Laurel Leader-Call (Newspaper) - June 1, 1961, Laurel, Mississippi TODAY'S THOUGHT the path I walk is of my tmt where is it Fred Downtown Parking For Our Customers Today hi High SOlh Year No. 46 Serving Southeastern Mississippi June 1, 1961 Daily Since 1911 Five Cents Weather Details under A Armed with ft a lone ban dit staged a holdup at Securities Loan 317 North Magnolia shortly after the noon hour Thursday and fled with Police said the unmasked white hian walked into the firm asked Mrs. Jenn if he could the Mrs. alone in the Replied that the manager was out to The bandit then dismayed his police and handed Mrs. placed in the The bandit walked out the front door and was not learned if the left the area in an Whether he had an accomplice waiting outside the loan also was not immediately Mrs. Hankins phoned police as soon as the bandit it was Myers and other officers arrived there within less than two The loan firm is in the downtown who was at the cash heart of the city on North Magnolia a paper Ls a he was quoted by the in the Mrs. Hankins complied and St. in a block usually filled with especially between the noon hour amd 1 Automobile traffic is also usually heavy on the which leads to the North and South Highway 11. A new manager was to be at the firm He was identified as Jimmy Police launched a wide search through their radio system and notified county and state including the State Highway in all sections oi South The man was described as of slight weighing about 13.> 140, and about 5 feet 6 inches Mrs. Hankins said the man appeared to be in his early 20s and said he was wearing a white shortsleeve shirt and dark She also said he had a small scar on his and wore his dark hair PARIS Wl - President Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle began their day of talks on world issues today agreed that the mast stand firm in Berlin but still divided on Finance's demand for an equal voice with Britain and the United States in the direction of Allied Kennedy arrived at the Elysee Palace shortly after 10 a.m. for the first of two extended conversations today with the French De Gaulle was on the of the to greet his American En route to his morning conference with De Kennedy topped at the U.S. Embassy and told 500 cheering employes he plans to every measure to strengthen common between Prance and the United country Is extremely vital to the common the President adding that Frenchmen have a special voice and special Boasts Summit Status The agreement on Berlin strengthens the policy basts for Kennedy's exploratory with Soviet Premier Khrushchev this weekend in The French Indicated they were confident Kennedy would take a From his morning session with De Kennedy went to the Hotel de City the ceremonial A enthusiastic crowd awaited A great cheer went up from the crowd outside as Kennedy arrived and a band struck up A mounted contingent of Republican Guards in golden helmets brought their glittering sabers to salute as Kennedy entered the ornate main It was packed with invited Kennedy's Look Fit Interior Minister Roger Frey escorted Kennedy down a reception on page RIEFS GENEVA Soviet Un Ion has again blocked a Western attempt to strengthen the hand truce supervisors in Laos to stop violations of the The Soviets countered by charging the West with trying to avoid getting to the main issue of charting the future of the Southeast Asian kingdom along the path of Independence and The East-West conference was bogged down today on what to discuss first after more heated exchanges on whether peace has really U.S. been restored in Ambassador W. Averell Harriman charged the Pathet Lao with dally He said the rebels refused to truce teams investigate behind their Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Pushkin insisted a ceasefire has been in effect since the beginning of He brushed aside the charge the truce supervisors were being hamstrung and declared they did not need any more Britain's Malcolm MacDonald backed Harriman and declared he did not see how the control commission could do its job unless it is free to carry out its investigation whenever and wherever it so The Soviet Union and as cochairmen of the 14-nation must both approve any new Instructions to the Clear to partly cloudy and warm through Lowest tonight 65-70. Highest Friday 86-91. Temperatures for ther 24-hou period ending at 7 high 89, low 62, at 7 a.m. 70. Winds today at 11 LAUREL SKIES June 2 Sunset 6:58 p.m. Sunrise a.m. Moon rise ton Igh 10; 28 p.m. Last Quarter June 5 VISIBLE PLANETS the order of their distance from the rises in the west 8:17 near the leads Jupiter and Begin Fast Protest Miss. - Seven white began a protest hunger strike today in the city jail One of them said they would fast until federal officials obtain court injunctions to halt segregation in transportation facilities in the Hinds County authorities promised an investigation of reports of alleged beatings of Negro Freedom Riders at the county penal Farm Supt. Max Thomas was ordered take off a few during the Chief of Detectives M. B. Pierce said the seven of them Cornell University students to eat A total of 54 Freedom Riders have been arrested since attempts to test segregation laws in bus and rail terminal facilities started here May 24. Nine have posted appeal bonds and 20, of also a Cornell paid a fine today and was He served one day in jail and was credited with of his Sterling said he was returning home to get Beatings Are Claimed There were two new reports Wednesday of beatings at the penal Both came from Jean 19, New Orleans who was jailed with the first wave of Freedom She claimed she was struck by Thomas when she on page SAN P.R. