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93 Associated Press, United Press International NY. Herald-Tribune, London Observer ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1963 Two Sections Twenty-Two Page PRICE 10 CENTS i iflim fall WEI WD Communist Plot to Seize Army Post in Iraq Reported Blocked Rejects Demands Issued by Russia WASHINGTON (AP) The United States receiv ed and immediately rejected today a Soviet demand for release of a Russian U. N. employe and his wife arrested on spy charges Tuesday. The Soviet Union demanded release of the two contending they were "unlawfully arrested," and Firemen probe wreck of Mohawk airliner which crashed on County Airport in Rochester, N.Y., Tuesday, killing seven and take-off from Rochester-Monroe injuring 36.

Red Chinese Accuse Russia Of Obstructing Negotiations By Henry Shapiro MOSCOW (UPI) Communist China circulated a foreign ministry note in Moscow today accusing the Kremlin of trying to obstruct Sino-Soviet negotiations scheduled to start here Friday. The Chinese embassy distributed copies of the note to the embassies in Moscow of countries with whom Peking has diplomatic relations. Wind Blamed In Air Crash Fatal to Seven By Eugene Blabey ROCHESTER, N. Y. (UPI) -Survivors today indicated that strong gusts of wind caused the crash of a Mohawk Airlines plane which killed seven persons and injured 36 others during a severe thunder and hail storm.

Several corporate executives and staff members of the New York State Commission on Human Rights were among the dead and injured. Eight persons were placed on the "danger" lists at three Rochester hospitals where the injured were taken. The crash happened Tuesday as the Mohawk Martin 404 twin-engined aircraft took off from Rochester Airport en route to White Plains, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. Witnesses said it roared down the runway and got about 100 feet in the air when it entered a black thundercloud while hail as big as large stones rained on the runway. Wind Whips Plane Richard Baldwin of Danbury, one of the survivors, said "The plane suddenly went completely sideways, straightened out, then slid sideways again and came down on the left wing.

I sat right on that side and watched the left wing crumple off. Then I think the plane rolled over." One woman who survived but did not give her name said that "a gust of wind hit the plane" as it entered the cloud. "It turned over on one side then bumped a lot," she said. "Then whether it was another gust of wind or not I don't know the plane turned over on its side and it crashed." State Police Lt. Peter Beck, whose men interrogated the survivors, said several of them mentioned the "wrenching effect" of the wind.

Pilot Among Dead The dead were identified as the pilot, Capt. Richard M. Dennis, 39, Redbank, N.J.; the first officer, John W. Neff, 33, of Wilmington, and five passengers Roy E. Drew of Pelham, controller of the Sylvania Electric Products Lee O'Dell of Westport, Geral Kurtz of Harrison, N.Y.; Thomas Callanan of Yorktown Heights, N.

Y. and Norris Falk of Cos Cob, Conn. State police said those who were killed were seated in the forward part of the plane. One man, Dr. Lee Davenport of Greenwich, president of General Telephone Electronics of which Sylvania is a subsidiary, walked away dazedly from the plane with only minor injuries.

had diplomatic immunity A State Department spokesman said this country rejected the request with a reply that the immunity of such U.N. employes does not extend to activities such as espionage not connected with United Nations activities. The demand for release of a Russian employe of the United Nations and his wife was presented at the State Department by the ranking Soviet diplomat here, Charge de Affaires Georgi M. Kornienko, in a 20-minute session with Richard H. Davis, deputy assistant secretary for European affairs.

Arrested At Home The two, arrested at their Flushing, apartment, were Ivan Dmitrievich Egorov, 41, a U.N. secretariat personnel officer, and his wife, Aleksandra Egorova, 39. Picked up here in the same espionage case were another couple named in the complaint as "John and Jane Doe." The FBI said they had been living under the names of innocent Americans who were unaware their identities had been appropriated There was no immediate report on who the Washington couple really are The State Department had no immediate comment on the de mand for release of those ar rested in New York. The arrests Tuesday in Wash ington and on Long Island fol lowed by one day a U.S. order for expulsion of a Soviet embassy official for attempting to recruit a Russian-born U.S.

intelligence official to spy for the Reds. But the FBI said there is no link be tween the two cases. According to a complaint filed in a New York federal court, the four arrested Tuesday conspired with at least two Soviet military intelligence men to transmit to the Russians information on U.S. (Turn to Page 2, Column T) Beckwith to Face Mississippi Judge JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Bryon de La Beckwith goes before a state judge today for arraignment on murder charges in the sniper slaying of Negro civil rights leader Medger W.

