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^^^M^L^*Uim^£^&Jm &yp:- WRESSis ^felCi **•?. ^&,<msB*tei2g82i8if!tiIki ^^^^M^L^*uim^£^&jm^ fljffiflMjjH|j¥ pur-ieagg !#§& f * • sirw&c sestet *^;J -4P511fc !f,i.-,s^ i* • . >» JP • §L*^*» 3WL£ JM ZjfeU&jfaf*- - '7-/J/9 it , Acu> &<ryct< ctf t&*-*< A^Lc*- ^CAX^L NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964. I0PE FOR 3 WANES AS DULLES OPENS MISSISSIPPI TALKS §60 Step Up Hunt for Missing Rights Team — Ex-C.I.A. Head Sees Governor By CLAUDE SITTON Special to The New York Times PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June ;4—Virtually all hope faded to' day for the lives of three civil ,ghts workers missing since Sunday night in the red hills of ast-central Mississippi. Sixty law enforcement offi­ cers—agents of the Federal Bu- eau of Investigation, state oopers and sheriff's deputies United Pros International Telephoto •stepped up their hunt for the CONFERRING LN MISSISSIPPI: Allen W. Dulles, former Director of Central o whites and one Negro. Intelligence, talking with Gov. Paul B. Johnson Jr. on racial situation in state, Meanwhile, Allen W. Dulles •Jibrmer Director of Central In- ftelligence, arrived in Jackson, I the state capital, under instruc­ F.B.I. AUGMENTS / tions from President Johnson and went into conference with Gov. Paul B. Johnson Jr. and ||pther officials at the Governor's MISSISSIPPI FORGE Mansion. [After a meeting of one But Kennedy Tells N.A.A.C.P. and one-half hours, Mr. John­ son, speaking to reporters in That He Cannot Order Any Jackson, praised Mr. Dulles Federal Police Action || and said he was in Mississippi "for the purpose of doing ;f good and not destroying the By M. S. HANDLER state."] Special to The New York Times Oi inal House Action Burned Car Examined WASHINGTON, June 24— vi The law officers, working in Attorney General Robert F. be In Civil Rights Bill pairs, made a house-to-house Kennedy told a delegation from cu casvass of tlle rurai area n rth the National Association for to ov Julv 4 i4ssnrfiu' ° the Advancement of Colored fit. •' * jand east of Philadelphia in a People today that the Govern­ *? ^search for clues. ment could not take preventive sel By£.W.EENWORTHY "j ™: ^^S^ «"• police action in racially troubled th< 63 5 (Mississippi. sped* to HB-MW yoric Tim« P * studied the burned wreck- mi e oi the Ford station WASHINCKrON, June St — ^ wagon I He told the delegation, head­ at ed by Roy WilkJns, the execu­ lactment of the civil •righte^ which the men were riding ag i»%4.TO assures to-jand sifted through the aaher tive secretary of the N.AA.C.P-, wiier e vehicte that he had considerably aug- ?tet%fi^-eSGiifAtive3i<iw-! * * •:*** #SBM! to 'it-S«r,twi»erf ***32*. -.'yesterday,. 15 miles northeast | mented the force of Federal te House Rules 'JCmfcW- faere cii stat* Highway 21 jBureau of Investigation sgentsjlofj xi&zi '.fin Bogus Chitio Swamp. ;,3MiS¥ip!'i. B«t he added,", e '•'iViVlf.' '•®- coinmoRts. si c" BO*ice action cannot be "taken' ,.,£, „j.ikiii«* «ad private "remarks by .under tne Federal-state rela- _ « eoBMnftias. made ht» ":ia.p>vesU*»tors uwHc*£ec *» **« m^M^t tm^ 9A T,«^ K*Jthat the three s« w»r? dewfi Committee, made feu ^"tevestigators indicated ail test neemeftt "tmly 24 hoars be-'that the three men were dead. tionship. a majority could haws} One source quoted as Y.B.L "Developments In Mississ -control of the committee I1***0 hi Philadelphia as having pushed all ether considerations ay from him and called a! said, "We're now looking for aside at the association's 55th ag to clear the civil rights!bodies.' annual convention.' I for final floor action. Governor Seen Limited A leadership delegation head­ Last Friday the Senate »*p- Concern shifted to the pos­ ed by Mr. Wilkins conferred ved, 73 to 27, a substitute sibility that popular reaction for more than an hour with the :or the bill passed by the House among Negroes might lead to Attorney General and then a Feb. 10. This substitute went demonstrations in the already group of about 1,800 delegates ck to the House Monday for explosive atmosphere created walked to the Justice Depart­ oncurrence In the Senate by the beginning on Sunday of ment. .anges. a (two-month civil rights cam­ Lawlessness Called High Southerners refused unani- paign throughout Mississippi. There they marched past the >us consent to take up the Disappearance of the three Attorney General, who appeared pbstitute Immediately. It was campaign participants and re­ with Mrs. Medgar W. Evers and fiiereupon sent to the Rules ports of violence, intimidation the leadership delegation. Mrs. jBommittee to obtain clearance and harassment directed at Ne­ Evers is the widow of the In the regular way for House groes and other participants in N.A.A.C.P. Mississippi state