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Member ABC and NEA "Your Home Newspaper Since 1882" AP and UPI Newt VOL. 83, NO. 180 10 Pages, 1 Section ANNISTON, ALABAMA, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1965 5c DAILY; 20c SUNDAY, 50 WEEK by CARRIES Channel Opened Israel! to diplomatic relations with West Germany wu araeuced Sunday, Acceptance of the German Her wai reported to be without conditions. See Story, Page Joh nson's Votinsr Bill Aide Denies Lingo Fired allace To Comply Area Victim's Identity Sought PELL CITY (AP) St. Clair County authorities pressed an investigation today in the death of an unidentified white mairwhose shotgun-riddled body was found off Highway 78 near here.

The man had -apparently been slain elsewhere and taken by car to a spot near the backwaters of the Leg an Martin Dam, near He was about 5-foot-S, weighed 150 pounds and wore green trousers and a plaid shirt Literacy Test By ALVDJ SPIVAK President Johnson presents to Congress and the nation Unfair WASHINGTON (UPI) tonight an outline of strong March yraerec Part of a stiff federal pro gram to outlaw discrimination against voter registrants MONTGOMERY, Ala. By WILLIAM BRYANT (UPI) Gov. George C. Wallace said Sunday that if a federal court orders the state of Alabama not to interfere with Negroes on pro the state capital he will ask Marine Killed Accidentally' U. S.

Jets Resume Viet Nam By MALCOLM Troopers Malt Selma March Registration Day Observed; King To Lead Memorial Rites By LEON DANIEL SELMA (UPI) Negroes were allowed to line up at the Dal SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP)-U. S. Air Force and Navy Jets attacked military installations in the southern part of North Viet Nam today in the second consecutive day of air raids on las County Courthouse today to register to vote, Mut sheriffs possemen and troopers halted an attempt J00 demon jected march from Selma to "I'll ask the people of the state to help see that it (the march) takes place peaceful-1 ly," Wallace said on a nation ally televised interview. He appeared on CBS Face The Nation. But Wallace indicated he will take no actions to smooth tensions in racially torn Selma and other points in Alabama as suggested to him by President Johnson.

He said the first step in any such action would be for Negroes to end demonstrations, now in the eighth week in his state. Efforts Termed Useless He conceded, however, "I don't think anything we can do in Alabama can stop these A federal court is now hold ing hearings on an application by Negroes for an injunction to stop state interference with 'freedom" marches Wallace's state troopers broke up an announcea seima-io- Montgomery march last Sun day with tear gas and billy clubs which more than 60 persons were injured or fell ill. In describing the action by the troopers, Wallace said he had ordered the troopers to use a "minimum of force" and de fended their actions. There were widespread reports, how ever, that he would fire Col. Al Lingo, his highway patrol chief, as a result of the melee that drew protests from across the nation Reports Are Denied i 1 1 tl "fjl new voting rights legislation.

W. BROWNE Charles de Gaulle candidates win De Gaulle Still Togs PARIS (UPI) 1 dent Charles de Gaulle's govern ment emerged strongly today from nationwide local elections in a significant test of popular! ty- The administration claimed to have held its ground everywhere and almost certainly to have won one of the nation's top political plums control of the Paris city council. Minister of Interior Roger Frey said elsewhere in France the voting showed "extraordinary political stability" with no major upsets or landslides in either direction. Attacks 1 gysyyim i imftftiyMm i It K' g. '1 hi I JI 4 4f Placard Carrier Jailed As policeman moves in, Harold Frodge of Marshall, 111., lifts a placard supporting Alabama as civil rights sympathixers marched in Omaha during weekend.

Frodge was booked for "creating a disturbance." Whiles Join Hanks, for.Wal&cdL.yir nled Sunday night that Ungol For HarlemMarch Sight Surprises NYC Leaders; Rally Held Near White House FROM WIRE REPORTS Whites and Negroes marched by the thousands through the; in any state, the measure will propose tough penalties on state and local officials who at tempt to block registration. The Chief Executive accepted an invitation from congressional leaders to make an extraordinary appearance before a joint session of Congress. His ad dress will he carried "live" on both television and radio at 3 p.m. EST Top White House, Justice De partment t-nd congressional legal advisers worked at high speed today on the technical draft of the bill itself. It is expected to be ready for introduction in the House and Senate Wednesday.

