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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
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troif liktiy. Tract of rain aarly tonight
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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.