to partly cloudy through Saturday night, mild Friday night, little change in temperature Saturday and Sunday, low Friday night in upper 60s, high Saturday in 90s. WEATHER Established 1837 AP and UPI Mississippi's Leading Newspaper The Leased Wires JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, Christine Formally Accused Conviction Could Put 'Party Girl' In Jail 28 Years LONDON (AP)- Keeler, a sex figure in the John Profumo-Stephen Ward affair, was formally accused Friday of perjury and other offenses during the trial last spring of a discarded Negro lover, Aloysius Gordon. Conviction on a all the counts could put the red 21-yearold call girl in prison for 28 years. Christine and three other persons were charged with manipulating the facts in the case of Gordon, a Jamaican singer once accused-and convicted beat ing her up. All were released on bail pending an' appearance in court next Friday.
Christine's codefendants were her apartment mate, Paula Hamilton-Marshall, 23; their housekeeper, Olive Brooker, 56; and West Indian Rudolph Fenton, 39. All were arrested Thursday night by Scotland Yard detectives trying to sort out the Gordon case, which ended with voiding three year sentence on a charge of assaulting Miss Keeler. Christine, Miss Hamilton Marshall and Mrs. Brooker were charged with lying under oath at Gordon's trial. Together with Fenton they also were charged with three counts of conspiring to conceal facts about the case from the police.
Gordon, a former lover Christine along with former War Minister John Profumo and others -was convicted June 7 of slug. ging her. The appeals court voided sentence seven weeks later on the basis of evidence which was not forthcoming at the original trial. Court Test On Riders Set Monday By BILL SIMPSON Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer The last state court test of the 1961 "freedom" rider arrests here will begin Monday, when the Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the conviction appeal of John Lee Copeland, Negro Baptist minister of Nashville, Tenn. Copeland's is the first of about 70 rider appeals to reach the high court.
If the convictions are upheld, the way will be cleared for an appeal to federal court. The 45-year-old minister was one of 312 persons arrested durthe rider invasions including 15 Episcopal clergymen who said they were not "freedom" riders. Two of the clergymen, including the Rev. Robert Pierson, son-in-law of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, sued later for false arrest, but the federal court jury ruled against them.
All but a few of those arrested were convicted. Only about 70 appealed their fines and sentences, which have been upheld by Hinds County Circuit Court. Copeland was arrested May 24, 1961 the first day of the rides which saw integrationists descend on the city by the load to protest segregation practices at the Trailways Bus Depot. He refused a police order to disperse. He was fined $200 and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence by Municipal Judge James Spencer.
He posted a $500 appeal bond and was convicted again by Hinds County Judge Russel Moore. The Congress of Racial Equality sponsored the rides and handled the appeals. However, after $329,000 in fines and appeal bonds had been posted by CORE, the NAACP took over the cases. Clarion-Ledger For More Than A Century SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1963 Gov. Wallace Flurry Of NEGROES KILL TWO NEGROES IN NEW BIRMINGHAM FRACAS BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
(AP) Police said a group of Negro teenagers fired shotgun charges Friday night into a home, killing two Negroes. Police quickly took three persons into custody. Then they radioed for six more cars to help surround a night club where other suspects were said to be holed up. Officers moved speedily on first reports of a disorder. A police sergeant said the incident apparently was not connected with racial trouble that have kept this city tense for months.
First reports, he said, indicated that a group of teenagers known as drift-tracks roamed into the Frenchtown section and fired into the home. When a police car arrived, he added, the youths seemed to be shooting at everything in sight. Every available police unit was sent to the scene. Chinese Pour Into Russia MOSCOW (AP) The Kremlin was officially silent, but Western sources reported Friday that refugees from Red China have been streaming into the Soviet Union by the thousands for the past year. One Westerner said Soviet officials had told him they were still coming as late as last week.
He put the figure at 50,000. a These reports, undoubtedly Soviet-inspired, spread through diplomatic quarters soon after Communist China charged Moscow had "enticed and coerced several tens of thousands of Chinese citizens into going to the Soviet Union." The Red Chinese charged the Russians had planned to use these emigres to overthrow the Communist Chinese administration in Ili, a mountainous district of Sinkiang on the border of Soviet Kazakhstan. Communist China and the Soviet Union signed a 30- year contract in 1950 to exploit the oil and mineral riches of Sinkiang jointly. These include gold and uranium. Peking said the Kremlin had refused demands to send the Chinese back "on the pretext of a sense of Soviet legality and Peking Radio added the incident still was unsettled and called i it "an astounding event, unheard of in the relations between Socialist countries." Peking Radio said the exodus had occurred in April and May 1962.
