lie laslw
Politicians
Governor Moore and Sena
tor Edward Kennedy share
tne spotlight on today's edi
torial page. See page two.
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The Deacons
What's the sports depart
ment's view of Wake Forest?
Look at the cartoon on page
four for the answer.
The South's Largest College Newspaper
Vol 74, No. 33
CHAPEL HILL NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1965
Founded February 23, 1893.
Jury Deliberations Begin In
Second Rinaldi Murder Trial
HILLSBOROUGH (AP)
The guilt or innocence of
Frank Rinaldi, charged with
first degree murder in the
Christmas Eve slaying of his
wife in 1963, rested with a jury
late yesterday as the DTH
went to press.
Rinaldi, 36, his hands clasp
ed, watched intently as Judge
George M. Fountain handed
the case to the jury at 12:49
p.m. The jury of eight men
and four women went to lunch
before beginning deliberations
at 2:05 p.m.
Judge Fountain instructed
the jury to return a verdict of
first degree murder, first de
gree with a recommendation
for mercy, second degree or
acquittal.
However, Solicitor Thomas
D. Cooper Jr. told the jury,
"I'm not going to ask you to
send him to the gas chamber.
That is between a person and
his conscience."
The long - drawn trial began
Oct. 11 with the first three
days devoted to selection of
the jury.
Rinaldi, a native of Water
bury, Conn., and former uni
versity instructor, was convict
ed on a first degree charge
last Nov. 18. But he won a
new trial when the State Su
preme Court ruled Judge Ray
mond Mallard erred in admit
ting certain testimony.
Rinaldi's wife, Lucille, 34,
was found slain in his apart
ment in Chapel Hill. A scarf
had been tied around her
Nation-Wide Hookup Will
Discuss Policy To China
Why the United States should
reevaluate its policy towards
Red China will be discussed
by students and experts over
a nation-wide telephone hook
up Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in
Carroll Hall.
Twenty colleges and univer
sities across the nation will
participate in the discussion,
which is sponsored by Amer
icans for Reappraisal of Far
Eastern Policy in celebration
of the twentieth anniversary
of the United Nations.
The UN will be 20 years
old Sunday.
Students will gather at a
prearranged meeting place on
their respective campuses and
will hear a distinguished ex
pert offer reasons why the
United States should begin
negotiations for the recogni
tion of Red China and her ad
mission into the UN.
UNC-CH students will hear
Rev. William Sloane Coffin,
chaplain of Yale University
and former advisor for the
Peace Corps.
Prof Heads
Sutt Program
Dr. W. J. Hall of the sta
tistics department will head a
national program of visiting
lecturers in statistics.
Financed by the National
Science Foundation, the se
ries will also include Prof.
Walter L. Smith, also with the
statistics department, and 13
other speakers associated with
UNC in the past as students
or faculty members.
The program is sponsored
hv the American Statistical
Association, the Biometric So
and the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics.
AIR FORCE THANKS UNC Col. John
Drlscoll. left, retired Air Force researcher
and development engineer, presents an award
of thanks to Prof. George E. Nicholson, chair
man of the Department of Statistics at UNC
and director ofthe Operations Analysis Cen
ter from the Air Force. Colonel Driscoll
LATE BULLETIN
Rinaldi
Acquitted ! !
The jury in Hillsborough
Superior Court acquitted
Frank Joseph Rinaldi of the
Christmas eve 1963 slaying
of his pregnant wife yester
day after eight hours and
forty minutes of delibera
tion. The verdict was re
turned at 10:45 p.m.
mouth and nose and she had
been hit at least seven times
on the face and head.
Rinaldi, who did not testify
at his first trial, took the
stand this time and strongly
denied the crime. Solicitor
Cooper told the jury in his ar
gument that Rinaldi killed his
wife to collect $40,000 on a $20,
000 double indemnity insur
ance policy.
"No one else was to gain
$40,000 from his wife's death,"
Cooper declared. "I think it
has been proved the hardest
way possible" he killed his
wife.
The couple, both of Water
bury had been married only
five months. An autopsy show
ed she was pregnant about 18
weeks.
The state based its case sole
ly on circumstantial evidence.
Students will also hear a
discussion of the topic by a
panel of six experts over tele
phone. Sitting on the six-man panel
are Michael Harrington, auth
or of "The Other America,"
Norman Thomas, distin
and Dr. John Fairbank, lead
ing U. S. expert on far east
ern affairs.
