RTIES HAGGLE, BILLS WAIT L Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom ~a ii4 SHOWERS Showers and thundershowers ending tonight. HIgh-76 Low-CO See age '2 !No.368 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1960 FIVE CENTS FOUR ilitary Force Aptures Laos Katanga To Admit UN Troops Pro-Western PremierSht' Os From Main Provinces by Troops 3AIGFIN, Viet Nam, (P)-An army group seized military and power yesterday in Vientiane, capital of Laos, asked all foreign s to leave, and proclaimed a neutral foreign policy for the tom. ieported cut off 100 miles away in Luang Prabang was pro- ern Prenier Tiao Samsonith and his government of this tiny try that has lived largely on the bounty of the United States. While the extent of the coup was in doubt, diplomatic advices no doubt that the rebels were in firm control of Vientiane, the nistrative capital, as distinct from Luang Prabang, the royal al 100 miles to the north. Lumumba . Threatens Invasio 'he diplomatic reports said ARMAMENT: ushchev *1 naV VIt11 sCOW V (P)-Premier Nikita irushchev said yesterday he I like to represent the Soviet a at the United Nations Gen- Assembly session opening in York on Sept. 20. said he would consider it a honor to be there for discus- of the disarmament question hat the Soviet government no yet discussed the compo- of its delegation. Khrushchev decided to attend ession, he would be in the d States at the height of the Ican presidential election aign also would be in a position :cept invitations readily to American countries, includ- [oscow-leaning Cuba. rushchev's statements were shed in the form of an inter- with Pravda, central news- t of the Soviet Communist rushchev recalled the recent t proposal that the heads of nment of all 82 members of IN attend the session to dis- disarmament at a universal at meeting. ushchev, whose remarks were buted in advance of publica- n Pravda by Tass, the official t news agency, said the Soviet nament proposal stemmed dtly from the alarming situa- which has developed now, gh the fault of the United s and other western powers, ding talks on the question of nament." e Soviet chief said the work e London subcommittee on nament showed "the United 0 does not want to reach ment on disarmament." erefore he added, the Soviet u had reached the conclusion negotiations in the London mmittee are fruitless. aking of the work of the ,tioa disarmament commis- Khrushchev said the Soviet nment had stood for com- destruction of arms and atlon of armed forces under iational control. But, he ry soon it became clear the 4 States and its allies did vant disarmament thisstime, ', and hindered the adoption be committee of decisions i would conform to the reso- i of the General Assembly." resolution he referred to was voicing support in principle hrushchev's bombshell of last mber during his United s visit. netS lendcSte ternational uterence American Friends Service aittee is sponsoring an inter- aal seminar to study social ct and war, August 23-Sept. Kalamazoo. seminar, which is open to graduates and graduates, American and foreign. Its se is to study world issues the guidance of visiting lists college professors who mown to be experts in the Vientiane was normal except for military road blocks after the reb- early morning darkness with a burst of gunfire that killed two els staged their coup d'etat in the persons. Leader Shot Col. Sounthone Patammavong, commander in chief of the United States and French trained armed forces, was reported shot twice by bazookas. But diplomatic reports did not say whether his wounds were fatal. A committee of the revolution- aries said Laos will seek "friendly relations and a good neighbor pol- icy with all countries who are so desirous ... and will receive eco- nomic assistance from all coun- tries without any reservation." The mention of foreign troops was directed at a small party of French and United States mili- tary advisers training the 30,000- man Laotian army to resist Com- munist Pathet Lao rebels inside the tiny Buddhist nation. United States military advisers total 24. There are 753 Americans in Laos-economic as well as mil- itary aid group members, embassy personnel, dependents and private citizens. The United States State Department said 261 of them are connected with the military aid program. Rebel broadcasts from Vien- tianne urged Americans and other foreigners to remain calm and to go about their work. A communi- que said all foreign property would be respected. Government officials were told to remain at their jobs and obey the revolutionary committee or face severe punishment. A curfew from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. was ordered in Vientiane. One communique proclaimed: "The military coup is aimed at safeguarding and consolidating the nation, its race, religion, throne and constitution." The committee said that in for- eign policy, the rebel regime will "respect the pact of the UN and neutrality" - a reference.to Laos' proclamation of neutrality on a visit last year by UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskold. It was the second uprising by the military in Laos. Last Decem- ber Phoumi himself headed an abortive coup d'etat that was ov- erruled by King Sisavang Vathana. Antazrctic Pact Approval Hits Senate Delay WASHINGTON OMr' - Stepped- up opposition raised some doubt as to ratification of the 12-nation Antarctc Treaty as the Senate last night put off a vote until today. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D- Tex.), the Senate Majority Lead- er, obtained unanimous consent for a limitation of debate to four hours today. The first vote will come on a motion by Sen. Clair Engle (D- Cal.) to defer any action on the treaty-with Russia and 10 other nations-until Jan. 25, to give the next administration a chance to look it over and make recom- mendations. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D- Ark.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's plea for ratifica- tion and told the Senate "It would be a great tragedy if it were permitted to fail. It would be an act of gross irresponsibil- ity." Basically, the treaty provides for a demilitarized and non-na- tionalized Antarctica. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), assistant majority leader, told a newsman that opposition from Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has raised Democrats Table Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (1)-Senate Democrats smothered a Republican civil rights bill yesterday and their presidential nominee promptly charged it was offered with the aim of blocking vital welfare legis- lation. Amid a shower of political sparks, the Senate voted 54-28 to table and thus kill a controversial two-point civil rights bill offered by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, the Senate Republican leader. Southern and Northern Democratic senators closed ranks to hand the GOP an opening gun defeat. For all practical purposes this 'appeared to put an end to any prospect for civil rights action at H erter lTels this post - convention session of Congress. Kennedy Comments The Democratic presidential can- didate, Sen. John F. Kennedy, is- sued a statement in which he A m s called the maneuver "eleventh- hour politics" and flatly charged: "The intention of the Republi- WASHINGTON (M-Secretary of cans today was to use civil rights State Christian A. Herter warned legislation to block the enactment Russia yesterday against gambling of bills for federal aid to educa- on an election year paralysis in tion, housing, medical assistance United States foreign policy toto the aged and the lifting of the start some new crisis in world minimum wage."~ aarsm r n r Kennedy said he strongly sup- Wi thin the hour, after Herter ports civil rights "but to use civil spoke out at a news conference, rights at this time as a method of the United States rejected a Soviet defeating other bills whose passage protest against supplying Polaris are also essential would have missiles - with nuclear warhead meant that the session would have capability-to West Germany as a ended in complete failure." member of the North Atlantic Embarrassing Move Treaty Organization. Democrats saw also in Dirksen's U.S. Not Deflected move an attempt to embarrass This country and its allies, a them by pointing up their split note delivered in Moscow declared, over civil rights. "will not be deflected" by Russia's But Drksen denied any such rocket-rattling threats from tak- intent. He said he was not trying ing whatever defense measures to embarrass anybody but simply they consider necessary for their seeking to carry out the legislative security. recommendations of the President. In a note July 19 Moscow had He said he could assure the Sen- told Washington it understood ate that his move was "entirely West Germany was to receive free from political or partisan con- Polaris missiles, which has a mov- siderations." able firing base and a range of One part of his bill would have more than 1,000 miles. Actually given the backing of law to a com- officials said here yesterday that mission, now set up by presidential supplying Polaris squadrons to order and headed by Vice-Presi- NATO was under consideration but dent Richard M. Nixon, to prevent no one knew whether they would racial discrimination in hiring by in fact go to West Germany. The government contractors. missiles will not be ready for dis- Federal Aid tribution for about two years. The other would have authorized Tough U.S. Policy federal financial and technical aid The conjunction of Herter's to help schools voluntarily com- news conference statement and plying with the Supreme Court's the note bearing on NATO dis- 1954 desegregation decision. armament defined and projected a Both of these proposals were tomh United Statn tow d knocked out of a civil rights bill the Soviets for the rest of the passed earlier this year after a Eisenhower Adminisraon-alw ays' Senate battle that stretched over barring some change in Soviet eight weeks. Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's In a special message to Congress hostile attitude toward the United Monday President Dwight D. Eis- States. enhower called these major dele- Herter said the United States has tions and urged that both of them proved repeatedly that it could be restored. meet foreign challenges with- "speed, force and unity" in an election year, and that the Rus- Last Issue sians should "take warning" that this is true in 1960. With this issue, The Daily In support, he cited United ceases publication for the sum- States reaction to the Red block- mer The first issue of the fall ade of West Berlin in 1948 and semester will appear on Tues- noted the NATO pact was signed day, Sept. 13. that year. Atlas Missile Streaks MOSCOW (M-Soviet authori- ties announced yesterday Francis Gary Powers has "pleaded guilty to the essence of the charge" that he flew a U-2 spy plane over So- viet territory on an intelligence mission for the United States. The official Soviet news agency Tass distributed the text of an indictment quoting the 30-year- old American filer as saying: "I plead guilty to the fact that I have flown over the territory and over the points indicated on the chart, turned on and off the necessary controls of the special equipment mounted aboard my plane. This, I believe, was done with the aim of collecting intelli- gence information about the So- viet Union." Powers is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 17 on the charges aris-, ing from the May 1 incident, when he parachuted from his crippled plane over the Ural mountains. The incident raised an official Soviet storm culminat- ing in the explosion of the four- power summit meeting in Paris May 16 before it could get started. 'To Choose Capital S ite JUNEAU, Alaska fW--First un- official returns in Alaska's pri- mary election last night showed an-overwhelming majority against relocation of the capital from here to an area near the state's largest city, Anchorage. The first returns were from Southeast Alaska-the area, in which Juneau is located. Anchor- age is in central Alaska. The first precincts reporting showed 2,794 against relocation and 31 for. The initiative calls for reloca- tion from Juneau to a yet-to-be- selected site in the Cook-Inlet- Ranbelt area, which is dominated by Anchorage. U Under the terms of the initia- tive, Gov. William A. Egen would be empowered to name a five-man committee to select a capital site. The capital would be moved by Jan. 1, 1965. Als on the ballot were nomi- nation races for Sen. E. L. Bart- lett's seat in the upper chamber and forgRep. Ralph J. Rivers' seat in the house. Both are Democrats. Bartlett was unopposed for his party's nomination. Lawrence Brayton,r Fairbanks surveyor, and Lee L. McKinley, a Palmer dentist, sought the Republican nomination. Rivers faced David N. Boyer, a Kenai hotel owner, on the Demo- cratic side. On the GOP side it was William C. Haugard, a Sitka lawyer; ReL. Rettig, an Anchor- age accountant; and Jack Ryan, a Fairbanks newspaperman. LEGAL CONFERENCE-Mrs. Francis G. Powers, wife of the U-2 pilot on trial in Russia for spying, is shown here conferring with Virginia lawyers last month to aid her husband. Powers has been denied a Western lawyer. ADMITS SPY CHARGE: Pilot Powers Pleads Guilty (Withdrawal Of Belgians To Follow A public show trial seemed to be in prospect. The great hall of columns, not far from the Krem- lin, was being polished up for the trial although no formal an- nouncement has been made as yet. The hall is a huge one, its central area ringed by columns supporting a high gallery and lighted by 50 ornate chandeliers dating back to the glittering times of the Czarist aristocracy. Simultaneous Translations Reports in Moscow are that the trial will be conducted with sim- ultaneous translations into five languages for the benefit of the world press. The 4,000-word indictment was drawn up by the state security committee and approved July 9 by Roman Rudenko, Prosecutor General of the USSR. He was the chief Soviet prosecutor at thV postwar Neurnberg war crimes trials of Nazi leaders. The indictment accuses the Pound, Va., flier of violating the Soviet law "on criminal responsi- bility for state crimes." The pen- alty under this law can be any- thing from seven years imprison- ment to death by shooting; Soviet authorities have refused United States diplomatic officials permission to talk to Powers or to permit an American lawyer to defend him. They have granted visas to his parents, however, to attend the trial. Attack President The indictment bitterly attacked President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter for their statements concerning the U-2 incident, and singled out Vice-President Rich- ard M. Nixon as "especially brazen and shameless."i Those American statements, the indictment said, elevated viola- tions of Soviet territory to "a principle of state policy of the United States." It called this an "open declaration of the refusal of the United States government to comply with the fundamental, universally recognized standards of international law." The indictment accused the Unit- ed States of "repeated intrusions" over a period of years. Tshombe Lists Nine Conditions To Keep Katanga Independent LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (A.) -Katanga's rebellious govern- ment agreed conditionally yester- day to admit the UN troops it once barred with a threat of war, But Congo Premier Patrice Lu- mumba threatened to invade Ka- tanga province with his own and other African soldiers. The tentative capitulation to the UN was announced by pro- vincial Premier Moise Tshombe at his capital, Elisabethville. He listed, nine conditions, primarily aimed at seeing that Lumumba's central government is not given a hand in Katanga affairs. UN Forces Move The break came on a day which saw: 1. A UN Security Council order for immediate replacement of Belgian troops in the rich, inde- pendence - minded province with units from the UN forces of Swed.. ish Maj. Gen. Carl Von Horn. 2. A Belgian assent to the order, with qualifications as to the time of the Belgian withdrawal. A Brussels official said Belgium in- tends to comply fully, but the withdrawal will come only as the safety of Belgian civilians is as- sured. 