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Newspaper Page TextU.C? 03S.!.I3!tt3r NiJfSPAPER SECTION GSM.REK.ANO DOCUS.'JTS DIV. EUJSME.OHSG. COS!P. Blast Chni'rdi South IN WAKE OF BLAST A twisted stained glass window, a rock-strewn street, demol ished autos and policemen stand in mute testimony in Birmingham following the lat est bombing at the Negro 16th Street Baptist Church. Officers said that about IS sticks of dynamite exploded in the basement of the church, killing four young Negroes and injuring 2 1 others. UPI Telephoto Weather Klamath Palls. Tulelakt and Laktvltw: Consfdrablt cloudiness with occasional thewary ptriodt ind continued cool through Tutsday. Lows tonight M-W with frost. Highs Tutsday W-iS. High ytittrday (3 Low this morning it High yaar ago II Low ytar ago S3 Preclp. past 24 hours .00 Sinct Jan. 1 ,74 Samt ptriod last year 1.39 Broadside Crush Kills Three Sunday In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington this morning: The bombing of a Negro church in Birmingham was denounced in the U.. Senate today by Demo crats and Republicans who called for swift punishment of those re sponsible for the crime. It was de scribed as a national crime, dis graceful, outrageous and utterly reprehensible. Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York demanded a speed up in Senate action on civil rights legislation as a result of the bomb ing. He said Alabama Governor Wallace can not escape some of the responsibility for it (meaning that Wallace was using it for per sonal political purposes.) . Senator Javits touched off an angry round of reaction when he arose in the senate to denounce the attack. Senate Democratic Leader Mansfield was more tolerant. The bombing, he said, was utter-! lv reprehensible, and there can be no excuse for an occurrence of this kind under ANY POS SIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES. But- He added: "This outraeeous action does not represent the feeling of great majority of the citizens of Birmingham, and the U.S.A. as a whole. This is something that no one can condone and it has SET BACK the difficult course on the road of race relations." What happened at Birming ham? This is the probable answer: IRRESPONSIBLE HOTHEADS acted on their own. That prompts another question What happened at Fort Sumter? This is the answer: Back in April of 1861. a little better than a century ago, irre sponsible hotheads took over on their own. The result was the War between the States with its more than half a million of the nation's youngest and best killed in action and its then staggering aonar cost of more than $5 billion. Sobering throught: A little more time and tolerance back in April of 1861 migltt have averted the War between the States. Equally sobering thought: A little more time and toler- ance-and a Utile less AMBITION FOR VOTES might have saved this horror in Birmingham. Question: Who are the irresponsibles of today? I think this is the answer: The politicians who us the civil rights crisis to GET VOTES First Snow Klamath County's first snow ol the season was reported this morn- ins on Pelican Butte, some 28, miles northwest of Klamath Kalis. The Winema National Forest s fire lookout reported that two inches of snow fell on the 1.036 ioot peak during the night. r 1 I -n 1 Price Ten Cents ,16 Pages Solon Calls Hawaii Trip Unimportant SALEM (UPI)-Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, D-Portland, said today the recent legislative conference in Hawaii reminded me more ot an Alabama mob than a gather ing of responsible officials." Mahoney and other Oregon law makers who attended the Hawaii sessions voiced disappointment in this year's conference, but said such meetings had proved worth while over the yeans. The comments' were made at today's meeting here of the Leg islative Counsel Committee as members reported on the recent Hawaii trip. Fifteen legislators and two state officials attended at slate ex pense a week - long series of meetings last month in the island state. Mahoney said he had "mixed feelings" about the value of such conferences and commented, "I had a nice vacation. I didn't learn anything that a high school student couldn't have learned in two or three hours of library re search. 1 don't think the people of Ore gon got any more out of the con ference than they do when the governor goes to a National Gov ernors' Conference," he said. House Speaker Clarence Barton. D-Coquille, said "I'd just as soon never see them (the National Leg islative Conference! in Portland if they are going to act like tlicy did in Honolulu. The 1965 conference is slated to be held in Portland. "I still have confidence in the program, in spite of the Hawaii meet," Barton added. This vear's conference was torn by a bitter fight over civil rights, Rep. C. R. Hoyt. K-Corvallis also expressed disappointment at the cu.iterence, but pointed to ideas sained that could lead to improvements in Oregon legisla tive procedures. Sen. Donald Husband. R - Eu gene, commented: "I was some- what disappointed. It wasn't the best, or the worst conference. But I do feel I learned much of value It was no vacation for me." Diem Lifts Martial Law SAIGON UPD President Ngo Dinh Diem lifted martial law throughout South Viet Nam today but heavily armed troops and po lice continued to occupy strategic points in Saigon, including the streets around the American