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Arizona sun., 1962-03-08

Ieral funds" which help support
the hospital.
Hospital officials replied t h a t
they we're powerlesS to act on the
petition because, they said, it is
under jurisdiction of the Universe
ty of Alabama Board of Trustees
and the Negroes requests would
be contrary to existing laws"
Meantime, people all over the
country have been working for the
release of Mr.. Shuttlesworth and
Mr.. Phifer from Jail. Over 80
Southern civil rights organizations
joined in asking U. S. Attorney
General Robert Kennedy to in
tervene, and thousands of individ-
ualS have written or wired the
Justice Department. Lawyers for
the two ministers are attempting
all possible legal steps to free
them.
The refusal of the Supreme
Court to review their convictions
was because of a technical flaw
in the appeal. The bus segrega-
tion ordinance under which they
were convicted was later nullified
by the Federal courts.
Their supporters maintain that
it is an extreme miscarriage of
justice for two men to have to
serve Jail terms for challenging
bus segregation-an issue on which
the courts and national public
opinion have both spoken clearly.
Friends who wish to write the
two ministers may do so care of
the City Jail, Birmingham, Ala
bama.
Arizona sun., 1962-03-08
NAACP Seeks FEC Probe
Of Telephone Testimony.

New York = The Federal Com
municationS Commission has been
urged 80 i..-,-.c ! thorough T.
quiry" into the introduction in an
Alabama court proceedings of the
names and telephone numbers OF
persons called by an official of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People from
his Birmingham residence during
1861.
Also introduced were the names
and telephone numbers of person
who made collect calls to w. G..
Patton, NAACP field secretary for
registration and voting, and the
contents of a telegram sent by
Mr.. Patton. In all some 400 calls
were read into the record by Will
liam E. Eagerton. an employee of
the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Co. at Birmingham.
In a three-and-a-half page letter
to FEC Chairman Newton N.
Minow, dispatched on Feb. 81 and
made public here today, NAACP
General Counsel Robert L carter
cites the introduction of this testi-
mony during injunctive proceed
ings against the NAACP in the
Circuit of Montgomery County, Dec.
27-2S. 1861.
He also called for prosecution
of 'those responsible, since a vio-
lation of federal law would appear
to be involved" The proceedings
involved a suit by Alabama Of
ficials to bar the NAACP from
operating in the state.
'As far as we have been able to
establish the NAACP lawyer
said. '.the Attorney Generals Of
flee had not secured a court order
directing the Southern Bell Tele-
phone Company to open its files for
examination by the Attorney Gen.
erals office for the purpose of Sc
curing the testimony which" was
read into the court record.
I'VE are gravely concerned with
this procedure" Mr. Carter con-
tinued. While we are satisfied
that the court was in gross error
in permitting this kind of testi-
mony, we bring it to your attention
for determination as to whether
this constitutes a violation of the
Federal Communications Act. With
out basis for a belief that crime
has been committed, for state Of
ficials to be permitted to secure
information with reference to tele-
phonic and telegraphic communi-
cations of private citizens, raises
a serious question respecting per-
sonal freedom and security
Because of this exposure of. the
names and telephone numbers,
I'VE feel certain - Mrs. Carter
said, that many persons, con-
cerned about issues of civil rights
and racial discrimination in Ala
bama, will not now feel free and
secure in using the telephone and
telegraphic communi cations ssh
telegraphic communications syss
tenn in connection with these is
sues" n
Arizona sun., 1962-03-08
FLORIDA NAACP SEEKS
URBAN AFFAIRS DEPT.

Tampa, Fla. - NAACP units
in this state are circulating Pc
titions among registered voters
asking that members of Congress
vote favorably for the plan to es-
tablish a Department of Urban Af-
fairs. .,es
The NAACP petition asks that
Florida congressman refrain from
joining the coalition of southerners
and northern Republicans who are
out to kill the measure.
Arizona sun., 1962-03-08
Court OF Appeals 10
Hear Argument On
Case February 10

