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EVREUX, France (UPI) -A
defense attorney at the court
martial of two Negro American
soldiers accused of murder in
the death of a white airman
claimed today racial trouble
was behind the incident.
American officials have main
tained that the slaying last Sep
tember occurred during a
drunken barracks brawl with no
racial overtones.
But the defense attorney,
Capt. Norman H. Kirshman of
Milford, N.J., said tho victim
of the incident and a number
of other airmen called the de
fendants "dirty niggers" and
hurled other insults.
"I am not asking for acquittal
because my boys are colored,"
Kirshman said. "But racism is
there. It is there today, it will
bo there tomorrow and it was
there Sept. 6."
Sept. 6 is the day Airman
L.C. Robert Padgett, 23, of
Woodlawn, Va. died of a frac
tured skull following a brawl at
the U.S. air base near Evrcux.
Kirshman claimed an autopsy
showed Padgett had been drink
ing before his death.
Charged with unpromcditatcd
murder in the Incident were
PFG. Raymond C. Bost Jr. of
Pittsburgh and PFC. Robert C.
Burrcll of Philadelphia.
The prosecutor, Capt. James
Ritchie of Tulsa, Okla., told the
court martial board of 11 white
officers that Bost, Burrcll and
four others committed an "un
provoked attack" on the air
men with sticks and steel bars
used in cots.
Bost, Burrcll and the four
others, including one white
serviceman, face a possible
maximum sentence of life In
prison if they are convicted.
The four others will be tried
separately.
They were PFC. Edward
Spears of New York City; Pvt.
Richard C. Parker of Eckman,
W.Va.; PFC. Franklin D. Wad
dell of Philadelphia; and PFC.
Allen Gernard of New York
City. Gernard Is white.
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case of hepatitis-, said today he wants to confer with President
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RECEIVES CITATION M. Lowell Edwards,
a retired engineer, center, is shown receiving
American Medical Association's Layman's
Citation for Distinguished Service in Port
land. At the ceremony is Dr. Albert Starr,
Portland surgeon, left, with whom Edwards
worked in developing artificial heart valve.
Making the presentation is Dr. Percy Hop
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Thompson Murder
Trial May Go To
Jury Thursday
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI)
The Thompson murder trial,
in recess today, was expected
to go to the jury Thursday.
Cancer Expert Says
Death Rate Among
Smokers Is High
OPENING ITS BORDERS
VIENNA (UPI) Ctechoslovakia Is opening Us borders to
all western travelers, a Cicch embassy spokesman announced
today.
The spokesman told United Press International that western
tourists and private visitors will he able In gel 30-tlny visas nl
their local Ciech consulates within IH hours. Travelers will he
able to cross In Czechoslovakia at all bonier points without nny
difficulty, he said.
PORTLAND. Ore. (UPI ,12 of the non-smokers died of
The death rale among a large that disease. Coronary artery
ETI noTd'f0 nm0l5erS,hU1.'ltliseas6 "Hied r,54 smokers and
ing a period of ncorly three ; , ,, nnn.,mi,kpr,
years was more than twice as , 0 I . non smoKcrs-
Judge Rolf Fosseen recessed high as among a similar group taen man ln one "rouP was
the weeks-long trial Tuesday) of non-smokers, an American m.a'chl as closely as possible
and said he hoped that closing , Cancer Society expert said to-: Wlln a man ln tne othcr Sroup
arguments and instructions to dav. j as t0 fl8e- racc' slze residence
the jury could be completed in Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, ! urban or rural)' edu
one day. pipe-smoking director of the so- i P1'1?"' n""a status, drinking
The nrosecu on honed o con-; celv's statistical rrapnrch. tc tension ana
vince the jury that dapper ; ported new evidence in the re
young criminal attorney T. Eu-1 latlonship of cigarette smoking
gene Thompson, 35, master-1 to death and disease in a paper
minded the "murder-for-hirc" , delivered at the American Mcd
of his pretty heiress wife, Ca- j ical Association's 17th clinical
rol, 34. She was bludgeoned meeting.
and stabbed to death March 6; Matching 36.975 men over 40 suggestions that
in her home. Thompson wanted who smoked a pack of cigar- tween cigarette
many other factors.
