India Approves Soviet Arms Ban
GENEVA—(UPI)—India announced its support of a Soviet disarmament today in a move that startled the West.
Indian disarmament negotiator V. C. Trevedi said his government favors Moscow's "nuclear umbrella" proposal, which calls for the destruction of all nuclear weapons—except a limited number retained for defense by the United States and Russia—as a first step toward disarmament.
THE WEST has rejected this plan, chiefly because the Russians have offered no guarantee of verification of weapons destruction.
"India views with favor the principle contained in the (Soviet foreign minister) Gromyko proposal of a nuclear umbrella and suggests that the committee discussions will proceed more fruitfully if this thesis is accepted by all of us," Trevedi said.
U. S. negotiator Adrian S. Fisher asked Tsarapkin just how many and what kind of weapons Russia proposed to retain under its plan and what inspection measures it would accept to prevent cheating.
THE UNITED STATES favors a plan for "balanced disarmament" under which the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the West would be destroyed by stages—30 per cent in the first stage and 35 per cent in each of two succeeding stages.
Earlier, Brazil accused the United States, Britain and Russia of acting like a "nuclear directorate" and criticized their failure to move ahead in disarmament negotiations.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Joao Araujo Castro, in a hard-hitting speech to the 17-nation disarmament conference, charged that the three nuclear powers have ignored neutralist proposals and at times have paid scant attention to the conference itself.
Soviet spokesman Semyon K. Tsarapkin expressed delight at the Indian statement. He called on the West to "agree in principle" to Moscow's plan at once.
HE SAID THERE should be more "sense of urgency" in the disarmament talks. He said the major powers simply are repeating the same ideas over and over.
Brazil is one of the eight unaligned countries participating in the arms talk. Araujo, who came to Geneva for the United Nations Trade Conference which opened yesterday, was the second foreign minister to address the disarmament group. Britain's R. A. Butler spoke to the delegates last month.
The Brazilian said it is no longer possible to be too hopeful about the conference as was the case when it resumed two months ago.
SINCE THE CONFERENCE resumed in January, the negotiations have made no concrete progress. The co-chairmen, Russia and the United States, have failed so far to agree on an agenda for direct bargaining.
Araujo said 1964 should be a year of progress on disarmament and not "the year of stalemate, which it may well turn out to be."
He said the delegates should not delude themselves into thinking they are making progress on the U.N. General Assembly's request to negotiate "with a sense of urgency" a complete nuclear test ban treaty.
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ARAUJO CRITICIZED the United States, Britain and Russia for "by-passing" the Geneva conference in working out last year's partial test ban agreement.
"Can we find here any sense of urgency, on this matter?" he asked. "And, what is more serious, can we find any trace of negotiations being carried on? There have been no discussions on a complete test ban since the conference resumed Jan. 21."
"They chose . . . to act as if they were a nuclear directorate," he said.
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The Brazilian said it was "just indulging in cold war tactics" to try to pin down the responsibility for the lack of progress, but he added "there is no concealing the fact that world opinion is disappointed."
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Jacksonville Units Brace For New Racial Violence
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. —(UPI)— Reinforced police units here braced for the possibility of new racial violence today following a bloody night of demonstrations in which whites were beaten, slashed and shot.
Hundreds of anxious whites telephoned police headquarters this morning, asking if it were safe to venture out onto the streets. They were told that order had been restored.
A Negro woman was killed by gunfire during the height of last night's disturbance in the city's Negro area. Roving gangs of Negroes hurled bricks, bottles and rocks at whites who ventured into the area. Order was finally restored by no-
Order was finally restored by police units about 1:30 a.m. (EST).
SEVERAL STREETS in the Negro section were littered with broken
POLICE ARRESTED 127 persons yesterday afternoon and last night. Sixty-five of them were convicted of unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct in city court trials that ran until 3 a.m. today.
Police Chief Luther Reynolds cancelled days off for the police force and special 45-man emergency unit was on standby alert to move in if new violence flared.
glass, bricks and other debris from last night's violence.
