Elections Test Impact
Of Civil Rights Revolt
grass-roots political Impact of
the Negro civil rights "revolu.
tion" gets its first major assess
ment today in off-year state and
local elections across the na
tion. . The racial controversy was
particularly in evidence in the
spirited contests for governor
conducted in Mississippi and
Kentucky, and in Philadelphia's
mayoralty election.
The response to the Negro de
mands was not of major con
cern to most political strate
gists; it was the reaction of the
white majority to those de
mands Hiat was thought to pro.
vide a clue to 1964's general
election. "
In Mississippi, whero both
candidates are ardent and out
spoken segregationists, the civ
il rights issue took an odd twist
as the Republicans made their
first serious bid since Recon
struction to capture the gover
nor's mansion.
Lt, Gov. Paul B. Johnson, a
Democrat, was still favored to
win but Republican Rubel Phil
lips, a handsome young admir
er of Sen. Barry M. Goldwater,
R.Ariz., made a race of it,
Johnson argued that a true
two-party system in Missis
sippi would split Uiat state's
white voters and give Negroes
the balance of power. Phillips
said that segregation would be
strengthened by a two-party
system because each party
'would serve as a racial watch
dog over the other.
Johnson was backed by out
going Gov. Ross R. Barnett,
who is barred by law from suc
ceeding himself, and some of
the biggest names in Mississip
pi politics. Phillips claimed he
would have stood stronger than
Barnett against the admission
of Negro James H. Meredith to
the University of Mississippi
last year.
The Democrats were also fa
vored to win the gubernatorial
race in Kentucky where Repub
lican Louie B. Nunn opposed
Democrat Edward T. Breathitt
Jr. But here again the Demo
cratic margin was expected to
be smaller than in recent years.
In Kentucky the civil rights
issue centered on the executive
order issued earlier this year by
retiring Democratic Gov. Bert
Combs. It forbids racial discrim
ination in all business estab
lislimenla licensed by the state.
Nunn hit hard at Iho order,
not on racial grounds, he said,
but on constitutional grounds
a position somewhat similar to
that of Sen. Goldwater. He also
attempted to link Breathitt to
the Kennedy administration.
" Phlladelphians, divided by ex
plosive racial tensions, vote on
wihether to give bemucratic
Mayor James II. J. Tato his
own four-year term or turn the
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Democrats out of office for the
first time in 12 years in favor
of Republican James T. Mc
Dermott. Tate, who became mayor
when Democrat Richardson Dil
worth resigned to run unsuc
cessfully for governor against
Republican William W. Scran
ton, ran with the backing of
Rep. William J. Green Jr., city
Democratic chairman, and the
on-the-scene endorsement of
President Kennedy, who made
a special trip to Philadelphia
last Wednesday.
Purely local issues dominated
most of the rest of the hundreds
of slate, city and county elec
tions across the tiaflon.
In New York City voters were
to register their opinions on a
controversial proposition con
cerning legalized off-track horse
race betting. The proposal,
championed by Democratic Ma
yor Robert F. Wagner and hot
ly opposed by Republican lead
ers of the State Legislature,
would allow the mayor to ap
point a committee to draw up
a plan for legalized bookie par
lors in the city.
Other major cities holding
municipal elections included:
Cleveland, Columbus, Youngs
town, Akron, Canton, Toledo
and Dayton, Ohio; Boston; San
Francisco and San Diego, Calif;
Rochester and Niagara Falls,
N.Y.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Tuc
son, Ariz., and Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Father Kills
3 Children
PITTSBURGH (UP!) - A 35-year-old
unemployed machinist
from suburban Etna was
scheduled to undergo question
ing today at St. Francis Gen
eral Hospital in an effort to
learn a motive for the slaying
of his three children.
P.olice said George Vidovich
Sr. apparently slashed Hie chil
dren's throals while they lay
sleeping Monday. Officers said
the father then attempted to
take his own life by placing a
hose from his car's exhaust pipe
to the inside through a window.
Vidovich was unconscious
when located by officers but he
was revived by oxygen. Three
.Allegheny County dcloctivcs
and several attendants at (lie
hospital were required to strap
Vidovich to a bed.
The dead are George Vido
vich Jr., 14, a ninth grader at
North Catholic High School; Jo.
Ann Vldovi.il, 11, and Richard
Vidovich, 9. JoAnn and Robert
were studcnls at St. Nicholas
parochial school in Millvale.
Police said the cMlchcn's
bodies wcro found in their beds
by neighbors.
