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LXXXIV, NO. 55 (TW EN TY PA G ES) MANCHESTER, CONN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1964 Events FBI Makes 20 Arrests In State Home Rulo Bills Get More Time In Civil Rights Cases Before Deadline PHILADELPHIA, Miss-t V 21st man was being sought.'»Edgar Killen, Is a fundamen-i9>acknowledge seeing the trio al- HARTFORD (AP) — Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and talist Baptist minister. ive on June 21 and was one of (AP)—The FBI arrested his deputy, Cecil Price, surren- Roy Moore, chief of the Jack- those who helped remove their Cities and towns will get 20 men, including the dered their revolvers to FBI son FBI staff which spearhead- bodies from a g^lant earthen more time next year to file Neshoba County sheriff, agents at the courthou.se. A sull- ed the 5' 2-month probe, said the dam near here on Aug. 4. local home rule bills, legis- his deputy and five Ku en crowd stood in the town agents directed their “primary Among others arrested her* square as tin: county's two law attention" upon known mem- were Herman Tucker. fore- lative leaders agreed today. Klux I Klansmen, today in The action came after State enforcement officers were bers and sympathizers of the man of the construction crew at Legislative Commissioners How- connection with the mid- whisked away. A photographer Klan, and most of those .seized the earthen dam; Jerry Sharp, ard Hausman and Arthur M. summer slayings of three attempting to take a picture today fitted in this description. a u.sed car dealer and James B, was threatened with a knife Nineteen of the 21 were Jordan, a construction worker. Lewis warned the leaders of ser- civil rights workers. say, ious problems if added time striking fcwiftly, agents round- The arrests climaxed an in- charged with conspiring to “in- The .scene at the courthouse ed the men \ip during the morn- tensive Investigation triggered jure, oppres.s, threaten and in- was tense as FBI agents ar- were not given. timidate " Schwemer, Chaney rived. Rainey and Price were The problem arises from the ing and carted them off to the when Michael Schwemer and naval air station at nearby Andrew Goodman, two white and Goodman in the free exer- out on a call. The FBI, while fact that the legislature Is now cise of their constitutional waiting, attracted a crowd of in special session and will ap- Meridian. Teams of FBI agents New Yorkers, and a Negro com- at the sealed-off base questioned panion, James Chaney, Meridi- right.s. Conviction on tht.s charge j curious, numbering about 100, parently move into a “regular” carrie.s a maximum penalty of No one in the crowd spoke to the session in January if It clears the men, took their fingerprints an, di.sappeared. The trio came and photographs. They were to here to investigate the burning 10 years in prison or a $5,000 FBI. legislative reapportionment. fine. The crowd got angry after the Under the law, home rule bills be arraigned during the after- of a rural Negro church. mu.st be filed 10 days in advance noon. One of those arrested, Rev. The other two were charged FBI departed with the arrested with being acces.sories, an of- men. Several bystanders threat- of the opening of a regular ses- fense that carries a maximum | ened new.smen and photogra- sion. This deadline could be con- penalty of three years and a j pViers, and »ne pulled a knife on sidered already passed, the $500 fine. AP photographer Jack Thornell. Commi.ssioners noted, because The FBI said its Information The FBI identified the others the current session began Now. U.S., Soviet Avoid would be made available to arrested or charged as: 10. state authorities for pos.sible Bernard L. Akin, 50, a Meridi- Leaders said that a new dead- murder warrants. line will probably be set early Head-On UN Clash Price was the last person to (See Page Ten) next year. Church History UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (AP)—The United States Pope Paul VI hold^the leg of young Indian boy during his tour of Bombay, NEW HAVEN (APi Church The pontiff has spfent much time with youngsters, touring an orphanage to- and the Soviet Union moved today toward a new search 'Second Cut history 'W(lll be made here Sat- for cold war solutions after avoiding—at least for the day. (AP Photofax.) ______________________ urday when the 'New K time being—a head-tn fight over U.N. finances. Synod of the Lutheran Church Secretary of State Dean Rusk^- In M i l i t a r y In America is received into full arranged a third meeting with 9 - Year - Old membership of the Connecticut Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei discussion is expansion of U.S.