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's political heirs appeared today to be still in control of the Dominican Republic after the assassination of the But a power struggle was generally The dictator's government proclaimed of his policies and declared n ine d ays of m oum in g generalissimo who ruled em half of the island pan Iota with a tyrannical 31 last August when brother Hector fee re- fer the the of for editorial on this please turn to Page Lt. Gen. Rafael Leonidas the Dictator's playboy elder son and some believe his father's choice to succeed rushed from Paris by special Crowd Greets Plane A dispatch from Ciudad said high government officials were among the crowd that greeted the plane Wednesday With him were his younger and the Dominican ambassador to A communique announcing the assassination was signed by President Joaquin whom Trujillo installed as a figurehead president dictator's The communique extolled the who was 69, and said he had been the victim of a Tuesday more than 19 hours before the assassination was But it gave no details of the killing and no clue to the identity of 'the i Ambushed on Ride A Dominican newsman reported by telephone from Ciudad capital city the dicta tor renamed in his own Trujillo was ambushed by gunmen as he rode along an highway outside the Another car forced his to Several shots were fired from a He was believed to have died His chauffeur was Trujillo was armed but had no time to defend A crack the dictator once man who takes a potshot at me had better be sure of his Otherwise he'll be a dead Other sources said seven persons in an automobile made the that two of the were caught or killed on page assailants and the Five equals That five boys apparently is the equivalent of three men in a demonstrated by this quintet of lads taking the only advantage there is from a heavy rainfall in New La. As the wet hair on the seafaring group became but they remained undaunted and heading out for another cruise the Sea U.S. Anxiously Awaits New Dominican Trends WASHINGTON tarv of State Dean II Sees p.m. a.m. p.m. the Move On Guard out today on his delayed trip to Join President Kennedy In a belief that that the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael L. Trujillo will not result in the immediate turmoil officials had Though Wounded RIVER STAGES Pascagoula River at 6.0 down slow Pearl River at Pearl 5.1 down slow Out With CIUDAD Dominican Republic tor Rafael though to draw his managed revolver and shoot it out with a band of assassins being killed Tuesday an official abatement said The Dominican armed which are investigating the der of the 69-year-old strong gave this A group that had planned the assassination three months ago attacked as Trujillo and his personal Capt. Zacarias la were motoring from Ciudad Trujillo to the dictator's estate in his home town of San The driver and Trujillo were On Page Offices in Jones County court houses in Laurel and will close June 3, in observance of Jefferson a state Helen president of Rebekah Assembly will officially visit Naomi Rebekah Lodge No. 23 Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Odd Fellows Name Guidance Director Laurel High School The annual Buckhaults rannlly reunion will be held Sunday at Curt located eight miles southeast of Ellisville in the Johnson Friends and relatives are Those who plan to attend should bring Miss. Mississippi National Guard says Gov. Ross Barnett plans to subject the guard to most political assault we have experienced in recent The charge was leveled by Lt. Col. Julius president of the Mississippi National Guard He wrote the organization members that Barnett Ls seeking to take control of the guard for patronage disclosed said Barnett also plans to oust Maj. Gen. W. P. state adjutant Barnett and Wilson have been at odds over the appointment of a maintenance supervisor for a unit n f the Air N a tion a 1 G ua rd at The governor sought to bypass Wilson and name Maj. Lloyd to the Satterfield has previously resigned the job under Barnett is presently out of the state on an industrial trip to eastern NEW YORK - Herman Frederick 39, adventurer known as the executioner for Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's was ruled a deportable alien today by the New York office of the U.S. Naturalization and Immigration Marks has 10 days to appeal to the service's Washington He defected from the Cuban army and the United States via Mexico last July 22 at EI He was arrested in New York last Jan. 25, The immigration service contends he lost his American citizenship by serving in Castro's armed The Cuban army has listed him as a agreed to ac-be necessary country Military sources in Havana have said he possibly would face a firing squad if he returned to Marks faces possible deportation to for having served under or to because he entered this country from If neither country cept it would to find some other ing- to do immigration authorities have Immigration officials said Marks has a record in the United States of more than 30- The charges included draft auto vagrancy and They said he had made jail breaks from a Wisconsin reform an Ohio prison and a California penal WASHINGTON - U.S. policymakers watched anxiously today for clues on whether the Dominican Republic will move toward democracy or erupt in