Em bassy. In addition to ending martial regulations imposed last month at the time of the government crack down on Buddhists, the president also ended press censorship. Observers, however, expected that presidential action (o have little effect on the tense interna tional situation in Viet Nam Heavy government security meas ures and the arrest of dissident elements in the country were ex pected to continue. Saigon remained a tense and un easy city today although the sur face situation appeared calm, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, A Dallas, Ore, Air Force sergeant, his 2-year-old son and the wife of another Air Force man were killed Sunday evening when a car skidded broadside on rain slick Highway 97 into the path of another auto. Six other persons were the collision of the two cars, families. State police said the crash occurred at 5:30 Sunday evening a mile north of Beaver Killed were S.Sgt. William Ray Wall, 28, of Dallas and Stead AFB, Nevada, his Loris Adelle Collins, 22. Police said her driver's license listed an address in Pinole, Calif., but it is believed her husband had been stationed at an Air Force base near Webb, Tex. . Gerald P. Collins, 25, is listed in critical condition this morning at Klamath Valley Hospital. He suffered head injuries in the col lision. Police said it has not been determined whether he his wife were driving their car. The couple's twins, Sheri and Gary, 2, and their other son, Mar ty, 3, were also taken to Klamath Valley. Sheri and Marty are listed in "satisfactory" condition and Gary is listed as "poor." All suf fered multiple injuries. Wall's wife. Phyllis, 26, and their daughter, Diana, 3, are in 'satisfactory" condition at the hospital with multiple injuries. State police said Mrs. Wall was driving the Walls' 1959 hardtop Malaysia Federation Touches Off Rioting KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (UPI I The Federation of Ma laysia, a new and anti-Communist member of the British Common wealth, came into being today, touching off anti-British riots in neighboring Indonesia. Malaya, Singapore, North Bor neo, and Sarawak joined in tne federation, which has a popu lation of 10 million and some of the world's richest natural re sources. But two of Malaysia's neigh- JFK Slates Tax Appeal WASHINGTON UPI - Presl dent Kennedy will speak to t h c nation on radio and television at p.m. PDT Wednesday In an ef fort to rally public support for his big tax reduction program, the White House announced today. Kennedy will appear on all ma jor radio and television networks for what was described as a pres entation of "his views on t h e tax bill as it comes up for ac tion in the House. The President's request for air lime was a new step in the ad ministration drive to have Con gress enact his $11 billion indivi dual and corporate tax cut plan this year so it can take clfect in 19M and 1965. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said he thought the President's address probably would run about IS minutes. In a speech last week. Kennedy insisted that tlw lax bill must be passed this year as insurance against a possible recession. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dil lon earlier today called Uie meas ure "a matter of vital national concern." BIRMINGHAM, A!a. tUPH -A force of 1.400 policemen, stale! troopers and battle-equipped Na tional Guardsmen were poised for action todav in the aftermath oil a church bombing and street vio lence that claimed six lives. In the charged atmosphere cre ated by Sunday's dynamiting in this raciaily-scarred city, three public schools were scheduled to begin their second week oi inte-l grated classes today. ' The schools West End and! Ramsay High and Graymont Ele mentary admitted Negro stu dents for the first time under fed eral court order last Wednesday, touching off resentment that erupted into the bombing Sunday; of the 16th Street Baptist Church. Hurled from a passing car, the dynamite - stick bomb shattered the church, filled with 400 wor shipers, and killed four Negro MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 19f3 injured one critically in both containing Air Force Marsh during a rainstorm. son, Raymond, and Mrs. south when the auto skidded on the slick highway broadside into the northbound lane, where it was struck by the Collins' northbound 1957 station wagon. The hardtop was struck on the passenger's side, killing Wall in stantly. Police said the Walls were re luming to Stead Air Force Base from Dallas, where they had been visiting Wall's critically ill father. It is believed the Collins family was between Air Force assign ments. Officers this morning were attempting to gather further infor mation about them. Collins' rank had not been determined. The Collins car carried Texas license plates. bors, Indonesia and the Philip pines, refused to extend recogni tion, j Malayan Prime Minister Ton gku Abdul Rahman, now the pre mier of Malaysia, warned Sunday night that Indonesia should "think twice before taking any drastic action" against the fed eration. Thousands of rioters stoned the British Embassy in Jakarta today and burned the British flag and the ambassador's limousine. President Sukarno summoned his cabinet to an emergency meeting to discuss Malaysia. In donesia controls two thirds of Borneo and has attacked the fed eration as an extension of Brit ish imperialism. The