New York = On Saturday, Feb.
ruary 10, the u. S. Court of Ap.
peals for the Fifth Circuit head
argument in New Orleans. La. on
a Motion for Injunction Pending
Appeal which, if granted, would
admit the first Negro student to
the University of Mississippi.
+, mfr. Constance Baker Motley,
attorney for James Howard Mere
dith the Negro student, hoped the
Appeals Court would rule before
Feb. Is. 1862, the last day that
Meredith can register to attend
the University second term.
Meredith is now attending the all
Negro Jackson State College in
Jackson, Miss.
Meredith, twenty-eight year
old Air Force veteran, has been
trying to transfer to the all-White
University since January, 1861.
He was denied admission last
Spring on the grounds that he
could not satisfy a UNIVERSITY re-
quirement that applicants be re-
commended by five alumni from
their county. and because Jackson
State College was not a member
of the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools.
Meredith's case was taken by
|NAACP Legal Defense Fund at
torneys who filed suit in the fed
eral district court for the Southern
District of Mississippi last May,
alleging that the alumni require
-ment is unconstitutional and that
Meredith was denied admission
SCI solely y,.,o On gToundsgof 3!s,9 race
After much delay, District Judge
Sidney c.. Mize refused, in Decem-
Der, to grant Defense Fund re-
quest for Preliminary Injunction,
ruling that Meredith was not denied
admission solely because of race.
Defense Fund attorneys immedi-
ately appealed the denial to the
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir
cult. On January IL, the Appeals
Court affirmed Judge Mize's rul-
ing, but held the alumni certificate
requirement unconstitutional.
In an effort to get Meredith ad-
mitted for the second term (which
began February g. Fund attorneys
returned to the District Court for
a hearing on the merits. Judge
Mize was asked to consider the
Appeals Court ruling on the Alumni
Certificate requirement and the
December Z, 1861 admission of
Jackson State College to the South
ern Association of Colleges and
Secondary. Schools, ag-
=. ! AS
On Saturday, February 3, Judge
.Mize again ruled that Meredith
was not denied admission solely
because of his race, dismissing
the Defense Fund complaint. .s,
! The-te@i4seoa Saturday, Feb
ruary 10 before the Court of Ap-
peals isfan, attempt to get a favor
able ruling before February IS,
the last day for second term regis
tration. If Meredith is not admit
ted by the 18th, the case may be-
come moot, for Meredith is now
in his last year at jackson State
College.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund at
torneys for Meredith besides Mrs.
Motley are r. Jess Brown of Jack
son, Miss, and Derrick A. Bell,
Jr, of New York City.
Arizona sun., 1962-03-08
Integration Leaders
Are Arrested

Baton Rouge, La. = Two young
leaders of the integration move
ment came here, in the tradition Oi
Biblical teaching, to visit a man in
prison-and ended up in Jail them
selves on charges of criminal an
archy.
The two are Charles McDew
chairman of the Student Nonvio-
lent Coordinating Committee, the
Southwide organization which CO.
OrdinateS the student anti-segre-
cation protest movement. and Rob
ert Zellner, a staff member of the
same organization McDew is Ne
gro, and Zellner is white.
Baton Rouge was recently the
scene of large student demOnStra-
tions against segregation, but Nc
Dew and Zellner were not here
to demonstrate They just came,
on February II, to visit a fellow
student leader, Dion Diamond, in
the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail.
Diamond, also a staff member
of the Student Nonviolent CoOr-
dinating Committee, had been jail
ed during the demonstrations on
charges of vagrancy, trespassing,
and disorderly conduct. He has
been in Jail over three weeks, un-
der $4,000 bond.
McDew and Zellner arrived in
town in the late afternoon and went
to the Jail to inquire as to when
visiting hours were Finding that
the visiting day was not until the
following Tuesday, they decided
they could not stay but asked Jail
officials if they could leave Dia-
mond some fruit and books The
officials told them they could.
They left the jail TO purchase
the fruit and books, returned and
left them for Diamond with a note.
Just as they were ready to leave
the jail and leave town, they were
stopped by officials and question
ed.
After questioning, they we're
booked on vagrancy charges-de-
spite the fact that McDew had al
most $500 with him. Later in the
evening a lawyer checked on their
status and found that charges of
criminal anarchy had been placed
against them. They we're held I'M
der $1,000 bond each. Criminal
anarchy carries a possible 10
year sentence in Louisiana.
The Student Nonviolent Coor-
dinating Committee Immediately
wired the U. S. Justive Depart
ment asking it to intervene in the
case. The wire charged that Of
ficials of West Baton Rouge Par
iSh are trying to intimidate the
student committee representatives
by Illegally arresting them on
holding them under excessive bail. >
''The U. S. Justice Department
must act," the wire said, ito en-
join these officials from arbitrarily
arresting those working to regis
ter voters and improve race re-
lationS.'
Arizona sun., 1962-03-08
Page S

