Daily Hansan
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61st Year. No. 69
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, Jan. 10, 1964
Riots Resume in Canal Zone; Three U.S. Soldiers Dead
BALBOA, Canal Zone — (UPI) — Heavy fighting broke out again today between rioting Panamanian mobs and U.S. Army troops at the border separating the Canal Zone from Panama City.
About 300 rock-throwing Panamanians gathered on the Panama City side of the border at mid-day to attack American soldiers on the other side. The soldiers used tear gas and rifle fire to keep the rioters in check.
OTHER STREET mobs attacked the U.S.-owned Tropical Radio Office in downtown Panama City near the plush Hotel Panama. They previously attacked and destroyed the American-owned All America Cables Office.
Panamanian riots chased Americans off the streets of Panama City. They turned over and burned more than 100 cars owned by Americans distinguished by U.S. license plates.
Zone authorities at mid-day put the casualty toll since last night's outbreak of savage street fighting at 14 dead, including three American soldiers, and 224 injuries, of whom 34 were American troops.
All of the American casualties were on the zone side of the border and resulted from mob attacks, American authorities said.
PANAMARIANS CLAIMED many of their injured here and in Colon suffered bayonet wounds. There was no way to check the claim.
New anti-American rioting broke out just before dawn with a mob attack on the U.S. Embassy in Panama City. Other riots were reported elsewhere in the republic, including Colon.
In Washington President Johnson conferred by telephone today with President Chiari of Panama in an effort to halt the mushrooming violence in the Panama Canal Zone.
Johnson also informed Chiari that he was sending a top-flight American diplomatic delegation headed by assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann to Panama immediately.
Weather
Fair weather in the upper 20s is forecast for tonight. This afternoon's expected high is 40. Skies tomorrow will remain partly cloudy and temperatures should remain the same. The weather will be fair and warm.
Washington officials maintained a studied silence on Panama's announcement that it had severed relations with the United States in the wake of rioting along the border separating the American-controlled Panama Canal Zone and Panama proper.
White House press secretary Pierre Salinger declined comment on whether the United States had received formal notification of any such action.
Saigon Blast Wounds 3 Americans
SAIGON—(UPI) A bomb believed to have been planted by communist Viet Cong terrorists next to a bar near Saigon airport killed two Vietnamese civilians and injured seven others including a U.S. Air Force servant Thursday night.
A U.S. military spokesman said the bomb went off about 9:30 p.m. causing extensive damage to a long low wooden building which housed the "Bamboo Bar," frequented by American servicemen stationed at the airport and the adjoining private apartment.
THE FRONT WALL of the bar was blown out and the front section of the apartment roof caved in from the force of the blast, the spokesman said.
Killed were an 11-year-old girl belonging to the family in the apartment and a Vietnamese man in the bar.
The U.S. Air Force sergeant, sitting in the bar at the time of the blast, was wounded in the neck by flying debris and was being treated at the American Navy hospital in Saigon. His condition was listed as fair today.
THE SPOKESMAN said two other Americans also injured were Air Force and Army enlisted men. They were hit by falling debris when they rushed into the bar and apartment following the explosion to pull out the wounded and dead.
One was hit in the head and the other in the back. Both were released from the hospital after treatment of slight injuries.
Among the six Vietnamese injured was an army captain.
American students were said to have torn down the Panamanian flag left by Panama student marchers at the school and massive rioting followed. U.S. Army authorities declared martial law in the Zone. Chiari, charging American officials with "aggression against the Panamanian people," ordered his ambassador home from Washington in what he termed a "suspension of relations" between his country and the United States.
Ambassador Augusto Guillermo Arango confirmed that his government had called him home "for consultations." He said he would leave for Panama City late today, but that the rest of the embassy staff would remain in Washington
There was no immediate comment from the White House or the State Department on Chiari's action, but it was noted that Secretary of State Dean Rusk failed to put in an appearance as scheduled at a woman's National Press Club dinner and presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger left the dinner early.
Shortly before 2 a.m. the Defense Department issued a statement giving the U.S. version of the circumstances surrounding the rioting in the Zone.
ARTHUR SYLVESTER, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, said the American Canal Zone police were forced to fire "in self-protection" on "disorderly mobs" which had invaded the zone and attacked them under cover of darkness.
Peace Corps to Begin Forums
Terry Brungardt, a returning Peace Corps volunteer who served in Bornco, will be the featured speaker at the first in a series of forums sponsored by the KU Peace Corps.
The forum will be at 2:15 p.m. Sunday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Information regarding the Peace Corps will be made available to those attending the forum.
Boyd Urges Students To Go Into Politics
College students should enter into the political arena and exert their influence if they care about their future, McDill "Huck" Boyd, First District Republican chairman, told about 125 KU students last night.
