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Volume 1 — Number 53
Murfreesboro* North Carolina, Wednesday, May 11« 1960
Chowan College
Cubans Shoot Down Light Plane, Kill Pilot
American Reported Involved
Powers Has Been Charged With
Espionage, Will Stand Trial
LONDON AP — Pilot Francis
G. Powers has been charged
with espionage and Premier Ni
kita S. Khrushchev has pro
mised: “We shall try him—try
him severely as a spy.”
This was reported today by
the Soviet news agency Tass.
The penalty for espionage in
the Soviet Union ranges from 10
years in prison to execution by
a firing squad.
Mrs. Reynolds
Appears First
Time for Trial
By PERRY MULLEN
DARIEN, Ga. 1^1 — Fashion
ably dressed Mrs. Richard J.
Reynolds drove into this small
coastal town today for her first
appearance to defend herself
against a divorce suit brought
by her millionaire husband.
“Well, they’ve got me here,”
the former Muriel Marston, 41,
of Toronto, Canda, told news
men.
The third wife of the tobacco
heir drove 20 miles from Sea
Island, Ga., where she has been
staying at an exclusive hotel.
She said she expects to be here
for the remainder of the trial,
now in its ninth day.
Reynolds’ attorneys required
eight days to present their side
of the couple’s domestic life and
troubles.
Mrs. Reynolds wore a navy
blue dress and blue hat of taffety
to match. A garnet cross a-
dorned the dress. She wore black
shoes and belth and several gold
bracelets.
The Tass version carried this
exchange between correspond
ents and the Soviet Premier:
Q. Will this plane incident in
fluence Soviet public opinion
when Eisenhowers comes to
Moscow?
A. I would not like to be in
Eisenhower’s place. I would not
like to answer the questions
which might be put to him when
he comes to the Soviet Union:—
can only say the Soviet people
and our public are very polite,
so there will be no excesses.
But questions will be asked of
course. I would put it this way:
‘One person, namely U.S. Sec
retary of State Christian A.
Herter, has helped the President
particularly in this respect. At
his press conference Herter
made an outrageous statement:’
Far from feeling guilty and
ashamed of aggressive actions,
he justifies them and says that
Appeals Heard
ROANOKE RAPIDS AP —
The appeal of three Negroes
who claim they were illegally
turned down in their attempt
to register for voting will be
heard by the Halifax County
Board of Elections next week.
The three are Delaney A.
Manly, his wife, and his moth
er, Emma L. Manly.
■The three said in their ap
peal that Registrar T. W. Cole
at Littleton had required Mrs.
Delaney Manly to take dicta
tion as a test of her education
al qualifications for registra
tion and then graded it for
spelling. Delaney Manly and
his mother declined to take
the test after Cole refused to
register the woman.
M.ayor Has Plan for
Counter Dispute
this will continue in the future.
Only countries which are in a
state of war can act in this way
We are not in a state of war
with America. These aggressive
actions and Herter’s statement
are impudence, sheer impu
dence!
Tass said Khrushchev made
the following reply to the ques
tion how the plane issue could
affect the summit meeting:
“Let those who sent this spy
plane think over this question-
though they should have thought
about the consequences before
hand. After all, an aggression,
has been committed against our
country, and we shall continue
routing all the aggressors who
dare raise a hand against us.
“You see how accurately our
rocketeers shot down the plane
without setting it on fire. The
pilot is alive, the instruments in
tact—in other words the mater
ial evidence is here for every
one to see. These are very skill
ful actions of our rocketeers. We
are very grateful to them for
this.”
At another point, Tass said,
Khrushchev stated:
“If the United States has not
experienced a real war on its
territory, has not experienced
air raids, and if it wishes to
unleash a war, we shall be corn-
pelled to fire rockets which will
explode on the aggressors
territory in the very first min
utes of war.”
WORLD BRIEFS
DURHAM UFl — A three-step
plan leading to integration of
lunch counters at three Durham
variety stores has been proposed
by a mayor’s committee on hum
an relations.
The committee voted Wednes
day to ask City Council to adopt
the step-by-step proposal in the
wake of new protests by Negroes
against segregated eating facili
ties at the stores. Fifty-seven
students, including four who are
white, were arrested Wednesday
on trespass charges.
Stores that would take part in
the committee’s proposal are
those picketed byt he protestors.
The proposal first was drawn up
in March by more than 30 busi
ness and professional men of
both races.
The plan, reportedly agreed to
by demonstrators if the first con
dition is accepted, suggests:
1, Ask three stores to desegre
gate lunch counter service;
2, Provide waiting period to
let “tesion subside” and then
start service on controlled basis
until modification accepted by
public;
3, Demonstrators would be
asked to withhold further pick
eting and demonstrations until
community has had sufficient
time to absorb the initial change.
Many of the students arrested
were among those- apprehended
last Friday on similar charges
at a Kress store. The Wednesday
arrests came in the wake of a
sitdown protest at a Woolworth
lunch counter.
COMMUNIST ACCUSE
TOKYO AP — Communist China
today accused American U2 planes
in Japan of making spy flights
over the Chinese mainland. It said
unless Prime Minister Nobusuke
Kishi’s government prevents such
flights “It must bear all the con
sequences.”
STUDENT MEETING
HAVANA AP — Student lead
ers called a mass meeting at the
University of- Havana today, con
tinuing a new anti-U. S. campaign
based on a report that the United
States is planning to attack Cuba.