United States and repre sentatives of 31 other countries ignored the hostile position of the Philippines and Indonesia and ei ther welcomed or indicated ac ceptance of Malaysia by attend ing the inaugural ceremonies. U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of State U. Alexis Johnson, who was President Kennedy's representa tive, said in a special message: "The United States warmly wel comes the formation of this na tion and anticipates close and cordial relations with Malaysia, Johnson said that Malaysia "holds great promise for its peo ple and Southeast Asia as whole." "Malaysia may well help to form a new pattern of relation ship in the area linking together as it docs hitherto separate state and people in the great interest of freedom and progress for man kind," the U.S. representative said. "The people ol the United States have every hope and expectation that Malaysia will prosper and realize its great potential." girls in a basement Sunday school class. At least 20 persons were treated for injuries at hospitals. Crowd Hysterical A crowd of 2.000 hysterical Ne- groes swarmed from their homes alter the explosion, and police struggled and fired rifle shots in the air for two hours before dis persing the group. Shootings and stonings boke out through the citv and continued late into Ihei night. During one of these incidents, police shot to death Johnny Rob inson, a 16-year-old Negro, who was hurling rocks at whites' cars and ignored orders to halt after he fled down an alley. At about the same lime, seven hours after the explosion, Virgil Ware, a 13-year-old Negro, was shot from ambush while riding a bicycle with his brother in a residential area 13 miles away. Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 7577 Everybody Doing Fine Is Report On Quints ABERDEEN. S.D. (UPH-Thel progress report was "everybody doing just fine. . .it's a miracle" for tlie five tiny Fischer quintup lets in their third day of life to day. Sister Mary Stephens, adminis trator of St. Luke's Hospital, came from tlie nursery where the quints squirmed and cried lustily in their special incubators. After a visit to the mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Fischer, Sister Stephen beamingly Reported: :; " Everybody doing just fine. We can be grateful to the good Lord, "I feel it's a miracle to the. good Lord that there are no com plications, she said. The quints had been examined early today by Dr. James Berbos. who delivered them at 3:01 a.m CST Saturday. Before his arrival the nurses caring for the 18-inch long babies had increased their food intake from four cc's to five ccs. They are tea every iwo hours. The three elder children of the Fischer family went to school (his morning for the first time since the quints were born. Fa ther Andrew Fischer drove them two miles from his farmhouse home in his green, 6lightly rusty Plymouth, to the Sacred Heart parish school, a block from the hospital. Girls Named Mary Seven-year-old Danny clutched a football and carried a book satchel into the school. Julie, 6, and Charlotte, who will be 7 Wednesday, carried books and brightly colored lunch pails. They smiled as their father spoke with reporters. Andy Fischer, 38, looked rested and sprightly. He disclosed that Sunday night he had suggested that Mrs. Fischer start to work thinking about names for the four Elizabeth Expecting LONDON (UPD - Queen Eliza beth is expecting a child due to be born next year, Buckingham Palace announced today. The queen Is 37 years old. The last of her three children, Prince Andrew, was born Feb. 19, I960. With the announcement, il was staled that all of the Queen's en caoemcnts were being cancelled following the end of her current holiday at Balmoral, Scotland next month. The announcement gave no in dication of the date beyond I he fact that the child's birth was ex pected next year. "Both the Queen and (her hus band) the Duke of Edinburgh are. of course, very happy about it," Cmdr. Richard Colville, press sec retary to the Queen, told news men. He said tlie baby will be born at Buckingham Palace, as was Prince Andrew. If the child Is a boy he will rank third in line of succession to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales1 Charles, who Is 14, and Prince Andrew. If a girl, the child will rank fourth, with the royal couple's only daughter. Princess Anne, 13, taking precedence. Two white youths seen riding a'immediately of the incident, and red motorcycle in the area were sought by police. Oit'icers arrested 10 Negroes in the vicinity of the bombed church on a variety of charges including refusing to obey an olficer, drunk' enness and carrying concealed weapons. Governor Sends Troopers Police Chief Jamie Moore, fear ing a repetition o the noliiij that followed the bombing of a Negro attorney's home Sept. 4, called all available members of his 600-man force to duty. Mayor Albert Boutwell appealed to Gov George Wallace for help. Wallace dispatched 300 trooHrs and alerted 600 National Guards men in the city, where racial tensions have ebbed and flowed for months. President Kennedy was notified Weather AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Considerable cloudiness with showers Tuesday or Wednesday and again at week's end makes having and field work outlook only lair this week. Continued cool temperatures. Frost again tonight. tigni men son temperature o degrees, girl quintuplets. So far they each have been named Mary for pur poses of their baptism Saturday afternoon. 