Hammond said he was trying
through this "matched pair ana
lysis" to eliminate all possible
non - smoking differences be
tween subjects in view of
the link be-
smoking and
Of his findings, he com
mented that "it is hard to es
cape the conclusion that this
difference in numher of deaths
was due to the difference in
smoking habits."
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to collect more than $1 million : ettes or more per day with the j death rates might be merely in
in insurance on ner me ana , same number ot non-smokers, : ciaeniai.
take up with his paramour, the 1 Hammond said 1,365 of the
state said. : smokers died during the 34.3-
The defense sought to con- i month period. Only 662 of the
vince jurors the slayinR was a non-smokers died,
brutnl by-product of a hurglaty j Of the cigarette smokers, lit)
at the Thompson's fnshionablc died of lung cancer while only
SI Paul hnmp I
j Among witnesses who took
. Hie stand Tuesday was Thomp
son's 14-ycnr-old son, Jcffcry,
who contradicted earlier testi
mony of Dick W. C. Anderson,
the admitted killer. I
! Anderson, the state's slar wit
ness, testified he slipped into 7. ine petroleum section leaul i " Pont
the darkened basement of the - a247 91 Final wblMHp 4 lEi"rK"k
Thompson home about 6 o'clock ! NEW YORK (UPI) News of Ford
the morning of the slaying and increased chances for a tax , cicnerai eST"'
waited alone until Thompson i cut next year pulled the stock , oenerai toons
went to work and the four market today out of an easier K',r'i'",,i omeni
i Thompson youngsters left fori trend. cicum,, pnciiic
school. I Youngsiown Sheet & Tube SiSn"101" """"
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turned off a recreation room 1 motors section with a substan- j R m
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from its early large loss and Kenneioti copper
Chances of Tax Cut
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licht before leaving (or school
Thompson wept openly Tues
rlnv when his sister testified
that his marriage was like "an ing level
extended honeymoon."
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Agent Who Shielded Johnson
In Dallas Will Receive Honor
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent
Johnson honors today the
Secret Service agent who shield
ed him with his own body dur
ing the assassination of Presi
dent Kennedy.
The Chief Executive partici
pates in special ceremonies at
the White House for agent P.uf
us W. Youngblood, who was to
receive an award for exception
al bravery.
The ceremonies were sched
uled for 10:30 a.m. EST.
Treasury Secretary Douglas
Dillon presented a similar cita
tion Tuesday to Clinton J. Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy's No. 1 Secret
Service agent, for his actions in
Dallas Nov, 22.
Last week Johnson wrote to
Youngblood's boss, James J.
Rowley, head of the Secret Ser
vice, commending the agent for
his quick action.
Covered Johnson's Body
When the shots were fired at
Kennedy, Youngblood leaped in
to the limousine with Johnson
and his wife, pushed the then
vice president to the floor and
sprawled on top of him, shield
ing Johnson with his body.
Johnson scheduled a meeting
with another civil rights leader
today, his fourth in less than a
week. He was to confer with
James Farmer, head of the
Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE), shortly after the cere
mony honoring Youngblood.
Johnson met Tuesday with
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence. Previously he conferred
with Roy Wilkins, executive sec-
retary of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, and Whitney
Young Jr., executive director of
the National Urban League.
King said he told Johnson ra
cial demonstrations would be
i resumed as early as Dec. 15 in
several cities. He said that the
i President made no request that
they be delayed or discontinued.
Makes Point Clear
j "I made it clear to the Prcsi
j dent that. . .we will have dem
i onstrations until the injustices
that have caused them are elim
1 inated," King said. He added
that he was "very happy to
; know that a fellow Southerner
i is in the White House who is
concerned about civil rights."
Johnson also was to meet to
I day with the influential Busi-
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executive council of the AFL
CIO. The White House said the
Chief Executive would ask for
the support of organized labor
and management in matters
affecting the nation's economy.
The President is bending
every effort to cut federal
spending to support (he $11 bil
lion tax cut proposed by his
predecessor. He was said to be
attempting to arrive at a fiscal
1965 budget of between $98 bil
lion and $103 billion.
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