Evers. A Hinds County grand jury composed of 17 white men and one Negro returned the indictment Tuesday. Beckwith, 42, who was wounded with the Marine Corps at Tarawa during World War II, is being held without bond. Dist. Atty.

BiU Waller of Jackson has said he would ask the death penalty against Beckwith who was arrested June 22 by FBI agents in his hometown of Greenwood. Evers, state field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was shot to death June 12 as he stepped from his car to enter his home. Meanwhile Charles Evers, 40, who succeeded his brother in the NAACP post, claimed he had received death threats from an anonymous caller. This Area BEIRUT, Lebanon, (UP I) Baghdad radio today announced the crushing of a communist plot to seize a military camp in Iraq. The radio, in a broadcast heard here, announced a communique from the Iraqi revolutionary command saying the plot against the camp at Rashid this morning was put down in half an hour.

The broadcast gave no details of the action and did not mention what if any casualties were suffered. "A communist plot staged by some communists and agents to seize Rashid camp was crushed at dawn in a half hour by our military forces, the national guard, the police and the people," a communique from the Iraqi revolutionary government said. The swiftness with which the attempted coup at the camp was foiled showed how strongly the revolutionary regime is in control, the broadcast said. 'Agents' Questioned The communique said that a special committee was questioning the "detained agents." The Iraqi revolutionary government, which came to power last Feb. 8 in a military coup, reportedly has been conducting a campaign to eliminate communists in Iraq.

The reds backed former Premier Abdel Karim Kassem, who was ousted in the coup and later executed. The February uprising under the leadership of a six-man junta was led by Lt. Col. Abdul Karim Mustafa. The junta named a "transitional" government with Abdul Salam Mohammed Arif as president and Maj.

Ge Ahmed president and Maj. Gen. Ahmed Hassan El-Bakr as premier. The leaders of the coup were said to be advocates of pan-Arab policies promoted by United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser. A month after the Iraqi coup that ousted Kassem, a similar revolt by pro-Nasser elements was staged in Syria.

The new Iraqi and Syrian governments subsequently entered negotiations with Nasser for the formation of a new United Arab Republic merging Egypt, Iraq and Syria. The plan has not yet been implemented. The Iraqi revolutionary government come under strong criticism from Russia for its campaign against Iraqi communists. Soviet leaders at one time backed the Kassem regime. Railroads Defy Strike Threat WASHINGTON (UPI) The nation's railroads announced today they will place new work rules into effect at one minute after midnight July 11 despite union warnings that such move would trigger a national rail strike.

E. Wolfe, chairman of the railroads' negotiating committee, said union refusal to accept recommendations of a White House board has led to "a complete breakdown" in talks designed to end the dispute. President Kennedy on June 15 asked both sides to undertake intensive efforts to settle the dispute until July 10. without changing the rules or calling a walkout. The new rules would result in elimination of thousands of jobs and make sweeping changes in working conditions for 200,000 men who run about 95 percent of the trains in this country.

Wirti Seeks Solution The railroads announcement came as Labor Secretary W. Wil-lard Wirtz called in Wolfe and heads of the five rail unions to make proposals looking toward a settlement. But Wirtz said no real prog ress had been made on key is sues including whether firemen are needed in diesel locomotives in freight and yard service. Wolfe said negotiations so far have been a "hollow mockery" of bargaining. But he told a news conference that today's announcement "does not preclude consideration of any construction suggestions by the president, the secretary of labor or any other interested party." He said the railroads have accepted recommendations from presidential boards but charged that the five unions have "adamantly refused to make any realistic concessions," (AP Wirephoto) President Kennedy leaves jet plane at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington upon return to U.S.

from 10-day tour of Europe. There was no formal arrival welcome for Kennedy. J. F. Aides Review Soviet A-Ban Offer By Merriman Smith WASHINGTON UPI)-President Kennedy met with a group of top aides today in an effort to determine whether Soviet Premier Nikita S.

