said Mr.. Ken
nedy and other department
officials had been in touch
with Mississippi Gov. Ross
Barnett, Jackson Mayor Allen
Thompson and others as the
bus riders started for the Ala
bama line.
Mr.. Kennedy obviously de-
layed his statement until the
first bus with 10 Negro and
one white Freedom Rider was
we'll on its way. Justice off,
cials said they had been in
formed that Alabama State
police were escorting the bus
to the State line and that Mis-
siSsippi police would take it
from there.
The Attorney General main
tained an open line to Deputy
Attorney General Byron r.
(Whizzer) White who has been
Evening star., 1961-05-24
Freedom Riders off
UnderHeovYGuard
71Abourd
ForTripto
Mississippi
BY CECIL HOLLAND
Star Staff Writer

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May
24.-Under a massive military
and police guard, two busloads
of Freedom Riders left here to-
day for Mississippi after break
ing the racial barrier at a bus
station lunch counter.
Ten Negroes and a white
college student ate breakfast at
the previously all-white lunch
counter at the railways Bus
Station, then set out at 7:10
am, est (9:10 am, EDIT,
aboard a bus for Jackson,
Miss, and ultimately to New
Orleans.
Four hours later, a second
group. composed of one white
man and 13 Negroes, boarded
another bus, also bound for
jackson. That bus pulled out
Of the station at 1l:19 am,
est Q:19 pm, EDIT.
The white student was Paul
Dietrich of Harrisburg, Pa, a
student at the University of
Virginia and a former student
at George Washington Univer-
sity.
The demonstrators left by a
railways bus after being
served breakfast at the ter
minal'S snack bar. Negro watt
resSeS we're on duty. w. E.
Evans, the bus station manager,
said no Negro had ever eaten
there before.
The entire block in front of
the terminal was cordoned off
by lines Of National GuardSmen
and Mai. Gen. Henry V. Gra-
ham, adjutant general of Ala
bama, was in direct charge at
the terminal.
A score or more of highway
patrol cars carrying about rs
Guardsmen and 100 highway
patrolman were accompanying
the bus to the Mississippi line.
Enters Mississippi
An hour and 10 minutes aft
er the first bus left, it reached
the first large city on its route,
Selma, Ala, but skirted the
metropolitan area without
stopping. There were no DEM
onStrations.
Shortly before noon, 1t
crossed the Mississippi State
line without any reported in
cidents.
Thirty minutes after the first
bus left the station, headed
south, the highway patrol
broadcast an alert to all cars
along the route to "be on a
sharp lookout right and left"
especially along stretches Of
U. S. 80 bordered by dense
woods, the Associated Press re-
ported.
Among those on the bus
were three of the Negroes whose
arrival Saturday at the Grey
hound bus station touched off
an outburst of violence.
(Mr. Dietrich formerly lived
in the 1900 block Of Porter
street NV, Washington, and
attended George Washington
University in 1857. He was one
of the leaders in a number Of
District area segregation pro-
tests, including those at Glen
Echo amusement park and at
a HyattSville bowling alley.)
Gen. Graham boarded the
bus before the riders left, and
See RACIAL, Page AS
Evening star., 1961-05-24
Officials Back
Renewal Role
ForCityHeads
RIA Chief Urges
Housing Agencies
Be Consolidated
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

