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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1956)
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., Sept. 13, '56 (Sec, I)-3 ' Northern Riglit-WingExtreiiiist Heads Pro-Segregation Drive By JAMES SPOTS WOOD BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Sept. 12 I A New Jersey - born college graduate who says he has an "in stinctive distrust" of men with college educations is the newest voice raised against racial in tegration in the south. John Kasper, 26, ran right-wing honkshon in New York an j later in Washington until he became in terested in the prosegregation Citr lens Council movement. When Negroes enrolled in the previously all-white Clinton, Tenn. High School by federal court or der early this month, Kasper ap peared on the scene. Me is accused of stirring up white protests which were not restrained until National Guardsmen moved in. He was sentenced to a year in prison for violation of a federal injunction against further demon strations. Now free on IIO.COO bond pending appeal, he vows to press a council organizational dr i v e throughout Tennessee. 1ft came to Alabama for several appearances this week. An admirer of poet Eira Pound, Kasper at first meeting would not appear to have much In common with the masses to whom he di rects his appeal. But listen to him on a platform, or talk to him, and he plucks sharply at the taut chord of Southern racial feeling. "I've been interested all my life in the purity of the races." Kasper said in an interview. "I believe that all movement in history has been a product of race and per sonal character. I believe the white race is the great race and the only race which has fought for free institutions. "I do not hate Negroes, but I believe that for the progress of the white and Negro races this is best accomplished by separate in stitutions based on a particular destiny of the separate races." Although the Eastern Seaboard White Citizens Council which Kasper founded at Washington limits its membership to white Christians, Kasper denies that this is anti-Semitic. "I denounce anti-Semitm as unscientific," Kasper declared. The Council stand, he said "is isolating things out in their, ele ments. It's the same kind of ex- Western Union Rate Increases Approved WASHINGTON. Sept. 12 -The Federal Communications Commis sion today sanctioned a series of Western Union rate increases, in cluding a hike of about 8 22 per cent for interstate press messages. The higher press rates go into effect Friday. Additional price boosts on com mercial and press messages be tween the United States. Canada and Mexico have been sanctioned by the FCC and will go into effect soon "Hie Western I'nion Telegraph Co. asked permission for the new rates, to offset hirher wane scales in the industry, and the FCC an nounced today it would not object to the move. Other Inrreane The boost in press rates comes on the heels of a price jump on general commercial messages within the United States, which went into effect Aug. 26. This in crease averaged about 96 per cent. Western I'nion estimated the new rates, including those of last month, will bring in additional revenues of about $10,283,000 a year. The company said it was al lowing for some falling off of busi ness because of the higher charges. Tress rates are special charges made for organizations engaged in newsgathering. The American Newspaper Publishers Assn. filed a letter of protest with the FCC last month over the new rate hikes but did not ask for a hearing. CAB Votes to Fire Lawyer In Stock Case WASHINGTON. Sept. 12 The Civil Aeronautics Board voted to-! day to fire attorney Albert H .Uup- j par for violating a regulation pro-1 hibiting CAB employes from hold- j ing airline stocks. I Ruppar maintained, however, he rould not be discharged because he had quit his $M.06S-a year job effective Sept. B. The CAB announcement said ; Ruppar was charged with know-1 incly violating" the stock regula tion and added: "When advised of the hoard's decision to discharge him. Mr. Ruppar exercised his right to re sign under existing civil service regulations. " A spokesman added that the board had no choice but to accept the lawyer's resignation, but voted to fire him to go on record against the alleged rule violation. Premature I-eak The unanimous vote today came during an investigation of a pre mature "leak" of a CAB decision favorable to Northeast Airlines CAB voted Aug. 2 to authorize! Northeast to fly the lucrative Washin0on-Miami route, and the next day the airline stock bounced from $9.50 to about $12. SO a share. Formal announcement of the de cision was not made until Aug. 10. CAB said Ruppar "admitted vol untarily and under oath that he . had purchased 1.000 shares of Northeast Airline stock Aug. 3 in violation of CAB rules." Ruppar said, however, he had no advance information on the de cision. The agency said he was not being accused of being the "offi cial leak." Broker Call The lawyer added he bought af ter his broker called him and pointed to unusual activity in the stock Aug. 3. "1 did so without thinking of the board regulation prohibiting pur-, chase of such stock which I had ' not seen for several years," Rup par said The attorney said he made plans six months ago to leave CAB and go with another government agen cv, which he did not wish to name. He said he wrote his resignation Aug. 1. then submitted it Aug. 17, effective at the end of three-; week vacation Sept. 8. Security and Exchange Commis sion records showed 300 shares of Northeast stock were traded Aug. 2 at $9.12. The next day, a record 24.000 shares were traded and prices Jumped. CAB said the FBI 1 and the SEC had been asked to; help investigate how advance In formation on the decision got out. 4 in Family Found Slain HOT SPRINGS. Ark , Sept. 12 i Four members of one family were found shot to death today. Police who broke into the locked home discovered the body of Willi-an- McCoy, about 34. on a bed room floor. A .22 caliber pistol was beside him. He had been shot in the left temple. McCoy's wife, Lillian, also about J4. was lying on a bed. She had heen shot behind the right ear. Mrs. McCoy was in her night gown. In another bedroom the bodies of 7-year-old Tommy Joe and -year-old Linda were in separate beds. The boy had been shot be hind the lei t ear, 'the girl In the forehead Both children were dressed in their nightclothes. Lin da's doll lay beside her. Patrolmen D. L. White and Joe Dodd said they found a note on a refrigerator. It said only: "Lillian is getting worse." it was signed "Bill." Deputy Coroner W R. Lee ruled that the