The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 1

NEWS FLASHES Direct From Newsroom Of Advertiser-Journal By Telephone Dial AM 5-8246 atef 133rd Tear-No. 161 FtU Day, Nijhl and Saada; gcrvtre By The Associated Fnu Montgomery, Wednesday Morning, July 6, 1960 16 Pages Price 5 Cents The Weather Montgomery: Partly cloudy and continued hot with scattered afternoon and evening thundersbowers. Prediced high 94, low 74. Tuesday's high 95, low 74. (Details, Weather Map, Page 2A.) Castro Gets Free Hand.

LB Makes It Official, Hat In Ring Texan Announces ,7 -4 Ag aims Property mMm $1 Billion Investment Before Packed House Of Backers, Cameras WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Lyn -tut' don B. Johnson formally jumped i into the battle for the Democratic presidential, nomination Tuesday. He said he expects to be the party's choice in Los Angeles. Jeopardized WWMfvMrnwiiM Mrn BOTirW11TairTlimwWltBPi t- 7 Vf I -'r V- The Texan made his announcement at a nationally televised news conference in the auditorium of the new Senate Office Building before a packed crowd of re porters and applauding Johnson partisans.

Johnson said he hadn't come out 5 HAVANA (AP) The Cuban Cabinet early Wednesday authorized the expropriation of all property owned by American companies or U.S.. citizens residing in Cuba "when deemed necessary in the national A post-midnight announcement said the measure was adopted in view of "the constantly aggressive attitude" of the United States government. The decree specifically places in the hands of President Osvaldo for the nomination earlier because Congress was in session and "somebody has to tend the store." This referred to his duties as Senate majority leader. But a campaign committee has been working hard for him for RECREATIONAL AREA MAPPED OUT some time. PREPARED STATEMENT In opening the news conference Dorticos and Prime Minister Fidel Castro power to take over what remains of the nearly one-billion-dollar investment which Carl Bear (left) points out the area he and his family presented to the East Montgomery Exchange Club Tuesday night to Travis W.

Dendy (right club president. Looking on are Fred Bear and his grandson Edgar G. Givhan III. The area is to be developed as the "East Montgomery Exchange Club Recreational Facility," and use of the land will be restricted to members of the club and their guests. by reading a prepared statement, Johnson made no direct claims for himself, but said some of his supporters had told him he might be the United States and its citizens had in Cuba when Castro overthrew Fulgencio a is a 19 SEGREGATED PARK nominated on the third ballot.

"Whether this is true or not, I cannot say, nor can anyone," he added. months ago. CITED 'AGRESSION' The announcement cited as a But in the question and answer specific instance of U.S. "aggression," the authority given President Eisenhower to reduce Cuba's sugar sales in the United States. Club Presented Land For Recreation Area Briton Flips Over Record, Hit Crashes BULAWAYO, SOUTHERN RHODESIA (AP)-Mad at the song "Battle of New Orleans," a.

cockney Briton smashed records of it The decree gave no Indication LYNDON JOHNSON POSES WITH SAM RA1BURN AT PRESS PARLEY-" House Speaker To Enter Fellow Texan's Name As Demo Presidential Candidate Platform Meeting Opens Con ven Hon Prelim inaries LOS ANGELES (AP) Demo-jtion in favor ot any Philip B. Ferlman of Baltimore, By NOEL LEON session later he asserted, "I am a candidate for president and I expect to be nominated president." Johnson did not make any specific delegate claims of his own. He said merely his friends had told him he would have more than 500 votes on the first ballot and that his "chief opponent" obviously Sen. John F. Kennedy-would have less than 600.

It will take 7lil votes to win thej nomination. i JABS AT KENNEDY what specific investments would be taken over next by the Castro regime. Speculation has centered on the Cuban Electric a $300-million company, half of which represents American money, and the largest American holding in The first attempt at a private segregated park in Montgomery was launched Tuesday night, when side and is just south of the Highway Patrol radio station. The deed was accepted by Travis W. Dendy, president of the civic group.

About 600 feet of the property! he found in a music shop here Cuba. Arthur Lawrence Mogford said he smashed the records and re- fronts Coliseum boulevard, and the The United States and Britain the East Montgomery Exchange Club accepted the deed for 23V4 acres of land to be developed as a recreational facility. The land was presented by members of the T. L. Bear and sons family.

