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v. of o:is.t,;3:u3ir H?:3?AHoI SECTION GEN. AND L'OCUSI; COZP. NTS DIV. Weather Jllmttli rillt, ToUl.k, and i,,,v,w Itnllhl. .I..r,, lVh?. 7 . " ; Law thit mornlnf Mih yttr ao Low ytar 9o Prlp. Kit 24 down ilnct Jan. l Samt ptried ytar go 47 Ir.c. 1.1; la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Look out! Keep your fingers crossed. 11 a oiacK cat crosses your path, run home, jump into bed and cover up your head. Take no chances. Well, this is Friday. Not only that. It is Friday the 13th!! ! Whence Friday's bad name? In countries of Anglo-Saxon der ivation, the sixth day of the week is named for the goddess Freya In the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian) the sixth day is named for the cor responding Roman goddess Venus i the French word for Friday is Vendredi. In the Scandinavian mythology, Freya was the goddess of love and beauty. In the Roman mythology, Ve nus was the goddess of love and beauty. Why is that bad? Weil, if you read tlie papers carefully you must concede that too much concentration on love and beauty has got a lot of people in bad trouble. Besides Friday is considered the day when Adam was created, the day when he was expelled from par adise, the day when he died. the day when Christ was crucified and the day when the dead will rise for the last judgment. And Friday used to be the day (or the execution of capital punish ment, and is often called Hang man's Day. What about thirteen? Everybody knows that sitting down with 13 at dinner is bad business. In the Scandinavian mythology, 12 of the gods and goddesses were sitting at dinner when Loki, the god of strife and the spirit of evil, barged in and put a spell on Balder, the son of Odin and Freya, that resulted in his being chained to a rock with ten chains and condemned to stay there in his chains until the twilight of the gods appears In Christian countries, the evil quality of thirteen is confirmed by the Last Supper of Christ and his twelve apostles. The Italians never use the num ber 13 in their lotteries. In Paris, no house bears the number 13. Also in Paris persons called QUATORZIEMES i Fourteenths i are available for call in the event that by some miscalculation it turns out that there are 13 guests at a dinner. Sailors, the world over, but es pecially in the European coun tries, object to leaving port on the 13th of any month, espe cially if it happens to be on a Friday. If it is absolutely nec essary to leave on such a day. the sailors shiver in their boots until the voyage is completed. So Whatever you do today Be careful! ' Watch your step! Friday the Thirteenth is Bad Business in a big way. RAIL HEARINGS SET WASHINGTON' lUPIi - The seven-man railroad arbitration board has announced it will open formal hearings on Sept. 24 on the two major issues in the dead locked rail work rules dispute. Board chairman Ralph T. Se ward said Thursday that the pan el will hear evidence at public sessions, but the site for the meetings has not been deter mined. One Lost, PORT JEFFERSON. N.Y. iL'PH A small Navy launch re turning 21 sailors to (heir ship after a night ashore capsized in wind-swept Long Island Sound early today. All but one man were rescued. Fifteen sailors clung to the overturned librcglass launch for two hours before they drifted to shore. Three managed to swim to their ship, the U.S.S. Hazel wood, a destroyer. Two others were picked up by the Hazel wood's other launch. Coast Guard helicopters contin ued to search for the missing man in the fog and intermittent rain. Clunf To Launch Roy Will. 22. Richfield, Minn., one of the men w ho clung to the launch, aid Coxswain John Gel- Price Ten Cents 16 Paget n;' - WHO'S SUPERSTITIOUS? jet travel and space flights. the most superstitiously-dreaded day of the year June Johnson, Herald and News staff member, defied the forces of black magic and bad luck by fearlessly rais ing an umbrella indoors, walking under a ladder, and evoking a thousand so-called curses by breaking a mirror. Now her fate is in her own hands (or possibly in the rabbit-foot on her key-chain), and thereby hangs the tale of one woman's war against the supernatural elements. Aims A t Forcing School Closure By United Press International Birmingham students .planned another motorcade today to pro test classroom desegregation. Their apparent objective was to force the city's high schools to close. At Tuskegee High School, only 13 Negro pupils remained in school in a student body of 569. White students have completely boycotted the school. School boycotts in Birmingham and Tuskegee and student ar rests in Mobile kept tension high Crash Leaves 'Bloody' Mess OAKLAND, Calif. IUPD Tom Thompson, 22, started to jump Thursday when he saw a train bearing down on his truck and trailer, which stalled on two sets of railroad tracks in Oakland. As he leaned out the safe side, he spotted another train bearing down from the oilier direction and he "decided to ride it out." Both trains smashed into I he rig, which was loaded with 52.800 bottles of ketchup. Fire men had to call for bulldozers' to help clean up nearly 24 inches of the gooey red stuff at the crossing. Thompson, who for a few frantic moments thought he must be bleeding profusely, escaped without injury. 