It made no mention of a continuing flow. Neither did some of the Western sources here, although one mentioned he had heard the number was increasing. This was the first charge of troubles and provocations along the thousands of miles of ill-defined border between the two Communist giants. Even. more than Red China's anger at Soviet refusal to supply it with atomic weapons, it marked the shift of the Communist quarrel from the ideological to the severely practical sphere.
One Westerner said the Russians had told him many of the fleeing Chinese citizens were Moslems escaping religious persecution. At the time of the Red take-over, 14 years ago, thousands of Moslems fled south into Kashmir, giving the same reason. The informant added that another reason for flight was that the Red Chinese were applying "measures of colonialism" in Ili. He did not specify what he meant. Trading Sky High On Stock Exchange NEW YORK (AP) Trading soared on the New York Stock Exchange Friday to the highest level since May 31, 1962, as the Dow Jones industrial average retreated from its historic peak.
A total of 7.2 million shares changed handf. This was the biggest since the final of the three dramatic days of the 1962 crash when 10.71 million shares were traded. The New York Stock Exchange ticker tape fell five minutes behind floor transactions at the close. A block of Sperry Rand was reported by the exchange to be the biggest block ever traded in a regular transaction. Martin Marietta aerospace contractor, announced it had sold its holding, reportedly about 1 million shares in Sperry Rand, a diversified machinery and electronic computer manufacturer.
To whom the sale was made was not disclosed. The Dow industrials, which Thursday topped the previous high set Dec. 13, 1961, lost 2.61 to 735.37. This still was ahead of the old high of 734.91. The Associated Press 50-stock U.S.
JUDGE REFUSES TO LIFT BAN ON PLAQUEMINE RIOTING BATON ROUGE (AP) A federal district judge, in a strongly worded statement, refused Friday to lift his order barring racial demonstrations at nearby Plaquemine, La. Judge E. Gordon West not only 1 turned down the Congress of Racial Equality's request for removal of the ban, but promised: who violates the orders of this court will be dealt with as harshly as the law A group of Negroes, including James Farmer, national director of CORE, sat on the front rows of seats in the courtroom as the judge spoke. To dissolve the order, West declared, would in effect say "that you are hereby given specific license to violate the law GO If Page find church tend TO CHURCH believe in God, turn to you 5 of your Clarion-Ledger, the Sunday schedule of the of your choice, a and atworship services. VOL.
CXXV. NO. 209 20 PAGES PRICE 5c Sparking Maneuvers State Troopers Moved Around Like Chess Men THE COAST GUARD cutter under the skipper, Warrant Officer N. E. Crosby of Vicksburg, lays buoys on the Yazoo River near Vicksburg to marke the site of the Union Navy's Civil War gunboat Cairo.
which was sunk by a Confederate mine in December, 1862. The Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board will endeavor to salvage the gunboat (to which it holds title) as a museum and tourist attraction. The Coast Guard will patrol the area during salvage operations, to control commercial traffic. Salvage operations were scheduled to get under way Saturday. Two Suspects Jailed In Gulf Bank Holdup ATLANTA (UPI) Two men suspected of robbing a mississippi bank were arrested Friday night at the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport here and police recovered $19,000 of the loot.
Authorities said they arrested the two-identified as John Jones Jacksonian Is Killed In Car Mishap A 78-year-old retired Jackson engineer was killed here Friday night when an automobile struck him as he crossed Ellis Ave. near Westland Plaza shopping center. Police said William J. Spinka, of 917 Claiborne was dead on arrival at Baptist Hospital following the accident which occurred about 8 p.m. Investigating officers H.
A. Meadows and J. B. Hall said he was hit by a 1959 Ford driven by Laura Ann Morris, 18, of 221 Moss, as the car headed south on Ellis Ave. Police said no charges had been filed pending a full investigation.
