Evening star., 1961-06-01

OBTAIN court lnJuncClonS TO nal
facilities in the South.
Meanwhile, Kinds County
Eigation Of reports Of alleged
beatings Of Negro Freedom
Riders at the county penal
farm.
Farm Supt. Max Thomas
was ordered "to take off a few
days" during the inquiry.
Chief Of Detectives M. B.
Pierce said the seven whites
three of them Cornell Univer-
sity students-refused to eat
breakfast.
81 Have Been Arrested
A total Of S. Freedom Riders
have been arrested since at
tempts to test segregation laws
in bus and rail terminal facili-
ties started here May "a.
Nine have posted appeal
bonds and another-Peter Ster-
ling. 20, Of Rye, N. Y, also a
Cornell student, paid a $197
fine today and was released.
He served one day in jail and
vas credited with SO Of his 5000
fine.
Young Sterling said he was
returning home to get married.
There were two new reports
yesterday Of beatings at the
penal farm.
Both came from Jean Thomp-
son, 19-year-old New Orleans
Negro who was Jailed with the
first wave of Freedom Riders.
She claimed she was struck by
Mr.. Thomas when she refused
to address him as "sir."
Howard Student Hit
Miss Thompson also said
prison guards hit Henry Thom-
as, 10, of st. Augustine, Fla, a
student at Howard University
In Washington.
Earlier, Congress of Racial
Equality officials said the Rev.
G. T. Vivian, a Negro Meth
odist minister from Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was slugged
when he also refused to say
"sir" to a prison officer.
Shelby Hubbard, president Of
the county board Of supervi-
sorS, promised a thorough in
vestigation.
eve didn't want to make an
investigation while Max was
there" Mr.. Hubbard said. "We
asked Max to take off a few
days. He's still IN the payroll
and still on the farm"
Mr.. Hubbard said the in
vestigation would be conducted
by Sheriff j. r. Gilfoy, who last
night discounted Miss Thomp-
sons charges.
Received No Complaint
1.-THE whole thing was funny
Sheriff Gilfoy said. II don't
know what happened, but I did
not receive a complaint on the
incident. If anything happened
I don't know why she didn't
come to me or the FBI and
register the complaint"
Miss Thompson told news
men in New Orleans later that
she was unable to report the
incident until she was released
on $500 bond yesterday because
"they tried to isolate u.s."
The FBI, which also looked
into the Vivian case, said it had
made an inquiry into Miss
Thompson's charges.
First reports of the hunger
strike came last night from the
wife of one of the prisoners
At Ithaca, N. Y, Mrs. Charles
A. Haynie said her husband
told her of the move in a tele-
phone call.
Mr.. Haynie, a 25-year-olc
graduate student at Cornell
University. was arrested Tues.
day when he and eight othel
Freedom Riders, including three
more Cornell students, arrived
by train.
Injunction Urged
Mrs. Haynie sent telegram
to Attorney General Rober
Kennedy from her husband anC
six other white prisoners. The!
said they would continue Il
fast until the Attorney Gen
eral obtained an injunction Il
guarantee interstate traveller
the use Of all travel facilitie
free of racial restrictions"
In her New Orleans inter
view, Miss Thompson, an asth
matte, said she decided to pos
bond when she began runnin
out of medicine. She describe,
the jail as dirty and crowded.
The young woman spent
week in jails and at the pens