20 Saved As Boat Swamps shell of Portland. Ore., the pilot of the boat, swam to the Hazel wood for help. "He had a lot of guts, espe cially fur a guy who just got married." Wirlz said. Chief Machinists Mate Ralph L Nelson, a veteran of 24 years in the Navy of Middletown. R.I said the 26-foot launch "j u 1 1 turned over." "We hung onto the boat .. .," he said. "We stayed in the water about two hours, drilling to; shore. Most of the men held out pretty good. There was absolute ly no panic." A helicopter spotted the men on Ihe Port Jefferson Beach and picked up five at a lime, making three trips. The pilot, Coast Guard U. John Wypick from Floyd Burnet Field in Brooklyn KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. I If AaV-.TCf 1 3-' 1 www Bah! Humbug! on superstitions in Not believing in horoscopes, CWIam Thursday in Alabama's school de segregation crisis. Mobile school officials tried to decide what disciplinary action to take against 54 w hite students ar rested in a demonstration protest ing their school integration. About 300 students left the Mo bile High School campus Thurs day chanting. "Two. four, six, eight, we don't want to inte grate." At Chicago, hundreds of Negro and w hite demonstrators picketed the Chicago base of Senate Re publican Minority Leader Everett M. Dirkscn in a chanting, sign- waving protest against the Illinois Republican's stand on a civil rights measure before Congress. Crash Kills Two Youths MEDFORD (UPD - Two Gold Hill youths were killed Thursday night when their motorcycle col lided headon with a pickup truck about six miles north of here Dead are David Eugene White and Paul Charles Thompson, each about 16. Both boys attended Cra ter High School in Central Point, where While recently was elected vice president of the sophomore class. Police said they were unable to determine how the accident oc curred, or who was operating the motorcycle. The driver of the truck, Raymond Edward Christie 39. of Gold Hill, Mas uninjured. deposited the men at nearby Old- held Point. They were taken to a firchousei at Sctauket in ambulances and police vehicles. One sailor, was liken to Mather Memorial Hospi tal in Port Jelferson suffering from exposure. His condition was listed as good. The men hoarded the launch at 2:20 a.m. EDT after spending about eight hours ashore. The launch was equipped with "flota tion chambers" to prevent it from sinking. W hen it capsized, it turned keel. up. enabling most of i the men to cung to it. Water Was Rough The launch was between 200 and 300 yards from the destroyer when It started "shippina water," the Coast Guard said. The water was rough and the men were FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1963 our modern world of astrology, or Friday the 13th - MJJIn Moscow The demonstration took place while Dirksen was on his way to a loop hotel where he was a fea tured speaker at a meeting of Re publican women. Punishment Demanded For Rebels BRASILIA (UPD-Military au-i thoritics today demanded "rig orous punishment" of the 600 en listed Marines, soldiers and air men who took part in Thurs day's abortive revolt. Air Minister Anisio Botclho promised a thorough investigation of the part his men played in the short-lived uprising. He said the air force was "completely calm" today. There was no report of dis orders in Brasilia or Rio de Ja neiro, and a presidential spokes man said "absolute calm reigns throughout the nation." War Minister Jair Dantas Ri beiro. whose troops crushed the revolt, ended the army-wide alert he ordered Thursday, but left five tanks in position outside the War Ministry in Rio as a "security measure. President Joao Goulart con ferred with top officials today about the reasons for and means of dealing with the abortive re volt. hampered by rain and fog when the tiny craft suddenly capsized The wind was 18 to 20 miles per hour, tossing up three-foot waves "I was washed off once," Nel son said, "but got back to the boat. Everybody was in good pints. Nelson said the tidal current brought the launch to shore. Other survivors included: Donald Duncan, Michigan (no home Inwn available': Raymond Rauk. Mamaroneck, N. Y ; Jos eph Donaldson, Scrantnn. Pa.; Joseph Brodcll, Albany. N. Y.; Philip Drigman, Chicago; Carrol Linnell, Benton Station. Maine: Ronald Mason, Springville, Utah: Patrick Ponder, 512 South Cobb Dr., Atlanta, Ga.; Michael Blair. Albany, N Y ; and Jim Lull, Newton Falls. Ohio. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7575 Key Man Backs Test Ban Treaty WASHINGTON UP1 - Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., a key figure in congressional nuclear and military affairs, an nounccd his support today for the nuclear test ban treaty. Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio, who had been considered "doubt ful," also indicated he would vote lor the pact following a new ap peal by President Kennedy for its ratification "hy the widest possi ble margin. The President asked for over whelming Senate support of the treaty to let all mankind "breathe easier," and to prove to the world America's lead ership in the quest for peace. Kennedy told his news confer ence Thursday that only "grudg ing support from the Senate would mean that "the nation can not offer much leadership or hope for the future." The Chief Executive repealed his belief that the treaty would curb Ihe spread of nuclear weap ons, slow nown the worldwide arms race and "offer a small but important foundation on which a world of law can be built" without impairing U.S. security. Jackson, one of the President's closest friends hut severest nu clear critics, said he thought the pact a "loose commitment" ra ther than a treaty, but its risks were tolerable. Lausche said he still had grave apprehensions about the military aspects of the treaty but the fact more than 90 Bread Sales Restricted MOSCOW (UPIl New restric tions on the sale of bread in Mos cow. -tocKed attention today on Russian agriculture as Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's most im portant domestic problem. 1 . Reports circulating in the capi tal said peasants in many parts of the country are buying up bread and grain cereals to feed their cattle, and lliat housewives are stocking up on macaroni sugar, canned meat, sardines and cereals. Bread is the most important sinule item in the Soviet diet. Now its sale is being restricted to one 1.1 pound loaf of white bread and a similar amount ol black bread to each customer. Retail sales of wheat flour have been discontinued entirely. Informed observers said this years Harvest appears rihki enough to provide enough bread if Communist authorities take drastic measures on distribution. Home Folks Slap Down Sen. Dirksen CHICAGO lUPIi Senate Re publican Leader Everett McKin- ley Dirkscn came home l nursaay only to be slapped down twice for his stands on civil rights and the nuclear lest ban treaty. Dirkscn, overwhelmingly re elected to a third term from Il linois last year, was picketed by a thousand demonstrators who protested his objection to the pub lic accommodations clause in President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The minority leader, who only two days ago read to Ihe Senate Kennedy's appeal for support ol the lest ban treaty, also was the obvious object of a GOP women's resolution opposing the treaty as "a cruel hoax on the American people." During his speech to the Illinois Federation of Republican Wom en, which was delivered extem poraneously after he discarded his prepared address, Dirken asked: "Tell me, in IB years what have we done to insure mankind against that awful havoc iof Hiro shima and Nagasaki!? "I am in favor of the treaty in the hope there will be no more Hiroslumas and Nagasaki. It is a step toward peace." Dirksen stopped and asked of his audience of 530, "Do you dis agree? There were murmurs of "Yes! and "No!" Weather AGRICULTURAL PORICAST Claarlnf and cold tonight with r frtoitni tamparitwroa unti artat. Soma troif liktiy. Tract of rain aarly tonight ana no precipitation over wtaktno. Hay ing and narvtit outlook good until Tim day, toll tamparaturo 41 dtgrtat. lions have signed it at solicitation "impels me to port it." U.S. sup- Jackson announced his decision in a speech prepared for Senate delivery. U.S. Reviews Aid Program And Other Viet Nam Policy WASHINGTON (UPI - The United States is reviewing its aid program and all other activities in South Viet Nam to meet the test" laid down by President Kennedy that they must help the war effort against the Commu nists. "What helps to win the war we support," Kennedy told his news conference Thursday. "What in-! terfers with the war effort we oppose. Viet Troops Quickly Halt Disturbances SAIGON, South Viet Nam UPlt Students at two high schools staged minor distur bances against the government today, but were quieted quickly when police and troops rushed to the scene. The incidents were the only ones reported in a period of gen eral quiet, enforced by hundreds of heavily - armed government troops and police. Usually - reliable government sources said there was no vlo lence in the day's disturbances as the students confined their activ ity to banging on desks and shouting. However, an undercurrent of student unrest persisted and ob servers said more anti-govern ment demonstrations may come later in the week. At two high schools in the Gia Dinh suburb Thursday, students rebelled and held anti-government demonstrations. U.S. Marshal Claimed By SEASIDE lUPIi - Paul Kear ney, U.S. Marshal tor Oregon, died suddenly here today