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The Weather Montgomery: Mostly cloudy and warm through Monday night ith showers and thundershowers late Monday afternoon and night. Predicted high 72, low 52. Sunday's high 67, low 45. (Details, Weather Map, Page 2A.) elite NEWS FLASHES Direct From Ntwsroom Of Advertiser-Journal By Telephone Dial AM 5-8246 133rd Year-No. 283 i ail UaJ- NifM aad Sanda? ti.r.' By Th artatfd Pr Montuomerv, Monday IMoriihifr, November 28, 1960 26 Page Price 5 Cents CHANCES SLIM OF CORRALLING ANY CONVERTS TO CAUSE- averick Electors Lack Numbers To Block Jack Ipmm Georgia's electors are ATLANTA.

Ga. (AP)-An Asso-i un-jKennedy got 407,330 votes, 176.000 Southern electors and listen to The more than Nixon. A Males rights what they have to say if such law. they could get 32 more from other Southern states to join them, they could throw the election into the pledged under state Press survey of Southern states shows no indication of a names of neither ernor, dealt the hopes of revolt adherents a major blow when he announced the day before the elec-j tion that Georgia's 12 electors would go all the way with Ken- Kennedy nor campaign for unplndsed electors! should develop. "But I still think the ballot.

Thc'was rewarded by 169.572 votes.jl'd vote for Kennedy," he added. the Nixon gave rise to the speculation and possibilities. Kennedy needs 269 votes in the Electoral College. Latest returns showed his electoral count holding at 300. This included 12 from Georgia, 10 from Louisiana, 8 Nixon appeared on roalition of dissatisfied Democrat mittee listed both on the ballot.) permissible under state law.

Alabama elected five electors! pledged to the party nominee and, six independents who can vote for anyone they choose. And they won't say who that choice will be. One of the unpledged group, Frank Mizell of Montgomery, Atlanta Constitution reached 10 of, Frank B. L'uis, one of Hie regulai rhe electors were chosen a House of Representatives. More than 32 legally have an unpledged status.

But the survey ic electors with sufficient strength balk the election of John F. the 12 in a poll afler the election. Democratic electors and Kennedy- Democrats. The parly label ap-AU were for Kennedy. Vandiver'sJohnson campaign chief in the pears on the ticket even though office told The Associated Press! state, said all 10 are for Kennedy, names of presidential and vice- Vandiver heads the elector, Kennedy as president in the.

disclosed sentiment for Kennedy or outright commitments in his group. He, as titular head of the' nnrtv in rm cfnrp hnnHnirkwi Ihp from Arkansas, 14 from North! Carolina, 8 in South Carolina and 5 who won in Alabama on a behalf throughout the South. Electoral College. The hard core of resistance toi Kennedy moving into the White Unite. Hoe In Ticciceinni an1 again late last week that Georgia; Polled last week, 8 of the 10 presidential candidates do not.

will give unanimous support to the' answered to that effect. jllie elector candidates were nominee. I ARKANSAS The eight electors chosen by the Stale Democratic sized up their objective as the! The independent electors Mississippi and Alabama talk otner 11 through tne Mate Executive Committee he m1t. -1 A'tnA ft hope of gaining states rights, local self-government and "preser 1 1 i i Hie situation in the other stales: iare not committed by law to hopefully of Georgia, Louisiana, jiuiuiuis. lam ui a uuib uicu aiici SOUTH CAROLINA-Gov.

Er vation of Southern tradition." LOUISIANA A new move ifor Kennedy. One eleclor declined afoot to swine the state's 10 elec-icommenl, seven said they arcii nest F. Hollings spearheaded th campaign for Kennedy and South pledged basis. The Mississippi electors have not announced whom they will support but indicated it would be a Southern Democrat. They feel no obligation to anyone.

The unpledged group won over a loyalist slate after the state party com ruauama. mere is no indication that he will get any of Mississippi's eight electoral votes or six of the 11 in Alabama. Those 14 men ran in the Nov. 8 general election as unpledged Mizell said he feels morally bound to stick by a pre-election pledge to withhold his vote from tors away from Kennedy. Ten going to vote Dcmocrntc, Only state senators announced plans for; one.

