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Kennedy will make the Atlas-Able carrier rocket
pointments to his moved to within seven minutes of 'D e
according to Ken- the scheduled liftoff time. The Emperor
secretary, Pierre National Aeronautics and Space Visiting Brazil Cities
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Rep. W. R. Poage, a Texan with'
nearly a quarter of a century of
experience in farm legislation, is
being considered for Secretary of
Agriculture, a Kennedy caller
said.
One of Poage's fellow Texans,
Rep. Albert Thomas, told news-
men after a call on the President-
elect that Kennedy "likes Mr.
Poage very much and he is giv-
ing the matter consideration,"
CAPE CANAVERAI.-Space sci-
entists hope to try again today to
launch an instrument-packed
spacecraft toward an intended or-
bit around the moon.
Administration blamed technical
difficulties.
If successful, the spacecraft,
called Pioneer VI, will become the
first lunar satellite.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Ed-
ward Kennedy said yesterday his
brother, President-elect John F.
Kennedy, still feels Algerians
should be allowed to govern them-
selves.
"The position of my brother,"
said the younger Kennedy, speak-
ing in French, "was clearly stated
to the Senate in 1956. I do not
think that his opinion has chang-
ed since that time."'
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Illinois Goes
To Kennedy
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (MP) - The
Republican dominated state elec-
toral board yesterday unanimous-
ly certified President-elect John
F. Kennedy's 27 Illinois electors
after hearing-and dismissing for
lack of sufficient evidence - GOP
charges of vote fraud in Chicago.
Outgoing Gov. William G.
Stratton, board chairman, sum-
med up the attitude of the five-
member board by declaring that
insufficient evidence was offered
to justify withholding the Dem-
ocratic electoral votes.
Stratton said he would not have
hesitated to refuse to certify the
official vote canvass on a "show-
ing of overwhelming evidence of
fraud."
At a two-hour hearing, an at-
torney for the Nixon recount com-
mittee urged the board to refuse
certification until returns from
Cook County "have been corrected
for apparent fraud, gross irregu-
larity and admitted error."
CAIRO (A) - A bloodless palace
guard coup - joined by military
forces and headed by the eldest
son of Emperor Haile Selassie -
clamped a new social reform
government on Ethiopia yester-
day. Iron military rule prevailed
in Addis Ababa, the capital.
The almost legendary "king of
kings"--a fateful figure of modern
times-himself was thousands of
miles away on a state visit to
Brazil, and his future role at home
was not defined. Reports from
Brazil indicated Selassie was out-
wardly unperturbed.
The avowed aim of the regime
proclaimed by Crown Prince Asfa
Wassan, in a broadcast from the
East African highland capital is
to reform social customs dating
from pre-Christian times.
It would end what the prince
called "3,000 years of injustice."
The modern-minded prince of
the ancient realm thus apparently
took a firm step in his father's
absence to put Ethiopia on the
track of nationalism and socialism
prevalent in neighboring Egypt
and Sudan and other emerging,
African powers. -
Reports from Sudan said Addis
Ababa remained tranquil through
the transition and there was no
bloodshed; the sole purpose was
to remove the Emperor and replace
him with his son, according to
these reports.
Selassie had been both chief
of state and head of government
with the council of ministers di-
rectly responsible to him.
The new regime is under strict
military control for the present,
reports from Addis Ababa said.
VIENTIANE (W - The seesaw
battle for this Laotian capital
focused yesterday on the center
of the city, where anti-Commu-
nist troops tried to dislodge a mix-
ed pro-Communist force.
Troops loyal to General Phou-
mi Nosavan advanced from the
northern section of the city
against stiff resistance put up by
paratroops and pro-Communist
Pathet Lao guerrillas command-
ed by Capt. Kong Le.
One of the focal points of the
fighting was the area around army
headquarters and the ministry of
defense. Kong Le's troops, identi-
fied by their red armbands, put
up heavy mortar and machine gun
fire against armored cars and
infantry wearing white arm bands.
Early in the afternoon army
headquarters burst into flame.
It was the second day of battle
that followed a night of confusion
and scattered gunfire during which
Kong Le's pro-Communist forces
retook the center of the city. They
had lost it Tuesday afternoon,
when Kong Le's troops fell back
steadily until nightfall.