Purpose Is Given Even shield technical snags develop, )t will go to Congress before the end of the week. Top administration officials said today the bill has this cen tral purpose: To get rid of all subjective tests used in some states to keep Negroes from voting. Included are tests on lit eracy. To achieve this, the bill will contain the following key fea tures: A ban on discriminatory lo cal and state literacy tests. This will rot affect states with current literacy requirements which are applied equally to ail registrants.

Examiners Are Included Provision for federal exam iners or registrars to assure that qualified persons desiring to vote are registered for local, state and federal elections -in instances were local officials refuse register applicants or throw up roadblocks against their registration Stiff ntw federal criminal penalties aqainst local officials and private citizens, including employers, who use coercion or discriminatory devices to pr vent eligible persons from exer cising the right to register and vote. This penalty provision proposes Drison term of up to five years and fines up to 000 for violation. Criteria for application of the new voting rights provisions would fall esssentially into two classes: 1. Those states now requiring literacy tests and us ing them in a discriminatory manner to block Negro registra tion; 2. States which in the last national election, in November, cast less than 50 per cent of the voting age population.

I peared Sunday almost five months to the day after he was unceremoniously deposed. Voting with his wife and daughter In a local election, Khrushchev showed that he had lost about 50 pounds' but none of his ole off-the-cuff sen? of humor. Khrushchev did not have the required formal identify cation papers with' him, and when he was allowed to cast his ballot that the order be obeyed. strators to stage a civil rights march at the same The attempted march came a short time after a wooden saw-horse barricade that theTdem-onstrators had dubbed the "Sel ma Wall" was removed from a Selma street by Wilson Baker. Selma director of public safe ty.

The marchers, many of them white ministers, priests and nuns, began from the Negro First Methodist Church but were stopped at the site of the barricade by' Sheriff- James d. Clark of Dallas County and his possemen, who were armed and carried clubs. loses urwip Remains After several speeches and wm a "freedom" song singing, the group broke up and returned to this church, leaving only a tok- noloTthe line at the site of the barricade. The march began at 10:30 a.m., EST. Baker took down the barrier at 7 a.m., saying "Today is voter registration day.

If they want to go down and register they can." Baker, quickly moved city pfr lice in front of Clark's posse. and it moved to one side. Memorial Service Set The demonstrators wanted to go to the courthouse to protest the slaying of the Rev. James J. Reeb, a white minister who was fatally beaten in Selma last Tuesday.

A memorial service was scheduled at 2 p.m., today at a Negro church. At the courthouse, about 75 Negroes got into line to regis ter to vote. A federal court has ordered accelerated voter regis tration. Cooler Weather Due Over Area Tuesday Cloudy skies were expected to produce scattered showers in parts of the area this morn ing, with little change" in tem peratures. A high of 66 was forecast for today, the same as Sunday.

Tonight and Tuesday will be partly cloudy and a little cooler with a low of 42 and a high of 62. the city attorney Is considered, according to Field. With the case still in the pleading stage, several developments iire possible. One is that (See City, Page CoL 4) The Weather FORECAST: Today, variable cloudiness and mild with scattered showers and a possible thundershower affecting about earring ma I sly during the morning. Tonight aad Tuesday, partly cloudy and cooler.

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May. ijm.m I Umtmwt (sk) m. Mnmn had been fired Wallace said the troopers' ac tion is under investigation "I won't be stampeded into making charges against my po lice because people charge them with brutality," he said. The governor, attacked televi sion networks and United Press International for "misleading statements and saying things that are not true" in reporting the racial activities in Ala bama. Specifically, Wallace said a "typical" distortion of news and falsehood was a UPI dis patch which quoted a Roman Catholic nun as saying that Jimmy Lee Jackson, a Negro slain in a disturbance at Mar ion several weeks ago, was re fused admittance to a hospital because he was a Negro.