consideration. other sections of the state have secretary who was assassinated To prevent Mr. Smith, an in- aroused growing alarm. ; last year. veterate foe of civil rights legis- The consensus among knowl­ Mr. Wilkins and his associates j lation, from delaying a rule by edgeable observers is that Gov- informed Mr. Kennedy that, ac­ j refusing to call the committee ernor Johnson wants to take cording to their report, the situ­ 1 into session, three Democratic whatever action is necessary to ation in Mississippi had reached I members immediately wrote avoid Federal intervention but a high level of lawlessness with I him requesting a meeting. that militantly segregationist the disappearance of three civil Under the'rules of the House, white sentiment limits his free­ rights workers. I'if Mr. Smith did not announce dom to act. They said that only the em a meeting within three days of The tenseness of the situation pl-iyment of Federal police « receipt of the request, a majori- was demonstrated here shortly powers could guarantee a meas­ 4 Continued on Page 18, Column 6 Continued on Page 18, Column 2 ure of protection for the Negro population and for college stu­ dents participating in the voter- registration drive. Mr. Wilkins said afterward that he and his colleagues had urged the Attorney General toj take "preventive" police* actionj The Attorney General, Mr. Wil-J kins added, replied that he had augmented the force of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents In Mississippi but that the Fed^ eral Government could not takf "preventive" police action The Attorney General alsfl Continued on Page 18, Column 6 JL-- • - - wr *EW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1%4. ip in Mississippi^ OF MISSING MEN Kennedy Says F.B.I. Has Sent J30 EXPRESS FEAR More A ents lnt0 FEARED FOR LIVES « M'*"»«PP'I ON WORK IN SOUTH Continued From Page 1, Col. 5 here and try to explain to this Told Associates of Concern convention his position on race:Teachers Will Help Negroes told the delegation that he relations, try to explain why! , r => Before Mississippi Trip hoped an Improvement in the he thinks it is unconstitutional! in Mississippi Project situation would result from to pass a law guaranteeing! ^ President Johnson's telephone equal opportunity to all Ameri-j cans regardless of color and; Fear has beset some 30 public By R. W. APPLE Jr. conversation with Gov. Paul B. Two of the three young civil creed." I schoolteachers, most of them Johnson Jr. of Mississippi and Mr. Goldwater voted against;women and all young, who will rights workers who disappeared the dispatching of Allen W. the civil rights bill passed last I soon leave New York on a mis- in Mississippi Sunday night had Dulles there in connection with week in the Senate. Ision to Mississippi. told their friends that morning the search for the missing civ- "All of us are quite fearful.' that they feared for their lives, Q rights workers. Words on Mississippi Mrs. Norman Becker, the leade: Mr. Shriver said: "If Missis­ Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-1 Mr Wilkins told reporters of the expedition with Sandrs old former settlement house sippi justice — Emmett Till, Adickes, said yesterday at that his group had not re- Medgar Evers and now three worker from Brooklyn, and news conference in the head­ quested the intervention of Fed-jmore workers — is constitu- quarters of the United Federa- James E. Chaney, 21, a plaster­ eral troops or the National | tional and the civil rights bill tion of Teachers, 300 Park Ave is er from Meridian, Miss., left Guard: "We did not discuss > unconstitutional, then my only nue South. She continued question is: Did Goldwater ever Meridian Sunday morning to in­ arms," he said. In past civil "My husband is extreme! j vestigate the burning of a go to law school?" worried. In families generally rights cases, the Government Of the Peace Corps and its there's great trepidation.'' Negro church in Longdale. Miss. jhas sent marsha!s to troubled 8,000 American volunteers, Mr. A 8-Grade Project With them was Andre-v Good-]areas Shriver said: man, 20, a Queens College junior, ' . Kennedy Mr Wilkins said Mr "We have not nad one single The teachers plan to arrive ii from New York who had arrived j nad assured the delegation the incident of violence to a Peace Mississippi on July 2 and 6 fo; in Mississippi for the first time j Government would explore Corps volunteer serving abroad. £,^ta,J?f£"U "T^S *«£ late Saturdav afternoon. Like every possibility of making its; We "have, heard talk "of back- children in the 10th, 11th ant 12th grades. They know the; the others, he was there to take presence felt in Mississippi, but;ward peoples in other continents.
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