Mayor Ben Butler of Osceoln, Arkansas and some other state joining in an Electoral College bolt with the hope of providing a possible bargaining lever on civil rights. Ernest Vandiver, Georgia's gov tne governor made nis siaiemem. Arkansas and Louisiana electors! haven't shown any enthusiasm for; a walkout. The closeness of the race between Kennedy and Richard M. Carolina went Democratic by a narrow margin.

The eigh'. electors a legislative resolution callinc; on dualities (his in anv wav. lie said the party nominee if he or the (See ELECTORS. Page 2A) the croup to withhold support, he would attend a meeting of platform is hostile to the South elector candidates and won. If ii I 4 Quizzed In Slaying Of Minister Louisiana Solon Seeks Demo Bolt I1:" 3F If I 4- BATON ROUGE, La.

(AP)-A surprise resolution to knock out the election of Louisiana's 10 presidential electors was introduced in the House of representatives Sunday night. Rep. Parey Branton, the author, w. 1 said if he is successful, the legis- lature could enact laws calling fori MMtaJUjaiBAAtAjMrf tu the naming of a slate of 10 un- iriTTniri tit s-r ini rrii at ti nr i mr if rurinmnn pledged electors COLUMBUS, Ga. (Special) -Police here are questioning four youths in connection with knife slaying of the Rev.

J. P. May, a Methodist mislster from Opelika, Ala. Police Chief W. F.

Tuggle sakl no charges have been filed but that questioning has been productive. He declined to identify thosa questioned. However, ho did say their ages ranged from 17 to 21. May's body was found in a wooded area near here Saturday by two boys. Police said his body apparently had been dragged about 70 yards into the woods from a spot where a car stopped on a road.

NO STRUGGLE Officers said there was no indication of any struggle by May. There were no bruises on i (shown at right) was founder and pastor of the church, which has a new building (center) under construction. Four people are being questioned in the slaying of the minister. May, pastor of the church. May's slashed body was found in Columbus, Saturday.

The services were led by the Rev. Si Mathison, pastor of Opelika's First Methodist. May The group shown here (in left photo) is leaving a temporary building which houses the Wesley Memorial Church at Opelika after memorial services for the Rev. Julian P. STARTLING CONTRAST Branton's resolution was introduced after Sen.

Howard Jones delayed until Monday introduction of his resolution calling for the withholding of the state's electoral votes from President-elect John F. Kennedy. Jones said he decided to withhold his resolution to await legislative action Monday on the Bran-ton resolution. He said that if Branton's move fails, he might be inclined to introduce his. SUSPEND LAWS Branton told newsmen his plan Mix Issue Flares Again Wildly Cheering Congo Following Week Of Calm body but his left hand was cut, apparently after he grabbed the murder weapon.

There were 29 stab wounds on his body and his Crowd Greets Kasa vubn called for suspending the state laws setting up the elector ma ordenplcte at the end of the first week integration NEW ORLEANS (AP) After.that Wright's a week of calm, the public school be suspended. chinery. If adopted, it would have of integration here, throat was slit. The young pastor's white 0 Buick was found abandoned about midnight Saturday in a boarding house area of Columbus by city the effect of blocking the official These included India's Rajcsh-I LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo' On Nov. 18, only three Negrol integration question flares again The Orleans Parrish school BOMB SVSPECT NABBED liV iV.Y.

NEW YORK (AP) A watchman who is a fugitive from a mental institution was in police hands Sunday night, described by detectives as "a red hot suspect," in the city's rash of holiday bombings. Detectives said the man admitted he occasionally stole explosives from construction jobs, and that he was in the vicinity of all the recent blasts except the last one. They identified htm as Walter Long, 29, recently of Staten Island but lately a vagrant. One person has been killed and 59 injured in five bombings in the city. Four were on Sundays and the fifth on Columbus Day.

war Dayal, head of the U. N. mis girls were in McDonough No. 19 here Monday with all eyes on board asked it after violence three-judge federal panel consid- erupted through the city two sion, and Indian Brig. Indarjit classrooms and a few white pu (AP) President Joseph Kasavubu returned in triumph to his capital Sunday, wildly cheered by more than 100,000 Congolese.

promulgation scheduled for Monday afternoon of the Nov. 8 election returns. Both houses unanimously adopted House concurrent resolutions detectives. There were no signs of blood Inside the car. The pils and one Negro girl attended, ering whether to suspend the mix weeks ago when four Negro girls Rikhye, chief military adviser, both noticeably absent from order.

attended first grade clases in Roar after roar rose from the the group that saw Kasavubu off William Frantz classes. Normally the schools have an attendance of about 1,000. Meanwhile, the legislature metitwo formerly all-white schools, keys were missing and the trunk was locked. CAR SEEN asking the state's Congressional Nov. 6.