It is located just off! Coliseum boulevard on the east! P1; 're cuuer conceaea formcr Ut solicitor general and nanes to a scrapping national! reporters there is a possibility ofL j. u-u the platform erouns actins chau- refused to pay for them because they were "un-British" and an protested Tuesday against what they called the arbitrary and ille land includes hilly, wooded and rocky areas. The club said the land would be The Texan did not mention Ken- jucauny wiin oarp uun dv some aouinprn fin e- "insult to the British soldier." nuK TmZS r' at fatM h0 might bfk at giving man. for the moment said the Pleading guilty to maliciously oloarii, ioks (i a aiinouncemenil assurances iney win sup- iieaunijs are reauy ine opeiuns fully developed as the "East Montgomery Exchange Club Recreational Facility," within five years. destroying property, Mogford of the Massachusetts senator Johnson rooters quickly claimed! come out of the convention, (See DEMOS, Page 2A) However, some facilities will be "Those who have engaged in ac played a tape recording of the song with its references to the Rites Todav made for picnics and such, before the end of this summer, a there now will be a groundswell of new" support for the Texas sen ator rom the ranks of delegates who were unwilling to commit themselves until Johnson did.

tive campaigns have missed hundreds of these (Senate) voles," he said. "This I could not do for my country or my party." club spokesman said. Use of the recreational facility will be restricted to members of "no good" British. As the music played the ccurl spectators began beating time. Only two people remained unsmiling and still Mogford and Delegate State Pronose Own Candidate club and their guests.

Death Victim Plans were begun immediately magistrate D. R. Reynolds, who to have a softball area, tennis! gat with cnin in hand starin ig at Johnsons prepared statement was written in a rather low and solemn key. It laid great stress on the serious world situation and the problems which will confront the next president. Speaking of foreign affairs, Johnson said the question is not so (See JOHNSON, Page 2A) HOMEWOOD-Pretty little Bar i courts, horseshoe courts, chil Rival camps said Johnson's formal pronouncement of his candidacy in Washington merely confirmed what everybody already knew and therefore changed nothing.

PLATFORM PLANNED The Democratic convention kick off comes next Monday. But the The lcgUator did not mention specifically the candidate the some documents. WORTH $1.82 The recording played, Mogford turned to court and declaimed: "not only are the words in By BOB INGRAM A delegate to the Democratic National Convention proposed Tuesday that Alabama nominate state might nominate, but by in gal seizure of the three foreign oil refineries in Cuba by 'the Castro regime. FORMAL NOTE A formal, stiffly worded note delivered in Havana by U. S.

Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai cited seizure of the oil refineries as proof that Castro is waging "relentless economic aggression" against free -world nations. The protest said the two U. S. firms had operated in Cuba as law-abiding companies for more (See CUBA, Page 2A) Former Fidel Crony Quits HAVANA (AP) Jose Miro Cardona resigned Tuesday as ambassador designate to the United States because of ideological dif.

ferences with Prime Minister Fidel Castro's leftist government. In an obvious move to avoid arrest or other reprisal, the veteran diplomat-lawyer took refuge immediately in the Argentine Embassy. The Cuban Foreign Ministry lat ference he excluded three of the dren's play areas, an outdoor theater, a swimming pool and shuffle board areas constructed. When construction is completed, the facility will have paved footpaths and two foot bridges that will run over Three Mile Branch, which runs through the property. bara King will be laid to final rest here Wednesday in peaceful Elmwood Cemetery, nearly 100 miles from where she met violent, mysterious death Sunday night.

The nine-year-old who wore her blonde hair in a pony tail died of a shattering impact to the head the record an incitement to vio front runners for the nomination a candidate for U.S. Sens John Kennedy, Lyn president on 1 lence, but so is the manner of their presentation. This is the most subtle and dangerous form don Johnson and Stuart Syming Red Rocket Scores Close ton. In the eastern part of the land, plans are to enlarge the stream "Kennedy has already made It (See DELEGATE, Page 2A) (See PARK, Page 2A) from an unknown source during a holiday outing at the family cottage on Lake Martin. In Pacific of communist propaganda that is designed to worsen Anglo-American relations." Judge Reynolds said he "could appreciate that some of the words can have an effect upon someone with patriotic feelings" but that didn't excuse Mogford's smash As plans for her funeral were the first roll call and use the nominating time to pre-s the h's position.