A note found on the kitchen
table of the Vidovich home
read:
"Jean, this is (he best way
out. It's not your fault."
The children's mother, Mrs.
Jean Vidovich. 32, is being
treated at SI. Francis Hospital
for tuberculosis.
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Prosecution
As Motive In
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn (UPI)
It was only a smiling picture,
but it had a most telling effect.
The man held his eyes tight
shut. He took off his glasses
and squeezed his nose between
his eyes with his right hand.
Wis eyelids were clamped in a
grimace.
Tilmer Eugene Thompson, the
former elder of the Presbyter
ian church in St. Paul in which
his 34-year-old wife was a choir
singer, had heard himself de
scribed Monday at his murder
trial as a faithless husband who
sneaked off with another wom
an for nights in motels and
hotels.
The slate of Minnesota had
said it would show he took the
"other woman" dining, dancing,
paid tor her baby sitters, had
her tcelh cared fori financed
her secretarial training, and
begged . her to give him 11
months to get enough money
for tooth of tiliem (o live on.
The begging the "other
woman" had informed Thomp
California Woman
Among Four Nobel
STOCKHOLM (UPI) - Two
Americans, including a' woman
nuclear scientist, two Germans
and on Italian today were
awarded the 1063 Nobel. Prizes
in physics and chemistry.
The physics award winners
were Dr. Maria tioopnort May
er of tlic University of Califor
nia, Prof. Eugene Wigncr of
Princeton University, and Prof.
Hans D. Jensen of the Univer
sily of Heidelberg.
The chemistry prize was
shared by Dr.i. Karl Ziegler of
Muchlhcim, West Germany, and
Giulio Natta of Milan, Italy.
Italy Faces
New Crisis
HOME UPI - Tho slop-gap
cabinet of Premier Giovanni
Leone resigned en masse today,
plunging this North Atlantic
country back into the political
crisis that has plagued it for
most of Hie year.
The cabinet, formed after
general elections last April,
voted to resign in a 24-minute
session, ending its 137 dnys in
olliie. The development had
been expected.
Leone Immediately went to
present his resignation to Presi
dent Antonio Scgni, a Christian
Democrat like himself.
Unless they call new elec
tions, tlie Christian Democrats
appeared to have only two pos
sible courses of action: To form
another center-left coalition or
to set up a new government
based on right-wing support.
Either could lead to serious
trouble, with the Communists
the second largest political
parly in the country waiting in
the wings to cash in. Tlie Com
munists also might stand to
gain by elections. In April, they
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Introduces 'Other Woman'
Minneapolis Murder Trial
son she intended to marry an
other man took place 15
months before the slaying of
Thompson's wife Carol, prosecu
tor William B. Randall said the
slate would show.
Introduces Picture
Lale in the afternoon, Randall
Was in tlie middle of question
ing his third witness, a friend
of the Thompsons who told how
he had advised the husband to
take out insurance on his wife.
Suddenly the prosecutor from
8t. Paul .produced the smiling
picture, identified it to the court
clerk as state exhibit H, and
handed it to defense attorney
Hy Scgcll. Segcll sits five feet
in front of defendant Thompson.
He held the picture in front of
him and studied it.
ilt wis Carol. Thompson must
have hdd a glimpse earlier to
see wiho it was. But lie never
saw it as Segell held it at close
range. He dug his right hand
into his eyes. His neck red
dened. His let jaw muscle
worked.
Both prizes carry cash
awards of $51,158. Half tlie
physics prize will be shared by
Dr. Mayer and Prof. Jensen,
with the other half going to
Professor Wigncr. Ziegler and
Natla will split the chemistry
prize equally.
Dr. Mayer and Jensen were
given their award by Hie Swed
ish Academy of Sciences' for
their joint discoveries concern
ing nuclear shell structure.
Atomic Nuclear Work
Wigncr's prize was for his
contribution to the theory of the
atomic nucleus and lheactivity
of elementary particles.
Dr. Ziegler and Nalta were
honored for their work in or
ganic molecules which has
made possible a number of new
products' in plastics, in the field
of synthetic detergents, and in
anti-knock mixtures for high oc
tane engine fuels.
Wigncr, 61, was born in Buda
pest, Hungary. He came to the
Uniled States in KM to lecture
at Princeton University and
taught mathematical physics
the following year. He retained
the gmsl until l'.W, the same
year he became an American
citizen.
He went to the University of
Wisconsin in 11KS7. Later lie
worked at the University of Chi
cago, where he served as direc
tor of research and development
at Clinton Laboratories from
1W6-47.
