Brown trial adjourned
BEL AIR, Md. (UPI)—The explosion death of a black militant and his companion resulted Tuesday in the adjournment of the riot trial of H. Rap Brown who was thought for a time to be the unidentified victim.
At a late afternoon news conference, Assistant State Medical Examiner Werner Spitz ended speculation by saying his examination of the shattered body of a moustached Negro in his late 20s or early 30s had convinced him it was not the 26-year-old Brown.
"From what remained of the ears, nose and hairline it is possible to exclude a certain person —H. Rap Brown."
There was an earlier report by a state police spokesman that one of three identifications found on the body after the Monday night blast was that of Brown but this was later denied.
Walter Lively, a Maryland civil rights worker, identified the other victim as Ralph E. Featherstone, former program director of Brown's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Lively said he also viewed the other body and it was not Brown. Brown's attorney William E. Knistler said he too was sure it
Fashions aid world rapport
HONOLULU (UPI) — Some choose to march to protest for peace, but Mrs. Lola Stone does it through fashion.
Mrs. Stone is the founder of Fashions for Peace and Fashions Pacifica, non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting international understanding through the presentation of ethnic costumes from all over the world.
The attractive blonde mother of two started Fashions for Peace in New York City in 1965 with "just a handful of outfits and a lot of determination."
When she stepped down as director last year, Fashions for Peace had three collections of costumes, each with about 30 outfits from Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Iran, Cambodia and South American countries.
"I hope that these exhibits of dress from different countries generate international enthusiasm and understanding," said Mrs. Stone.
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was not Brown.
Spitz sent a part of a hand found at the scene to the FBI headquarters in Washington for positive identification. Every bone in the man's body was shattered, his face blown away and his extremities scattered over a wide distance from tremendous impact of an explosive device that Spitz said was located in front of the driver on the floor board.
The doctor was unsure of how the device was detonated and did not rule out the fact that it might have been detonated from outside the car. The car was heading south from Bel Air toward Baltimore and was about a quarter of a mile in the country when the blast occurred.
State police late Tuesday released five names found on identification cards in the car wreckage. Police said a check of local police stations across the country showed persons with these names had been arrested on a variety of charges, including bombing.
The names were: William Henry Rogers, Selma, Ala., listed on a Selective Service card; Rev. C. B. Robinson, Atlanta, Ga., on
a Social Security card; on Will Rogers, Enfield, N.C., on a library card; Kacheby Robinson, on a Navy service card; and William Herman Payne, on a birth certificate from Covington, Ky.
Police said they also found a bank card listing the Afro American Society of Atlanta and the name William H. Payne.
Defense attorney Carl Broege said late Tuesday he was "99 per cent sure" the two deaths were murder. "Fatherstone was not the type of guy to travel around with explosives," Broege said.
Kunstler said Brown was reported by his wife to have left his New York home Monday for Maryland. The attorney said he had not heard from his client since, but there were reports in Bel Air that he had been seen in the vicinity since Judge Harry E. Dyer opened the trial Monday morning.
Both Kunstler and Prosecutor William Yates said they thought the explosion deaths—Kunstler called them "a bombing"—would affect the trial. Kunstler said he would revise the questions to be asked prospective jurors, and Yates said he thought the atmosphere of the town might affect witnesses.
Senate extends'65 voting act to include six Northern states
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate voted Tuesday to extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act to parts of six Northern states, including most of New York City.
At the same time, the Senate again refused to exempt any of the seven Southern states now covered by the act, rejecting an amendment which would have freed all but South Carolina and Georgia.
The Senate adopted an amendment to the proposed five-year extension of the act which would cover non-Southern counties which in the 1968 elections had less than 50 per cent of the voting age population registered or voting.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., a veteran advocate of civil rights, argued that the amendment was a "placebo . . . to make us feel better" by applying the bill nationwide.
temps to disenfranchise voters because of race, creed or color.
The amendment, offered by Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., did not affect continued coverage of the seven Southern states, but would extend coverage to three voting districts in Alaska, --, 11, 12, 16; Apache County, Ariz.; Imperial County, Calif.; Elmore County, Idaho; Wheeler County, Ore.; and the Bronx, Kings, and New York counties in New York.
Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., said he had called registration officials in Wheeler County and told Cooper his figures were wrong. Hatfield said he was informed that of the 1,800 voting age population, 95 per cent were registered and 72 per cent voted.
He said it was extremely unlikely that there have been at-
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield hoped for final passage Wednesday or Thursday and predicted that badly-outnumbered Southerners would not mount a desperation filibuster.
In a week of scrimmaging, Southern forces suffered six successive setbacks in their efforts to dilute the act.
"I don't want to bring witnesses up here with the townspeople upset," Yates said.
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