NATO Views
Plan To Station
Troops in U.S.
PARIS()-Military and politi-
cal leaders of the North Atlantic
alliance yesterday considered the
advisability of stationing West
German ' and other European
troops o United States soil.
Informants said such an ar-
rangement might help halt the
drain on United States gold and
dollar reserves and give Western
Europe's confined armies enough
room to train with modern wea-
pons.
This startling suggestion was
one of a number of economic pro-
posals given careful study by
NATO diplomats gathering here
for their annual review opening
tomorrow. All were aimed pri-
marily at the same thing-trim-
ming West Germany's swelling
currency surplus and getting gold
and dollars flowing back again
ALGIERS' (M -- French riot
forces used guns, tear gas and
concussion grenades yesterday to
turn back swarms of Moslems in
the seaport of Bone and around
the ancient Casbah of Algiers.
Two Moslems were killed and
an undetermined number wound-
ed when police in Bone opened
fire on 2,000 Moslems who turned
a funeral procession for comrades
killed in Tuesday's rioting into a
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Civil Rights
DETROIT *)'Political and la-
bor leaders agreed yesterday that
racial discrimination is practiced
in Michigan, but they told the
United States Civil Rights Com-
mission the state ranks among
the top in protection of human
rights.
Detroit Mayor Louis C. Miriam
told the commission as it opened
a two-day hearing here:
"I am confident that you will
find that the examples set by the
people of this community in sin-
cerely striving to live in a truly
democratic atmosphere meets
standards as high, if not higher,
than any major city in the na-
tion."
Miriani added, however, he was
"not trying to claim that we have
reached any utopian level," and
United Auto Workers President
Walter P. Reuther cited what he
termed discrimination in housing
that results in segregated school
classrooms.
Reuther and Horace L. Shef-
field, Vice-President of the all-
Negro Trade Union Leadership
Council, said discrimination still
exists in hiring and firing and the
training of apprentices, despite
Michigan's Fair EmploymentPrac-
tices Commission,
Not a single witness, however,
testified there was any discrimi-
nation against minority groups in
voting or registering to vote.
Gov. G. Mennen Williams said,
"We are proud of the progress
that has been made" in civil
rights, but added "we are aware of
the utnfinkh h buini -.t b afn
screaming nationalist demonstra-
tion. This brought to 125 the num-
ber killed in rioting since last
Sunday.
In Algiers, scores of persons were
wounded and hundreds arrested in
a tough official crackdown on
those responsible for violence or
threatening more.
The demonstrators in Algiers
shouted This is the insurrection"
and called for the elevation to
power of exiled rebel Premier Fer-
hat Abbas. Those in Bone waved
rebel. flags.
Abbas rejects President Charles
de Gaulle's self-rule policy for Al-
geria and demands immediate in-
dependence. HeisIn neighboring
Tunis. De Gaulle has Just ended'
a five-day tour of Algeria trying
to wi nover Moslems. and hos-
tile French settlers alike.
Whipped up by nationalist dem-
onstrations within the old Casbah
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WASHINGTON (M--A labor
ion economist told a Senate s
committee yesterday the coui
"can expect about six million
employed workers" in the r
few months.
That would be an increase
nearly two million over the
vember unemployment estims
"The economy is now in a re
sion," Stanley H. Ruttenberg,
rector of Research for the A
CIO told a Senate labor subo
mittee.
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times tried to form near the
trict which has been cordoned
since Sunday.
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the conference a success" in dis-
cussions of disarmament and the
Berlin situation.
The United Nations Security
Council later rejected by a 7-2
vote a Russian resolution to con-
demn the United States for hos-
tile actions in the U-2 case.
U.S. Election
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-
Mass) defeated Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon of California
for the_ presidency in one of the
closest national elections ever re-
corded. In the face of religious
bias throughout the campaign, Ro-
man Catholic Kennedy demon-
strated that a man of his faith
could win, as he carried Bible-
belt West Virginia over Minneso-
ta's Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.