U.S. Cardinal Assails
Decentralization Move
VATICAN CITY (UPl -James
Francis Cardinal Mcln
tyre of Los Angelas told the
Ecumenical Council today that
a propositi to decentralize au
thority in the Catholic Church Is
a "radical change" which might
"endanger the unity of the
church."
Cardinal Mclnlyre, one of tin?
most conservative members of
the U.S. hierarchy, spoke for
llie lirst time at this session of
the council as the fathers
opened debate on a new docu
ment which would enhance Iho
authority of bishops lo run their
own dioceses, lt also would
grant oflicial recognition and
real legislative (Hiwers to na
tional conferences of bishops,
such as tlie U.S. National Cath
olic Welfare Conference.
Paul Cardinal Kichaud of
Bordeaux, France, led a long
list of Western European liber
als Mho slrongly defended the
idea of national episcopal con
ferences, and argued that the
Tuesday, November 5, 1963
M &f m
Will Ask For Life
Randall Will ask this jury to
send the crewcut criminal law
yer to prison for life, the maxi
mum sentence for first - degree
murder in Minnesota.
He 'told the jury in his open
ing statement Monday that
Thompson "instigated, planned
and helped" in what the state
expects to show was a three
man conspiracy in "murder for
hire." Besides the "other wom
an" motive, he offered to prove
that in a space of about a year
before Carol's horribly botched
slaying last March 6, Thompson
took out $1,055,000 in term and
accidental death insurance on
her, with himself as ben
eficiary. Randall told the jury he
would show Thompson sent
$2,500 in cash to his police
character .acquaintance, Nor
man J. Mastrian, who went
"shopping for a killer" and
found one on his fourth try.
This alleged killer has con
fessed the crime.
Scientist
Winners
Mrs. Mayer was born in 1908
in Katlowitz, Poland. She stud
ied at the University of Got
lingcn in Germany until 1930.
when she went to the United
Slates. SJie became a natural
ized citizen three years later.
Worked At Arguaine
She became associated with
Johns Hopkins in 1931. For a
lime she lectured at Columbia
University and at Sarah Law
rence College. From 1942 lo
1945 she was a senior physicist
at the Argonne National Lab
oratories in Chicago.
The chemistry and physics
prizes were the last of the year.
Last month tlie Nobel prizes for
literature, medicine and peace
were awarded.
Tlie prize (or literature went
lo Giorgos Scferis, a Greek poet
and former diplomat. The prize
for medicine was shared by two
Britons, Alan L. Hodgkin and
Andrew Fielding, and Prof.
John C. Eccles of Canberra,
Australia.
Last month in Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Linus C. Pauling, an Ameri
can biochemist who won llie
1934 chemistry prize w as named
the winner of the 12 peace
prize. He was the first man in
the R2-year history of the Nobel
Prizes to be honored twice.
Fluids for the prizes comes
from llie estate of Swedish in
dustrialist Alfred Nobel, cred
ited with inventing dynamite.
He died in 1895,
document should go even fur
ther in freeing bishops from un
due interference by the Roman
Curia.
Today's debate, roming after
a (mir-day council recess. Indi
cated that the new documents
will generate at least as much
controversy as the one on the
f church, which lathers discussed
for four weeks previously at
this session.
Cardinal Mclnlyre indicaled
he was parlicunrly anxious
about live proposal to grant of
ficial recognition and juridicial
status to national conference.
of bishops. He said this would
entail dangerous consequences
for the unity of the church.
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Oregon
SALEM (UPI)-Orcgon's six
year fire jinx is broken.
Jubilent state forestry offi
cials, eyeing rain-dripping tim
berlands, have declared the
fire season over in Western Ore
gon. They find it hard to believe
that the state was not ravaged
by flaming disaster again this
year as it has been every six
years since 1933, except for 1957.
For this year forestlands were
ripe for disaster.
Millions of board feet o stand
ing timber were toppled in t h e
savage 'Columbus Day, 1962
storm.
The "jinx" was born in 1933
in the first great "Tillamook
Burn." That fire exploded over
a 407-square mile area almost
half the size of the state of
Rhode Island.
12 Billion Feet Lost
Destroyed was 12 billion board
feet of timber more than
enough to build a milljon five
room houses.
It was one of the worst forest
disasters ever recorded in the
United States.
Six years later the same re
gion was laid waste by a fire
which ravaged more than 200,
000 acres.
Democrats
Pick Aide
WASHtNGTON (UPD-Fran-cis
R. Valeo, a mild-mannered
scholar from the big city, was
elected unanimously by Senate
Democrats Monday to succeed
Robert G. (Bobby) Baker as
their majority secretary.