Question Draws Fire The charge came when Al Kuettner, veteran southern reporter for UPI, asked him what caused the Selma situation. "You represent UPI," Wal lace said. "UPI's misleading reporting is one reason for the trouble. People all over the country, reading the UPI story inflamed the people of the state. No Negro has ever been turned away from a hospital in Alabama because he was a Ne gro.

If I ever louna out mat. this happened I would do something about at." UPI stood behind to accuracy of the report. the Communist North. U. S.

BS7 Dombers made 23 strikes on suspected Viet Cong positions in two provinces of South Viet Nam. Heavy fighting was reported in various parts ol the country. A U.S. spokesman would not specify what targets were hit, how many planes took part or whether all the planes returned safely. He said the raids were carried out "in view of the continued acts of aggression perpetrated at Hanoi's direction against the South Vietnamese people, the political and economic institutions." Charges Are Given A statement charged the Communists destroyed 82 bridges and committed 214 other acts of sabotage on road and railway officials, and murdered or kidnaped 41 rural officials during the past month.

Sunday 24 Vietnamese air force fighter-bombers supported by U.S. jets smashed a small North Vietnamese island Navy base through which seaborne munitions for the Viet Cong were believed The raid Sunday was led by Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, command of the Vietnamese air force. South Vietnamese forces announced capture of another boat running arms for the Communist Viet Cong today and said it was being held in Quang Tri Province, north of the Da Nang air base.

Five Crewmen Captured The boat, a 50-foot fishing Junk, carried 15 tons of Chinese and Czech arms. Five crew members were captured. The commander of South Viet Nam's northernmost military district, Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh, Thi, flew to the tiny na val station of Cua Viet to inter rogate the prisoners and make arrangements to salvage the arms.

The crew scuttled the junk in 60 feet of water when a. naval unit chased them into coastal water, ine crew tried to swim to shore but were captured by Vietnamese sailors. Thi Claims Facts Thi said the prisoners admit ted their boat carried 50 cases of Chinese and Cech rifles and a quantity of mines and explosives. Thfsaid the boat left the southernmost province of North Viet Nam three days ago. Three members of the U.S, Marine brigade which arrived at Da Nang last week were shot accidenta'ly by a comrade Sua- 1 I 1 1 1 1 I aay nigni wiuie on uuiy ai a listening poU near the air base.

One of the Marines died of bis wounds. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian chief of 'state, told a news conference in Kiri- rom a Viet Cong official told him North Viet Nam has not countered the air strikes from the south because it believes the United States will not escalate the war. The air search for Capt. Richard S. Smith of Wichita, ended, but more ground troops were moved into the area 280 miles northeast of Saigon to hunt for the missing jet navigator.

Smith was on a bombing mission in Binh Dinh Province Thursday. His B57 crashed, and the body of the pilot, Capt Wil liam C. Mattis of lows rare, was found. One month ago Vietnamese forces sank a camouflaged vessel carrying munitions and sup plies to Communist guemiias and found a secret munitions dumn on the nearby beach' in South Viet Nam. A Vietnamese snokesman said the ship had eissed through the base atr eked Sunday, known as Tiger i-- 4 -VwA )I1IIL I F.

M. Johnson, Jr. State Aide 'Didn't See' MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) A state trooper-photographer testified in U.S. District Court today that he did not see any Negroes beaten in Selma dur ing a bloody encounter between marchers and state troopers March 7.

Cameraman Roy Smith of the state police force was the first witness called in the fourth day of a court hearing on a petition by Negroes to stage a Selma-to-Montgomery march. Smith was called as a witness on behalf of Sheriff James G. Clark of Selma after attorneys for Col. Albert J. Lingo, commander of the troopers, rested their defense with Lingo the only witness.

The photographer said he has never seen any state trooper or any of Clark's deputies strike or hit a Negro in the lVs months he has been on duty in Selma. Smith conceded, however, that he did not see everything that went on when troopers stopped a Selma-Montgomery march. He said he was taking movies and that his vision through a camera view-finder was sharply restricted. He was asked by attorney Pe-(See Aide, Page 6, Col. 4) The case grew out of a suspension of Chief Peek by Public Safety Commissioner L.