'I told her last night to start working on other names either middle or first names to go with the Mary, Fischer said. He uttered a laughing "yes' when asked, "Do you still love your wife?" Dr. Berbos went Immediately into surgery duties after quickly checking the quints five bun dles of kicking, squalling, bawling humanity with heads the size of oranges and hands not much larger than a silver dollar. He said he probably would weigh them for the first time to day and that he might change their diet to some kind of. a milk formula. They have been geling sugar-water by nose tube since Sunday morning. Still In Danger Area The doctor made it plain, how ever, that he will take it very easy with the quints, who were born six to eight weeks prema turely, until he feels they are safely through the danger area, which extends until Tuesday morning. Sister Stephen said Mrs. Fisch er, 30, has been getting gilts ot fruit and flowers in her room. Her "doing fine" report also ap plies to the mother. Baby Added To Elephants PORTLAND (UPI I - The Port land Zoo's prolific elephant herd produced its t h i r d baby pachy derm in the past year and a half Sunday afternoon. Pet unceremoniously gave birth to a bouncing boy alone and un attended except for Belle, another female elephant, who hovered around helpfully. It was a sharp contrast to the birth of Packy to Belle April 14 last year when reporters and photographers lived in the ele phant house and Zoo Director Jack Marks fainted when it was all over. Packy, a boy, was tlie first ele phant born in tlie nation in more than 43 years. Rosy delivered a girl named Me Tu last Oct. 3. The birth to Pet, an 8-ycar-old Asian Elephant and the youngest of four mates to Thonglaw, oc- 'cur red in tlie glassed-in display room of the zoo's elephant house at about 4:30 pm. Marks wc at the wo but vet erinarian Matthew Baberry was at home. They immediately rushed to the new mother s side. Morgan Berry of Seattle, an animal dealer who formerly owned Pet and Belle, had been at the zoo earlier In the day. However, he left less than hours earlier to return home. Marts called the Infant "aw small" but a "beautiful baby." He estimated his weight tween 100 and 135 pounds. Packy weighed 225 pounds at birth and Me Tu was 182. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy disptached his chief civil rights; troubleshooter, Burke Marshall, to Birmingham. Also rushed in were at least 23 FBI agents, In- luding bomb experts from Wash ington. Wallace vowed to use the "en tire forces of the state. . .to main tain law and order in Birming ham and throughout Alabama.' Boutwell, tears streaming down his face, said "it is iust sicken ing that a few individuals could commit such a horrible atrocity Birmingham Mayor Cries In Telling Of Bombing BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI - Mayor Albert Boutwell cried when he talked of the bomb that ipped a church and of tlie four Negro children who died in the blast. This is sickening," he said. "It is a tragic event. It is just sickening that a few individuals could commit such a horrible atrocity." His voice shook with emotion and tears streamed down his cheeks. "The occurrence of such a thing has so gravely concerned the public ..." His voice broke and lie could not continue. A few minutes before, Boutwell had called for help fluni Gov. George Wallace, and had issued instructions to police chief Jamie Moore in a firm, authoritative1 voice that betrayed no emotion. "Tell your men to be careful, lie advised Moore. 3 Schools Integrated BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) - Negro students entered three in tegrated Birmingham' schools without Incident today in the wake of a church bombing and street violence that cost six lives. A force of 1,400 policemen, state troopers and battle-equipped National Guardsmen was ready for action jn the tense atmos phere of this racially-troubled city. But only city police appeared at West End and Ramsay high schools and Graymont elementary school as the Negro pupils began their first full week of integrated classes. The schools were inte grated by court order last Tues day. A dynamite - slick bomb shat tered the 16th Street Baptist Church at 10:22 a.m. Sunday, killing four young girls in a base ment Sunday school class and wounding at least 20 other per sons. The church was filled with 400 worshipers. Two other Negroes were shot to death in the hours of street vio lence that followed. At West End this morning Pa tricia Marcus and Josephine Pow ell arrived shortly before classes began al 8 a.m. There were no crowds anywhere near the school Police and newsmen at tlie scene talked in subdued tones about Sunday's church bombing. Only city police were on duty The girls were brought to the school in a cream-colored station wagon occupied by three Negro men. Last week, as they left tlie school grounds in another car with only a Negro driver, a brick bat shattered the right front win dow of tlie car. OY ELEPHANT ARRIVES Th. third elephant to b born at Portland too racelvat onct-ovsr from it mothar, Pat. Baby, a boy, was delivered at 4:50 p.m. Sunday. Birth laavat only Tuy Ho (pronouncad Tat Wahl xpteting. UPI Talephoto Wallace added $5,000 to reward money totaling $57,000 for appre