Baker resigned the $19,600-a-year
post Oct. 7 when his wide
ranging business ventures came
to light. The Senate Rules Com
mittee presently is investigating
lo see whether conflict of inter
est laws were violated.
If the senators were looking
for an opposite type to succeed
Baker they found him in Valeo.
The 35-year-old Baker came
out of the hill country of Pic
kens County, S.C., and learned
his politics in the Senate cloak
room from the time he was a
14-year-old page boy.
Valeo is a 47-year-old native
of Brooklyn, N.Y. Unlike Baker,
he is almost shy and his politi
cal knowledge is mostly aca
demic. He took a degree from
New York University and de
veloped his academic speciality
Asia while serving in I he
China-Burma-India theater dur
ing World War II.
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Then in 1945 the area was hit
again, this time by a 182,000
acre fire.
In 1951 a series of three ma
jor blazes took a 55,000-acre
toll, although the Tillamook
area in Northwest Oregon was
spared. ,
The myth of the terrible "six
year jinx" was firmly fixed.
Forester's prepared for the
jinx in 1957 but there were no
major fires that year.
With Oregon's timberlands
this year described by State
Forester Dwight L. Phipps as
"potentially the most dangerous
Mme. Nhu May Rejoin
Her Children In Rome
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif.
(UPD Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu
may fly to Rome Wednesday to
rejoin her three younger chil
dren who were in South Viet
Nam when the. Diem regime
was overthrown.
The unpredictable first lady
of the deposed South Vietnam
ese government remained in the
seclusion of her $96-a-day Bev
erly Wilshire Hotel suite today
where she has been since the
successful coup.
Mme. Nhu had said earlier
that she would go to Rome to
day, but then changed her air
line reservation to Wednesday.
She indicated that she wanted
to talk with the children by long
distance telephone from here
after they arrived in Italy.
U.S. Lends Aid
The children, ranging in age
from 4 to 15, were reported en
route from Saigon to Rome via
Bangkok, Thailand. Mme. Nhu's
eldest daughter, Le Thuy, 18,
is with her.
Travel arrangements for the
children were made by the Unit
ed States "in response to an
oral request through a friend."
The State Department said Rog
er Hilsman, assistant secretary
for Far Eastern affairs, has
talked with Mme. Nhu by tele
phone and that she "expressed
appreciation" for the assistance.
A source at tlie hotel where
the deposed first lady is staying
said she had talked by telephone
with "a general" in Saigon who
expressed regrets over the
deaths of her husband, strong
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of pounds more
! i. jl
- Year Fire
in the recorded history of the
state" because of storm blow
down, officials prepared for the
worst.
Massive Appeali Made
There were massive educa
tion campaigns newspaper
stories, television appeals, radio
announcements.
Timber operators and forestry
officials began mapping fire
fighting strategy early this
spring.
They did everything but plead
with the weatherman.
He's the one who saved the
day.
man of the overthrown govern
ment, and his brother, the oust
ed president.
Father Pays Visit
The source said Mme. Nhu
"took 'the. news rather -hard"
and spent most of the day ly
ing down, although she did not
ask for medical aid.
Mme. Nhu's father. Tran Van
Chuong, former ambassador to
the .United States and a politi
cal foe of the deposed Diem
government, took time out from
his speaking tour of the West
Monday morning to meet brief
ly with Ms daughter.
The 65-year-old diplomat, who
had been feuding publicly with
her, brushed' aside questions
from waiting newsmen after his,
hour-long talk with Mme. Nhu
about their political differences
which caused him to resign as
ambassador.
"As soon as I learned of the
Iragic events, my heart was
very near my daughter," said
Chuong. "We spoke only of our
selves and our family."
Pickets Leave
EVERETT, Wash. UPI -Pickets
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Ore., local 3-261 of the Interna
tional Woodworkers of America,
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Jinx
Oregon's summer was not the
kind a Chamber of Commerce
would order. It was unusually
cool, and wet.
There were a few dry periods,
and the forests were closed.
But each time rain fell before
the situation became critical.
As a result, instead of another
jinx disaster, Oregon had one of
its smallest forest fire losses in
history. Less than 7,000 acres
were blackened.
There were 491 man-caused
fires, 137 less than last year.
Lightning caused 430 fires al
most four times as many as the
year before. They were a resiftt
of the storms which saved the'
timberlands from disaster.
To foresters, it meant that the
disastrous six - year fire jinx
had finally been broken.
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