S. (Jack) Suggs Feb. 5. Peek re-assumed his duties, but petitioned the court for a writ of mandamus which requests his reinstatement and questions the legality of his suspension. Richard Emerson, counsel for Peek, charges that suspensions (AP Wlrtplwto) a sight never witnessed before more than half of the 15,000 streetcorner 800 miles away, in Selma, Ala.

The civil rights leaders who had called the march were open ly surprised and pleased. New Element A Surprise "We are particularily moved by the new element," said Bayard Rustin, the organizer of the 1963 march on Washington. "They are the hard-core, middle-class white people." Leading the line of march were hundreds of Roman Catholic nuns who strode 12 abreast behind a large white banner. We march with, Selma, it said. Following the nuns were Ro man Catholic priests of the New York diocese, ministers from the Protestant Council of Churches, rabbis from the American Jewish Congress, trade union leaders and repre sentatives of the major civil rights', organizations.

Schwerner In March With the Negro leaders marched Nathan Schwerner, the father of Michael Schwerner, a white civil rights worker mur dered in Mississippi last sum mer. The marchers crammed Into the area around Harlem's most famous hotel, the Theresa, for a rally addressed by James Farm national director of the Con gress of Racial Equality. "We put him in the White House," he said, referring to President Johnson, "but we want him to know we're not in anybody's hip pocket. I would sug gest that President Johnson go Selma to see for himself." Other Marches Staged Other marches erupted In widely scattered sections of the nation. A rally in front of the White House in Washington ended peacefully.

Eight members of the American-Nazi party carrying anti Negro signs were present. Hundreds of sign-waving pickets demanded federal Intervention in Alabama. Aerowd massed in the capital's Lafayette Cark to bear several speakers. streets of Harlem Sunday. It was in New York's Negro ghetto.

demonstrators were white. Most of the marchers wore black arm bands, mourning the Rev. James J. Reeb of Boston, the white Unitarian minister who was fatally beaten on a (AP WlrtplMi) girl polling official: 'How come you are trusting me and letting me vote without identification?" "We always trust yeu, Nikita. Sergeyeyich," she Said Khrushchev: "You used to be stricter in the past" But Khrushchev was clearly hot the same man who had ruled Russia for more than a decade -with dash and dynamism.

For er, to City's Attorney Files Answer To PetitipuByChiefL. J.Peek Khrushchev Leaves Apartment By JOHN McCAA, JR. put forth.) DeBardelaben gave Circuit Judge W. D. DeBarde- the city 10 days in which to re-laben received from City At- file.

Nikita Khrushchev, making his first public appearance since his ouster as Soviet premier and Communist party chief last October, leaves his apartment house in Moscow Sunday to vote in local government elections. Ousted Soviet Premier Appears, Fades Again In 'So-So? Health require a majority opinion per cent of the area and ec- tomey Bob Field Saturday an answer to a petition for a writ of mandamus in connection with the 10-day suspension of Police Chief L. J. Peek In a preliminary hearing last week, Judge DeBardelaben sustained a demurer by Peek's counsel ruling the city's answer insufficient under the law. (A demurrer is an action questioning the sufficiency of law Alert Ordered BAHRAIN (AP) British servicemen and their families were ordered today to stay in doors following a weekend of violent riots set off by a student demonstration and an oil workers' strike.

An oil worker was killed, MOSCOW (UPI) Niki'a S. Khrushchev, 70, faded back Into obscurity today in "so-so" health as a "normal" old-age But row that the Ice has been broken with Khrushchev's first public appearance since he was stripped from power, he is expected to show his face from time to time to The Russian people who once adored hint' It was only a glimmer tl old Khrushchev who ap city commissioners, all three of whom were named in the petition for mandamus. The plaintiff also claims that the reasons for the police chief's suspension were insufficient under the -y'i Accompanying the answer Is a demurrer to the plaintiff's pe tition which be ruled on be-j lore ue answer presented ojr.