of an apparent heart attack. He was 63. Kearney was here to attend a convention of the Lower Columbia Peace Officers Association, of which he was a charter member. Death came in his hotel room. Kearney, appointed U. S. Marshal by President Eisenhower in 1958, had been on the brink of losing the position from the be ginning of the Kennedy Adminis tration. Kearney resigned as Clatsop County sheriff in 1958 after 21 years to accept the federal ap pointment. He is survived by his j widow, Martha; a son, Robert, and a brother, Vincent, both of Astoria. DEFIANT GROUP That, art th m.mb.ri of the group who war Involved In d.m. onstrations during fh. Hous. Un-Am.riean Activities Commit!.. H.aring Into th. trip to Cuba this lumm.r by lorn. SO Am.riean itud.nts. Aft.r viol.ne. flar.d twie. In th. committee room Thursday afternoon, th. siud.nts formed on th. capital grounds for Informal m..tings as shown h.r. UPI T.l.phot Sin Ejected Ait Hearing-- WASHINGTON lUPP-Six stu dent demonstrators were ejected from a House committee hearing today in a renewed flare-up of violence over an investigation in to illegal student travel to Com munist Cuba. Three of the six, kicking and struggling, were bodily hustled from the room. The other three went without much of a struggle as Chairman Edwin E. Willis. D- He added: "Any action by eith er government which may handi cap the winnings of the war is in consistent w ith our policy and our objectives." Kennedy said this was the "test" that would be applied to "all of our actions" in Viet Nam "and we shall be applying that lest in various ways in the com ing months. . Views Clearing Time He would not say how, but he told newsmen that U. S. views "will be made more clear as lime goes on." A full-scale review of all U. S. relations with the South Vietna mese government is being con ducted in the State Department. foreign aid agency, Pentagon, and White House. One segment of the $1.5 million-a-day U. S. aid program for South Vict Nam to which Ken nedy's Statement seemed particu larly to apply is assistance to various military units set up to fight the Communists but being used to control demonstrations in Saigon. U. S. officials said the problem of applying Kennedy's "test" to parts ol the aid program could become extremely complicated For example, some Marine and paratroop units have been used against Saigon students while oth ers are fighting the Communists Officials indicated that aid proj ects such as lood tur villager and economic aid in general were considered part of the battle against the Communists. Question Is Confused ' The question of possible aid cuts for Viet Nam has become somewhat confused. A week ago officials were openly discussing the aid review. But Kennedy said Monday in a television interview that an aid eduction would not he helpful at P. Kearney Heart Attack Rep. Walter D. Norblad, R Ore., appealed to Democrats to allow Kearney to stay in office until he was eligible lor federal retirement, A patronage battle among Democrats also contributed to delay in appointing a replace ment. A recommendation for a succes sor may come out of a meeting of Oregon s congressional dclega tion in Washington Tuesday. The Oregon Democratic Central Com mittee revealed only Thursday' that it had submitted the names of three Democrats who would be acceptable to it. The three were Carl J. Smith 37, Roseburg lumberman; Charles Wilson, 63, The Dalles businessman, and Stale Hep. Eu gene Hulclt, 41, of Eugene. Unruly Swrfefe La., of Uie Committee on Un- American Activities stood and shouted to police: "Throw them out!" Three of the students ejected were tccn-agcrs. They identified themselves as Tad Lauer, 16, Bloomiugton, hid., a special stu dent at Indiana University; Mark Brady, 17, New York, a City Col lege student, and Clifford Metz- this time and might cause col lapse of the government and e Communist take-over. Officials said this was not in tended as a blanket promise to the Vietnamese regime that the United States would continue Us massive aid come what may. Ihey indicated the administra tion might decide upon aid cuts at a future time if conditions warrant. - Madame Nhu Lectures Ted Kennedy BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UP1I Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu today gave president Kennedy s young est brother a lengthy lecture on her family's controversial regime in South Viet Nam. She's discussed at length her side ol the picture, said Sen Edward M. (Tedl Kennedy ID- Mass.) nftcr the 90-minute lunch- lime talk. "She wanted to talk to me,' Kennedy said. "She wants to talk to everyone and everybody." 'Mme. Nhu has been, sharolv critical of President Kennedy and! In barrinr vmnathfi-x nf th uK(ji.