State troopers sped to an expressway leading through the section and blocked all traffic from entering the area. Reinforced police patrols gradually restored order and City Police Capt. Leslie Anderson said around 1:30 a.m. (EST) that "all is quiet."
IT WAS THE FIRST such violence in the state's second largest city, near the Georgia border, since a 1960 racial flareup when organized bands of Negro youths staged hit-and-run violence strikes through the city.
The gangs last night attacked motorists and pedestrians—all white, with one apparent exception. Three sailors, including two Negroes were fired upon by a Negro man as they sat in a parked car. Two of the sailors were wounded slightly.
A Negro woman, Jonnie Mae Chappell, was fatally shot in the stomach from a passing car as she searched for her purse outside a suburban grocery. Witnesses were unable to identify the car or its occupants.
BILLY JAMES, a 25-year-old white man, said his car was forced to the curb by a carload of Negroes
and he was dragged out, tied to a tree and slashed with razors.
A bullet creased the head of Carlos Gonzales, a Cuban, as he drove through the section where the Chappell woman was killed.
Margarita Robena, riding with Gonzales, said she saw a crowd of Negroes when the shot was fired.
A white youth walking through the Negro section was beaten by three young Negroes wielding lead pipes and a hospital spokesman said his head wounds required 10 stitches. A white man was "quite well beaten, including kicks in the chest, many abrasions on the face and hemorrhage of the left eye," according to doctors.
Ferguson Approves CRCC Demonstration
A NUMBER OF PERSONS were injured by flying glass during the downtown demonstration yesterday afternoon which erupted into a brick and bottle throwing melee.
THE TORCH lighting ceremony will take place on the east steps of the Capitol building. The torch then
Atty. Gen. William Ferguson said last night he will be "heartily" in favor of the civil rights demonstration planned for the Greek Weektorch lighting ceremony in Topeka, Saturday.
"I was a Kansas University fraternity man. Because there may be inequities in the charter or rules of some of the fraternities or sororities, this should not militate against all of them. However, I feel that if inequities do exist they should be brought to light and civil rights demonstrations, in my view, are an excellent way to call attention to the problem, and I am heartily in favor of such a demonstration either at KU or at the torch lighting ceremony."
In a telephone interview last night, Ferguson, who will light the torch at a ceremony which will be picketed by members of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC), said:
will be relayed by KU fraternity men from Topeka to the Campanile where the annual chariot races will begin.
The torch lighting, which is scheduled to be televised, will begin at 11 a.m.
Bert Rinkel, Scott City junior and a member of the CRCC steering committee, said that the CRCC plans to have about 100 demonstrators at Topeka.
The pickets will stand in silent protest while the torch is lit, Rinkel said.
FERGUSON, A Republican candidate for governor, graduated from KU with a major in history. While at KU, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Anderson said 127 persons were arrested during the afternoon demonstration. Trials began at 7 p.m. (EST) and ran until 3 a.m. Among those tried, 65 were convicted of unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct charges with sentences ranging from one week to 15 days in jail and fines from $25 to $50. Eleven of the defendants were acquitted.
Two years ago, Ferguson lit a torch for a relay from Topeka. Then, only members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon participated in the relay. This year, fraternity men from all the KU chapters will carry the torch a certain distance.
"This is my second time lighting the torch, and I am happy to do it again." Ferguson said.
U.S.Ambassador Stabbed in Tokyo
TOKYO—(UPI) — U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer was stabbed in the leg today by a 19-year-old Japanese man who police said was mentally retarded. Embassy officials said the four-inch wound was serious but not critical.
Reischauer, 53-year-old former Harvard professor, underwent surgery for more than two and one-half hours to probe and stitch the wound in his right thigh. He was given a transfusion because of "considerable" loss of blood.
Reischauer was saved from possible further injury by two Americans who wrestled with his assailant, Kowa Shiotani, held him until police arrived, and then gave first aid to the ambasador.
POLICE SAID Shiotani had been a mental patient in his home city of Numazu, 100 miles from Tokyo. They said he appeared to have several grievances against the United States for its postwar policy in Japan.