Although the weeklong school crowd lining the two-lane highway from Ndjili Airport into the city delegation to sponsor a Constitu Mobutu and Rikhye, whose snl- Most of the white students at holiday, produced by two seg regated statewide teachers' coa tional amendment settling federal dicrs fought a violent battle as the president drove by in his Baton Rouge Sunday night, returning to its 30-day special session called to work on new maneuvers in the federal state dispute over, race mixing in schools. control over public schools and open car, accompanied by Foreign around the Ghana Embassy resi the schools apparently shifted to! other classes. Some registered in neighboring St. Bernard Parish ventions and Thanksgiving, have asking Congress directly to call a Minister Justin Bomboko. ended, pupil attendance at two dence last Monday, came face to face for an instant but avoided schools is expected to be nearly where Schools Supt.

Joseph Da Constitutional Convention on the same issue. Pride and joy at the seating of the Kasavubu delegation by the each other's eyes. The Drime decision awaited zero. vies Jr. said there was room for One of the officers working on the case said that the car was seen at a drive-in restaurant Friday night.

A leather key holder containing what appeared to be several door keys and two one dollar bills and some coins were found tucked above the sun visor in the car. Memorial services were held Sunday morning in the temporary The House and Senate Kasavubu and Bomboko drove U. N. General Assembly in New about 500. The Dad's Club of the special federal court, Parents of white students at briefly before adjourning until York triggered the greatest dem into the city escorted by two ar Frantz School said it had hired which includes U.S.

Dist. schools set up a boycott of! onstration of popular enthusiasm mored cars, gendarmerie jeeps J. Skelly Wright, is on a request classes that was virtually com 22 retired teachers for private, Texas GOP with sirens screaming, and hun segregated classes to start as in the capital since the independ ence celebrations last June. IN CONTRAST dreds of private cars decorated soon as buildings are acquired FIRES CLAIM MANY Monday. FLOOR FIGHT Jones claimed to have enough votes for his resolution when it is introduced but there were indications a floor fight would develop with flowers and branches.

DISCLOSE NAMES church building of the Wesley The president stood and waved Methodist Church in Emile Wagner the only To Challenge It was a startling contrast to Kasavubu's departure for New York earlier this month, when as his car passed through the member of the five-man Orleans whea the resolution reaches the jubilant crowds. Parish school board who refused only Western diplomats and a UbKI'LY MUVEI to accept integrated schools, filed Senate floor. House opposition also was expected. Rep. Robert Angelle, a Vote Result Opelika, where May had been pastor.

The Rev. Si Mathison, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Opelika, presided at the service. The Rev. J. Miller, Montgomery district superintendent, (See SLAYING, Page 2A) It was apparent that Kasavubu was deeply moved by his joyous reception, but he made no Homeward Rush Swells Holiday Traffic Deaths handful of Congolese came to see him off at the Congo River ferry.

Army leader Col. Joseph Mobutu, who had expressed some ir former House speaker, said he suit Friday to force Parish Supt. James Redmond to disclose names of all pupils of the two schools. "It's not the names of the four Negroes that I want," said Wag- would speak against the resolu AUSTIN (API-Texas Republi- rnn onnniinpprt Rimdav thev will tion which he described as the ritation at the president's decision Diplomats said the presence of Dayal and Rikhye at the airporti 'most ridiculous thing I've ever challenge officially the results ew xorn. wcicomec mm thfl Vnv fllprtinn Dack in sty'c Mobutu brought his could be a turning point in the By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ivitation to fast driving-covered! 't iho n.

f. heard of since I've been here and I've been here 26 years." Some veteran lawmakers pre The traffic death toll rose sharp-much of the nation. Rain or light i .1 .1 1 dren in those schools so I can dicted it would never get off the of the four-day Thanksgiving dangers of motoring. Fog drifted! in school Their decision to take the first commando battalion and the armyllong-strained relationship between step in contesting the Democrats' iband ,0 the airport and United Nations and Mobutu's victory followed unsuccessful at- himself in the front rank of scores pro-Western regime, tempts last week to get the state of dignitaries who greeted the Although Mobutu and Kasavubu attorney general and the Texas' President as stepped from thejdo not see eye to eye on oil mat-tri: r.nplBelgian jet plane that brought himiters, the president has given Mo- for their education ground. But state sovereignty ad (See LOUISIANA, Page 2A) weekend.