father killed his wife and two children, then shot himself. Clarence White, a neighbor, said McCoy had seemed depressed for al out a week but thai he had not mentioned any troubles. elusion that the Jews practice all the time. Kasper is tall and dark-haired. with long, slender fingers. Dressed in a loose-fitting gray suit, he looked like a university graduate student, perhaps musician. His conversational voice is pleasant and cultured. Kasper said he began organiz ing the Washington Council follow ing a tour of Alabama last March. This was shortly after admittance of a Negro coed to the University of Alabama, and the rioting that drove her away, had. boomed the council movement in this state. How does the young man who left a Washington bookshop get along with his new associates? "I have an instinctive distrust of any man with a college educa tion," Kasper said. "I find the working people are the only living representatives of the white race in the United States who have the intelligence and the courage to maintain their racial integrity." Kasper was born in Camden, N.J.. Oct. 21, 1929. His parents were of German origin, and his father was a successful industrial combustion engineer. The son graduated from Columbia Univer sity with a bachelor of sciences degree in 1951. -Kasper said he has voted, "but I'm not a member of any party. I believe the Republican and Dem ocratic parties both are tools of the Communist conspiracy." Asked how he thought the Negro issue would be solved, he an swered: "Ultimately I believe that the people will compel the degenerate' politicians and Communists to withdraw from public life and re turn us to constitutional govern ment." Bitterness entered Kasper's voice when he referred to the federal court intervention at Clin ton, Tenn. and the Supreme Court's integration decision. "Force is being exercised," he said. "Woe to those whose only right is their power. The wild grass will grow over their dead bodies." Parents Split On Operation To Blind Lad ATLANTA. Sept. 12 WV-Five year-old Johnny Pair, who lost one eye to cancer, must have the other removed to save his life but bis divorced parents cannot agree up on an operation. 1 octors at Grady Hospital told Arnold Pair, 37, father of the boy, and his mother, Mrs. Bessie Pair, 32, that malignancy which caused loss of the left eye has spread to the right eye. . The' left eye was ren.oved two years ago. Doctors said there Is no assurance removal of the other eye will. save ,'ohnny's life. - "Let him see as long as he can," Pair said in declaring he would not give his consent to an operation.. "As long as he can play as veil as he does and see as well as he does, let the eye stay in." Johnny's mother said she feels that the operation should be per formed in an effort to lengthen her son s life. Red-eyed and dis traught from crying over the mat ter, she said leaving the eye in would shorten his life. "I'd rather let him live." Johnny has not been told of his worsening condition. Mrs. Pair was granted custody of the boy when the Pairs were divorced. She is a trimmer for a hat company. Her former husband is i machine operator for s table- making concern. Pakistan Chief Pledges Goodwill KARACHI, Pakistan, Sept. 12 UF) i rrime Minister Husseyn S. Suh- rawardy told the nation today Pakistan's foreign policy will be "goodwill towards all and malice towards none." In a radio address a few hours after his inauguration this morn- 'We shall contribute fully towards maintaining peace." But he warned his people, "To i be a significant factor and to en joy the respect of other nations, w.. must put our own house in or rirr Without this, our contribution has little value." ! Chemist Detained as Witness in Poison DeatK of Teaclier NEW YORK, Sept. 12 WUA di vorced chemist was held as ma terial witness today In the hotel room death of young, attractive school teacher. Police said she ap parently died after drinking a cy anide potion. The arrest of Hugo Seinfeld, 34, of Manhattan, followed a changed version of the circumstances of the death of 25-year-old Avis Gray, of Brooklyn, the daughter of a prominent attorney. Police were told earlier that the girl's death was the result of a double suicide pact but that Sein feld lost his nerve. Packer Denies Price Fixing ASTORIA. SeDt. 12 UH An nf. ficial of the Columbia River Pack ers Assn. said yesterday the firm had never conspired to fix tuna prices, as charged by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC filed a complaint ac cusing the Columbia River can ning firm and a number of other canners. boat owners and labor unions in the West Coast tuna in dustry of conspiring to fix fresh tuna prices. The complaint, charg ing violations of federal fair trade laws, was filed in Washington, DC. Thomas F. Sandoz, president of the Columbia River Pac'cers Assn.. denied the accusation Sun- doz said in a statement reltased by his attorney that the company "has never signed a tuna nrir agreement and has never been engaged in any negotiations for such." Later, however, Seinfeld told po lice he found the girl's body after returning to his room at the Hotel Park Crescent on Manhattan's Riv erside Drive. He said the cirl ap parently drank the deadly poison after spurning his pleas to marry him,- i ' , " 1 Termed "SslcUui' Asst. Dist. Atty. Manuel Guer reiro ordered Seinfeld held after questioning him for six hours. An autopsy indicated that Miss G ay's death was caused by "visceral congestion," Guerrelro termed the death "suspicious." , Police said Miss Gray's death followed a tryst with Seinfeld st the hotel wkere Seinfeld registered yesterday as "Hugo and Avis Sein field, Istanbul, Turkey." Seinfeld, a doctor of philosophy in chemistry and a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, recently obtained a di vorce in Tel Aviv. Israel, from the mother of his three children,, po lice said. Story Related Police told this story of the teacher's death after questioning Seinfeld: The couple met at the hotel yes terday and exchanged assurances of love but Miss Gray reportedly balked at marriage. Seinfeld had bought two cham pagne goblets and brought them and some champagne to the hotel room. As their futile discussion continued last night, he poured crystals of sodium cyanide into a glass of water. Miss Gray understood that he intended to commit suicide. She then' persuaded him to go for a walk, "to think it over." Fmb4 Bady ' When he returned after 30 min utes, he found Miss Gray's fully clothed body sprawled across a bed. A water glass which had con tained the poison lay oa the Door. 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