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Barrie Examiner, 25 May 1961, p. 1

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OUR maroonrs For Examiner Want Arts Talk phone PAJMIL llu number to call for the Burmese or Editorial DGPL ll PA 0m 91th YenNo 121 MISSISSIPPI Arrest27 Bus Riders JACKSON Miss APilote grationists today turned deaf ear to Attorney General Robert conedys plea for eoolingoif period on Integrated bus trips into Alabama and Mississippi Negro leaders vowed theyll inérease efforts to crack bus segregation in the Deep South despite the jailing of Freedom Riders by police in this Missi ssippi capital city of 150000 Two buses carrying 27 Free dom RIdcrs25 Negroes and two whitespulled into Jackson four hours apart Wednesday acA companied by bayonetwielding Mississippi Guards men City police officers ringing the bus terminal arrested the when they refused to leave Tht Freedom Rldcrs re mained in jail in lieu of $500 bonds each Still another group of Free dom Riders including white college re sors from the North arrived Wednesday in Montgomery Ala to make an other stab at cracking Jim Crow barriers The two groups jallcd at Jackson and the third party all plan to end their trips in New Orleans which has vir tually no segregation in city bus terminals WILL CONTINUE At Montgomery Rev Martin Luther King Jr Ncgro integ ration leader saidtbe move ment to break down racial bar riers would continue He said students were being encouraged to test bus segregation laws do spita the attorneygenerals rt quest Also in Montgomery Rev Wyatt Walker executive direc tor oi the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of All lanta Gn said his organization wauld pay no attention to the JFK WANrs our AME ottorneygcncrals appeal for coolingoff period The Ncgro minister said his group would continue in efforts and would try to broaden them The Freedom Riders were booked with breach of peace and disobeying an officer Th breach of peace charge result from 1960 statute which the Mississippi legislature passed as an antidntcgration measure They are expected to he tried in municipal court Friday TOOK IN WAGON When each bus arrived police ordered the Freedom Riders to leave the bus terminal When the order was ignored police hustled them into waiting patrol wagon la Washingtonbiils were in troduced in Congress by Missis sippi legislators banning Frec dom Rides Senator John Sten ais Democrat offered bill in the Senate making it federal silence to ride interstate trans portation with the purpose of in citing riot similar bill was introduced in the House of Rep reseatatlves Soviet Reporter Phones Alabama Told Race Riots Wont Continue LONDON Reuters An en terprising Russian reporter tel cphnned Montgomery Aia from Mosoow and was told by someone at Montgomery newspaper that the bloody slaughter of integrationists wont be repeated Moscow Radio said Wednesday night home service broadcast said Moscow Radio reporter tried unsuccessfully to reach the edi tor of the Montgomery Post Herald to question him about the Alabama raceriots last week but that instead some one at the newspaper told him in essence that there is no need tovworry that the bloody slaughter might be repeated The radio praised the cour ageous fighters against racial segregation reported the ar rival in Montgomery of dozeas of young people Negroes as well as whites to join the Freedom Riders an integra tionist group testing bus station segregation in the southern United Shtes SOUTH AFRICA NOTICES Meanwhile the Alabama fiareup took prominent play in South African newspapers and radio reports The Johannesburg Die Trans valer said in an editorial that Those who still want to put forth integration as magic word which will clear up the worlds racial problems includ ing those of South Africa should think again South African Premier Hens drik Vcrwoerd champion of apartheid iraoinl separation is former editor of Die frans valer The Bloemfontein Die vars blad said President Kennedys problems are well understood in South Africa But it will probably be ex pecting too much to hope that the new emphasis of the prob lem of racial relations in mixed state will permit under standing and appreciation of the South African program it said FINDS PARALLEL In Europe West German newspaper found parallel be tween wartime Nazi persecution of Jews and the actions of Montgomery police in the Ala bama riots The Bonn newspaper General Anzeiger was one of many Ens ropean commentators to speak out Wednesday against diehard segregationisLs in the southern US mammogramsBrannon Premier David HenGurion oflsrael arrived in Ottawa yesterday on visit be des cribed as amission tortrengg theith SPII nl and mates ial ties between North Amer ica andisrael He is seen here being greeted at Uplands Prim Matter airport Dldlcnbalfhdr panyltvwas disclosed Wednesé LOCAL WEATHER Goudy Ind cooler with show on tomorrow Winds an Low toafglat 40 High Friday 55 For full marinery on me three Not More Then To porCopyZo Paul Hike Foreign Aid President Urges WASHINGTON tAP Pres ident Kennedy called on Con gress today to beef up the military strengthen foralgn aid attack unemployment and pump 57000000000 to 39000000000 into rocketing man to the moon His requests were made in an extraordinary message second report on the State of the Union for delivery in person before joint Senate House WVux MOTORCYCLE PATROLMEN ESCORT FREEDOM RIDERS BUS OUT OF MONTGOMERY ALA STATION SWedish Princess Marries STOCKHOLM Princess Birgitta zt year old Adolf of Sweden and German Prince Johann George of Hohem zollern weremarried in two minute civil ceremony here to day About 750 invited guests and thousands of Swedes watching on television saw the ceremony in the state hail of the Stock boirn Royal Palace Birgitta and Pri will be married again according to the rituof the Roman Catholic Church at Sig maringen