Khrushchev is really serious about outlawing all nuclear tests except those conducted underground. In announcing the White House meeting, press secretary Pierre Salinger said "the president considers Mr. Khrushchev's speech a matter of importance." He referred to the East Berlin speech in which the Soviet leader offered to sign immediately an agreement banning atmospheric and under water explosions. But he linked the offer with a proposal that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sign a non-aggression pact with its communist counterpart, the Warsaw Pact Alliance. This caused Western diplomats to question whether he really was sincere.

The president conferred about it for one hour with Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and disarmament agency director William Foster, Second Meeting Called "A second meeting of the same group has been called for this afternoon," Salinger said. Harriman will be the chief U.S. negotiator in talks opening in Moscow July 15 between United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in a renewed effort to achieve a nuclear test ban. Salinger said the White House was reserving comment "as to our interpretation" of Khrushchev remarks until after the afternoon meeting.

He added that he did not anticipate at the moment, however, that there would be any statement after the meeting. After the morning meeting, Kennedy joined his full cabinet for a discussion while Salinger (Turn to Page 2, Column Council Meet Marks Futrell Anniversary By Bruce Broussard (Town Talk Staff Writer) Quiet prevailed at the Pineville city council meeting marking the first anniversary of the administration of Mayor P. Elmo Futrell Jr. Tuesday night. It was in contrast with some of the meetings in months past.

Only a dozen spectators were present, compared to standing room only crowds when the street and dog controversies were in full bloom. Some $170,000 in paving assess ments were levied by the council on the program of street improvements started last month. 3 Ordinances Adopted The council also adopted three ordinances: setting speed limits on trains, authorizing the mayor to set up traffic controls, and creating a sewerage district in Myrtlewood subdivision. The council heard Herschel C. Pettus, chairman of the Mayor's Citizens Advisory Committee, report that his committee is solidly behind the administration on its street program.

Pettus said, the committee voted "to go on record as being solidly behind the mayor and city council in their unrelenting implementation of this program (street paving) and pledge our unwavering support in the completion of this program. Members of the committee are F. Hugh Coughlin, Robert B. Tudor, James R. Baker, Darrel V.

Willet, A. J. Taylor, Virgil V. Ayres, Willie E. Kees, S.

J. Sas-ser, D. C. Bates, G. Earl Guinn, George O'Banion, T.

C. Brister, Jack Holt, Hulton O. Creed, Robert Daniel and Paul R. Taylor. Paving Costs Assessed The paving cost per foot on the streets assessed is as follows: Hill from Berry to Main, Holloway from Cross to Prarie, Byron from Holloway to College, College from Byron to Pine, Lallan from Military Highway to Oakland, $11.17 per front foot.

Overlay of Berry from Valley to Hill and Valley from Berry to Main, $3.63 per front foot. Myrtlewood drive, circle from Military Highway back to Military Highway, $10.83. Berry from Valley to Martin, and Hayden from Main to Webster, $10.83. Retaliating for the A Railway Company's failure to clear its rights-of-way, the city council adopted an ordinance limiting the speed of trains through the city to 15 miles an hour. Officials claim that the weeds cause extremely hazardous and dangerous conditions by limiting vision.

The mayor was authdrized to designate truck routes, regulate parking, erect markers, divert the flow of mark traffic lanes (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) Keithen and Robert Kennon and a representative of Rep. Long will be among the main speakers at Glenmora at 11:30 a. m. following a 10 a. m.

parade. Fort Polk activities will be mostly recreational and are scheduled to start at 7:30 a. m. and wind up with a picnic starting at 5 p. m.

The Marksville celebration will be at the Prehistoric Indian Park on Old River where political candidates will be introduced at 11:30 a. m. after the parade. The activities will continue through the day and conclude with a fireworks display from an Indian mound at night. In Alexandria, most stores and public offices will be closed for the day.

The federal, state, parish and city employes will take a full day off. Bank employes also have a holiday. The Rapides Parish Health Unit has cancelled all Bulletin WASHINGTON (UPI) -Atty. Gen. Robert F.