Hearing on his suit is sched Deaths numbered 417 in traffic, 46 in fires, and 107 in other types uled Tuesday in State Civil Dis trict Court. Jack Battles Wiggly Tot During Mass WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect John F. Kennedy walked to church with his nhr. tt.nt inn nm vntPS rut in from Paris. butu his full support in suspending, into Chicago and other sections of the Midwest.

The National Safety Council, whose records are the usual measuring stick for holiday weekend accidents, made no official Lana Has New Hubby, Traffic 417 Texas were not counted. I tJ l.ZZ LZL Businessman Fred May Chairman Thau wue general a uimuun 1 11411 fc jvci iiim-iii vi iuuc; State GOP Fires 46 Miscellaneous 107 commander in chief of the Congo Incn armv Mnhiitn cnlnffiH cmarK Hutcheson said after a conference graduate commissioners, uuyai and Rikhye have been pressing SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)-i estimate for the Thanksgiving! here Sunday that the party's law Bishop Asks Film Boycott Iy and shook hands with the presi- for recall of Parliament, which Total Actress Lana Turner and rancher-businessman Fred May were mar weekend because traffic, the council said, is not as heavy as on 570 yer, Hardy Hollers of Austin, would ask Monday for a definite daughter Caroline on her third other major holidays during the dent, then led him down the linejhas a strong majority in favor of of foreign diplomats and United'dcposed, Communist-kaning, Pre-Nations officials. Imier Patrice Lumumba. of accidents for an over-all total ried Sunday in a surprise ceremony at a Santa Monica Hotel." Only a few friends attended the year.

The safety group did esti time and place to argue the appeal Tuesday. birthday Sunday. He carried her rag doll on the walk and found mate that 400 persons could die of 570. Fatalities on streets and highways hit a clip of more than five Der hour durin? thfl 1at pvuninr By Catholics ceremony in the Miramar Hotel "What is needed is for all votes that were thrown out to be judged The marriage was Miss Turner's alike," Hutcheson said. "When BIRMINGHAM (AP) Ala that is done, the peoples of Texas fifth and May's second.

Spokes-and the toll shot past the 400 men listed Miss Turner's age as mark. 39 and May's as 43. I Fair, dry weather-often an in- bama Catholics have been urged; not to attend movies during Ad can be satisfied with the results And only when that is done will on the highways during a four-day weekend at this time of year. The toll was running about even with the total during an Associated Press Survey covering the 102 hours between 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.

9, and midnight Sunday, Nov. 13. During that period The AP counted 433 traffic deaths, 69 fire deaths and 144 in other accidents for a total of 646. ventthe four-week season preceding Christmas. we know who carried Texas.

'ERRATIC PRACTICES' Archibishop T. J. Toolen of the Mobile Birmingham DioceseJ Hutcheson and other top Texas RcDublicans have claimed that Donald Richberg, New Deal Architect, Dies In Virginia made the appeal in an open let-, election judges followed inconsist ter on the front page of the cur rent issue of the Catholic Week. ent and erratic practices in judging whether paper ballots were ti l.Vf During the 1959 Thanksgiving1 weekend there were 445 traffic Bishop Toolen said the movies CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) measures of the 1930s, died Sun.

marked legally or illegally. "have gone from bad to worse" Donald R. Richberg, lawyer day. He was 79 Last Friday, the State Election Board said it had no authority to Richberg's wife found him dead and author who played a leading role in shaping some of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and that advertising used to promote them "is most disgraceful and immodest." SILENCE BEST i at their home shortly after he go behind voting results reported deaths.

70 fire deaths and 135 ir miscellaneous accidents for a total of 650. The record number of deaths for a four-day holiday period is 884 over Christmas 1956. Traffic complained of not feeling well. by each county. The board offi The cause of death was not deter cially declared the Democrats' 24 his hands much fuller when they reached the church.