Also included are William
Ryan, unsuccessful candidate
for the Democratic mayoralty
nomination in New York City,
Al Lowenstein, former N. C.
State professor who managed
Hubert Humphrey's campaign
for U. S. vice president, and
editor Norman Cousins.
UNC-CH is coordinating the
program for nearly 17 col
leges and universities in North
Carolina and Virginia.
Americans for Reapprais
al of Far Eastern Policy is
dedicated to education as a
means of seeking support for
its proposals rather than civil
disobedience, according to lo
cal director Eric Van Loon.
Petition Check
The recall petition, now
in the process of being
validated, has at least two
ficticious names attached
to it, according to Alvin
Tyndall, elections board
chairman.
In addition, there were
some names appearing
twice on the petition, Tyn
dall said yesterday.
The actual total number
of names on the recall pe
tition is 1,894. At least 1,863
names must be valid for
the recall to take effect.
It is an honor council of
fense to sign a fake name
to a petition.
It relied chiefly on the testi
mony of Alfred Foushee, a Ne
gro waiter; statements police
said Rinaldi made on the night
of his arrest, and the insur
ance policy.
Foushee testified last week
that Rinaldi approached him
October, 1963 and tried to hire
him to kill Mrs. Rinaldi. He
said Rinaldi asked him "to
choke, strangle her or even
rape her."
Foushee told the court Ri
naldi asked him if he knew
anyone who would do it for
$500. He said he replied he did
not.
A Chapel Hill police ser
geant, James Farrell, testified
Rinaldi asked him following
his arrest, "How can you stand
to sit in the same room with
me after what I've done?"
John F. Sipp, an insurance
agent of Chapel Hill and close
friend of Rinaldi, testified he
was with him on a shopping
trip the day Mrs. Rinaldi was
killed. He said they found her
body when they returned to
the apartment about 1:40 p.m.
Several witnesses told the jury
they saw Rinaldi with Sipp in
Durham the morning of that
Christmas eve.
Defense attorneys delivered
their arguments to . the jury
Wednesday. Cooper told the
jury Thursday that Rinaldi
"did not even go near" his
wife when he opened the door
of the apartment and saw her
lying on the floor.
FBI Man Na
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (AP)-
For the second time, an FBI
informer yesterday pointed out
young Klansman Collie Leroy
Wilkins Jr., as the gunman
who killed, a white civil rights
worker from Detroit.
Red - haired Gary Thomas
Rowe, a former Birmingham
bartender, told durmg 25 min
utes of direct testimony how
he and three other Klansmen
followed a car in which Mrs.
Viola Liuzzo, 39, was shuttling
marchers back from Mont-
gomery after the massive walk Church, center of the Negro
to the Alabama capitol March right-to-vote drive.
25. "Wilkins said, 'Looka there.
Rowe was brought into the Well, I'll be damned. Look
courtroom through a side en- over there, baby brother' "
trance under heavy guard of Rowe testified. He said they
FBI agents and state troopers, saw a white woman driving a
"Eventually, we pulled up," car with a Negro man riding
the 35-year-old Rowe said in in the front seat,
describing the chase of the "Thomas said, 'Let's get
Liuzzo car which began in 'em,' " Rowe continued.
Selma. The witness said the car with
"The first thing I knew, WTil- the four Klansmen followed the
kins stuck his arm out of the other automobile approximate
window, elbow length. Wilkins ly 20 miles on the road to
told Eugene Thomas to speed Montgomery. They were pre
up. Just as he pulled up, the vented from catching up sev
woman driving looked at us." eral times by oncoming traf-
Rowe, who said he infil- fic, once a state patrol car,
trated the Klan five years ago
at the request of the FBI, told
the court that Wilkins fired
two quick shots then several
more, and Thomas and Wil
liam O. Eaton fired several
shots.
"I don't think you hit those
wnkfc'.' Rowe said he told
"He smacked my right leg.
He said, 'Baby brother, I don't
miss. That bitch and that bas
tard are dead as hell."
The witness gave similar
testimony at Rowe's first trial
in May. That trial ended with
a hung jury. Thomas and Eat-
i . j :
on also are under murder in
dictments but their trials have
not yet been set.
Wilkins, a 21-year-old Fair-
brought the official award from Saigon to
Chapel Hill in behalf of the Second U. S. Air
Division in Viet Nam as a token of thanks
for service of UNC faculty members in con
tributing to Air Force combat effectiveness
against the Viet Cong. Prof. Nicholson accepts
the award for the University.