-i uiu ik nas oeen "micinfni-mjul" ak... I I.h picture of events in South Viet Nam and of the government'; crackdown on Buddhist opposi lion. Kennedy Took Notes The senator sat mostly silent: during their hotel lobby and din ing room meeting. Ho took notes in a big black notebook while the attractive Mrs. Nhu talked between sips from a glass of to mato juice. The President's brother and Mme. Nhu, whose husband is chief political adviser to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, are here as delegates to Ihe current Inter-Parliamcntary Union IPU conference. In a pause between the lobby chat and lunch, Kennedy said he and his wife were invited to meet iMme. Nhu by New York Republican congrcsswoman Kath- erinc St. George. Mrs. St. George is chairman of the U.S. delega tion to the IPU conference. "She's quite a gal," Mrs. St. George said of the attractive Mme. Nhu. "She did not stop talking from one minute to the other. Grossly Misinformed "She described conditions in her country. She told us we misinformed. were grossly grossly she blamed I h e press.' ler, 19. Long Island City, N.Y., a Hunter College student. All Three Carried Out AU three were bodily carried out of the building and deposited on me sidewalk. They said they had applauded a statement of the witness, Phil lip A. Luce, 26, of New York City, one of more than 50 stu dents who defied a State Depart ment ban and visited Cuba dur ing the summer. The new outbreak, which fol- lowed a pattern set at Thurs- . day's opening session, came as Willis objected to applause when uice said he considered tt his "duty" to break the travel ban. "There are certain rules and regulations that must be broken." Luce declared. He said Emerson and Thoreau advocated civil dis obedience against what they con sidered intolerable situations. Compares Trip Luce also compared his trip to Cuba Willi the civil disobedience used by Negroes and others in the South in civil rights matters. At tins, a group of students started clapping and demonstrat ing and Willis gave the order for the removal of their leaders. As the police moved in and grabbed the first two, Luce turned around in the witness chair and loudly deplored their removal for what lie declared was "just clapping." J ins is something you can get away with in Louisiana or Vir ginia, but I can't stand it here," he shouted over the din. The names of the other ejected spectators were not immediately available. Atmosphere Was Tense The atmosphere had been tense but restrained both inside and outside the tearing room until William Massic, 28, a dishwasher of New York began loudly object ing to being blocked from enter ing the hearing. bight policemen subsequently carried him out of the building as he continued to shout epithets. Massie yelled mat there was more freedom In Cuba than in Washington. Luce was the first witness to day and even before giving his name and address launched into an attack on the commiUjee,.,de-., phring its "despicable conadct" megai junketeers from the near- : ing. But Willis cut him short and told him to answer questions and stop making a speech. Answers Most Questions Luce, formerly of Springfield, Ohio, now of New York City, an swered almost all of the questions put to him by Willis and commit tee counsel Alfred P. Nittle. He did not cite the Fifth Amend ment to the Constitution as a grounds lor not answering a ques tion. This was in sharp contrast to the performance Thursday by Levi Laub. This 24-year-old New Yorker, identified by the commit tee as one of Cuban trip's lead ers, invoked the amendment 37 limes on grounds that an answer might tend to incriminate him. But Luce was not a docile wit ness. He engaged in a snouting match at one point with Willis and sparred verbally with the committee counsel on several oc casions. Denies Relationship Luce emphatically denied that the emergency Civil Lib erties Committee, for which he works, had anything to do with preparing Ihe Cuban trip. He saW he took a leave of absence from the group. The committee claimed that the group had been cited by J. Edgar Hoover as the 'legal arm of the Communist party. "1 don't care what J. Edgar Hoover said," Luce shouted. Part of the audience applauded. When applause broke out again following another Luce statement, Willis ordered the offenders ejected. Before giving either his name or address, Luce, one of those who made the Cuba trip, lashed the committee for barring tho 1 student-sympathizers while admit ting their opponents. He also as sailed as a "cretin" Barry Hoff man, Brookline, Mass., a self described undercover agent on the Cuban trip who was the com mlttee's "friendly witness" Thursday. Those blocked today from the hearing milled about angrily in corridors outside the House cau cus room under tlie watchful eyes of dozens of uniformed po licemen and p'ain clothes detec tives. 1 Police said they were trying to prevent a repetition of the vio lence that disrupted Thurday'i session concerning a Castro sponsored visit- to Cuba by 58 young Americans tills summer. The hearing broke up In a pan demonium when police forcibly evicted IS kicking, screaming spectator, during wild Uuak.