State Sen. Alton Turner of Luverne, a Second District delegate, ATI mi Another Flight Record Cracked announced, Elmore County au Draft Rocky Move Planned SAN FRANCISCO (AP) At inormes awaitea results ot an autopsy and ballistics tests in the 100-pIus member platform committee began hearings Tuesday with the immediate emphasis on trying to hammer together a plank that will capitalize on any disenchantment farmers have with the GOP. And while Johnson avoided mentioning the subject again National Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler took occasion to deny he has done any rigging of the convention in favor of Sen. John F.

Kennedy of Massachusetts. In an appearance before the platform committee Butler disputed charges made by former President Harry S. Truman, and endorsed by Johnson, that Butler has shown partiality toward Kennedy. "I deny with all my soul, with! all my heart that not one thing has been done to rig this conven- ing of records worth $1.82. strange case.

TESTS UNDER WAY MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Max Conrad, graying king of the nation's light plane pilots, cracked jtorney William M. Brinton an TURNER Mogford paid a $23 fine. On the check he wrote out in the clerk of nounced Tuesday night a national A bullet found in the cottage campaign to draft New York Gov. the court's office, Mogford out made the suggestion. It prompted mixed emotions from several del wall may hold an answer to what "to defending the honour of the another world's record for marathon flight Tuesday after 30 hours and 3,460 miles in the air.

Not content with breaking the Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican presidential nominntion struck down the child as she er announced it had dismissed egates polled for comment. wculd begin Wednesday. played with a brother and a cou sin while her father sat nearby. Turner said it was apparent ecord for nonstop, closed-course Alabama could not hope that the A news conference for the Queen and country." The check was refused and he had to write another. The records Mogford smashed were made in Britain, incidentally.

Laboratory tests were under flight, the 57-year-old adventurer nominee or the platform would I northern California campaign was Miro Cardona and Manuel Piedra de la Concha as ambassador to Italy. Piedra de la Concha told newsmen in Rome he had not received formal word of his ouster but "should my government recall way by Chief State Toxicologist headed back toward Chicago to set for 2 p.m. to be followed by MOSCOW (AP) Soviet scientists shot a huge rocket into the mid-Pacific Tuesday and an official announcement said it hit clcse to the target 8.078 miles away. Tass, the Soviet news, agency, indicated other test shots would follow before the end of July in a program to rockets able to reach Mars or Venus and put a man into space. (Two U.

S. Navy patrol planes observed vapor trails and saw the Soviet rocket hit the water, the Defense Department said in Washington. The Pentagon said: that based upon the range claimed by the Soviets on their launching into the mid-Pacific last January "it moears that today's shot traveled' about 7,700 statute miles.) The Soviets announced last January that in their first 'est they C. J. Rehling in Auburn.

But log some more mileage and add be favorable to the South and under the circumstances "we should take advantage of the a televised conference. to his own mark. crinion announcement was The veteran of more than 50 both he and Sheriff Lester Holley declined to comment on the possible cause of the baffling death. Horrified witnesses to the tragedy were Barbara's father, John telegraphed to newspapers. Brinton, leader of the pro-Rocke Cuban Copilots Request Asylum MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) Two co me, I would return home and take any other post my government might give me." ready made national TV audience afforded by the convention, we should nominate a candidate, any candidate, and use the time to the nomination speech to advise the people of this nation how we feel." trans-Atlantic ferry flights swung around a pylon at Wold-Chamberlain at 1:38 CDT to officially better the record of 3,083 miles set last year by Czechoslovakia's Jire Kunc. Miro Cardona, regarded as a L. King, Homewood insurance feller forces in California, was not available immediately for comment, but it was understood the draft movement would be Pilots Vote To Honor Picket Lines pilots of a Cubana Airlines flight Madrid and Havana agent; a brother, 10-year-old (See RITES, Page 2A) friend of the United States, was the latest in a long list of former Castro supporters to quit. started in at least 19 other states. '3-Vftliiplft Sniflslinn Kills 9 il ATLANTA (AP)-The nation's about 1.000 miles southwest of air ine piIots have voM om.

