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itsfg0tttir The Weather NEWS FLASHES Direct From Nwiroom Of AdvtriistNjournal By TtIphoni Dial 265-8244 Montgomery: Partly cloudy and warm Sunday and Monday. High Sunday, 85; low Sunday night, 65. (Details, Map, Page 2A.) And ALABAMA JOURNAL 139th Year-No. 127 Fall Day, Night and Sunday Service By The Associated Preu Montgomery, Ala. Sunday Morning, May 29, 1966 6 Sections 72 Pages PRICE 20c km Buddhist Nun Burns Violent Clash Hits Saigon 1 Death Called Protest To President Johnson SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) A Buddhist nun Lanier Student Honored burned herself to death Sunday in the northern rebel stronghold of Hue.

Her fiery death touched off a violent clash here between 20,000 chanting demonstrators and steel-helmeted troops. in for more turmoil. A pagoda spokesman in Hue Miss Deborah Kathleen Strain of Lanier Hi School has been named one of 121 Presidential Scholars in the United States. William Hubbard Baxter III, said the self-immolation was to The new Buddhist outbursts came in the face of the government's attempt Saturday to dis arm Buddhist opposition with a protest President Johnson's failure to answer letters condemning the military regime of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. It sent huge crowds into Sai Indian Springs School, i r-mingham, was the only other pledge of "solemn celebrations" for Buddha's birthday June 3.

Alabama student to receive the honor. gon streets in the biggest anti- was the first self-immola- -AP Wirephoto CAR, BODY FOUND Two teenage boys discovered this car submerged in ten feet of water in a canal south of Miami Saturday. Investigators found the body of an unidentified man in the driver's seat, and estimated the car had been in the canal possibly two months. Police said it had been impossible to see the vehicle in the muddy canal until recent heavy rains cleared it up. government demonstration tion in the current clash be- Miss Stnin is a senior at La DEBORAH STRAIN Presidential Scholar since the present unrest the government and the its peak nine days ago.

militant Buddhists. It was likely nier and was recently named a National Merit Scholar. She tsuaanisi monies ana nuns, zuu to have serious reoercussions was also awarded a $100 strong, led the crowd from the! among emotional, easily inflam ON IISSWE PAGES scholarship by the Maxwell Officer's Wives Club. Buddhist Institut in a noisy march downtown. Tough Vietnamese marines! prevent it from reaching the She is concert mistress for tiv the Montgomery Youth Symphony, a member of the Na center of the capital.

Other troops hastily set up barbed tional Honor iociety and was the talent winner in the Mont mable Buddhist crowds. Self-immolations by Buddhists monks were a factor that preceded the fall of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in 1963. Cong Beaten Off SAIGON (UPI) -Communist guerrillas Sunday attacked a U.S. Army helicopter field 65 Diamonds, Coins Taken In Scottsboro Robbery SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (UPI) Four bandits, brandishing pistols and carrying a sledgehammer and crowbar, late Friday took an estimated $15,000 in coins and diamonds from a wealthy local couple, police re wire barricades to keep the gomery Junior Miss Contest, -AP Wireptioto Julia A.

Lewis SAVED THE CANARY Mrs. demonstrators away from government building and key Miss Strain is the daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Bailey T.

Strain, 2541 Carter Hill Road, walks away shoeless from the smouldering ruins of her home at the edge of Santa Cruz, after a fire leveled the two-story structure. Mrs. Lewis saved only the clothes she was wearing and her pet canary. She plans lo enter Birmingham- Amusements 11B Business 6C Classified 8C-15C Crossword 15A Editorial 4A-5A Faces In The News 5C Feature Page 5C Horoscope 8A Jumble 12A Jumble 12A Obituaries 2A Society 1D-12D Sports 1B-6B Teen Topics 8B TV Logs 10B Weather Map 2A Columnists: Davidson, Gat lagher, Grandma, Ingram, Martin, Stevenson, Tully, White 4A-5A American installations. The marines smashed rifle butts into the demonstrators as they tried to flee.

At Saigon's pharmacy school. Southern College this fall and miles southwest of Saigon, with study music and dramatics. ported Saturday. mortars and recoilless rifles. A a diamond bracelet and watch helicopter gunship and other from my jewelry box." She and her parents will go to Washington, D.C.

