First national Negro strike indicates weak beginning
DETROIT — (UPI) — The nation's first "general Negro strike," called to protest the ouster from Congress of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, happened today and seemed to be a total flop.
The three big auto companies, by far Detroit's largest employers of Negroes, reported normal
work attendance at all Detroit area factories.
A spokesman for Mayor Jerome P. Cavainaugh said there was "no unusual absenteeism" in the city's departments of Public Water, Water, and Parks and Recreation, all of which employ many Negroes.
CHARLES WOLFE, assistant
Indonesian court finds Sukarno guilty in coup
JAKARTA—(UPI)—The Indonesian Supreme Court said today that President Sukarno was directly involved in the abortive 1965 Communist coup attempt. The court demanded he be ousted by congress and tried as a traitor.
The demand was made in a 120-page report to congress released by the court today.
The report's intensive study of Sukarno's suspected involvement in the bloody coup attempt was based upon documents presented to congressional leaders earlier this month by Indonesian strongman Gen. Suharto.
Suharto said the documents contained "proof positive" Sukarno was involved in the Communist uprising. The court's report agreed.
The court's conclusions will be used by congress when it meets in special session next month to decide Sukarno's fate. Congress is Indonesia's highest constitutional body and legally appoints-or fires-the president.
school superintendent, said the public schools needed no more substitute teachers than usual, indicating teacher attendance was normal—perhaps even better than anticipated, Wolfe said, since a snowstorm slowed work-bound commuters.
Parliament last week unanimously urged congress to oust Sukarno and try him for high treason. Parliament is the legislative arm of congress, the latter being the larger of the two bodies.
The report was divided into two parts. The first concluded Sukarno had prior knowledge of the coup plot.
The second part dealt with Sukarno's responsibility for large scale abuses of state funds.
The car factories, the mainstream of Detroit's economic life, were the first to report.
General Motors, the biggest of all, said it had less than normal absenteeism at its Detroit area factories. Chrysler Corp., which employs more Negroes in Detroit than any other company, reported normal work attendance. So did Ford Motor Co.
The strike call originated in Detroit and its leaders were vague on whether they expected it to be felt outside the Detroit area. Detroit was the hub if not the only spot in which success appeared possible.
THE PLAN. devised after a civil rights meeting which featured black power spokesman Stokely Carmichael, appeared not to have spread much beyond the state of Michigan, if beyond the city of Detroit.
The strike was supported by the Detroit chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality and by the Rev. James E. Wadsworth, president of the Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Most other civil rights leaders opposed it.
Westmoreland escapes Saigon terrorist blasts
SAIGON—(UPI)—A Viet Cong mortar team struck for the first time from inside Saigon today, killing or wounding at least 51 men, women and children in terror shelling aimed at, but missing, the downtown headquarters of Gen. William C. Westmoreland, U.S. military commander in Vietnam.
The two male and one female Viet Cong terrorists lobbed three shells from a downtown attic at the Pasteur Street compound.
The first mortar shell landed on a warehouse roof in Westmoreland's heavily guarded compound
Lull in bombing lasts in Vietnam
WASHINGTON - (UPI) The Johnson administration continued the pause in U.S. air strikes over North Vietnam today in an obvious bid for a reciprocal move by Hanoi.
Administration sources said President Johnson had not decided how long the pause would last, but the word in Saigon was that it would continue on a day-to-day basis.
Officially, the White House, the State Department and the Defense Department would not comment on the bombing lull or even admit that there was one.
but did not explode. The second struck a Vietnamese airborne convoy 200 feet away, killing at least nine and wounding nine more of the troops.
N.Y. bishops oppose new abortion rule
NEW YORK—(UPI) — New York State's Roman Catholic hierarchy Sunday urged its 6.5 million members to actively oppose abortions.
The call came in a precedent-setting pastoral letter read at Roman Catholic Masses through the state. It was signed by all the bishops in New York's eight dioceses.
"Since laws which allow abortion violate the unborn child's God-given right, we are opposed to any proposal to extend them," the letter said.
The letter coincided with hearings on legislation aimed at liberalizing the state's 84-year-old abortion law.
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Daily Kansas Monday, February 13, 1967