A I i i seized control of the plane Tuesday and forced the pilot at gunpoint to fly to Miami. Thirty-one passengers and nine crewmen remained aboard the four-engine plane when it landed "it Miami Internaticnal Airport. The copilots, Miguel Acosta a Leslie Nohregas, asked political asylum and were taken to immigration authorities. The plane then left for Havana. Police took a pistol from each Mia whelmingly to honor picket lines Injures 4 Near Phenix City i W'i) Ac tr: PHENIX CITY (SpeciaD-Twojrittman, 31, Phenix City, driver cars and a dump truck collided 0f the second car; and three Ne- ways fliers, a union spokesman said Tuesday night.

Such action could cripple air transportation in the southeast. Capt, R. Brown of the Air ADVERTISER TODAY souin oi nere Tuesday, Killing two persons and injuring four others. Killed in the smashup were of the copilcls. They told the of Pilots Assn.

said union rep- Ray Mitchell Miller, 33, of Columbus, and Nebraska Butts, 43, Cottonton Negro. groes riding in the truck, Leroy Williams, 58; Ben Henry, 47, both of Cottonton, and Mary Lowe, 66, Eufaula. The collision occurred at 4:30 p.m. on Alabama Highway 165 about eight miles south of Phenix City ra Bin. Rrvirw 1R CIa.

A4 S-ln Cnmlrt (A CritMwnrtf SA Kditnrial 4A Loral Radio-TV A Movlft Markrta flhltnarin Sparta a(h-r May will meet early next) jAjweek either here or in Chicago i.jijto determine the exact date pilots iaI would begin refusing to cross1 ficers they took over the plane after a refueling stop in the Azores. Imm gralion Chief Edward P. Ahrens said no passengers were The Highway Patrol reported that Miller's car, traveling at ex CnlnmnUta: i.jmtt AlRap, inrmed or threatened. 1 cessive speed, attempted to pass nriWPict lines. U' EXPLAINS ACTION The public will get three or the dump truck, driven by Butts Miller did not sound his horn, HOUSEWIVES ASSURED: four days warning, Brown said.

the patrol said. The spokesman said the exact vote of the union's 206 directors At the same time, Butts swung his truck out to pass a car in at a. a was not released but that it was ironi ot mm. Miners car Sugar Supply Adequate about 70-1 in favor of the sympathy action. Brown said the union was re smashed into the dump truck which hit the car ahead.

The injured were Edwin David WW YORK (AP)-Housewivcf sorting xo the action only to get shouldn't fear any 6ugar shortage Southern to stop hiring strike breaking pilots, and to "encour from the dispute with the Cuban government, sugar trade expertr age the company to negotiate In good faith with the Air Line Pi lots Assn The strike began June 5 over say, They say there's plenty of sugar. But. some sugar men talk about "dislocations" which could develop if Cuban sugar imports are prohibited. Congress has given Young Men Claim Rear Killed By Oar THETFORD MINES, Que. (APt Five young men are telling how they killed a 470-pound bear with an oar.

They were in a boat on Lake Francois when they spotted what they thought was a log, but discovered to be a bear. They broke an oar across his snout and towed him to shore. American Sugar Refining largest domestic refiner said "sugar supplies are adequate in the United States and the world and we see no shortage whatsoever." The company would not comment on prices. In Washington the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would make no further certifications of Cuban sugar imports until the President acta on the new sugar law. Such certifications are obtained; have been obtained can still enter this country.

The experts say stocks of sugar have been built up in this country; heavy import certifications have been made in the past few weeks; Cuba has shipped a very large part of her 19M quotaand there is a huge supply throughout the world. "With the U.S. price about two cents a pound higher than the world price," one nugar broker commented, "any country which gets the right to sell In the Ameri- a number of issues, including a pilots' demand for pay for some non-flight time. Southern operated President FJsenhower power to MISS UNIVERSE GIRLS IN BOAT PARADE cut Cuba's quota. Sugar men think it might cost more to get sugar from countries fiO scheduled flights throughout the southeastern states before it began.

It is operating only about a dozen now, with replacement pilots hired since the strike TOAUWAYS Alv All RaiPiffh. Iftaml. nall Tfci. a.i.. other than Cuba in view of ship-l prior to shipment.

Cuban sugar Four lovelies of the Miss Universe beauty pageant wave from a boat in a Miami water parade. From left, they are: Miss Iceland, Miss Italy, Miss Finland and Miss Bolivia-AP Wire, photo dur. Phnn am tm unvjlping distances. for which certifications market will do so,.