June 7 to another hotbed of Buddhist agi-i American forces drove the tation, 50 students were on sue said the men, wearing plastic masks, tied her up as Police Chief J. E. Swaim said no suspects had been apprehended in the break-in at the home of retired real estate executive John Cargile. attackers off. receive an award which will be presented by President Lyndon hunger strike to back demands for the ouster ot the military well as her husband and a cous' in, Mrs.

Gertrude Wilson. Johnson. Most Of Schools Comply, Poll Says regime. "They heard I had a heart Mrs. Cargile said moments af- On Saturday, a young South Korean lieutenant laid a trap for the Viet Cong and killed 16 of them at a bridge on this city's outskirts.

American and allied troops beat off a series of ter receiving a telephone caliattacK recently and let me sit It appeared that despite its first round victory against Buddhist dissidence, the regime inquiring about her husband om mey iorcea my nus band and my cousin to lie on An unofficial poll, taken by a state educator Thurs- the floor, she said. of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was surprise Viet Cong attacks elsewhere near Special Forces indicates that 70 of 93 Alabama school districts have filed Form 441-B with the Department of Health, Cuba Rejects U.S. Warning On Intrusion camps. rare coin collection a teen-age youth knocked on the front door and asked if he could have some coins appraised. "At that instant three masked men with guns pushed their way inside," she said.

"They went into our bedroom and took bducation and Welfare. Debbie Sobs For Mother, From 441-B is the controver ulty desegregation. Compliance forms must be signed, sent in and accepted by the Department sial compliance form by which a school district signifies that it intends to abide by the HEW "guidelines" on school desegre of Health, Education and Wel fare. Failure to comply could Jl 1' WASHINGTON (AP) Cuba mean a cutoff of federal funds gation. Finally Released Unharmed VANCOUVER, B.C.

(AP) -I Then Stankovich stood up, Frightened 4-year-old Debbie'closed his eyes and plunged the Tann sobbed for her mother as! knife into his stomach. rejected Saturday a United The state educator, who asked The Star said that "pressures from Montgomery" are being felt by many school officials who that his name not be used, said States warning to the Castro regime of grave consequences if Holiday Deaths that only 93 of Alabama's 119 Cuban soldiers continued to in have sent in their compliance school districts had been asked, a man held a hunting knife to her stomach and shouted inco trude on the U.S. Navy's sprawling base at Guantanamo forms. The newspaper said that herently to police and about to file the forms. The other 26 districts are under court orders to desegregate their facilities, or are not dual school systems.

Bay. 000 spectators in a downtown Vancouver General Hospital officials said he was in fair condition late Saturday. He was held under police guard but no charges have been filed against him. I t' The United States protest, "incidents have ranged from misinformation on the number sent Friday, was returned by "MM residential section Friday night. If III If Occasionally, the terrified if J-J t-lf child looked nn at hpr rantnr He said that school officials of systems to compliance to in the Czechoslovakian Embassy timidation regarding educa in Washington, which handles tion funds." and pleaded: "I have to go home and go to bed now, I have Cuban affairs in this country, Also reported in fair condition fc with stab wounds were Thedor and school board members in various cities and counties are being led to believe that only a few school districts have submitted the compliance forms The U.S.

protest was filed Newsman McCaa, who held to go to the bathroom." But Vojislav Stankovich, a 41- through diplomatic channels to -AP Wlrenhot aczor ana his 7-year-old son, Teddy. i VIRGINIA ANN FERNON phone interview with an Office of Education spokesman in Havana following two incidents at the base on the southeast year-old Yugoslav immigrant, Stankovich started the night's and that his poll was taken to determine just how many districts had complied. United Press International The nation's motorists went on an orgy of bloodletting Saturday which sent Memorial holiday traffic fatalities soaring toward the 200 mark. The death toll was running nearly 50 per cent ahead of the record 1965 Memorial weekend. Washington, said that 56 dis coast of Cuba.