- CTouncil of Churches. A. Gromyko Saturday and left Soviet trade. That could bring Force Seen >6 V i s i t s S l u m s , Says Thanks The annual meeting will also open the possibility of-^ further on another round of negotiations see the installation of the Rev. talks next week. on the Soviet World War II lend- WASHINGTON (AP) — Fbr CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) James M. Webb, formerly of lease debt to the United States. the second time in two years, Moline, 111., as the new General The.se are the first high-level The U.N. financial argument — When a 9-year-old boy en- U.S.-Soviet discussions since the defense officials appear to ba tered the waiting room at Secretary of the State Council is on a back burner and the sim- Talks to Orphans Though Lutherans have co- new regime took over in Mos- mering que.stion is: How much preparing for major surgery on Tanner Memorial Hospital cow, and the two Rusk-Gromyko operated In the Church (Council will the Soviets have to pay — military reserve forces. yesterday, nobody paid any before this, the Lutheran appli- sessions earlier this week fo- and in what manner will they attention — until he left. cused on the immediate crisis pay — to escape losing their Just what form Uiat surgery BOMBAY, India (AP) — Pope Paul VI visited a Bill Warren, the hospital cation for membership Saturday over Soviet arrears on U.N. will take is not yet clear. Stud- administrator, said the boy will be the first to be made in vote in the General Assembly ies have been under way In both wretched slum area of Bombay today, comforting the New England the action comes .dues. for not paying their assessments handed a nurse this note: Rusk was reported ready now for U.N. peacekeeping opera- the Air Force and the Army. destitute and the ill and wiping tears from his eyes as “To the hospital personnel now following an amendmeh*. to to canvass with Gromyko the The service recommendations the OounclTs constitution a year tions in the Congo and the Mid- he talked with orphan boys of various faiths. — I appreciate all you did possibilities for agreement on dle Ea.st? are awaited by Secretary of De- Thousands jammed the squal-”!* for my mother. You all ago in which the Council de- other East-West problems rang- fense Robert S. McNamara, Id streets, straining for a 13-year-old Tony Mascerenas couldn't have been nicer to clared itself “A Covenanted fel- ing from disarmament to trade. The United States and the So- who will make the final deci- said as he welcomed the Pope to viet Union have tossed this glimpse of the Roman Catholic a person than that. And lowship of Churches which ac- The U.S. assessment is that sions. ^n tiff. Rioting threatened as the orphanage. “Many of us when she died, you were so cept Jesus Christ as Divine Lord problem to Secretary-General U Indications point to possible have no mothers. Some, like the Soviet government is still Thant. *’ ■ police fought to maintain a path kind to our family. and Sa'vlor.’’ The amendment, under committee rule and thus heavy losses for the Army and for the papal entourage, but me, have no one in this world.” '"Thank you very much.’’ which made tt possible for Lu- not likely to make radical policy A solution to the financial di- Air Force Reserve, perhaps vir- frantic loudspeaker appeals The Pope wiped his eyes as Warren said the boy’s therans to become members, changes. In contrast to Mo.s- spute is not yet in sight, and tual elimination of the Reserve calmed the crowd moments be- the boy continued: “You have mother had died of an in- now prevents liberal faiths, like U.S. diplomats believe the as- New Leader and its merger with the Nation- left Important people and grand Universaliat and Unitarian, from cow’s currently harsh propa- fore the Pope arrived. curable disease a half hour ganda, Gromyko In speaking sembly may have to continue iU J. Raymond Jones yes- al Guard. The Pope opened his third day places to- sec us in our poor earlier. He declined to Iden- belonging. privately to Rusk was said to temporary no-vote truce until The aim of any now strea'm- In India by celebrating an out- home.