Germany Prince Johann and his family are Catholics but Princess Bir gitta belongs to the Swedish Lutheran Church Princess Birgitta is the second daughter of the late Prince Gustaf Adolf killed in an air crash in 1947 and Princess Slbylla daughter of Fake Karl Eduard of SaxeCoburgGotba Investigation News Causes Stock Slump WASHINGTON AP The US justice department has started oantitrust investiga tion of the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Com day News of the investigation caused and stock todrop on the New York Stock Etc change At noon the stock slumped to $11715 ashare drop of $737 The stock however began to recover after that and climbed to $122 at the close of the mar ket for total dayfs loss of $318 InNew YorkAT and said in statement We have not been informed of any unusual investigation go ing on at this time and weAbe have we are in full compliance with the antitrustlaws 10rd Beaverbroolr Marks Birthday coupon AP reppery publisher Lord Benverbroolr was 02 today butvhe planned no birthday celebration His secretary said Hes spending the day at his coun home near brotherhood hes planning nothing special1 no special birthday luncheon or dinner Canadianborn Lord Beaver brook is the publisher of three of Londons most successful newspapers The Daily Express Sunday Express and Evening Standard Divorcees llgree granddaughter of King Gustav were taken to hospital in Thes Picket NoMore JACKSON Mich APJJaolb son Countyald jailed divorcees went home Wednesday after promising to picket no more The women were jailed Tucs day onacontempt charge for ignoring court order restric ing the number of their pick at theJacksonrmuntv building MARGARET EXPECTING LONDON ReuterslPrln oess Margaret is ex ctiag baby in the fall was announced from her home Keosingtou Palace tonight The statement added tint the swearold princess who married Antony Armstrong Jones at year ago would undertake no further offi cial engagements from to Boat Capsizes Fishermen $34 Drown In Lake THESSALON CP leo Michigan fishermen were drowned Wednesday when sudden wrnd capsized their small boat and dumped them and two other men into the icy waters of Clear Lake The two survivors reached shore after two hours in the water Then they had to wait hours for the boat to float to share so they could go back across the lake for help Exhausted after the ordeal they rested in an abandoned cabin before seeking help Pro vincial police were finally noti fied earlytoday Names of the four men were withheld The two survivors salon 35 miles south ofClear Lake and 50 miles east of Sault Ste Marie suffering shock and exposure Dragging operations began to day BUDGET JUNE OTTAWA GP The Citi zen says the federal budget will he presented to the Commons June Speculation about the budget date has been rife for weeks IN NUISHELL Troops Withdrawn WASHINGTON AP AttorneyGeneral Robert Ken nedy today withdrew the major portion of the force of US marshals sent into Alabama last week to help halt violence surrounding the fFreedom Ride Chang Refused Visa SEOUL Reutersi The American Embassy today turned down an application by LLGen Koreas military junta for vis talks with President Kennedy Coal Mine Explosion JOHANNESBUEG or methané gas explosionoccur red in section of the Coalbrook coal mine 50miiessouth of Johannesburg today and casualties were reported No details were immediately available AcknowledgeRight Tenant BUFFALO NY AP Th Wednesday recognized the right moderately It was the American churchs nowledgemeat of the privilege Hussein Weds Commoner AMMANfCP King Hussein Jordon Prophet Mohammad today married moner who refuses to he princess Iean Newman Norman TORONTOTCP Forme politics since her défeatlh Toronto lay cc Dcoembet returned Thursday nigh whenspsyaaa Liberal standardbearer for Police today stepped up hunt the Nationalist government of Pamphlets Urge Protest Strilre flinong South African Negroes JOHANNESBUEG Reuters for leaders of planned three day protest strike against the scheduled proclamation of the South African Republic in six days Despite police raids and searches thousands of pam phlets calling on Negroes to stay at home for threedays be ginning May 29 were distributed in Negro living areas during the night Police pressed hunt for fugitive strike leaders The pnmhplets signed by the National Action Council said if Prime MinisterHendrik Ver woerd does not call 7conven tlon representative of all the people then nonwhites will go their own wayi Verwnerds government fol TREAT UN WRITERS OTTAWA CF The Cana dian governrheat Wednesday night threw dinner for United Nations correspond from five countries besides Canada The 10 reporters arrived earlier in the day guests of the gov ernment as avgoodwlll gesture and are scheduled to meet rime Minister Dieieabaker today Judge Di lows policy of strict apartheid racial segregation in which the Negro has no voice in gov ernment outside of certain Ne gropopulated reserves HOLD SERVICES The pamphlets said special religious services should be held ln allNegro townships and only doctors and nurses should re port to work during the three day period beginning Maym South Africa becomes re public and leaves the Common wealth May at The South African people will be in mourning the palm phlcts said sothere musthe no social or sports gatherings The pamphlets warned Negroes to stay at home literallyin order to avoid clashes with po lice and troops South Africas foreign ex change reserves last week dropped below the mark re garded by some experts as danger point countrys political problem During the week ended Pri day gold and foreign assets of the central bank declined by more than £1500000 $4700 000 to aAthree year low of $575000000 mark is considered the arbitrary danger point bcs low which reserves should not be allowed to decline amisses SpyingChqrges MONTREAL CP Five charges of spying against Pollsh