Jones
Made
Ten Coeds
Make Court
Ten Carolina coeds were se
lected Wednesday night for
the 1965 Homecoming Court.
Students will choose one of
them to be queen in an elec
tion next Wednesday.
The girls selected are:
"Peach" Pierce, a junior from
Gastonia majoring in chemis
try; Emily Cathey, junior,
Louisburg, Tenn., history;
Sharon Derrick, sophomore,
Jacksonville, med tech; Patti
Fields, junior, Chapel Hill,
English.
Also Mary King, sophomore,
Greensboro, political science;
Judy Dudley, senior, Washing
ton, N. C, English education;
Toni Greenwood, junior, Los
Angeles, art; Lois Shepherd,
senior, North Wilkesboro, bus
iness administration; Peg Mc
Queen, senior, Clinton, history;
and Sharon Finch, junior,
Thomasville, Journalism.
Students will vote for one
girl in Wednesday's balloting.
Boxes will be placed at the
Scuttlebutt, Graham Memori
al, Y-Court, Lenoir Hall, the
Circus Room, and Chase Cafe
teria. ID cards will be stamp
ed when the votes are cast.
field.
listened intentlv to th tAsti.
monv. smokins ciearettes fre-
quently.
Rowe said he met Wilkins,'.
Thomas and Eaton in Besse-
mer the morning of the Slav-
mg. He said they drove to
Montgomery and then to Sel
ma, where they went to the
Silver Moon Cafe about 7 p.m.
They stayed at the cafe
about 45 minutes, Rowe said,
then drove to the vicinity of
the Browns Chapel A.M.E.
but they finally pulled along-
side and fired into it, he said.
The FBI informer said he
had a pistol but did not fire it.
Doesn't Know
TT1
About Klan
The sheriff of Orange Coun
ty told the DTH yesterday he
"has no idea" about the num
ber of Klan members within
his jurisdiction.
C. B. Knight said he "finds
it hard to determine how
many of the ones we see at
- m
the rallies are local people."
He added, however, he had
seen "a few (Klansmen) I
know.
"I've never been to a pri
vate rally, and I don't expect
to be going to one," Knight
said.
"I won't investigate them
unless they violate the law,"
he commented.
According to Knight, three
Klan meetings have been held
recently within Orange Coun
ty. "They had their first one
over in Chapel Hill," he said.
A 27-year-old veteran with
the Durham County Sheriff's
Department told the DTH he
has never met a citizen of his
area he knows to be a Klan
member.
"All I know about it is what
I read in newspaper stories
concerning the HUAC inves
tigation," said the officer, who
refused to be identified.
Asked if he had heard of
the groups named in a House
"There are so many of these
outfits around it's impossible
to keep track of them all the
time."
The HUAC says the organi
zation in Orange County is
The Sportsman's Lakeside
Lodge.
Faces HUAC;
Linking Klan
s r 7
3L
ITS BACK Maverick House
Wednesday night. As the paint
students had it.
Wilkins
He said Thomas told him to
shoot. "I put my arm along
side Wilkins when he fired."
"Baby brother, I didn't
hear you fire,' " Rowe said
Wilkins told him. "I said I
fired two shots. Hell, I was
afraid I was going to shoot
you in the head.' "
Rowe said nothing further
was said to him.
The witness told the court
they went to a cafe in Besse
mer, where Thomas later told
them he had arranged an alibi.
"Everything's taken care of,"
Rowe quoted Thomas as say
ing. Rowe said he left and tele
phone the FBI.
On cross - examination
Rowe said he joined the Klan
in 1960 at the FBI's request.
"What inducement did they
offer you?" asked defense at
torney Arthur J. Hames, for
mer mayor of Birmingham
and former FBI agent.
"Merely that I would be
helping the people of my coun
try," Rowe said.
Escaped Con
Caught Here
Chapel Hill police yesterday
apprehended an escaped con
vict who was chased into the
area last Friday by state po
lice who spotted his stolen
auto.
Chief William Blake said
William J. Murray, 38, was
picked up on Lone Pine Lane
off Tennis Circle in the Estes
Hills section.
"He readily gave up," Blake
said. "He was carrying a.bed
roll, an electric shaver and a
laundried shirt."
Blake said the house of
James Tedder, a UNC stu
dent, was broken into and
some of the articles found on
Murray were missing from
Tedder's house.
In addition, Blake said,
three bottles of wine were
missing from Tedder's house.