paid no attention. After two hours of using the terrifying events about 8 p.m. uihnit ho rifahhnH TorlHw VaP7nr tricts had indicated compliance The United States said Cubans child as a shield Stankovich Reports of intimidation and on Monday and that a spot entered the base last Saturday anH ctahhnl him pressure to prod school officials warned everybody to get back. check on Thursday shows that and again Monday. A Cuban H'lU HIMWUVU 41 1 ft ft a TpHHv's fathpr wrestled with mwmmam into withdrawing their compli He pushed the girl away from this number may now be 70 or sentry, identified as Luis Ram him unharmed and a citv detec- ance forms have been circulat more, irez Lopez, was shot Saturday Stankovich and then fell wiphot wounded to the ground, with TIME OF TERROR Battered Body Found I Police Arrest 14-Year-Oldl In Slaying The National Safety Council tive raced in and scooped her up after he had entered truatana- This figure, along with the had estimated in advance mat his arms.

Teddy in his arms. Lasted 2 Hours (Please See SCHOOLS, P. 2A) mo, U.S. officials said. ing for the past two days but State School Superintendent Austin R.

Meadows denied his offices had applied any such from 460 to 540 persons wiuld die in auto accidents during the holiday weekend. Last year's pressure. Memorial Day toll was 490, a "We sent local school boards record for a three-day mem a copy of the Resolution by the State Board of Education can Twenty-Four Negro Office-Seekers To Be In Elections This Tuesday BEAUMONT, Tex. (AP) A orial holiday. By midnight United Press In ing for resistance," Dr.

Mead policeman, probing a dusty ows said. "You can call that ternational had counted at least storehouse, found the batterej Whaley-Grice Run-Off Holds Area Spotlight By JOHN WILLIAMS Assistant City Editor Local contests in Tuesday's primary runoff elec pressuring if you want to but I don't think it is." body of 8-year-old Virginia Ann Fernon Saturday. Meadows' letter to all school son, A 5-8, 195-pound ex-para Shortly thereafter officers superintendents was dated May By JAMES FELDER United Press International trooper is going after the 24. and asked them to wunaraw arrested a 14-year-old playmate of the dead girl. More than 100 Negroes sought Democratic Party their compliance forms and to sheriff's nomination against Harvey Sadler.

Sadler was appointed Macon "The case is closed," said 171 persons dead in traffic since the holiday began. The breakdown: Traffic 171 Drownings 16 Miscellaneous 16 Total 203 Pennsylvania led the nation In traffic with 12. New York had 11, followed by California and Illinois with 10 Missouri had recorded eight! report to him by May 30. nominations to Alabama public office in the May 3 primary three out of four failed. tions will center primarily around races for sheriff, tax assessor, tax collector and county commission The letter said, part: County sheriff two years ago police Lt.

W. A. Robbins not long after the boy appeared with his father at the police "In accordance with Section Tuesday, the party runoff, 24 Negroes are by Gov. George C. Wallace.

He posts running for nominations to offices ranging from the Republican incumbent William The nine-county 2nd Congres is seeking his first elective term. 262 of the Constitution of Alabama that places the supervision of public schools under that slate superintendent of educa-. sional District, however, will fo legislature to membership on county school boards. L. Dickinson in the Nov.

8 general election. Officers declined to identify Amerson spent eight years in In addition, two Negroes are entered in a federal court- cus its attention on the congressional battle between Robert F. traffic fatalities. the youth Lecause of his age. ordered primary in Bullock County against white in tion.

I am requesting that no The Body was discovered by uniform, was in the 82nd Airborne Division in the Korean conflict. He is working on his cMnprintendent or board of edu-i(Bob) Whaley, Montgomery Races for sheriff dominate most of the local runoff elections in the counties, although each will participate also in the cumbents on the county commission Detective D. R. Mictham who sales executive and former An cation sign any such agreement One Negro is running for the saw the girl's red bicycle on the degree in electronics at Tuske-, gee. (as 441-B) and that if signed tne state Senate, seven for the lawn of a house across the three state runoff races for au House, four for county sheriff, street from the storehouse.

boards withdraw such agree-; ment. ditor, treasurer and agriculture He said he asked voters- and 12 for other county offices. Stale's Toll Stands At 5 Mitcham entered the store commissioner. further requesting a re The Negro given the great of the Negro hopefuls that many who voted in the primary will not vote Tuesday leaving the door open to a solid show of white voters. In Macon County, where Gray maintains one of his two law offices the other is in white and Negro to cast their ballots for the man most quali dalusia resident, and Mary Grice of Bay Minette, former school teacher who worked a year in the federal poverty program.