engineer To In Blernacki were dismissed today but he was immediately reerrested an preferred indictment issued by the attorneygeneral of Quebec The new indictment was an nouneed by special Crown pros ecutor Jean Miquelon seconds rs Do Yang Chang head of South to visit the United States for United Presbyterian of individual members to format elmold ng after Judge PeterShorteno fin ished reading aapagejudg ment in Biernackis six week preliminary the charges The new indictment lists the same charges as were dismissed collecting and recording infore motion that might be harmful to Canada attempting to corn municate this information to foreign power and attempting to collect information preparal tory to setting up an espionage TIDE hearing dismissing Mr Miquelon said this was serious case and Judge Shorteno had dismissed the charges on point of law The preferred indictment will put Biernackidirectly ontrlal after he is arraigned doing away with preliminary hearing DIDNT GO AR ENOUGH Judge Shorteno suggested his decision thatthe Official Secrets Act underwhichBi naclti was chars far enough tow rant com ing Biéraackif ewdeaca as Crow evidence which was reflecting towns Jewish session almost on the eve of the departure for conferences abroad Kennedy asked for $1500000 000 in new appropriations now to get on with his programs plus recognition from Congress and the country that billions more will be required in the future Speaking of the objective of landing man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth project some experts believe may re ulrc nine or 10 years the pics dent said HALF WAY NOT ENOUGH Let It be clear that am asking the Congress and the country to accept firm com mitment to new course of actiona course which will last for many years and carry very heavy costsan estimated $7 0000oo000 to 50000000000 ad ditional over the next five years If we were to go only half way or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty it would be better not to go at all The message called for weeping reorganization of mili tary combat power an increase In the marina corps and buildup of the land and air weapons needed for brush fire wars and paramilitary gush rilla operations The president committed the US to take clearly leading role in space achievement For while we cannot gush antes that We shall one day be first we can guarantee that any failure to share this effort will make us last the president said Kennedy asked $670000000 of new funds for space explora tion including $531000000 for the moon project He asked $535000000 of new foreign aid funds shared about equally between military and economic assistance PLAN EMERGENCY FUND The economic portion $250 000000 would go into presi dential contingency fund he said to be used only upon the presidents finding that sad den and extraordinary drain on the regular funds made neces sory the use of this emergency reserve Theneed for such funds he said has been illustrated by remt events in Southeast Asia The total foreign economicald program to be boosted $2650 000000 if Congress accepts the new presidential recommenda tions is both minimal and crucial Kennedy said Lenders Discuss Tense Situation OTTAWA 01 Premier David BenGurion of Israel briefed Prime Minister Dlefea baker on current Middle East dangers in an hourlong confer ence today No statement was made aft erwards by either leader Fur ltiher talks may be held later to Mr BenGarden arrived for the conference in the Prime ministers office at 835 am and left an hour later to attend reception inhls honor at of community cen tre Canadian government offi cial said that the conference was almost entirely devoted to the Middle East situation An is raeli spokesman said before the meeting thatMr BenGurlonln tended to impress Mr Diefcn baker with his fear of he dan gers inherent in the United Arab Republics In il buildup using Russian arms and let fighters Todays meeting was arranged hastilyWednesday when scheduled conference was inter rupted by vote in the Com mons onther governments cap ital punishment bill Mr Diefenbaker was host Wednesday night at an official dinner for the visiting 74year old Israeli statesman Guests in cluded leaders of the Jewish communities in Eastern Can ada Amongthose present was Nathan Phillips of Tor An lsraeli government spokes me said Wednesdays hour long meeting was held in cor dial atmosphere with Mr Ben Gurion giving long exposition of his views on the world situa tion in general This was frequently inter ranted he said by Mr Diefen bakers questions and reminis ceoses of the 1854 visit he made to israel Mr Ben Gurion he added was impressed by Canadas ree ord in international aid amount ing to 34500000000 since the Second World War really tremendous amount which am sure the world doesnt realize The israelis were pleased apparently by the arrangement ior their leaders Ottawa visitp Modern Gangster Hangs In London LONDON APiVictor Terry myonldkillm who believed himself the reincarnation of the American prohibitionera gang sler Legs Diamond was banged today for shooting down guard in bank robbery Terry shot the bank guard in Worthing south of London ex actly an hour after his school friend Flossie Forsylh was hanged for another murder Terrys last wishwcat un answered He was refused per mission to see for the first time his daughter horn four weeks ago to 10yearold unmarried London girl Spectator Accuses Witness OtGmnglIplewsTo Nazis ill court for is minutcsand When the trial resumed the ms fridge Moshe Landau warned that itthere clear thepublic gallery where are 600 spectators were watch ing the case Szilagye shaking his list for ously shouted that Freudiger no right to give evidence you are hypocrite Thebeardedj orthodox identifiedas Abraham Kassirer directe Vhls abouts Eich ereany rnore distilrbanceshe would

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