TANKER EXPLODES
BREST, France AP — Three
sailors were reported missing to
day after a terrific explosion shook
the 16,000-ton Liberian tanker
Bulkoil, off the northwest tip of
France.
M y eight-year-old grand-
daughter stormed into the room
and shouted to her mother that
her five-year old sister was ‘a
pest.’ Such a vocabulary!
ON BLACKLIST
AMMAN, Jordan AP — The
Jordan government today black
listed eight more ships of various
nationalities for violating the Arab
economic boycott of Israel. They
included two American ships, the
7,216-ton Pacificus and the 7,24^-
ton Pacific Explorer.
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TERRORIST KILL
PARIS AP — Algerian terror
ists in France have killed 2,972
people and wounded 7,019 since
1956, according to unofficial
sources.
By HAROLD K. MILKS
HAVANA AP — Cuban troops
shot down a light plane today
and reported they killed its
American pilot. Officials charg
ed he was trying to smuggle
counter-revolutionaries out of
the country and they had laid a
trap for him.
An official Cuban announce
ment identified him as Matthews
Edward Duke, 42, and gave his
address as Palm Beach, Fla.
Duke apparently slipped
through a U. S. Border Patrol
net in Florida designed to stop
Cuban flights, which have been
a constant source of tension be
tween Havana and Washington.
Ike Still Plans
To Visit Soviets
WASHINGTON AP—President
Eisenhower was quoted as say
ing today he still plans to visit
the Soviet Union next month un
less Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev withdraws the invi
tation.
Rep. Arch Moore of West Vir
ginia said Eisenhower told him
and a group of other House Re
publican members that if
Khrushchev does dicide to pull
back the invitation “it’s all right
with me.”
Eisenhower’s views were re
ported against the background of
Khrushchev’s suggestion that
the President might not be wel
come because of the American
spy plane incident.
Moore and several other GOP
congressmen had breakfast with
Eisenhower at the White House.
Moore quoted Eisenhower as
saying further that the 10 days
he now is scheduled to spend in
the Soviet Union “could be
utilized elsewhere” if the Krem
lin leader should withdraw the
invitation.
Eisenhower did not elaborate
on that, Moore told reporters.
In response to a question,
Moore said Eisenhower made it
plain he intends to wait for
Khrushchev to bring up the
matter of the visit. The Kremlin
leader said Wednesday that he
and Eisenhower would discuss
the matter when they met in
Paris next week for the summit
conference.
The Border Patrol in Miami
said Duke was on a list of 29
pilots to whom a plane was not
to be rented under any circum
stances. The list was distributed
in hopes of preventing sabotage
or escape flights to a n d from
Cuba.
Five Cubans were reported ar
rested at the scene. The Cuban
announcement identified them as
Francisco Aguirre Fidaulet, sec
retary general of the Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Union under
the Batista regime; three for
mer Batista officers, and the
daughter of an army captain
under Batista.
Officials said the plane piloted
by Duke landed at the same
place early Svmday and flew
away with three men. Police and
naval parties were watching
then and permitted the single
engine plane to get away so
they could ambush it on a later
trip.
The Federal Aviation Agency
in Washington said Duke rented
a plane bearing registry No.
N4365P from the Louisiana Air
craft Co., of Baton Rouge, La.
He told the firm he was flying to
Texas to pick up spare airplane
parts. He leased the plane vmtil
May 10 but on that day tele
phoned the company from an
unknown location that he would
retain the craft for two more
days. The FAA said it could
find no evidence that he h a d
filed any flight plan.
The U. S. Embassy began an
investigation of the incident. Of
ficials in Washington said they
knew nothing of it and were
asking for any details.
Hotel Closes
MIAMI, Fla. AP — The 178-
room Lucerne Hotel, which cost
four million dollars when it was
built in 1956, has been ordered to
close next Sunday because it’s
losing money.
U.S. Dist. Judge Emmett Choate
acted Wednesday after a court
trustee reported the hotel had only
60 rooms occupied and was losing
$300 to $400 a day.
Others among Miami Beach’s
378 hotels reportedly are facing
financial difficulties. Already un
dergoing corporate reorganization
under federal court direction are
the Delmonico, Cadillac, Sorrento
and Saxony. Foreclosure suits
have been filed in circuit court
against the Plymouth and Lom
bardy.
Kennedy Leads in
Democratic Race
WASHINGTON AP — Sen. John
F. Kennedy D-Mass. leads Dem
ocratic presidential hopefuls with
31.7 per cent of the convention
votes needed for nomination.
Kennedy has 241% convention
votes in 15 states, according to
unofficial tabulations. The winner
of the nomination must have 761.
Kennedy’s total does not reflect
his victory in Tuesday’s West
Virginia and Nebraska primaries.
Those two states have a total of
41 votes. But primapr election re
sults there are not binding on elec
ted delegates.
The Kennedy total includes five
votes in Pennsylvania, Utah and
North Dakota that switched to him
out of the column of Sen. Hubert
H. Humphrey D-Minn. Humphrey
quit the race after Kennedy de
feated him in West Virginia.
The only 'other real switch from
Humphrey’s 37 unofficial vote to
tal before West Virginia has been
1% votes to Adlia E. Stevenson in
Nevada and North Dakota. Some
of the 37 merely switched to “un
committed.” Much of the Hum
phrey strength had been expected
to go to Stevenson, unavowed can
didate, it Humphrey couldn’t make
it.