The government expressed regret
Police said Shiotani told them he also had poured gasoline on a rug inside a U.S. embassy house in January. They said he had been arrested on suspicion of arson but released.
Today, Shiotani climbed a wall and entered the embassy compound. He approached Reischauer as the ambassador was walking out of the buildings on his way to lunch.
for the incident, the latest in a series of political stabbings.
Reischauer was born in Japan of American missionary parents and speaks Japanese fluently.
"I was getting ready to leave the chancery and saw the ambassador coming down the stairs. I started to open the door but the ambassador beat me to it. The ambassador then stepped out.
JOHN FERCHAK of Fairfax, Va. one of the Americans who seized the youth, described the scene that followed:
"At the same time, right at the doorway, out of nowhere came this
man into the building. He brushed against the ambassador. The man came in and the ambassador said, 'Who is this man?'
"I LOOKED AT him and saw the knife in his hand. I grabbed him from the back, forcing him to the floor and forced the knife from his hand. The knife was a short one with a triangular blade."
Another Marine guard, Cpl. Lester L. Wells, of Eaton Rapids, Mich., also assisted.
A Marine guard, Sgt. Carl D. Macek of San Diego, Calif., helped subdue Shiotani.
FERCHAK THEN drove Reischauer to a Japanese hospital a short
Weather
One to three inches of snow forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
distance from the embassy building, Reischauer went immediately into surgery. An embassy official said he was in the operating room within five minutes after the stabbing.
Temperatures tonight will be in the 20's with overcast skies, tomorrow's high will be in the low 30's with skies cloudy.
The hospital's Japanese chief surgeon, Kei Mikanagi, said the six-inch knife penetrated about four inches into Reischauer's leg. It went in two inches, struck a bone, and then went another two inches around the bone, he said.
The wound was about halfway between the knee and hip joint on the outside of Reischauer's right leg.
Davis stood by as the Japanese doctors performed the surgery.
U. S. NAVY Surgeon Capt. G. M. Davis of Bixby, Okla., who was flown by helicopter to the hospital after the operation began, said Reischauer would have to remain in the hospital today and tomorrow.
An embassy spokesman said the wound would take about a month to heal.
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Negroes have held sit-ins at downtown hotels and restaurants for the past two weeks and Mayor Hayden Burns during the past weekend made a "special police" of about 400 firemen. Firebombs were hurled Sunday night at a campaign office of Burns, a candidate for governor. Burns blamed the uprisings on his political opponents who denied the accusation.
THE CURRENT DEMONSTRATIONS followed the disbanding of the city's bi-racial committee which said it had been unable to bring about desegregation of downtown hotels and restaurants. The committee, appointed after the 1960 violence, had negotiated the integration of many public buildings such as the city auditorium, sports colosseum and Gator Bowl stadium.
Racial Strife ToBe Discussed
The historical setting of the civil rights revolution will be discussed tonight by John Hope Franklin, visiting humanities series lecturer, at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Prof. Franklin, a 49-year-old Oklahoman, is chairman of the history department at Brooklyn College in New York City. Next fall he will be on the history department staff at the University of Chicago.
Prof. Franklin has written eight books about the history of the South, and many articles appearing in historical journals.
Time magazine, in their January 3 issue, included Prof. Franklin in a full-color section devoted to about 30 distinguished American Negroes.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fisk University, Prof. Franklin received his doctorate from Harvard in 1941.
He has taught at several universities and was recently visiting lecturer at a Seminar in American Studies at Cambridge. He has twice served as professor at the Salzburg (Austria) Seminar in American Studies.
President Kennedy appointed Prof. Franklin to a 3-year term on the Board of Foreign Scholarships.
In addition to tonight's lecture, Prof. Franklin will speak on "The Past in The Future of The South" this afternoon at 4 p.m. in the Javahawk Room of the Kansas Union.
After his visit to KU, Prof. Franklin will fly to Hyderabad, India, to represent the United States at the opening of the American History Research Center at Osmania University.