Spinka was apparently attempting to cross over to the shopping center when the accident occurred. A native of Austria, he had resided in the United States for the past 57 and in Jackson for the past seven years. Spinka was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and was a retired engineer for Standard Brands Co. of New York, where he was employed for 34 years.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Tilinka Pat Kilpatrick, of Jackson, and Mrs. Helen Bryan, of New York City; a brother, Jack Spinka, of Yonkers, N. and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Dzianda of Smithville, Ontario, Canada, and Mrs.
Olena Spinka of Canada. Funeral arrangements, under the direction of Baldwin Funeral Home, will be announced Saturday. Szoky and 0. D. Strolhey as they attempted to leave the airport in a taxi cab at about 10:30 P.
M. (EST) Friday night. They were taken to DeKalb County police headquarters where FBI agents held them for questioning. No charges were immediately placed. One of the men is believed to be the lone gunman who held up a branch of the Bank of Hanco*ck earlier Friday at Mississippi City, and escaped with about $20,000.
The bandit, described as being in his late 50s and wearing a fake mustache, took guard hostage to aid in his escape." GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) A lone bandit robbed a branch bank of $19,550 Friday and fled with the bank guard as hostage. The guard, Ed Blue, 61, was later released unharmed on a rural road 10 miles northeast of here. Blue, a veteran law enforcement officer, said he was threatened by the bandit, who stripped a fake mustache he wore during the robbery from his face before releasing Blue. Blue, an ex-CBI agent and former member of the police department at Gulfport, was ordered to accompany the holdup man after he locked seven bank employes and a woman customer in the vault.
Federal, state and local officers pressed a search for the bandit, described by Blue and Charles Webb the Mississippi city branch bank manager, as being in his early 40s, about 5-foot-8, weighing about 145 pounds, darkeyed and ruddy complexioned. Blue, who was forced to drive the getaway car from the bank, said his captor peeled off a false black mustache and threw his hat away before the car sped "Tasked if he was going to shoot me in the back when I got out of Continued on Page 10 Perez Puts Clamps On Military Men BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) Leander Perez' answer to the controversial Gesell Report went into effect Friday and a restaurant owner refused to sell cups of coffee to two Navy men. Perez, fiery political chieftain of this area below New Orleans, pushed an ordinance through the Plaquemines Parish Council last week forbidding the serving of beverages to military personnel. The grey mained, 72-year-old Perez, excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for his uny'elding stand on segregation, said the ordinance was his rely to the Kennedy Administration's racial policies affecting the armed services.
The Gesell report recommended that commanders of military bases in the South be empowered to use the economic power of their bases against racial discriminaI tion. Directly affected here is the U.S. Naval Air Station where some 600 men are on duty. The two sailors were met by the operator of the Hummingbird Restaurant, Mrs. Charles T.
Boone, who pointed to a large sign which read: "Parish law forbids me to serve military personnel in She said the pair left without comment. "The ordinance is bound to hurt my business," she said. Other tavern owners commented: "I would I hate to turn down servicemen who came in my place." Capt. W. B.
Tracy, commander of the naval station said he had given no official notice to his persunnel because he felt the ordinance was addressed to tavern owners. The ordinance applies to all operators of taverns and restaurants I in the parish with a liquor license. CONVINCED BY TESTIMONY Senator Stennis To Oppose Ratification Of A-Test Ban WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. John Stennis, told the a Senate today that he will vote against ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty. He said closed door testimony by military and scientific experts had convinced him there is "cause for great concern and alarm about the security implications of the proposed Stennis is chairman of a Senate armed services preparedness investgiating subcommitee -sometime known as the watchdog defense group which has conducted lengthy hearings on disarmament proposals in general and the proposed treaty.
Stennis was the first senator to If make a firm announcement on the during Senate floor that he would vote against ratification. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (UPI) Gov. George C. Wallace closed four more desegregated public schools Friday- civic indignation in Huntsville and sparking a flurry of new leagle manervering.
A total of eight schools have been closed since Wallace started his last ditch stand to choke off school desegregation in all four cities in the state where integration has been ordered by federal courts. latest move was against four schools Friday in Huntsville. Negro attorneys countered the action by filing a petition with federal court in Birmingham asking that the governor be restrained from interfering with the operation of Huntsville schools. A hearing on the complaint was set for next Monday. Wallaces' troopers closed a school in Tuskegee last Monday and Birmingham closed three other schools Thursday at Wallace's urging following a riot.
