FRIDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 1965
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
PANE THREE
FRIDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 1965 - THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE
Drop One Charge in 4
Rights Murder Case
Federal Judge Charges 17 With
Misdemeanor; Ruling To Be Studied
MERIDIAN, Miss. (P)-The tough felony indictment in Missis-
sippis case of the three murdered civil rights workers was dismissed
yesterday-leaving 17 men facing a misdemeanor charge.
U.S. Dist. Judge Harold Cox, in granting a defense plea, said
no federal law was embraced by the federal indictment and therefore
his court had no jurisdiction. In Washington, a Justice Department -
Judge Aids VENEZUELA-
VotePush in Leoni
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SELMA, Ala. - Pi - A federal
judge conferred with Selma civic
leaders yesterday, reportedly in
an off-the-bench move to expe-
dite Negro voter registration.
Negro leaders meanwhile aban-
doned their street demonstrations
temporarily and devoted their at-
tention instead to a new right-to-
vote drive Monday and a spread-
ing boycott of white merchants.
Uoins saia ogn iormia
able reefs during his first year
in his announced program "to
consolidate Venezuelan democra-
cy."~
The portly onetime labor law-
yer. inaugurated last March, has
further curbed leftwing and right-
wing rebels, negotiated a coali-
tion including two once-bitter op-
position parties, and quietly met'
pressures from the armed forces
and businessmen.
Oil exports, small manufactur-
ing and agriculture have all "n-
creased slightly during Leoni's
first year. Foreign reserves reach-
ed $870 million, an increase of
$80 million over the past year.
Meanwhile Leoni continues Bet-
ancourt's policies of agrarian re-
form - although this program is
not a success thus far-and build-
ing schools, roads, irrigation proj-
ects and dams in the interior.
Meanwhile Leoni continued Bet-
ancourt's policies of agrarian re-
form - although this program is
not a success thus far--and build-
ing schools, roads, irrigation pro-
jects and dams in the interior.
spokesman said the ruling will
Seek Equal
House Seats
WASHINGTON VP)-A proposec
constitutional amendment tha
would require congressional dis
tricts of nearly the same popula
tion was approved yesterday b3
the House.Judiciary Committee.
Under the proposed amendment
no congressional district couli
have a population varying by mor
than 15 per cent from the state'
average district.
In an attempt to curtail ger
rymandering, the amendmen
would also require that the dis
tricts be compact and self-con
tained.
As approved earlier by a sub
committee, the bill would hav
fixed 121/2 per cent as the maxi
mum population variation. An at
tempt to increase it to 20 pe
cent was defeated. Then ai
amendment by Rep. Peter W. Ro
dino, Jr. (D-NJ) raising it to 1
per cent was adopted.
be studied before it is decided to
-. file an appeal. There was no fur-
ther comment.
Ruling Sent
A copy of the ruling was sent
immediately to the department,
which recently clashed with Judge
Cox in blocking some perjury in-
dictments he wanted against civil
rights workers.
t Maximum Punishment I
- The charge thrown out by Judge
- Cox carried a maximum punish-
y ment of 10 years in prison and
a $5000 fine.
The second federal indictment
dpending against the men has a
maximum punishment of one year
e in jail and a $1000 fine. The
s defense wanted it dismissed, too,
but the judge did not mention it.
- It alleges conspiracy, involving
t law officers, to illegally punish
- the three men.
- Notcharges have been filed by
the state; the federal government
- cannot file murder charges in
e the case.
Grand Jury
- The Neshoba County Grand
r Jury had the case before it twice.
n Each time it was shelved on the
- ground that no investigation was
5 possible without all FBI evidence.
The Justice Department has been
loath to reveal all such evidence
before the federal trial.
Eighteen men were indicted.'
One of them-James E. Jordan-
ranks as a government witness.
His case was moved to Atlanta.
The defense dismissal appeal was
for 17 men.