Federal and District officials
today strongly supported a bill
to put urban renewal here di-
rectly in the hands Of the Dis
trict Commissioners.
The chairman of the District
Redevelopment Land Agency
told q House District subcom-
mittee that basic responsibility
for the renewal program quite
rightly" should be turned over
to the Commissioners.
Testifying first at The OPEN
ing hearing on a bill e;nbodying
Federal City Council recon-
mendationS. RIA Chairman
Neville Miller also said con-
solidating urban renewal and
public housing agencies Lere
Is justified because of the i'm
portance Of pulling together all
the machinery of the urban
renewal program"
SIaytOn Backs Move
Also praising the measure,
designed to speed up urban re-
newal, was william l.. Slayton,
national urban renewal COM
missioner.
Reservations were expressed,
however, by District Commits
sioner Robert E. Mclaughlin,
who did not appear. and by the
chairman of the National Capt.
tai Planning Commission.
In a statement read for him
by Howard j. Wharton, as
sistant Housing and Home
Finance commissioner for re-
development. Mr.. Slayton said
the administration supports
Capitalization of authority in
the District government anc
consolidation Of the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency and the Ma
tional Capital Housing Author
ity.
Testifying for the Commits
sioners, Brig. Gen. Frederick J.
Clarke, District Engineer Com
missioner. said the Commits
sioners consider the bill very
important to the District. He
pointed out that Commissioner
Robert E. Mclaughlin wants q
strong role retained for the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission and opposes joining
urban renewal and public hous-
ing functions in a single
agency. Mr.. Mclaughlin also
favors an independent urban
renewal agency. he explained.
Changes Seen Needed
Commissioner Clarke told
the subcommittee. headed by
Chairman Smith, Democrat of
Virginia. that the urban re-
newal needs some important
amendments" If the Federal
City Councils purposes are to
be fully accomplished"
Under the legislation, intro
duced last month by Chairman
Mcmillan Of the House District
Committee, a leSsened role
would be reserved for the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission, which now initiates
urban renewal projects and
sets their boundaries.
Under the Mcmillan bill, the
District would be enabled to
initiate such projects and
obliged only to refer them to
NCPC as to their conformance
See RENEWAL, Page At
Evening star., 1961-05-24
GENEVA PARLEY
TRAP FOR WEST

THE GENEVA CONFERENCE may
just be a trop to poroIyze the West
until the take over Of Loos is COM
pIete, soys Crosby S. NOyes, The
Stor's foreign correspondent. It is
feored by mony people at the pcdey
thot the representatives Of the IA
notions will never arrive at an osree-
ment with any meaning. See Pdse
Ais.
GOOD BRIDGE pIoyers con be
fooled into giving their opponents
something they don't deserve when
the opponents moke them finesse
the situotion. See Alfred Sheinwold's
column on Pose E-l0.
Evening star., 1961-05-24
BULLETIN
GoIdwoter Loses

The Senate today rejected
a move by Senator GOIdwa-
ter, Republican of Arizona,
to include classroom con-
structiOn loans to private and
parochiaI schools in the aid
to education bill. The vote
to table the amendment was
66-25.
Earlier Story on Page AS
Evening star., 1961-05-24

export llCcIlSeS WOulQ De grdnIeC
for shipping the tractors tt
Cuba.
The White House disclosed
that the President himself hac
urged Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Union Leader Walter Reuthel
and DR.. Milton Eisenhower
brother Of the former Presi-
dent. to head the Tractors fol-
Freedom" movement to carry
through the exchange of trac-
tors for prisoners.
Personal Gift Seen
Andrew Hatcher, associate
White House press secretary
said he thinks it is very likely
that Mr.. Kennedy is making a
contribution to the exchange
fund as a private individual.
The President issued a special
statement, which Mr.. Hatcher
read to newsmen, to clarity his
position regarding the exchange
deal proposed last week by
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
He emphasized that the
United States Government can
not be a party to the affair,
but would not interfere with
the humanitarian efforts OF
private citizens"
He said he was grateful to
Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr.. Reuther
and DR.. Eisenhower for their
leadership.
DOdd Demands Halt
Shortly before the White
House announcement, Senator
Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut,
took the floor Of the Senate to
demand an immediate halt to
the activities of the committee,
The State Department
should remind the leaders OF
this committee that we have an
administration and a Congress
for the making of foreign policy
and for deciding whether or not
the American people will pay
tribute to the Cuban Com
munist dictator" Senator Dodd
said.
There are / billion hostages
in the Communist prison house
of nations. We ought to be
thinking about them every day