thus far have shown no interest
in ending segregation"
date from the 18OO'S and before.
This is history's yardstick by which
progress is measured.
Middleton A. Harris
80 La Sale st.
N.Y.C., 27, NY.
Evening star., 1962-08-23
Hoot Gibson Dies at 70,
Hero of Silent Westerns

when the late Carl Laemmle
hired him as the star and a
youngster named John Ford
as the director for a series of
five-reel Westerns at Universal.
Director Ford gave Mr.. Glib
son his last role-in 1859, a
bit part in the John Wayne
film, THE Horse Soldiers" Mr..
Gibson had retired from films
in 1914. He subsequently tried
television and operation of a
dude ranch, but with little sue
cess.
In the late 1950s Mr.. Gibson
worked as a greeter at a hotel
in Las VegaS-the Last From
tier.
Mr.. Gibson made more than
200 films.
His weekly pay hit $14,500 at
his peak.
In recent years, he had been
living near Las Vegas. New,
with his fourth wife, the former
Dorothy Irene Dunstand, whom
he married in 1912 when she
was a yodeler in his rodeo show.
Twenty-SiX years his junior, she
succeeded Actress Sally Eilers.
Miss EilerS divorced Mr.. Glib
son in 1888 after three years of
marriage.
Evening star., 1962-08-23

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. % (AP)
-Hoot Gibson, the rough
riding. quick-shooting cowboy
of three decades of Western
films, died in a hospital today
of cancer. Mr.. Gibson, 70, had
been at the Motion Picture
Country Home hospital il
Woodland Hills since Sunday
He underwent surgery ir
January. 1860, in Las Vega;
for removal of an intestinal
obstruction and last January 8
he had another abdominal
operation at the Woodland
Hills hospital.
Mr.. Gibson was the last OF
Hollywood's early-day western
heroes to die. He was a king
of the celluloid range in the
1920S and 1930s, and was a
two-fisted contemporary of
Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Tim
Mccoy, William S. Hart and
Harry Carey.
Mr.. Gibson, who was born
in Tekamah. Nebr., Edmund
Richard Gibson, was a stunt
man for 10 years, making $40
a week, plus SIS, each time he
fell off a moving horse. He got
his start as a leading man
Evening star., 1962-08-23
UNDER-ICE SEARCH
Subs Herald New Tactics
BY ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press Staff Writer

A hide-and-seek maneuver
by two United States Navy
atomic submarines under Polar
ice points to the way a deep
and deadly war could be fought
in the Arctic.
President Kennedy an
nounced the hitherto-secret op-
Grafton to a news conference
yesterday, saying that the sub
marines Skate and Seadragon
had made historic rendezvous"
under the ice, then later sur
faced through an opening at
the North Pole.
This" said Mr.. Kennedy, "iS
the first time that two of our
submarines have worked to-
gether in this manner under
the Arctic ice pack and I want
to congratulate all of those in
volved in this exceptional tech
nical feat"
The Submarine-verSus-sub-
marine operation started on
July 81 and concluded when
the two ships surfaced on Au-
gust 2. Navy experts consider
it a major tactical demonstra-
tion that antisubmarine war
fare in the hostile and weird
environment of the ice-capped
Arctic Ocean now seems feasi-
BILE in the event of hoStilitieS.
Another phase of submarine
See SUBMARINES, Page AS
Evening star., 1962-08-23
KeyEmpIoyes
In District to
Get Flu Shots

District Commissioners today
authorized free Asian flu shots
for key city employees after
being warned that widespread
flu outbreaks are expected this
winter.
Under today's action, the free
shots will be given to employees
in the. police and fire depart
ments. city hospitals, welfare
and penal institutions and
schools.
The Commissioners also au-
thorized immunization against
Asian influenza for, all other
District employees at cost-about
80 cents for the two-shot series.
The action by the Commits
sioners was taken at the request
of DR.. Frederick c. Heath, act
ing director of public health.
DR.. Heath said his office
would announce proposals next
week for a communicative
immunization program.
Under today's plan, municipal
employees will get their first
Sh0t newt month and tho Sec0nd
in early December. A person
who got the shots last year
needs only a booster shot this
year.
The Asian flu season gener-
ally hits this country between
Christmas and the last of
February.
Evening star., 1962-08-23
Havana Expects
1000 Red Experts