Boyd spoke at a meeting of the KU chapter of the Collegiate Young Republicans.
KANSAS CITY—(UPI) -GI killers George Ronald York and James Douglas Latham will be shown on television in U.S. District Court Jan. 20 in an action unique in judicial history.
Good citizens should care about their government because 30 cents out of every dollar eventually finds its way to the tax collector in Washington. Boyd said.
A television tape will be submitted as evidence in a new application by the pair for a writ of habeas corpus to escape the Kansas gallows for the murder of Otto Ziegler. 62-year-old railroad man, near Wallace, Kan., June 9, 1961.
FT SHOWS the confessed killers of seven persons in six states admitting the Ziegler slaying to a newsman in a television interview at Salt Lake City, where they were arrested June 11. 1961.
"IF A PERSON wants to know and cares where his money goes, he should get into politics and help make decisions on how it is spent," he added.
Boyd said that in the last 30 years the government has come to believe it can spend one's money better
Court to See News Tape As Evidence
Rov Cook, Kansas City lawyer handling the case without remuneration, said the television film was hown in the vicinity of Russell, Kan., where York and Latham were convicted of first degree murder in Ziegler's death Nov. 7, 1961.
COOK SAID the petition alleges police permission for the television interview and showing of the film violated the pair's constitutional rights.
YORK. 20, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Latham, 21, of Mauriceville, Tex., went on the killing spree after escaping from the disciplinary barracks at Ft. Hood, Tex., in May, 1561. When captured they confessed taking 7 lives in Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana.
Judge Arthur J, Stanley, Jr., set the hearing. It will be the third time he has heard an appeal for the pair.
than the person can spend it himself. This feeling dominates the Democratic party today, he said.
Politics is the arena where decisions about people's future is decided, Boyd told his audience. Political participation is about the only effective way to make one's influence felt in making a better world.
ALTHOUGH THE people have to protect their pocketbooks, they also have to meet their social responsibilities. Areas which need action are education, mental health and roads which "speed tourists across the state so fast that they don't even have time to spend their money," he said.
These problems must be met at the state level to erect "a barrier against federal control." he said.
He called the Republican party the "party of responsibility" in solving these problems.
BOYD PREFACED his speech with a short tribute to Harry Darby, Republican national committeeman, who resigned his position Tuesday because of ill health.
"He has served Kansas for 28 years with honor and distinction," Boyd said.
"I have not the slightest idea who will replace Darby," he added.
University Concert Scheduled Sunday
The KU University Chorus and Orchestra will present a combined performance at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
The groups will present Te Deum Laudamus by Purcell and Dettinger Te Deum by Handel.
The program, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts. will feature 274 members of the KU Chorus. The group is directed by Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education.
No admission will be charged.
Book on Assassination Goes on Sale Monday
"Four Days," an historical account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, will be sold Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the information booth on Javayhawk Boulevard.
The book, compiled by United Press International and American Heritage magazine, contains photographs and articles of Kennedy's death and the days which followed.
Members of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic society, will be selling the book. It will cost $2.
Persons who have not already ordered the book may purchase one as long as the supply lasts.
Museum Menagerie Re-opened; New Wing for the Birds
A collection of 461 varieties of Kansas birds went on display in KU's Museum of Natural History this week after being closed for a year.
The bird display was closed while a new wing was added to the north end of Dyche Hall. The display is still not complete and about 50 more birds are planned to be added in the future.
THE SYNOPTIC collection-a display giving the overall view of the birds-is used by persons seeking to verify the identification of birds seen in the field or around their homes, said Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the museum.
SOME OF THE birds in the exhibit are 60-70 years old, according to George P. Young, taxidermist. A few of them were prepared in the first years of the museum, in the 1900's, and used in the first displays, he said.
The recently installed exhibits include one of the meadowlark, the state bird of Kansas, contributed by the late Judge Hugh Means; birds of a homestead environment in West-Central Kansas, contributed by the late W. C. Simons, and the diorama of the whistling swan at sunrise in a marsh along the Marais des Cygnes River in Linn county, contributed by the late Frank Hodges of Olathe.
The displays are particularly valuable to students in biology and zoology although art students frequently use them for sketches. J. Knox Jones, assistant director of the museum, commented. Perhaps the nearest bird exhibit comparable to the KU display is in the Denver Museum of Natural History, Jones said.
The Museum of Natural History is open on week days from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and on Sundays and holidays from 1:30 to 4:45 p.m.
NATURE UNDER GLASS—Providing a study for art students is one of the advantages offered by the Museum of Natural History's newly opened display of 431 native Kansas birds. The
display had been closed to the public for a year during the recently completed Museum construction. The exhibit is located on the sixth floor of the museum.