Murray said he had been in
the woods since last Friday.
State police said the car
which Murray abandoned Fri
day on Carolina Ave. was stol
en in Danville, Va. Blake said
a federal charge would be
placed against Murray be
cause the car was transported
across state lines.
Murray has been returned to
Central Prison in Raleigh. He
was serving an 18-month sen
tence for auto larceny when he
escaped last week.
Blake said his men began
finrfincr hpr cans and wine
bottles in the woods earlier
this week, so he suspected
Murrav was still in the area.
The Ye Old Tavern reported
a quantity of beer missing
WprfniKHflv Blake said. Mur
ray will be charged with
breaking and entering for the
two Chapel Hill thefts, Blake
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got its Victory Gong back
indicates, Morrison College
Embarrassed
Students Get
Gong Back
Maverick House residents
stared red-faced Wednesday
night as an elevator door open
ed and their missing Victory
g o n g appeared, suspended
from the ceiling of the eleva
tor.
The unveiling took place dur
ing a clandestine ceremony at
8 p.m. Morrison College resi
dents masterminded the re
turn of the gong.
Chuck Longino, Morrison
College housemaster, said he
received an anonymous phone
call early Wednesday evening.
The caller said he would re
turn the gong to Craige on
three conditions:
that an officer from Craige
be present in the main lobby
of Morrison to receive the
gong.
that Byron McCoy, gover
nor of Morrison, be there to
make the presentation.
that photographers be
present.
At precisely 8 p.m.-the ele
vator doors opened and the
gong was seen hanging from
the top. pne on side was in
scribed in red paint "Morrison
No. 1," and on the other side
was "Big Mo," the Morrison
nickname.
A note taped to it read:
"Whereas all Craige Dormi
tory boys are inept, and can't
get their own gong back,
whereas we, the men of Mor
rison College, wish to retain
good relations with all dormi
tories, we have taken it upon
ourselves to retrieve the gong
and return it to the boys of
Craige."
Maverick residents took the
gong home, ringing it all the
way.
Klan Keeps
Own Kalendar
Washington (AP) Time
goes from dismal to dreadful,
and from frightful to hideous
in the strange world of the Kn
Klux Klan.
The hooded society main-
has given its own names to
the davs. weeks and months.
The Klan constitution des
ignates the seven days of the
week as Desperate, Dreadful,
Desolate. Doleful, Dismal,
Deadly and Dark.
And the weeks become Woe
ful, Weeping, Wailing, Won
derful and, if tnere snouia
be a fifth week in any month
Weird.
The 12 months, according
to the Klan. are Appalling,
Frightful, Sorrowful. Mourn
ful, Horrible, Terrible, Alarm
ing, Furious, Fearful, Hideous,
r.loomv and Bloody.
The Klan dates its calendar
from 1866, the year of the
KLan's founding.
First Effort
To Violence
WASHINGTON (AP)
House investigators made their
first effort yesterday to link
the Ku Klux Klan with vio
lence, in a probe that has fo
cused mainly on finances of
the hooded order.
North Carolina Grand Drag
on James Robert Jones was
closely questioned before the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities about an al
leged Klan official said by in
vestigator Donald T. Appell to
have pleaded guilty to charges
growing out of bombings.
Appell said the series of
bombings occurred Jan. 24
around New Bern, N. C.
Rep. Edwin E. Willis, D-La.,
committee chairman, said that
during the trial the alleged
Klan officials, whom he iden
tified as Raymond Mills,
changed his plea to guilty.
In their questioning the com
mittee investigators alleged
that Mills was not dropped
from the Klan when he
changed his plea and that the
Klan had sought to raise a
defense fund for him.
Willis asked Jones, "Isn't it
a fact that while your organi
zation pretends to have rules
against violence and pretends
to be against violence that you
never xpelled a member
kn. ..: J you to have com
itted violence?"
Jones declined to answer
that and other questions, cit
ing constitutional guarantees
against possible self incrimi
nation. Jones has refused the com
mittee any information other
than his name.
The committee introduced
as evidence a large, framed
certificate which the investiga
tors said was a Klan charter
issued in the name of an im
provement society of which
they said Mills was an officer.
Appell suggested that this
was only a cover for the Klan,
asking "Isn't it a practice to
issue charters under cover
names, such as improvement
associations?" Jones declined
to Answer.
Earlier the investigators
prodded Jones about money by
producing some of the records
he had refused to turn over
income tax returns.
