Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1962-11-22
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suit, ?, r .& Americans Pause Today To Give Thanks ' By United Pre .. Intern.ti.n.1 homes in cight Illinois communi· tures. They foresaw a few showers on the nation's highways during a 000 patients at state mental hus· Americans at home and abroad ties. in the northern Rockies. snow flur· typical 3O-hour period from 6 p.m. pitals - will share 85.472 pounds prepared Wednesday for traditional Many Americans planfled, in ries in the upper Great Lakes reo Wednesday to midnight Thur day of turkey. Thanksgiving obscrvances and belt· keeping with President Kennedy's gion and light rain ending along in November. 11161. Thirty·two crewmen o( the Greek loosening feasls . urging that the day be observed Ole AUantic coasllinc. Several states planned to beef freighter Hera. seized ror debts in Millions of families piled into :'wilh reverence and with humil · Agricultural sources said there up police details to cope with holi· Los Angeles harbor weeks ago, will automobiles and headed (or holiday ity:' to attend services in the were turkeys and cranberries for day IraCCic. feast twice at Long Beach. CaliI.. reunions at grandmother's house or church of their choice. all . The turkey supply was estimat· More than 100 Chicago policemen once at a Greek Orthodox church elsewhere. The President's Than ~sgivi n g ed at up to 92 million birds with an "orked in their off-duty time Wed· and again as guests or a restaurant. Housewives sturred t u r key s. Proclamation suggested Americans additional 113.000 tons in cold nesday picking up pumpkin pies do· Some 1.000 eldcrly persons and baked pumpkin pies and readied "G Ive our thanks for the SJlfety of storage. The cranberry crop was nated by housewives and delivering ,,'elfare recipients In Des MoiMs all the fixings. our land. for the fertility oC our estimated at a record 70.000 tons. them to orphanages and' old folks' will have a bountiful Thank~giving The Salvation Army. orphanages. harvests. Ior the strength' of our llomes. dinner thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Bill The Defense Department said The Sah'ation Army in Chicago Sargent. The owners of Sargent's prisons. oUler institutions and mili. liberties. for the health of our peo· military cook would roa t more pIe." PI cpared to serve thousa nds oC cafe saved enough nickIe and tary installations prepared holiday than 56.000 turkeys for 2,600,000 dinner to needy mcn at five cen· dinners in astronomical numbers. dimes to gi~e the dinner for the The U.S. Weather Bureau pre· servicemen in the United States ters - including 1,200 meals for 16th year in a row. Resirlents of Osage. will open dicted "an excellent day for most and around the world. down·and·outer who will gather "We don't solve anyone's prob ~heir doors to foreign students from outside activities from coast to The Nationul Safety Council at the Harbor Light Cenler on Skid lems." said Sargent. "but we like SUI. More than 350 students from coast." made no estimate of the traffic Row . to think we give them a Htllo sun· I abroad attending Cbicago-area col· Forecasters said the South would tol\ over the holiday period. But In Massachusetts. some 50,000 shine they might not bave other· lege will celebrate in private llave clear skies and mild tempera. it said that 123 persons were killed shut·ins - including more than 29,· wise." , The Weath.r P.rtly cleucfy ten...... C"'r tod.y, hl,h. tr.m upper" nerth t. low 4h HtIth. P:""Mr ..... did sow the Q'wan - P.rtly cleucfy wHh little t.rno t1 11 per.tur. ch.n,. Frlll.y. Commun, Serving the State University of Iowa and the People of Iowa City R.d Chine. the AIb.n· .Ion, with Established in 1868 Unlled Press IoteroatlooaJ aDd Associated Press Leased Wires &lid Wirepboto Iowa City, Iowa. Thursday. November 22. 1962 el.ewh.r. the Walker Competent To Face Charges Chinese Continue OXFORD . Miss CUPll - A Federal Court Wednesday ruled thut former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker is mentally competent to stand trial for the role he played in the University of Misstssippi rioting. The decision was returned by U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton. Adva'nces Despite Clayton accepted a report by a Dallas psychiatrisl who held Walker is "functioning currently at the superior level." The judge's verdict was the second major development in the "Ole Miss" rioting case Wednesday. Shortly before tbe verdict was announced Chief U.S. Marshul James P. McShane surrendered on a warrant returned by a local Cease-Fire 'Claim grand jury. Tbe warrant charged bim with "inciting" the violence that flared the night federal law oWcers ushered Negro James H Meredith onto the University of Mississippi campus. • MIttS Walker stands cbarged with rebellion. insurrection and seditious ....... L.