Lumumba's Death Stirs World Crisis
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo—(UPI)—The Katanga government announced today that former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba and two of his aides were killed by natives yesterday three days after their reported escape from a farmhouse jail.
(In the UN Russia accused Belgium and its allies, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the UN Congo command today with the murder of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba. After hearing the Soviet charge the Security Council adjourned until Wednesday to let governments reappear the situation in the Congo.)
The death of pro-Communist Lumumba raised fears that the Congo was approaching all-out civil war.
Goderfroid Munongo, interior minister of Katanga province, said the three men have been identified beyond any possible doubt and that their deaths had been "definitely established."
Monday, February 13, 1961
"THEIR BODIES HAVE BEEN BURIED immediately at a place we do not wish to reveal," he said.
Munongo said the villagers who slew Lumumba and his aides acted "excusably because they thought the fugitives were in possession of arms."
Yesterday, the Katanga government claimed that two rifles the fugitives allegedly had taken with them in their reported escape had been found with the wrecked car in which they supposedly had fled.
LUMUMBA AND HIS AIDES were taken from their confinement at the Congolese Army camp near Thysville in Leopoldville province and turned over to the custody of Katanga President Moise Tshombe last Jan. 17. Tshombe was Lumumba's bitterest enemy. The three were beaten severely at the time of the transver. Efforts by United Nations officials to check on their condition were rejected by Tshombe.
Munongo said he flew to the scene of the deaths this morning to investigate the reports.
"Because of the few people capable of identifying the three bodies. Minister Kibwe and Minister Kitenga went with me," he said.
Munongo said the three men were killed Sunday morning by the inhabitants of a small village near the place where the getaway car was found — 27 miles from their prison in the Mutshatsha region of southwest Katanga. The scene is about 340 miles from Elisabethville.
"We were accompanied by a doctor charged with establishing the official death and issuing a certificate to make absolutely certain it was Lumumba, Okito and Mpolo."
The Katanga authorities announced Friday that Lumumba and his two aides fled their prison after overpowering their guards. The announcement came on the heels of widespread rumors that they already were dead.
UPI CORRESPONDENT DIETER STEINER was the first newsman to visit the reported Lumumba farmhouse prison at Mungulnga.
Steiner said the shack in which the three men were reported held was 15 feet by nine. It was sparsely furnished with a double bed, four chairs and a table.
All three men slept in the same bed, and were exercised for one hour each morning and evening, handcuffed all the time, according to Belgian Capt. Julien Gat, who commanded the Katanga gendarmes guarding Lumumba.
Gat said they all were in good health and had been fed the same food as his men.
The shack had only one door. Two men — a soldier and a policeman — sat in front of it at all times and the one window was barred with wooden slats.
After wriggling through the hole, Gat said, the three prisoners armed themselves with three branches, stole up behind their guards and knocked them unconscious. Katanga authorities believe the guards were asleep at the time.
THE WALLS OF THE HUT were built of sandstone. Gat said that some time Thursday night Lumum and his two companions forced a hole through the side away from the guards with a piece of iron. It was not known where they got the iron.
Gat told Steiner that Lumumba, Mpolo and Okito stole past the hut where 14 other guards were sleeping and pushed a nearby police car about a quarter of a mile down the dirt road linking Mungulnga with Elisabethville.
"I saw both guards and there was no doubt each had been struck heavily on the back of the head." Steiner said. "They said they were tied with torn up blankets after being slugged."
As Lumumba's death was announced in Elisabethville, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold made public a report from his Congo representative, Rajeshwar Dayal of India. It said a serious civil war situation already had developed in Katanga province.
Dayal reported that Katanga authorities now have a military force estimated at 5,000 men. "which is well equipped and strengthened by non-Congolese officers and sub-officers now estimated to be some 400 strong."
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The report did not give the nationality of the non-Congolese, but recent reports have said that most of them are Belgians or other Europeans.
THEY STARTED THE ENGINE by shorting the ignition and drove about 30 miles from Mungulunga before losing their way, Gat said. The car was found abandoned and wrecked on a dead-end road.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Talk, Act on Civil Rights Seven Hold 'Check-In'
By Fred Zimmerman
Campus police arrested two Lawrence men early Monday morning for stealing a garden hose. They were apprehended in a parking lot after trying to evade police.
Seven students, four of them Negroes, were refused service at the Harbor tavern Friday night. A member of the group said he intends to file charges today.
The tavern, formerly called the Downbeat, is at 1031 Massachusetts St.
MARION S. BARRY, Memphis,
Tenn., graduate student, said he
plans to talk to County Attorney
Wesley Norwood this afternoon
about filing a complaint against the
tavern.
Barry said that after the group sat down, manager came to their
Campus police received a stolen car report late Saturday night from W. O. Scott, 1022 Ohio. The car, valued at $300, was recovered and claimed by the Lawrence Police at 14th and Vermont.