A crowd of about 200 well-wishers some calling, "Happy birthday, Caroline!" tagged Related Story, Page 5A along on the three-block stroll in warm, sunny weather. Like any other father with an extremely lively youngster, Kennedy had a full-time job managing the little girl during the Mass at Holy Trinity church in Georgetown. Pretty as a picture in a pink bennet, matching coat, pale blue dress and white knitted leggings, blonde Caroline wasn't still a minute during the 45-minute service. She stretched out on the kneeling bench. She sprawled in the pew and looked at her picture prayer book.

HARASSED FATHER She climbed over a divider in the pew and parked herself next to a teen-age girl. She smilingly declined the offer of a nun to spend some time with her so Kennedy could pay attention to the Mass. At one point, the harassed young father had to make his way to the other half of the pew and Cecil McGIohon, Birmingham mined immediately. lexas electors wcic min vj accidents that weekend killed 707. manager of the Wilby Kincey theater chain, which operates two A Chicago lawyer early in his I 43,233 votes.

Hutcheson said Sunday the 1 theaters here, said "we some career, he became an expert in railway and labor problems. He was a co-author of the Railway board which certified the returns automatically becomes the state's times think it best to say nothing about such matters." Two Montgomery theater man i i Holiday Fatalities Climb To 8 In State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least eight persons died in 1 Labor Act passed by Congress in 1926. Richberg also was a co-author of the National Industrial Recov agers declined comment Sunday. ft a Cecil Brown, general manager! board of canvassers in case of an election contest. "What we are doing now is giving this board a chance to handle the matter, which includes our Insistence on a statewide recount," of Alabama Theaters said, ery Act of the depression days of Alabama accidents during the hol I don have any comment to iday weekend which began at 6 make on the bishoD's state he said.

p.m. Wednesday and ended at ment." "It is their duty to hear, to try A. B. Covey, Empire Theater midnight Sunday. Highway mishaps accounted for six of the and to determine fairly any con manager, said it was "probably test.

We have asked previously I jf -i LA deaths. The Highway Patrol said Eula best that refrain from comment on this matter." 1932. Later he was general counsel and board chairman of the NRA set up under the act by Roosevelt, a job he gave up in 1935 to practice law in Washington. The NRA had been declared unconstitutional by the U. S.

Supreme Court. Richberg's major clients in recent years have included Ameri for investigation. Now we are con testing." The bishop's letter said: "There are so many things we tannon, ot Anniston, was killed when another car struck the rear of the car she was driving Sunday on Alabama pluck Caroline back where she be- Innrrnrl Zha anf nn hla Inn iifitn could make this offering for But ADVERTISER TODAY GREAT TO BE 3 Three-year-old Caroline Kennedy leads the way as her father. President-elect John Kennedy, and secret service men follow after church services in Washington. It was Caroline's birthday and in background are also some of the well wishers who called "Happy Birthday" to her AP I would put first the peace of the world peace in the hearts and Highway 21 about two and one half miles south of Piedmont can Natural Gas and Anaconda souls of all men throughout the Copper.

DONALD R. RKIIBEKU Taken By Death Util DDI Wll ,1 UUI lllfi the remainder of the service. But she never once stopped squirming and smiling. Through it all, the 43-year-old president-elect kept his compo sure, although at times it apparently was strained a bit. world, peace in the hearts and of this God-given land of America.

HA KA 3A As board chairman of NRA dur-! 'n Calhoun County. Mrs, Stella Stewart, 41, a civilian employe at Brooklcy Air t.rdl Ada Motrin Obituaries Soorli 1I-1TA A A A 14A But. R'tlrw CUM. Adi Comlrt fraftiwcrd Kdltorlat Firm P'f "I ask you to make this sacri 11-ha IA TV Up hishwujr itk make you fumf ing the depression, Richberg sue nd ium? sit tw; nd rei.x ceeded the fiery. Gen.

Hwh John- Tr.ilw.yi bi. Dallns ft fUlpifh-Thru wrvlit. rh. AM 4 53J. son.

Force 'Base, died Sunday of in- fice that God mav hless all of Wrulhtr Mas 1A us." (See ACCIDENTS, Page 2A) CDlnmnlita: Davldon. Janti, Tucker 4A..

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