KEY WEST, Fla, Aug. %
(AP).-One thousand Soviet
agricultural experts are ex-
pected to visit Cuba soon,
Havana radio reported today.
The announcement was made
by Carlos Rafael Rodriguez,
president of the National In
stitute of Agrarian Reform, who
said that the Russian specialists
will boost the Cuban agricul-
tural program.
Evening star., 1962-08-23
Allies 10 Hold
Berlin Ground
Kennedy May See
Khrushchev in U. S.
BY GARNETT ID. HORNER
Star Staff Writer

OtaA OLhAA ULlttE
A State Department spokes-
man said today that Communist
East Germany'S appointment of
her own military commandant
for East Berlin cannot affect
allied rights or Soviet RESPONSE
bilities in Berlin.
This reaction to the East
German move was the same as
that voiced by President Ken
nedy at a press conference yes
terday in regard to Russia s
summary abolition of her COM
mandant's office in West Berlin.
AS tensions mounted over the
Berlin developments, the Presi-
dent told his press conference
that he would like to see So
Wet Premier Khrushchev if the
latter comes to New York this
fall to attend the United Ma
tions General Assembly session.
Joseph w. Reap, State De-
partment press officer, talked
with reporters today soon after
the East German regime an
nounced appointment of Mai.
Gen. Helmut Poppe as East
Berlin commandant.
New Pressure Indicated
The Soviet action yesterday
followed by this East German
move today appeared aimed at
putting new pressure on the
United States and other West
ern allies exercising four power
control with Russia over Berlin
to deal with East German
rather than Soviet authorities
on Berlin matters.
But Mr.. Reap said the United
See KENNEDY, Page AS
Evening star., 1962-08-23
OFFICIALS GIVE
COMMENTS ON
POLLUTION STORY

The Star yesterday show
ed Montgomery County
officials a draft of the ac-
companying story about
the county'S water prob
lens and invited them to
cite any errors.
County Health Director
William T. Peoples said:
II don't think there is
any error of fact. 1t is the
emphasis. You are showing
what we haven't done and
not what we have done"
r. J. Koch, director of
the sanitation department,
commented:
Il get a picture (from
the story of utter negli-
gence, Lnat we Just don't
give a damn about these
people. That simply is not
true. I don't think there is
anything particularly un-
true about these delays
Gin warning families with
unsafe wellsJ. Someone
just didn't get on it and
call them right away"
David L. Cahoon, chair
man of the County Coun-
Gil, said:
I'VE will expect a report
from the County Manager
on the enforcement pro-
cedures that have been fol-
lowed. This is the first di-
rect indication I have re-
ceived that any specific
regulations may not have
been applied"
Evening star., 1962-08-23
Blue Scout Rocket
Puts Up Satellite

POINT ARGUELLO. Calf :,
Aug. % (AP) An unidentified
satellite was launched from
here in pre-daWn darkness to-
day atop a Blue Scout rocket,
the Air Force reported.
A spokesman declined to say
what type of satellite it was or
whether the launching was
successful in putting the sat-
elite into orbit.
Evening star., 1962-08-23
Cubons Charge Guard
Shot by U. S. Soldier

HAVANA, Aug. % (AP).-The
Armed Forces Ministry charged
today an American soldier
inside Guantanamo Naval Base
shot and wounded a Cuban
sentry on duty outside the
fence girdling the big United
States military installation
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1962-08-23
Thuis Seek School

BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug.
% (AP).-The government is
sending out feelers for foreign
assistance to construct an ag-
ricultural engineering school in
Thailand's barren northeastern
region, says the Bangkok World.
Evening star., 1962-08-23

l
the Senate yesterday. 1t now
goes to with the House, which
rejected the Presidents manda-
tory wheat and feed grain con-
troll proposal several weeks age
in favor of continuing the pres
ent voluntary program for an
other year.
2. The tariff-cutting trade
bill already passed by the
House, but not likely to come
out of the Senate. Finance Com
mittee until after Labor day.
Mr.. Kennedy said he hopes
the trade bill is not limited so
that it would circumscribe "our
negotiating power (So) that
we will have the shadow of a
bill and not the substance"
3. A Senate-approved consti-
tutional amendment to outlaw
the poll tax in Federal elections
which is slated for House action
Monday. The President said the
two-third vote required to pass
it is essential, because no
American should have to pay
to vote.
4. Authority for the United
States to purchase United Ma
tions bonds. The Senate passed
the bill in April, and it is sched-
uled for House action soon.
Mr.. Kennedy said the question
Of supporting the UN. is not
Democratic or Republican, but
American. He said he is conf
dent it will be approved by all
thoughtful" members of the
House.
Big Step for Drug Safety
Senator Kefauver, Democrat
Of Tennessee, in charge of the
drug control bill, has described
it as a step that should 60
a long way toward assuring the
American people that drugs are
not only safe but will do what is
claimed for them"
All indications are the Sem
ate will approve without change
the committee recommenda-
tions giving the Food and Drug
Administration broader power
to pass on the safety and ef-
ficacy of new drugs, to require
all advertising to carry the
generic name in large type and
to tighten other controls.
One of the key sections of
the drug bill would give the
Government authority to take
a drug off the market, without
a hearing, whenever the Sec
retary of Welfare found an i'm
minent hazard to the public
health in its continued use.
Senator Kefauver said the
legislation now meets his
original objectives except for
the lack of any provision to re-
duce what he termed "high and
excessive prices of patented
drugs"
He said he will offer an
amendment to require COM
See CONGRESS, Page A-6
Evening star., 1962-08-23
y. S. Escorts Soviet Cars
In Berlin Despite Threat
Reds Warn
OF Similar
Guards

BERLIN, Aug. % (AP).-
United States military police
insisted on escorting three So
Wet armored cars into West
Berlin today, despite a Soviet
threat to put an escort on every
American car going into East
Berlin or using the highway
between West Berlin and West
Germany.
The Soviet armored cars,
taking troops to the Soviet war
memorial in West Berlin, were
held up at Checkpoint Charlie,
the entry point ior West Berlin
that is controlled 10y the United
States Army.
There was a 324 hour parley.
Then the SovietS started toward
the memorial with American
Sedans preceding and following
the armored cars.
An American spokesman said
the threat against United States
traffic in East Berlin and on
the l10-mile highway running
to West Berlin was made by an
officer accompanying the So
Wet armored cars.
New COmmandant
While the Soviet cars were
being held, the East German
Communist regime announced
it is appointing its own city
commandant for THE capital
of the German Democratic Re-
public, Berlin" Mai. Gen. Hell
NUT Poppe will replace the
Soviet city commandant, Mai.
Gen. Andrei Solovyev, whose
job was abolished yesterday by
Moscow.
The East German Defense
Ministry announced that Gen.
Poppe's headquarters will be in
the suburb of Karlshorst, where
the Soviet general had his
headquarters.
Witnesses said first three
American military vehicles,
then one, blocked the Soviet
armored cars at Checkpoint
Charlie.
A United States mission
spokesman said he judged the
Soviet cars were being held be-
cause of difficulty about weap-
ons.
When the three cars arrived
at the checkpoint, a Soviet
officer with a tommygun was
visible in the front seat of each.
Two were senior lieutenants.
A full colonel was reported also
to be in one of the cars. While
police held back $50 spectators
a block away. the Soviet Off
GERS stood about, smoking,
occasionally smiling.
Other Traffic Unhampered
Soviet and American sedans
moved back and forth between
East and West Berlin, indicat-
ing that for the moment at
least there was no general
interference with East-West
military traffic.
A reliable source said an East
Berlin official had told Com
munist reporters that his gov
ernment does not intend to
interfere with Western military
traffic-but at the same time
insisted that Western army
sedanS have no legal basis for
going into East Berlin.
Gen. Poppe. the East German
Defense Ministry said, will
command border troops in Ber-
lin, which up to now have been
under the Interior Ministry, as
we'll as army units.
By agreement of the victors
in World War II. German
troops are not supposed to be
stationed in Berlin. The East
Germans have nevertheless
openly displayed them in re-
cent years.
The border guards. called
"Grepos," are the men who
stand directly across from
! Checkpoint Charlie. Russians
See BERLIN, Page A-9