Reconstruction Law
The felony dismissed was based
on an 1870 Reconstruction feder-
al law forbidding conspiracy to
deprive any citizen "of life or
liberty, without due process of
law," while he 'is exercising his
constitutional rights.
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A VIETNAMESE WORKER prepares bombs for a
which will be used in attacks against the Commu
in South Viet Nam. The scene is Bien Hoa Airbasi
side Saigon.
No Viet.Nam Talks
'Aggression' Stops
WASHINGTON {P'-Secretary of State Dean F
day the United States has told Red China that pe
Asia depends primarily on halting the Communist a
South Viet Nam.
Rusk ruled out in his news conference statement
"aimed at the acceptance or the confirmation of aggr
"A negotiation which simply ends in bittern
merely adds to the danger," Rusk declared. In discus
-- - - -- -----negotiation whic
U.S. District Judge Daniel H. In contrast to the five stormy
Thomas left Mobile yesterday to years of his predecessor and more
drive the 170 miles to Selma for pugnacious predecessor and friend
the conference with business and Romulo Betancourt, Leoni has
civic leaders in the afternoon, appeared unruffled before critics
The conference reportedly was and never in danger of overthrow.
called in an effort to implement Sabotage
I the order Thomas issued Feb. 4 di- Castroite terrorism and sabotage
I recting the Dallas County board of may become rare. Public trans-
Associated Press registrars to speed up the han- port service has resumed normal-
dling of Negro voter applications. ly in the once-violent "twenty-
B-57 bomber, The Rev. James Bevel, left in third of January" district where
nist Viet Cong charge of the campaign until Dr. bus burnings were common.
e 15 miles out- Martin Luther King returns from Venezuelan Communists, already
a speaking trip to the West Coast, split three ways among Moscow,
said volunteer workers were sent Peking and plain Nihilism, were
UTN 1 1out in a house to house drive for routed in failing to carry out
Unl more Negroes to join the line of their threat to halt the December
prospective new voters. 1963 elections which Leoni won.
NI 1 Bevel said the campaign has Leoni followed by winning an
--sh reached the stage where most of Organization of American States
the adult Negroes willing to put vote last July obliging members to
their names on the voter registra- sever relations with Cuba. Only
Rusk said yester- tion list have already done so. Mexico refused.
ace in Southeast '
RAUL LEONI
ggression against
any negotiations
ession."
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sing pressures for
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Since then Leoni has split lo-
cal Communists further by offer-
ing exile or pardon to those will-
ing to renounce violence.
Leoni also showed the military,
he was commander in chief last
year by firing the commandant
of the navy who objected to
Leoni's officer promotion list.
Some convicted rightwing officers
who rebelled against Betancourt
have been pardoned on good be-!
havior pledges.
He secured a congressional ma-
jority by welding his moderately
left Democratic Action Party into
a coalition with the further left
Republican Democratic Union and
the further right National Demo-
cratic Front.
Leoni, thus supported, plans to
push through a variety of legis-
lation stalled since 1959.
Oil Firms
U.S., Dutch and British oil com-
panies were privately annoyed in
January when, Leoni decreed the
government oil company will take
over some of their gasoline sta-
tions.
But the administration promgised
to negotiate a fair payment for
the stations in a program aimed'
at guaranteeing the state-owned
company 33 per cent of. the do-
mestic gasoline market by 1968.
Leoni drew fire from business
organizations for removing subsi-!
dies from a long list of import-
ed commodities. He wants to en-
courage domestic production and
create badly needed jobs.
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Face Scrutiny
Of Democrats
mtuj rin jn, r'a.- naormeausouurce nee fr ie annua
veloped by many countries Rusk AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting are predicting that a
repeatedly hammered the argu- new election in the contest for president of the Steelworkers Union
ment that the "missing piece" is may be held under government supervision.
any indication whatever that Under the Landrum-Griffin Act, the Labor Department can go to
North Viet Nam "is prepared to court to force a new election if it finds evidence of voting irregulari-
stop doing what it is doing against ties.