-----t Peking Sources Ignore conspiracy in connection with tbe violence. Two persons were killed • • Oh, No, Not Todayl during the rioting and hundreds oC othe1'9 injured. ~ • .~ During the course of the tw01lay hearing concerning Walker'lf , ... ,.-,.:~ CHINA ' Pledge;-Indians' L~ry ' Is it alarm or anger reflected in the eye of this noble bird, which mental competency, a campus pollceman testified he heard the 53· .--.- , iust for" today replaces the American Eagle in the minds of most year-old former war hero urge rioters to "charge" tbe U.S. marshals \ E' D ELIU ( Thursday) ( U PI ) - Communist China Americans? At any rale, The Daily Iowan wishes you and yours a who were stationed on the campus to protect Meredith. , '_ .. 1"-----.., hroadcast a new series of victory claims in the horder war wiUI truly happy Thanksgivin9 today, a sentiment which may not be reo (iii,..•• "~oops Orive , OWOIJ \ flected by Mr. Turkey and his unidentified companion, who won· Walker was arrested at a roadblock the morning following the TI8ET Jndiu early today. four hours ariel' tho cease·flro proclaimed by A'I<II", ~jM \ dered why they were subiected to all this attention from Joe Lippin' rioting and wbisked off to a federal mental hospital at SpringfioJd. Peking wus to Itave gono into effect. Mo. tho". • cott, 01 photographer. Peking Radio said Chin 'so troops entered tlac ea~tem end Government officials recommended a complete mental exam '~urAN .,~ .... $1/(/(1" , o( the former soldier. but before it could be made be was released r ,.. ,:Prt o( India's rich Plains o[ Assam. !:.l'f\dolY'W~ I o"t moving southwestward along the did not quarrel with the end 0.1 Crom the Springfield institution with the understanding he would can· r:h~-- • J .. Adenauer Postpones "w, Lohit River. and scored all but to· sult a p~chiatrist in DaUas. hoslililic by the onrushing Com· · A SS4M ( tal victory in disputed areas of It was the report of the Dallas doctor. Dr. R. L. Stubblefield. INDIA munist Chineso bUl it also avoick!d that Judge Clay ten accepted Wednesday. .....--_.,. Ladakh in Kashmir, 1.500 miles committing India to the political La the west. Appearance' on Crisis The report stated that "all psychiatric and psychological tests INDIA demands which followed 00 the Chinese proposal. indicate that Mr. Walker appears to be able to deal freely and ac· • An Indian Defense Ministry BO N CU PI) - Chancellol' Kon· uled to fly to West Bcrlin today to curately with his recollections of the incidents leading up to his. No,,,ul SURMA spokesman disclosed Wednesday The Communlat c...... I,.. .,. rad Aden<lucr called of[ without keep a long·standing engagement arrest and present charges." the Chinese had reached the west· fer ..Id Red Chine.. _",let public explanation hi~ scheduled to attend an executive committee ern edge of Assam and reports cir· would wlthclr_ within 'I uy... The report said no effect was made to establish whether there culated here the Indian Army had nationwide television report Wed· Imee~ing o~ his own Chrislian D~mo· "has been any particular change in the mode of psychological op· pr.vlou. Mr.r ,..ltltns but .... cratlc UnlOn (COW . It was specu· New abandoned its headquarters at Tez· .t.t.ment tie"" • new ,.rll t. I~c s day night ~I ,l .t~le ~e.st German lilted that he wunls to discuss his cl'ation" of Walker since the time of his arrest. Chinese Gains pur, barely 30 miles away. and set Indl •. The Chinese aMwM In Gilvel nmcnt ensls P' eClpllated by specch with lhe party leaders. Clayton said from his own "Iayman's standpoint" Wulker ap. Thl. m.p .hows the I.st·minuto g.ln. reported to h.ve been m.de up new h e a d qua r t e r s 100 K.r•• tfIey ntetI .Iteut 'I My... a crackdown on a weekly news Adenauer is faccd with the choice peared mentally competent on the basis of the lcstimony he gave by Red Chines. shock troops on IrMII.'. frontier •• the tim. for the miles to the soulhwest. Tezpur's rebuilding between each humen ,milgazine. population or 50.000 was being of dropping Defense Minister Franz during the hearing. e.... ·flr. drew n•• r Wedn.sd.y. Indl. r.ported wId ••neI.wtepln, w.ve ....ult. The 8C;·ycar·old Chancellor Iwd Josef Strauss from the Cabinet or evacuated because of the grave ,.in. by the Chine .. in two drives (.rrows) 'oward the fl., .nd threat. Jndia meanwhile !)egan a whole· b, 'cn . chcdulcd to speak on lhe losing the cooperation of lhe Free sale roundup of Chinese and Indlli West German television network Democratic Party CFDPl.