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Chinese Troops Attack in Force
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — Red China lifted any restraints on its invasion of northern India today, formally authorizing its troops to ignore the border and presumably to advance as far as force will carry them.
"Chinese frontier guards fighting in self-defense no longer need to restrain themselves to the bounds of the illegal, McMahon Line (the border)," Red China's Defense Ministry said in its first formal comment on the current border fighting.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT BROADCAST BY Radio Peiping did not say how far the Red invaders expected to advance.
The Communists claimed that their troops had captured several Indian outposts on the eastern front, but said Indian troops were offering fierce resistance in some unspecified areas.
Premier Jawaharlal Nehru called on the nation last night to put its economy on a war footing. He declared that "we will fight the Chinese Communists out."
For the first time in years of sporadic border fighting, Nehru formally recognized Red China as the "enemy." In a nation-wide broadcast, he vowed that "we shall not surrender."
RED CHINA THREW tanks into the border war yesterday. Its troops were reported to have advanced at least five miles into Indian territory.
The Red Defense Ministry reported "general advances" on both the eastern and western fronts, but added that Indian troops "are still entrenched" in some outposts, particularly in the west sector.
A Red broadcast yesterday reported the capture of "Chipu, Jihchang, Changto, the Hatung Pass and other places" on the eastern front.
THE COMMUNISTS accused India of starting the fight and the Red radio indicated the Peiping regime would be willing to consider a negotiated surrender.
"The Chinese side will decidedly not rule out the possibility of ... reopening peaceful negotiations to settle the Sino-Indian boundary question," the Defense Ministry statement said.
It charged that India "bluntly closed the doors to negotiations" earlier this month, presumably when Nehru ordered the Indian Army to drive the Communists out of Indian territory.
THE BRITISH BROADCASTING Corporation said India had asked Western governments for military aid, but official U.S. sources here said they had not been asked for military equipment.
"We know the horrors of war . . . and we have done our utmost to prevent war from engulfing the world, but all our efforts have been in vain insofar as our own frontier is concerned, where a powerful and unscrupulous opponent not caring for peace and peaceful methods has continually threatened us and even carried these threats into action," Nehru said.
"The time has come for us to realize fully this menace that threatens the freedom of our people and the independence of our country.
"I SAY EVEN though I realize no power can ultimately imperil the freedom we have won at so much sacrifice and cost to our people after long ages of foreign domination."
Nehru expressed confidence that "the final result of this conflict will be in our favor."
Jury Selection Begins In Billy Sol Estes Case
TYLER, Tex. — (UPI) — Defense and state attorneys today begin selecting a jury that will hear, for the first time, the sworn, documented story of Billie Sol Estes in his trial on state charges of theft and swindling.
Defense and state attorneys were set to pick over a 150-member panel.
Dist. Judge Otis T. Dunagan must rule on a defense motion to examine each juror separately from the rest of the panel. Chief defense attorney John D. Cofer of Austin, Tex., said yesterday there were cases in which a conviction had been reversed because jurors heard things discussed during the emaneling.
COFER, WHO said that publicity given the Estes case was an outrage, called for a continuance yesterday after Dunagan refused to ban news camera coverage of the trial.
Three defense witnesses said they did not know what the exact charges against Estes were. Dunagan then overruled the motion of continuance. The witnesses had testified they believed it would be difficult to obtain an impartial injury in Tyler.
Dunagan also rules on which of four counts against Estes will be brought to trial. Estes faced a four-count indictment charging him with theft, swindling and theft by bailee in connection with a $121,850 fertilizer storage tank deal with T. J. Wilson of Reeves County.
It was expected that Dunagan would pick the count involving a mortgage deal.
Bring it Back you Rascal you!
After rulings on preliminary motions, Estes will enter a formal plea of innocent.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — (UPI) Integration leaders said applications from three Negro college students would arrive today at the University of Alabama, attended only once in history by a Negro.
Negroes Apply At Alabama U.
An official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) said in Atlanta yesterday the applications had been sent by mail.
Earlier, SCLC President Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said five Negroes would apply for admission this week.