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He declared that North Viet
LANSING .P) - A Democratic Nam, in violation of international
sword hung over Gov. George agreements, "has directed and
Romney's $788.5 million 1965-66 supplied the essential military
budget as House Democrats con- personnel and arms for a syste-
sidered the possibility of killing matic campaign of terror and
Romney's budget bills. guerrilla action aimed at the over-
They met this week to discuss throw of the government of South
ways of handling legislation in Viet Nam and at the imposition
the face of a constitutional re- by force of a Communist regime."
quirement that the governor'sh
budget bills must be disposed of On the military side, Secre-
before any other measures involv- tary of Defense Robert S. Mc-
ing appropriations can be acted Namaradefended on Capitol Hill
upon. the broadened American combat'
role in the Southeast Asia con-
One way of handling the prob- flict.
lem would be a technical man- McNamara said after testify-
euver inwhicdRomney'sbillm ing before the Senate Armed
would be reported out ofrcommth Services Committee that the new
tee and killed on the floor of the U.S. jet bombings in South Viet
HsemanddSnnate. Nam are a change of tactics and
Similar-or even identical - equipment, not policy. He noted
bills could be introduced later the House and Senate had voted
and passed into law. virtually unanimously last August
Democratic sources have indi- for the Southeast Asia resolution
cated that the procedure has been giving President Lyndon B. John-
under consideration. son broad backing for the use
The constitutional provision was of armed force.
intended to prevent last minute Meanwhile, in Saigon, bombs'
scrambling to pass the budget as rained by the ton on widely sep-
the end of a legislative session arated Viet Cong positions yester-
approached. day from U.S. Air Force jets
Legislators have found, however, rounding out a week of active war-
that the repeated hearings, the fare. They blasted . target areas
controversy, and the long study in the Mekong Delta, a coastal
generated by any major spending jungle and the central highlands.
measure, produces a serious back- T
log of lesser bills that involve Though effectiveness of the
state spending. raids is difficult to evaluate, the
Communist guerrillas seemed un-
deterred in a campaign to slash
T across central Viet Nam from the
I N STA N T sea to the Cambodian frontier.
As thrust and parry of the war
Swent on, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh
flew to Hong Kong on his way to
New York to present South Viet
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He planned to rest at the British
ANYWHERE crown colony with his family for
a week.
Sound attenuators as Among the dignitaries on hand
utilized by military and I to see Khanh off was U.S. Am-
bassador Maxwell D. Taylor, who
com ral jt a has not always seen eye-to-eye
ground crew personnel with Khanh on issues of war and
are the perfect solution. politics. Taylor arrived at the last
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Khanh departed a few hours
P.a0.mBoxA969 after formally turning over the
P.O.BmoxA69s armed forces command to Maj.
Berkeley '1, Calif. Gen. Tran Van Minh at the gen-
eral staff headquarters.
In Washington, the Labor Department emphasized it cannot act
unless there is a formal complaint after all internal union 'procedures
have been exhausted.
WASHINGTON-Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey and Atty.
Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach made an unpublicized trip to the Capitol
late Wednesday to talk over voting rights legislation with a group of
liberal congressmen who recently visited Selma, Ala.
Meanwhile, Justice Department sources disclosed that the ad-
ministration is narrowing its plans for voting legislation to two key
areas-a "localized moratorium" on literacy tests and the limited,
last resort use of some kind of federal registrars where local registrars
are shown to discriminate.
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WASHINGTON-The administration's school aid bill ran into
trouble yesterday in the House Education Committee over its for-
mula for funneling money to poorer school districts.
At the first session of the full committee on the measure, Chair-
man Adam C. Powell (D-NY) bypassed the main section of the bill
and said it would be taken up later. Another section, to make funds
available for the purchase of textbooks, was tentatively approved.
WASHINGTON-The House gave a strong vote of confidence yes-
terday to its controversial Committee on Un-American Activities.
It turned back a drive-supported mainly by big city Democrats-
aimed at the committee through reduction or investigation of its rela-
tively large, $370,000 appropriation.
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