Miss Grice led Whaley by some 2,000 votes in the primary. The third primary candidate for the 2nd District nomination, Franklin James of Montgom In Bullock County, voters also est chance for success in the port from you on any action house and found the little girl's body wedged between a wall and stored articles in a hallwaj will eo to the polls in a special taken by your board on the fied. He pointed to his military By United Press International matter. legislative races is Fred Gray, a 35-year-old bespectled attorney who narrowly missed win Preliminary examination indi Democratic primary ordered by a federal court to nominate two candidates for the County Com record in which he completed several courses in crime detection and police work before his "Since county boards of edu cated she had been killed with a Alabama's death toll during the long Memorial Day holiday Montgomery Lucius D. Amer- cation under the law are re ning the nomination in the pri blow from a blunt instrument td the head, authorities said.

She weekend aood at five Saturday ery, received mission. discharge as a sergeant first quired to meet the last Friday mary. 18,907 with all fatalities occurring in class. Active in civil rights court ac in May and city boards are re had not been raped, they addei compared with The Bullock contest will pit white incumbent commissioners Roy Graham (District 4) and Four men are seeking House tion, Gray is seeking nomination to the 31st district which quired to have a meeting during the month, I am requesting a Lt. Robbins said, "the boy Carnival Ride Tips SEABROOK, N.H.

(AP) A traffic mishaps. Among the victims were: John Melvin Aeyers of Cull seats from Jefferson County, gave us a statement in the pres George E. Blue (District 2) includes Gov. George C. Wal the state's most populous with Grice and 32,573 for Whaley.

Thei report from you to reach this office at least by Monday, May 30. man and Clifford H. Pope, 62, lace's home county of Barbour. Birmingham. ence of his father," but "there's some question if the boy will against Negro opponents Alonzo Ellis and Ben McGhee respec dist net com- jf 5 The district also includes Bul The Anniston Star carried a Arthur Shores, a Birming give a motive." counties of Vinemont, who were killed Saturday in a two-car accident at Vinemont: Jerry Burns Mor tively.

prises story Friday, written by John swing ride at a carnival tipped over Saturday night and injured a number of persons, many of them children. First reports said as many as 25 were taken to hospitals. ham attorney, has been the target of numerous bombings. In Bullock County runoff McCaa, stating that a majority lock and Macon Counties. Gray had a majority vote late into the night of the primary, but was forced into a runoff with He would not elaborate.

Virginia was last seen at 6:36 L. S. Gaillard president of Alabama's 119 school districts have said they will com gan, 19, of Brewton, who was killed and another man injured when the automobile in which races, incumbent Sheriff C. M. Blue Jr.

"will face Negro contender Henry Oscar Williams, of a construction firm, wants of Montgomery, Lowndes, Butler, Pike, Conecuh, Escambia, Covington and Bald p.m. Friday riding her Dicycie. When her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Bill Neville Jr. by an absentee Exeter Hospital received four to raise the standard of living they were passengers went out John A.

Fernon, could not find lor the underprivileged. box which contained heavy support for his opponents. of the injured and Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, while incumbent Tax Assessor Thomas L. Kilgore will meet WILLIAMS Dr. James T.

Montgomery, ot control and slammed into a tree after striking a mailbox ply with the guidelines "despite defiant gestures by the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor." The guidelines call for upgraded classroom and fac- With the hotly contested gu said four persons were admitted Negro opponent Rufus Huffman an assistant professor of medi win. The Democratic nominee for her, they gave police a missing persons report. Officers combed the neighborhood most of th night. i4. bernatorial race over, there and utility pole in Brewton and "quite a few others were In nine area counties, there cine at the University of Ala- was apprehension on the part seen." Their condition could not the congressional post will face (Please see RUN-OFF, P.

6A) (Please See CONGRESS, P. 3A).