hension of the persons responsible for recent bombings in Birming ham. The church bombing was the first to cause death. None has been solved. Warns Of Holocaust Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. wired President Ken nedy that unless "immediate fed-! eral steps are taken. . .the worst1 racial holocaust this nation has ever seen" will occur in Birm- ingham and Alabama. King later came here from Atlanta to urge Then he took time to talk to newsmen and to let himself go for a moment. "What kind of per son would do a thing like this?" he asked. In view of tlie tragic and ab horrent events in Birmingham this morning," Boutwell told Wal lace in a telegram, "we antici pate a great deal of unrest. While the situation appears to be well under control of local law en forcement officers at this time, the possibility of further trouble exists." Boutwell said he was deter mined to "leave no stone un turned in our efforts to maintain law and order." Wallace sent 300 state troopers to work with city policemen, ex- President By Church By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy today expressed rloAn eoncA l mttranA onri frrtAf" v.,..,. v. ufcv. u over the bombing of a Negro church in Birmingham Sunday He called on -whites-and Negroes to put pas&lons and prejudices as in the Interests of domestic Jus tice and tranquility. After a series or conferences with Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken nedy over the Birmingham vio lence the Chief Executive issued, a statement at midday reflecting the depth of his concern. He promised all possible fed eral assistance in calming the Alabama situation and In bringing to justice those responsible for Sunday s crime. In making the statement public. White House press- secretary Pierre Salinger said the Rev. Martin Luther King would re ceive a reply from Kennedy to a message King sent Sunday de manding new, fast federal steps to cope with the Birmingham situation. For the time being, the Presi dent planned no message to Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama. The White House left open the idea that Kennedy felt Wallace had encouraged violence by dis paraging remarks about law and order. The White House did not iden tify Wallace as being connected witli the Kennedy statement, but Salinger did nothing to curb spec ulation that Kennedy had the governor in mind when he said: It is regrettable that public disparagement of law and order has encouraged violence which has fallen on the innocent." Urges Peaceful Progress 'If these cruel and tragic events can only awaken that city and state if they can only awaken the entire nation to a frjr Negroes to "remain non-violent." He went into conference with Ne gro leaders. Police Inspector W. J. Haley said as many as IS sticks of dynamite may have been used to 'make tlie bomb. Witnesses saw a car speed away from the two- story brick and stone church. The bomb apparently exploded in an unoccupied basement room and crumbled a wall onto a children's Sunday School class. Killed were Dcnice McNair, 11', Carol Robertson. 14, Cynthia Wes ley, 14, and Addie Mae Collins, 14. panding the combined forces to some 900 men. Five hundred Na tional Guardsmen, alerted by Wallace, stood by in full battle dress at an armory. The city council held an emer gency meeting but rejected a pro posal by councilman George Sei bcls that a 10 p.m. curfew be clamped onto the city. Seibels, chairman of the public safety committee, admitted a curfew would be difficult to enforce be cause four major highways run through the city. Council John Hawkins read a statement from the council say ing "it is time that every one wakes up and realizes that sav agery is not an answer to any problem." Grieved Bombing I realization of tlie folly of racial I injustice and hatred and violence. - 'lhen it is not too late (or all con- "alcerned to unite in steps toward .--" f ........ - I ratai-AF,,! nrnn-AM twlnrA nuwa I lives are lost, the President said. . Kennedy said Negro leaders in Rirminffllflm who uwn aaiificaI. inff restraint iiutoarf nf vinJefM-e were bravely serving their ideals. The principles of peaceful self- control are least appealing when most needed," he said. The President added: "This nation is committed to a course of domestic justice and tranquility, end I call upon every citizen white and Negro, North and South to put passions and prejudices aside and to join in this effort." Kennedy reviewed tlie federal involvement in the newest Bir mingham case, pointing out how Assistant Atty. Gen. Burke Mar shall was again on the scene in Birmingham to be of assistance to community leaders and law en forcement officials." The White House declined to speculate what further steps might be taken by the government in the Alabama situation. Salinger explained that Marshall could recommend additional action any time ho felt H. was needed. Any such requests would be considered immediately by the attorney gen eral, ho said. Learned of Bombing Kennedy was yachting at New port, R. I., Sunday afternoon when news of the Birmingham church bombing was radioed to him aboard the White House yacht Honey Fitz. He flew back to Wash ington Sunday night. Demands by King end the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People (NAACP) for federal interven tion in Alabama were among the first messages to roach the Presi dent's desk this morning.