The Klan Dragon kept silent
under sharp questioning about
whether he had been reim
bursed by the United Klans
of America for deductions he
had claimed, such as the cost
of robes.
They said Jones enjoyed
these fringe benefits as well:
A brand new Cadillac,
which Klan Klaverns all over
the state were assessed to pay
for.
A new Dodge stationwag-
on they said was paid for out
of Klan funds.
A death benefit setup for
widows of Klansmen with a
built-in "enormous profit" for
the Klan.
They also accused Jones of
making a false accounting of
Klan finances to a Klan rally
at Rockwell, N. C, last Aug.
22.
Pretty Sunrise.
But No Comet
By JOCK LAUTERER
"Good - looking sunrise,"
said one sleepy student.
"We're nuts," said a drama
professor.
Someone sneezed and no one
said Gesundheit.
They had all gathered at the
stone bench below Gimghoul
Castle Thursday morning in
the unknown hours to watch
the highly touted Dceya-Seki
Comet flash spectacularly
above the horizon.
But it didn't flash, nor spark
le, or even sputter. The whole
thing was a dud.
A thick cloud bank in the
eastern sky obscured the ho
rizon. But the small group on
the stone bench watched any
way as the sky grew brighter
with the rising sun.
The gathering was a motley
one, made up of students,
townspeople and one professor
and his two boys. One student
wore shorts and no socks.
Associate Professor in Dra
ma Kai Jurgensen looked as
if he had been railroaded into
the situation. "If this comet
doesn't show up I'm gonna
As he has done since he
started testifying yesterday be
fore the House committee on
Un-American Activities, Jones
gave a stock reply that he de
clined to answer because it
might tend to incriminate him,
and cited the Fifth. First,
Fourth and 14th amendments.
That answer, delivered in an
unemotional southern accent,
has been given more than 140
times, but today Jones short
ened it by refusing merely on
"the grounds previously
stated."
Like Klan Imperial Wizard
Robert M. Shelton before him,
Jones has refused to deliver
any Klan records and docu
ments subpoenaed by the com
mittee. He too was warned
that he faces possible con
tempt of congress charges.
Chief committee investigator
Donald T. Appel produced
Jones' income tax returns,
showing a 1960 income of $3,
800; 1961 $1,630; 1962 $3,579;
1963 $2,766, and 1964 $8,923.
That was the year he became
Grand Dragon, or State Lead
er. Appel said the returns show
he claimed tax deductions of
$6,931 in 1964, for expenses for
robes, printing literature, trav
el and other categories.
Chiarman Edwin E. Willis,
D-La., asked Jones if it wasn't
a fact that he had already
been reimbursed for these ex
penses by the United Klans of
America. Jones refused to answer.
Campus Chest
Committee
Heads Named
Ellen Lentz and Dave Bruen
ner, the Co-chairmen for this
year's Campus Chest, have an
nounced their committee chair
men. They are as follows:
Drive, Carol Wilson and Faison
Kuester; Auction, Emily Cath
ey and Bayard Norris; Pub
licity, Linda McCutcheon and
Jack Spalding; Carnival, Pen
ny Cromartie and Bill Whit
aker. Other members of the exeu
cutive committee are Patty
Hamilton, secretary, and John
Dunn, treasurer.
The Campus Chest is a non
profit, fund - raising organiza
tion similar to the Community
Chest in that the money that
is made is given to different
local, state, and national char
ities. The efforts of this organiza
tion are concentrated on about
a week-long period of various
fund - raising projects such as
a carnival, an auction, and a
door-to-door campaign for do
nations in the dorms, the so
rority and fraternity houses,
and the apartments. This year
drive is tentatively set for the
end of March.
Interviews for the commit
tees will be held in early No
vember. beat you two," he threatened
his two boys. The students
chuckled; outright laughing
would have been too much
like work this early in the
morning.
The sun began to poke its
way through the cloud bank.
An elderly couple smiled at
the sunrise through binoculars
pointed eastward.
"This is an occasion for
me," mumbled one student.
"This is the first sunrise I've
ever seen."
"With a tali ter tlusand
miles long, hoT could '.to miss
it?" Prof. Jurgsea asked,
The sunrise v.-us rosy-pink
and spectacular, even if there
was no comet to precede it.
Three students stayed to
watch.
The rest of the crowd went
off to get some breakfast.
"Oh, it'll be back in 200
years," the elderly gentleman
soothed the remaining would
be comet watchers as he tod
dled off down the path.
The morning bells began
ringing on campus.
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