Kennedy, through primary victor-
ies and a series of brilliant politi-
cal maneuvers, carried the Dem-
ocratic Presidential nomination oni
the first ballot at the first con-
vention ever held in Los Angeles.
Convention runner-up Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon B. John-
son (D-Texas) accepted the vice-
presidential nod.
The GOP selected Nixon and
United Nations Ambassador Hen-
ry Cabot Lodge as its standard-
bearers.
Amid charges of miscounting
and ballot box stuffing, the pena-
tor emerged the youngest' man
ever elected to the highest office
in the land, by a thin 113,000 pop-
ular vote margin and a 77 elec-
toral vote edge.
In Congressional races, the
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y the Democrats' majorities, seizing
22 seats in the House and 2 in
the Senate. The Republicans also
gained control of a number of
governorships and state houses.
crisis' in Africa
African colonies pressed for in-
dependence from their European
rulers and a great many new
states were peacefully established,
with the continued aid of Europe.
Their mass admission to the Unit-
ed Nations served notice of the
Dark Continent's increasing im-
portance.
But in the Belgian Congo it was
far from peaceful. Patrice Lum-
umba, only recently released from
a Belgian prison for inciting riots,
became the republic's first pre-
mier on July 1. Army mutineers
turned their new freedom to li-
cense as they pillaged European
shops and homes and attacked
white settlers. After three days
of disorder, however, the govern-
ment orders were, for the most
part, obeyed.
A struggle for power ensued,
with Lumumba, Congo President
Joseph Kasavubu, Katanga Pre-
mier Moise Tshombe and the pres-
ent strongman, Col. Joseph Mo-
butu battling for control.
Both East and West interfered
in the struggle, but Mobutu and
Kasavubu emerged in 'the drivers
seat. They ejected foreign Com-
munists, imprisoned Lumumba
and took the Congo's UN seat.
However, further civil war is a
definite possibility.
United Nations troops have
been in the Congo since August
in an effort to keep the strife-
ridden nation together, but sev-
eral Asian-African nations have
recently withdrawn troops charg-
ing the UN is pro-Mobutu.
And with the consequences of
Congolese independence clearly
evident, the Algerian crisis re-
ceived a thorough examination by
French President Charles de
Gaulle. The rightists, after rioting
earlier in the year, renewed their
obstructionist efforts as the French
president worked for more Al-
gerian self-rule and eventual self-
determination. De Gaulle himself
visited Algeria this week, and was
met by more riots, which killed
123 persons.
He faces a national referendum
on the issue, but he is almost sure
to win, and the protracted nego-
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Castro, Cuba The city school board decided i _C
on integration this fall, but the A-
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel state legislature responded by at- ,
Castro continued to be a thorn in tempting to place the schools un- C A S H ,M E R E
the side of the United States., epigt lc h col n
Castro seized United Statespro- der control of segregationist Gov.
perty in Cuba and threatened the Jimmie H. Davis, who said that he,
Guantanamo naval base, as he and not the local boards had the
apparently drew the web of Com- power to order integration.
munism around his island nation. But the New Orleans federal
Russia announced that she would district court, and later the Su- a An 11 "
support Cuba militarily in case of preme Court, slapped down thisn Mhb
attack by the United States, and and other state attempts to block
Castro accepted the Soviet offer, integration. Four Negro girls at-
tended classes in two previously
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of f Cuban sugar quota, which, be- parntgwthrerthiryh $tn
cause it enabled Cuba to sell sugar parents withdrew themrchildryen;
to the United States at more than those who did not faced angry
the world market price, gave her See MAJOR, Pag 2
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the United States. The Cubans
subsequently convicted and shot
several American nationals for
plotting against the government. W SURE OF A WARM WELCOM
Castro now faces the formidable 8k °:
opposition of the Roman Catholic
Church, as he swings closer to the
Communist bloc, but he has not '
thus far faced any serious threat4e
to his power. .O{
CivilRights
Integration in the South pro-
ceeded with both deliberate speed -
and violent reaction. Sit-in demon-
strations pressed the peaceful yet
firm demands of the Negroes for
equality at lunch counters and,
eventually, in all aspects of life.
Demonstrators wtre jeered and
Jailed, but their activities prompt-
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