Kennedy said today the government needs new legislation to fight increasing communist espionage activities in the United States. Cancer 'Cure' Probe Backed WASHINGTON (UPI) The government today defended its right to investigate the so-called cancer drug Krebiozen and in the process revealed some of the information it had uncovered in its investigations. The disclosures were included in a brief filed in the U. S. district court in Chicago today in answer to a suit filed by Steven Durovic, developer of Krebiozen.

Durovic's suit asked for an order to halt inspections which he claimed constituted harassment by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It also asked for access to reports submitted by federal inspectors who have conducted investigations of Krebiozen, for an injunction preventing the inspectors from making any statements discrediting Durvic or Kre biozen, and for return of a photograph taken by the inspector during an investigation of the Pro-mak Laboratories in Chicago where Krebiozen is made. The developers of Krebiozen claim it is made from a yellow- lsh-white powder extracted from the blood of a horse. This powder is dissolved in mineral oil and the combination is put into a glass ampule which holds one cubic centimeter. The government brief 6aid investigators learned that Promak Laboratories had purchased 146 million ampules of the type used as containers for the drug.

But a check on thex number of horses killed indicated Promak Laboratories had received enough powder to fill only about 522,500 of the ampules, at the most. Some of the powder substance was obtained from horses killed in Argentina and some of it from horses at Rockford, 111. The blood of the horses killed at Rockford was used to prepare two batches of the powder in the Ken-L Ration division of the Quaker Oats in 1959 and 1960, the brief said. The division makes dog food. Several 'Rallies' in Patriotism and Almost everyone will take the day off Thursday as July 4th celebrations explode across Central Louisiana.

The tradition of barbecues, flags and politicians will be mix- Since Thursday is a business holiday, stores which remain open until 8-30 p. m. on Thursday will do so on Friday this week, Chairman Harry Silver of the Greater Downtown Assn. announced today. ed at Pineville, Glcnmora, Winn-field, Marksville and Fort Polk.

Four gubernatorial candidates and a candidate for insurance commissioner will be among the speakers at Fort Buhlow, where the Pineville Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor activitips. The candidates for governor include Rep. Gillis W. Long, Public Service Commissioner John J. McKeithen, Rev.

Clyde Johnson, Senator Urges Loyalty Check Of Newsmen WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, vice chairman of the Senate International Security subcommittee, called today for a closer loyalty check of American news reporters. Dodd made the statement in conjunction with release by the subcommittee of testimony taken April 10, 1962, from Robert Ta-ber, former Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Correspondent and a founder of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Taber was questioned in closed session shortly after he returned from a year's stay in Cuba where he was wounded during the April 1961, Bay of Pigs invasion attempt.

He was employed at that time by the Cuban newspaper "Revolucion." Delay Unexplained There was no explanation by the subcommittee for the long delay in making public the testimony. It was Taber's second appearance before the subcommittee which is conducting an investigation of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. "It is something to ponder," Dodd said in commenting on the testimony, "that a man like Taber would worm his way into a top position on the CBS staff, get himself assigned as CBS correspondent in Cuba in the period preceding the Castro takeover, and then have his totally pro-Castro presentations purveyed to the American public by one of our two great television networks. "It is my earnest hope that the (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) Today's Extra Should the U. S.

throttle down its race to the moon? A number of congressmen, particularly Republicans, are raising the question as appropriations time rolls around. They dispute the wisdom of President Kennedy's decision to press for a lunar landing by 1970, saying the costs are not worth the effort merely for prestige. Today's Extra, on Page 12, presents the budgetary, millitary and scientific arguments for both sides of the dispute. Other major stories inside today's Town Talk: Rep. Willis seeks crackdown on unauthorized travelers to Cuba, Page 4.

NAACP official says drive in offing to end "Jim Crow" segregation in northern Page 9. U. S. winds up ransom deal with Castro; private shipping line gets approval to ferry exiles, Page 4. Two women testify in London sex scandal trial that Dr.