Andy Young, the group's program director, said yesterday two Negroes decided to wait until next year "for reasons of their own."
GOVERNOR-NOMINATE George Wallace met yesterday in Birmingham with state leaders, including Lt. Gov. Albert Boutwell, but he would not say whether the applications were discussed.
"I just had some meetings with people about various and sundry things," Wallace said, "including roads and legislative programs."
Wallace also had no comment about reports that he planned a state militia to prevent possible racial violence over integration.
"There have been a lot of reports in the newspapers that I was going to meet with aides here on this and that. I don't even know who these aides might be."
Young said the decision by two of the students to wait before seeking admission represented no change in plans, and that the group never discussed with students when to enroll.
HE SAID THE NAMES of the Negroes who applied would not be released until absolutely necessary.
Young said the move was to protect them from harassment.
The climate is too dangerous to make public the names, he said, and indicated it would be up to University officials to release them if they are announced at all.
Young said the integration group would like to see the applications handled as a normal school enrollment.
THE NEGROES presumably will seek admittance under a court order issued by Federal District Judge H. H. Grooms in 1956.
Grooms made the decision in a class action suit filed in behalf of Autherine Lucy, 26-year-old Negro secretary. She attended the school only three days and was expelled by trustees who said she claimed University officials allowed the riots that followed her admittance.
Neither Wallace, who has pledged to go to jail to prevent integration, nor Gov. John Patterson have publicly commented on the applications.
SCLC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rev. Wyatt Etae Walker said yesterday in Atlanta the integration group did not anticipate immediate trouble if the Negro applicants were identified, but added that violence was always possible in a hard-core southern state.
Alabama and South Carolina are the only two states in the union with no public school desegregation.
Official Notice
All persons interested in candidacy for unaffiliated representative to the ASC, or Freshman Class Office, must obtain candidate petitions from John Stuckey, ASC Elections Committee Chairman, VI 3-2550.
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1962
Completed petitions must be returned by 5:00 p.m., Friday, Oct.26.
Huge Military Buildup Progresses in Florida
MIAMI — (UPI) — A massive military buildup is in progress in Florida at a dozen bases today.
Planes, ships, men and munitions were on the move throughout the peninsula which juts southward to within 90 miles of the Cuban shore. Residents stood by in jittery speculation. Oldtimers had not seen such military activity since World War II ended.
Officials at the Florida military bases refused comment on bustling activities clearly discernible to outside observers.
The buildup began last week and was in full swing yesterday several hours before the President's radio and television report to the people last night.
Officials at Macdill Air Force Base strike command headquarters, near Tampa, began accepting "official calls only" on the telephone. Like other military installations, Macdill answered queries before the President spoke with explanations that the activities were "routine."
Ike Urges Responsibility
WASHINGTON - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, arguing for more responsibility in criticisms of President Kennedy's foreign policy:
"I think at this point no matter how bad a mistake of the past might be gauged by someone else, I think it is not the time to be badgering the administration on what it is going to do next."
Destroyers and submarines put to sea from Jacksonville and Key West yesterday to join other Navy craft dispatched from bases as far north as Norfolk, Va. The Key West Navy submarine base was left with only one destroyer and one submarine at dockside after the departure of 13 submarines and five destroyers.
Six destroyers departed from Mayport, near Jacksonville, putting out to sea in the wake of two other destroyers sent Sunday to rendezvous in Florida waters with the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise.
But the most activity was noted at the air bases where military aircraft of all descriptions landed and took off. They ranged from the secret U2 high altitude reconnaissance craft and the latest jett fighters to the big troop and cargo carriers and refueling tankers.
Contingents of Army foot soldiers were expected to arrive in Florida soon.
Outside observers noted these other confirmed signs of military buildup:
A battalion of Marines, reported to number 5,000, landed by troop vessel in Key West Friday.
A portable radar station was erected on Sugar Loaf Key, about 15 miles north of Key West.
At Jacksonville trucks moved munitions from the Navy ordnance installation at Cecil Field. Railroad officials said they had been advised to arrange priority for movement of three military trains through the Jacksonville yards.