3. A declaration by Lumumba's government of a state .of emerg- ency-a uodi 4 (pig of martal law. Though UN troops are on h job in five of the Congo's prov- inces, Lumumba called the fledg- ling, once - mutinous Congolese army back to regular duty and gave it "all power . . . to restore order." He said "the army will arrest anybody, black or white, who disturbs order in the Congo." 4. Final lowering of Belgium's flag over the Belgian embassy in Leopoldville. This signalled the departure-to Congolese Jeers-of Belgian Ambassador Jean Van Den Bosch, whom Lumumba's govern- ment had denounced as an un- wanted meddler in Congolese afw fairs. 5.Arrival in Elisabethvlle of a truckload of old single-shot Maus er rifles and boxes of amimuntion obtained by Tshombe as gifts for 200 of Katanga's tribal chieftains. Belgian soldiers unloaded the rifles as the chiefs waited. The government decided later, how ever, not to issue them at present. Issues Call Last week Tshombe issued a call for the mobilization of all Katan- ga's able bodied men and declared UN troops, scheduled to enter Saturday, would have to fight td. get in. A 20-man advance party was barred from leaving its plane at Elisabethville airport Friday. Tshombe said before entering a cabinet meeting at Elisabeth- ville yesterday he is still opposed to UN intervention. Doubts of the 42-year-old premier were reflect- ed in his conditions. Among them that none of the troops come from Communist countries and that all border roads be guarded by Ka- tanga and UN troops. Plot Stopped By Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela WP-Ven- ezuela last night charged the o- minica n Republic with being in- volved in an anti-government plot that was reported smashed earlier yesterday. The interior ministry said it was-planned by the same group that hatched a plot against Presi- dent Romulo Betancourt's regime last April. At that time, the gov- ernment charged the plotters re- ceived Dominican aid. "The same persons who were not able to act before," said the ministry, "were again unsuccess- fuL.The ministry pointed out the plot developed as Venezuela was' pressing for action in the Organi- 7,000 Miie CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (M-- range versatility and accuracy of one of the giant rockets more than off the coast of South Africa. The blazing 40-minute flight c 1,200 miles southeast of British-ow 200 miles west of the South Africa Several hours later, the Army missile on a 200-mile flight down t FirstRe The firing was the first here which is deployed with NATO troo tests one of the rockets every fe refinements. Earlier, the National Space A attempt to launch into orbit a3 satellite. Technical problems with delayed the effort. The Air Force, in announcing Convair-made missile flew its pre and accuracy were not revealed. The distance, second longest between the missile's normal rang 9,000 miles traveled by one of the Church Official in Cuba Threatens Mute Protest HAVANA W)-Cuba's highest active Roman Catholic Church official threatened to silence all Catholic churches yesterday on the island unless the Castro regime prevents further anti-church demon- strations and guarantees freedom of worship. The state of silence is used as a mute protest and a means of passive resistance in some churches behind the Communist Iron Curtain. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Evelio Diaz, Archbishop Coadjutor of Havana, angrily issued the warning after the top ranking priest in Fidel Castro's army had intervened to stop a clash between churchgoers oanda gang of jepring youths out- side Havana Cathedral. d~s o v Cbr e a The Rev. Eligio Sardinas, chap- lain of the revolutionary army, managed to break up the crowd. -The Air Force demonstrated the before any serious injuries could its Atlas missile yesterday, firing be inflicted., n 7,000 miles into Atlantic waters But the youths returned to Cathedral Square two hours later, shouting anti-church and anti- arried the Atlas to a point about American slogans. Police fired rifle vned St. Helena Island and about shots in the air to disperse them. n mainland. A church source said Msgr. Diaz successfully launched a Redstone pointedly told government offici- he Atlantic missile range. als: dstone "If there are no guarantees of in five months for the Redstone, safety (for churchgoers), all )ps n Weter Eurpe.The rmychurches will be closed tomorrow ps In Western Europe. The Army morning and the church will be w months to check engineering declared in silence so that the whole world will know what is kgency postponed until today an happening in Cuba." 100-foot balloon communications The informant said the term "in the Thor-Delta carrier rocket silence" meant that all church services would be suspended. the Atlas success, reported the Msgr. Diaz' warning - which scribed course. The exact range brought no immediate official re- sponse--pointed up the seriousness of a growing church-government yet covered by the Atlas, lies dispute centering on the leftward' ,e of 6,325 miles and the record march of the Fidel Castro regime. rockets last May 20. 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