Stephen Ward helped them get abortions, Page 4. The note, which was released earlier in Peking, dealt with the Soviet expulsion of three Chinese diplomats and two students for circulating in Moscow a harsh attack on Russian policy. Calling the Soviet action "untenable and unfounded," the Chi nese note accused the Soviet Un ion of deliberately trying to wors en relations between the two countries virtually on the eve of the Moscow talks aimed at heal ing their ideological and political split. Until now the Kremlin has said nothing about the expulsion of the Chinese, leaving the announcement to Peking. Diplomatic observers said distribution of the note by the Chinese under the nose of the Kremlin was certain to cloud the atmosphere for the talks.

Won't Back Down The Soviet Union indirectly served notice today it will not back down in the face of Peking's belligerent line toward other communist countries and the West. Premier Nikita Khrushchev was reported to have congratulated Marshal Tito upon his recent confirmation to the presidency of Yugoslavia. One of the basic conflicts in the Sino-Soviet rift is the Chinese demand that Russia break with Yugoslavia, which Peking accuses of "consorting with the imperialists" and betraying the international communist movement. The Kremlin, faced with possible trouble from Romania, called communist party meetings around the country to rally public support for the showdown talks with Red China. All eyes were on Romania, the Soviet bloc's problem child, as the communist committee for economic cooperation (Comecon) opened a conference here.

Come-con is the communist version of the western Common Market. Frank Voelker Sr. Succumbs at 69 LAKE PROVIDENCE La. (AP) Judge Frank Voelker 69, of Lake Providence, died at his home Tuesday night of a heart attack. He had been judge of the 6th Judicial District since 1936.

He was the father of Frank Voelker chairman of the State Sovereignty Commission and a candidate for governor. Judge Voelker had been active in civic affairs of East Carroll Parish. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Lake Providence. Judge Voelker organized the Louisiana Council of Juvenile Court Judges and was its first chairman.

He was a member of the Louisiana Youth Commission and had been district judge in Lake Providence for 25 years. He was a member of the board of Catholic Charities. He was the uncle of Mrs. George Foote and E. S.

Voelker of Alexandria and C. A. Voelker of Bunkie. Politics on July 4th Agenda 23 Feared Dead As Airliner Falls WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) All 20 passengers and 3 crewmembers were feared killed today in the crash of a twin-engine airliner. The New Zealand National Airways DC3 went down in mountains near its destination, Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island 95 miles southeast of Auckland.

A ground party set out for wreckage sighted In a heavily wooded area. No sign of life was reported. Holly, a 71-year-old retired construction worker, said he hoped no politics or personalities are in-volved. "It would be a pity to get politics and personalities mixed up in the district. The district is valuable to Ward 10 and this area," he said.

"And I just didn't like to be dumped that way. Gov. Davis appointed me two years ago. 1 know it can't be politics because I supported him." Members of the board now are Tyler, Ernest O. Rice, Joseph W.

Ray, Leon Ray, and Leon Prewitt, unless someone else received a letter from the governor, B. G. Cole is manager of the district. Waterworks District No. 3 Official Notified of Ouster by Gov.

Davis Shelby Jackson, state superintendent of education and de Les-stps S. Morrison, U. S. ambassador. State Rep.

Jack Dyer who will also be on the program, is seeking the insurance commissioner's post. Barbecue will be served beginning at noon and the speaking program will start at 4 p. m. A fireworks display will start at 8 p. m.

Other activities will held throughout the day. At Winnfield, John S. Hunt, Monroe attorney and nephew of the late Earl K. Long, will be the main speaker at the formal unveiling of a bronze statue of the former governor. Mrs.

Blanche Revere Long, Long's widow, will remove the covering from the statue In the two-acre memorial park. The program will begin at 11 a. m. Rep. Long will also attend the dedication of the pavilion and statue in memory of his cousin.

Gubernatorial candidates Mc C. Holly of Donahue Ferry road, Pineville, revealed today he has been replaced on the Waterworks District No. 3 board. He said he received a letter Tuesday from the office of Gov. Jimmie H.

Davis advising him that Telles Tyler of Baywood drive would replace him on the board. Tyler's term had expired a few months ago, he said. Holly said that he was dismissed effective June 28. The letter was mailed July 1. "I don't know of any reason why the governor did this.

I worked hard. I cooperated with the other board members and the manager," he continued. "I don't have the least idea.".