Theft, Injuries Plague Police
Injuries, explosions, and thefts plagued police here this weekend.
plagued police here this weekend. Campus police were called to the parking lot of Carruth-O'Leary residence hall Friday afternoon to investigate a report that a student had broken his leg in a football game. Gary McCabe, Salina freshman, was admitted and released from Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Lawrence police investigated an explosion and fire early this morning at the Skyline Trailer Court. Lawrence G. Powell, Overland Park sophomore, suffered burns on his face and hands as a result of the unexplained explosion.
table and said, "I'm sorry, but I can't serve you."
"We reserve the right to refuse service," he said the manager answered.
"Why?" Barry asked.
"Has it got anything to do with race?" Barry asked.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe spoke at a breakfast for Campus Chest solicitors Saturday.
THE FUND RAISING phase of the Campus Chest will begin today and run through Saturday when the Dave Brubeck Quartet plays.
"WE JUST DON'T SERVE Negroes," Barry said the manager replied.
Barry said the young woman who was with him asked the manager if he served Orientals.
"The manager told us he served Orientals 'part-time'," Barry said.
"I'm not sure what that means. Maybe it means if they come in by themselves he will serve them. He didn't explain. He was too busy telling me I couldn't stay."
"You are ambassadors of good will
"I we can raise one dollar for each student on campus, we will have the largest Campus Chest in the nation," he said.
Denis Kennedy, Lawrence graduate student who also was in the group, said the manager told the group he would call the police if they did not leave.
"We didn't want to have a sit-in," Kennedy said. "So we left." were there only about 10 minut
BARRY SAID, "I want to sit down with Mr. Norwood and find out what it is possible for me to do. I intend to file charges if I can."
Kennedy said, "If this case does not decide the issue, the Civil Rights Council will find another case. We will continue until we get a legal decision."
Tom Heitz, Kansas City, Mo., junior and a member of the CRC, said the National Association for Advancement of Colored People terminology for this sort of action is a "check-in."
"It IS JUST a test of a place of business to learn their policy about serving Negroes," Heitz said.
Douglas Mayor, Kansas City junior and chairman of the Campus Chest drive, said today that 40 percent of the funds raised will go to the World University Service. The goal of the drive is $5,500.
Chest Goal Is $5,500; Forty Per Cent to WUS
A sit-in was held Jan. 12 at another downtown bar. Nineteen students were detained and questioned by Lawrence police. No legal action resulted.
"Half of this 40 per cent donated to WUS will go to Chile for relief and rehabilitation of the universities after that tragic earthquake that destroyed two thirds of the country." Mayor said.
The remaining sixty per cent will be given to CARE, 10 per cent; Committee on Friendly Relations among foreign students, 10 per cent; emergency fund for next year's budget, 10 per cent; Near East Foundation, 5 per cent; national charities, 10 per cent; KU travel and scholarship fund, 10 per cent and 5 per cent to the wives and children of the football players from California State Polytechnic College who died in an airplane crash last November.
"This is the only charitable organization that appeals to students for money out of nine months of the school year," Mayor said.
on the campus as well as across the nation," he said.
THE CHANCELLOR TOLD them the campaign was in their hands and that its success depended on them.
The WUS is an international or-
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe
organization with 41 national committees. Its purpose is to help students wherever it feels the need exists.
It has given scholarships to Hungarian refugee students, African medical students and Algerian refufee students. It also established a development fund for cooperative projects in Asia and Africa.
il Rights Shaffer, Caws Uphold Sit-Ins
Prof. Shaffer said:
The morality of sit-ins was upheld by both Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, and Peter Caws, associate professor of philosophy at the Current Events Forum Friday.
"There is no such thing as the right of an individual to refuse service to anyone. A man's business is not his private home. There are
Peter Caws
many rules and regulations that govern the way a person must conduct his business."
Both speakers agreed that sit-ins must be conducted in a non-violent manner.
"There are two kinds of sit-ins," Prof. Cawls said. "The first involves cases where no law is violated and the second involves cases where the law is violated. The first kind is perfectly all right."
"There is a very important difference between segregation and discrimination. No law in the world can prevent you from discriminating. You can dislike anyone you please. There is a law which prevents you from segregation, which is the outward manifestation of discrimination."
"Segregation is wrong from every point of view," Prof. Shaffer said. "Whether a man's soul is white or black has no relation to his skin.
When asked if housing values go down when Negroes move in a neighborhood Prof. Shaffer replied that studies prove that in most cases they don't.
"Supposing that values did go down. The problem could be solved with laws which would allow Negroes to live in all sections of town. All property values can't go down."
Prof. Caws said that integration will not bring universal acceptance of the Negro.
"It is idealistic to assume that non-discrimination follows integration," he said.
Second WC Film Slated Today at 4
The second film series of the new Western Civilization program will be shown at 4 p.m. today in Room 3, Bailey.
The films are: "Man Who Changed the World" and "Meaning of the Industrial Revolution."
The films follow the second semester readings in the Western Civilization program.