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Integration Leaders Switch Emphasis from Registration
THE NEGROES arrested in yesterday's march were charged with parading without a permit, and 29 others have been jailed in earlier protest demonstrations.
Police Chief Jamie Moore, in an act unprecedented in the anti-segreation campaign now in its 18th day, made a personal plea at the voter school headquarters for the Negroes not to march.
Birmingham has a population of about 341,000 of which about 40 per cent is non white. About 10,000 Negroes are among nearly 70,000 registered voters.
Using a blank registration form. Bovel and other leaders drill Negroes in filling in the blanks.
"Now you know I don't have anything against your registering to vote." Moore said. He told the Negroes they would not be molested if they chose any other means of getting to the registrar's office except a march.
INTEGRATION WORKER James Bevel said he has been conducting classes for prospective Negro voters because of the "inequalities of segregated education."
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (UPI) — Negro leaders said more segregation protest demonstrations are planned for today but they will not be in the form of another voter registration march.
They said a march, similar to one yesterday which resulted in 16 arrests, would be useless today because the voting registrar's office is closed. The registrar's office is open Monday through Wednesday.
THE GROUP listened quietly, then 29 stepped out on the street. Thirteen later turned back when police stopped the leaders a block away. The rest were arrested.
One protested, "This is not a parade. We are going down to register to vote." In response to a police
Several hundred Negroes gathered in a nearby park to watch the march. Three were arrested for refusing police orders to leave.
tempt of a circuit court's no-demonstration injunction. About 100 other integrationists were still in jail. Others were released on bond.
question, he said he was aware of a court injunction prohibiting parades or other demonstrations.
THE REV. Martin Luther King, Jr., who has led the drive, remained in jail on charges of illegal parading. He faces a Monday hearing on whether he should be cited for con-
The voter march was similar to tactics used at Greenwood, Miss., earlier this month, and aimed the current local desegregation drive in a new channel. Previous demonstrations all took the form of picketing, protest marches on city hall and lunch counter sit-ins.
UNLESS THERE is a change in policy within the state, the committee said, "The federal government will be forced to answer this senseless challenge to its duly constituted authority with measures such as those recommended by the Civil Rights Commission."
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The commission said Tuesday that Mississippi is close to a "complete breakdown of law and order" and it recommended that President Kennedy cut off all federal funds to the state.
Gov. Ross Barnett declined comment on the commission's report.
The bi-racial advisory committee to the U.S. Rights Commission said the federal government cannot ignore the state's "gross irresponsibility, not to say subversion" in refusing to insure Negro rights.
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) - A civil rights advisory committee yesterday reported "the hour is very late" but there still is time for Mississippi to "return to common sense" on racial matters and thus avoid federal punishment.
Mrs. Wallis I. Schutt of Jackson, a white housewife who is chairman of the committee, said, "The committee is gratified that the commission has sent a special report to the President with recommendations for
"It IS WITH DEEP regret that we acknowledge the necessity for such federal action," she said. "However, we find that the existing conditions under which our Negro citizens must live are in the main intolerable, with a continuing deprivation of rights, and an ever-present threat of police brutality."
Committee Tells Mississippi Of Possible U.S. Action
executive action designed to force the leaders of this great sovereign state of Mississippi to face up to their responsibilities. . .
The committee said Mississippi's government has "brazenly espoused racist mythology as official policy, thus serving notice on some 42 per cent of the population that they are inferior in the eyes of the state.
"It has encouraged the people of Mississippi to disregard laws and judicial decisions of the United States, and to place state loyalty above national loyalty. It has fostered a spirit of enmity towards our duly constituted national government, based on false ideas of federal-state relationships in our American system of government.
"Mississippi," the committee reported, "should regard the commission's special report as a warning signal. If we react constructively, there may still be time to forestall the recommended federal action, although the hour is very late."
Argentina Rounds Up Frondizi Supporters
BUENOS AIRES — (UPI) — The government today arrested seven former top aides of ousted President Arturo Frondizi and issued orders for seizure of nine others.
The Marine guard at President Jose M. Guido's suburban home was strengthened and orders for additional security precautions suggested a new political storm may be brewing in Argentina.
IN A DAWN communique, the government termed its roundup of Frondizi sympathizers a security measure. It said the men involved were "Marxist-Lennists." They included Dr. Jacobo Gringanz, former personal physician to Frondizi, and Arnaldo Musich, his economic advisor.
Guido remained in Olivos yesterday instead of going to his office as usual. He was reported suffering from what was described as a "muscular indisposition."
Reinforced police patrols were posted in downtown Buenos Aires last night for the second successive
night, and reports from the provinces said an infantry regiment in Bahia Blanca had been alerted.
BAHIA BLANCA. 350 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, is the city nearest the big Puerto Belgrano naval base which was the principal center of anti-government resistance in the Navy revolt earlier this month.
Apprehension over the unexplained military and police precautions was heightened yesterday by reports that the leaders of the armed forces were holding their biggest meeting since the revolt.
Police Hit Pickpocket Ralley
CAIRO — (UPI) — Egypt's pick-
pockets convoked a seminar at
Ahmed El-Bakkash's coffee house
this week to exchange trade secrets.
When the clandestine conference adjourned, a group of the "delegates" flashed police badges and arrested 25 of Egypt's most-wanted pickpockets.
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