revolution with dangerous The United States wants to be able to throw its weight behind a reform Dominican regime dedicated to economic improvement and It doesn't want an oppressor of either right or left who would further torment hemisphere and it hopes to avoid links with such a Scant information on Tuesday's assassination of strongman Rafael Trujillo seeping out of the tightly censored Caribbean land so far suggests the new for the time are overs from the rightwing Trujillo J Rusk Delays Trip Secretary of State Dean Rusk put off his trip to Paris for the Gaulle talks to take charge personally of U.S. strategy at a Dominican moment of change which could have heavy impact on the President Kennedy and in telephone contact between Paris and were said to be agreed that the Dominican situation was of such top priority that Rusk could do more by setting the U.S. course as the situation clears than by speeding oil to the summit Informed sources said both the President and the secretary of state had the recent Cuban Invasion fiasco very much in mind and were determined to avoid any mistake on the neighboring Caribbean They feci fhe outcome will affect the whole of American Aides said Rusk was keeping a military transport plane ready for departure later but he might delay He postponed a takeoff for Paris at the last minute Wednesday and skipped * New date with Israeli Prime Minister David Hal assistant coach and history instructor for the past year at George S. High has been employed by the Board of Trustees of the Laurel Municipal School District as Counselor and Guidance Director lor the succeeding John will begin his new duties 1. According to John M. superintendent oi City who made announcement The superintendent said will continue his duties as assistant but will be of ills teaching is a graduate of Mississippi State His home is hi Before to Laurel he was for five years head coach for High where he also taught The vacancy in the post occurred when Christmas announced several mouths ago he had tendered his resignation to accept the position of Dean of Students at his alma Millsaps Christmas and his family Iq move to Jackson President Otis Pitts the South Jones and Wayne i County Coven tion will be held Sunday at Mulberry Church in Wayno The singing will begin at 10:30 o'clock to be followed by dinner on the All friends and lovers of gospel singing are Two Generals Get Years HAh V tone during the month of expressing his in losing voiced at the ability of the board secure a well trained man as a PARIS Two generals who once held loip posts In the French army were euch sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday night for leading the Foreign Legion mutiny Ui Algeria two months Maurice 55, and Andre 03, were spared from death by the special court of nine officers and civilian jurists set up under the emergency powers of the man they president Charles de The had asked life sentences for former commander of allied forces in Central and former French army chief of Only On Page I I IAS Student Wins Five Awards A record was believed to been set Thursday at Jones Junior High School when Michael son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 2103 Fifth was presented with five awards by Principal Phil Berry at Achievement Day The program marked the close of the school For story see Page 3. Photo by WASHINGTON - John 12, won the 1061 National Spelling Bee The calm young son of a neurosurgeon outspelled Mary Lukes of in the 26th round five million other youngsters who started in regional John's triumph was set up by correctly spelling which means arranged in two vertical after it Clinched It He thep clinched the championship by spelling as his extra required He did apt even pause for the pronouncer to define the which means of or pertaining to The which started out at 73 was cut to 11-12 girls and $ those Then today's first round of trimmed the list to 9. Kight * finalists fell in the first round of the second day of The contest cities and 6i is sponsored newspapers in 18 other newspapers and radio and television a a pin quo for his and a weekend in New York with spending His sponsor was the Tulsa Disappointed Runner-Up The Mary was obviously She picked up The Ventura County Press was her Karen 13, of who finished 39th in the 1959 was third this She won She was sponsored by the Baltimore Sun The only other entry Hi the national Gayle 13, wound up 15th this She was 69th last The youngest Steven 10, of lost out in the Hth round but placed 7th. The prize package included for the first 55 to fall by the There were ten awards and five of John won on the 628th word used in the This was eight fewer than the number required to de- termine the 1960 His victory continued a string of championships by male begun two years ago by Joel Montgomery of Colorado and maintained last year by Feldman of Tennessee after a four-year reign by the Iiv this year's finals there wore 49 girls and 24 Girls have up a better than 2-1 margin in the long Press Flashes Vandals Daub WASHINGTON signs such as ls a Communist and helping the were painted during the night on of the Organisation of American States r and the Pan American Union Iran Bans Correspondent Iran Iranian government today banned resident correspondent of The Associated from filing further news from Says Blackmail Won't Work Ky. Vice President Johnson said today that President Kennedy will warn Soviet Premier Khrushchev the United States no Intention of yielding to diplomatic