About 5,000 students have been affected by the actions in the three cities. WITHDRAWS TROOPERS In an unexplained move late Friday Wallace pulled his troopers out of still another city involved in the desegregation struggle-Mobile. The city has accepted two Negroes at the high school level, but the two have not yet attended classes. Wallace rushed 150 of his troopers to the port city Thursday night, ostensibly for the purpose of blocking the admittance of the two to Murphy High, but the Negroes made no attempt to enter Friday. Within an hour after the troops were pulled out, the county school board at Mobile issued a statement declaring no school would be closed, including the one to be desegregated.
at nearly every turn Wallace was meeting opposition. forts to preserve segregation, and much of the controversy was finding its way into the courts. COURT ACTION In a series of developments dealing with the struggle, federal courts Friday: -Ordered a hearing for next Thursday on the issue of whether Wallace should be restrained from interfering with the desegregation of three schools at Birmingham. -Set a hearing for Wednesday on a petition that requests the Birmingham school board be required to reopen the three desegregated schools closed because of rioting. -Refused to make Wallace an outright defendant in a suit seekContinued On Page 10 Wallace's Actions Resented By Some BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
(AP) Gov. George C. Wallace appears to be sitting on an increasingly hot seat as resentment rises in Alabama over the delay in school openings and the issues of "cities' rights." He is being accused of armed invasion, harming the state, and of having gone wild. This criticism comes even from some of his friends. It crackles in newspaper editorials, the statements of public officials, and the expressions from angry parents.
The Montgomery Advertiser said in an editorial Friday: "It appears as this goes to press that Gov. Wallace has dispatched state troopers to Mobile and Huntsville to usurp local power by force. "If this becomes a fact today, the Advertiser must sorrowfully conclude that, in this instance, its friend has gone wild." In Huntsville, a group of defiant women registered their feelings about the governor's action there. About 25 mothers marched their children through the cordon of state troopers surrounding East Clinton Grammar School and took them into the building. Before that incident, a woman said to a trooper, "Is this Amer.
ica?" and a 12-year-old boy, halted as he tried to enter Rison Junior High, said to the trooper, "I think you and Wallace are mad." In Birmingham on Thursday a woman said, when turned back by a trooper, "I want my child in school. Who is protecting my civil rights." Another newspaper, the Selma Times-Journal, pointed out in an editorial that Wallace's experience at the University of Alabama -when federalized troops were used to integrate the institutionshowed that his "tactics cannot prevail. in the face of federal might." The newspaper is a strong supporter of Wallace, but it said: "The Selma Times-Journal is fearful that this new maneuver by Gov. Wallace is likely to prove costly to him through federal penalties and loss of some of the national prestige he has built up by standing for states rights, especially as the people of Tuskegee seem resigned to token mixing and resent interference in their local affairs by the governor." That echoed the reactions in Tuskegee last Wednesday when Wallace closed the schools there. "Tuskgee resents this invasion by armed, helmeted state troopers, coming in here without knowledge or consent of local authorities," said Allan Parker, bank president and civic leader.
"I feel this is an invasion of Macon County by the governor," said County Solicitor Broward Segrest. average, which had been making a series of historic highs since last May, dropped 1.2 to 279.9. of 1,332 issues traded, 400 rose and 679 fell. Losses included Polaroid $3.25 to $205.75, Xerox $4.50 to $283, Control Data $6 to $95, Chrysler $1.50 to $72.75, and American Smelting $1 to $86.50. International 1 Business Machines advanced $8 to $458.50, U.
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Logs 12 Sports 11, 12, 15 20 Women 2 Churches 5 NEWSPAPER panel, has indicated he will vote no. Sen. J. W. Fulbright, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and other treaty supporters are confident that they have more than the necessary two-thirds vote required for ratification.
Stennis announced that the preparedness subcommittee would provide a report and summary of its hearings before the Senate reaches a vote on ratificatoin. At the same time Stennis released lengthy but highly censored testimony by Gen. Thomas S. Power, commander of the global Strategic Air Command, sharply condemning the proposed treaty. The general testified at a closed session Aug.
19 and afterward it Continued On Page 10 ARGUE IN VAIN--Veronica Pearson, left, stands by as her mother, O'Dell Pearson, and Rev. Ezra Bell argue with Alabama state patrolmen in Huntsville Friday as they made an abortive attempt to enter Veronica at a previously all-white school. The school was under federal orders to admit the.
