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Tha Weaihar ATenfe Daily Nat Prm Ron FonoM l ofV. 8. ftoatkor JNaNMM For tto Woek Eadod Mweh It. ItM OoBoruny M r, Uttld eoUair to* nlgtit Low U to M. TottOaf, odlfi, 13,088 •now dniTleo likely Ir Memlwr of tho Audit High neor 85. Bureon of CIrcnIutioii. MancheHer-^A City of ViUoge Charm MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1960 (Oliwoiflod AdTortiiday on Psao U) PRICE nVE C E I^ VOL. LXXIX, NO. 145 (FOURTEEN PAGES) Senate Bid To S e le c t Police Guns Kill Rights Bill Washington, March 21 </P) —Democratic leader Lyndon roes 6. Johnson of Texas said to day he wants the Senate to vote on as many major issues as possible before the Hpuse sends it a civil rights bill. Negroes Plan 12,000 Riot Johnion told on informoi news Court Upsets Fine PonM^nco that oo for o» he per- •onoUy' ia concerned he hopea the Store Boycotts denote gets to o vote today bn a O ver Bias; propooal to provide alternative For Negro Dancer plana for the jiotoction of Negro To Erase Bias voting righta. Sen. Joaeph S. caark (P-Pa) and 100 Injured a doeen. other matnbera have of, By THE ASfiOClATEP PRESR W ash in gton , M arch 21 (jiP)* found ’^om M on "dancing'.’ in The eighth week of Negi^ fered an'-amendment to- pending The Supreme Court today place where dancing ia prohibited legialation to accompllah thla ro- anti-segregation detRonstra- by law. They charged he became Vereeniging, South Africa, aull. tions began in the South to unanimously • struck down a unruly when informed of his ar March 21 (/P)-^Twelve thou Johnaoo aaid ho doean’t know if $10 fine for loitering and a rest, resulting in the disorderly sand African Negroes pror . all ■ Benalore are ready to vote. day with no sign of an imme conduct charge. diate solution in sight. $10 fine for disorderly conduct testing the -white govern- In advance of Johnaon'a com- imposed on a Negro in Louis What the police called dancing menta. Ben. L4ater Hill (D-Alal aaid Authorities app^red more than was what T’homipeon called shuf nnent’s compulsory pass sys he will fight any effort to bring up ever determined to maintain law ville, Ky., police court. fling his feet to the music box. tem beseiged a police station a Houae-paaaed civil righta bill in and order. Negroes — especially Justice'Black delivered the deci Attorneys, for Thompson contend^ today. Officers inside, opened the Senate without flrat aubmlttlng the yo \nger ones — showed grow sion which said the record was "en jiis conviction wad unconstitutional fire with rifles and machin’e It to the Senate Judiciary Commit ing impatience with the slowness tirely lacking in evidence" to sup for lack, of evidence, and raised a guns. Eyewitnesses saicl the tee. That committee haa been a of court action in furthering equal port any charges against the question whether the stale was front ranks of the crowd went graveyard for cltjH righta legiala ity. Negro, Sam Thompson. required to provide some prdcese tion. Boycotting of stores operating Thompson contended he was only for testing contentions the arreeted down like tenpins- Hill aaid in a atatement that the segregated lunch counters was pro shuffling his feet to the music of man was dmied the procsM of Unofficial reporta placed th# Senate'a rulea clearly provide for posed bv Negro groups in Savan a Juki! box in a cafe when he was law aa guaranteed by the U.S. number of dead at 34. Brig> C. J. reference of Houae billa to the ap Tiny Fifigier« ^Talt^ in Dark^ Silent World nah. Ga’., and Lynchburg, Va. arrested. He complained that Lou Conatitittdon’a 14th'Amendmcnt. Ela of the Witwaaaeratrand Police propriate committee Unleaa ^ they At Durham, N. C., the Rev. isville Police were out to get him •Under Kentucky law, the convic- gave a figure of 30 dead and 100 are unoppoeed in the Senate. But ■ Ursala Bodmer. 8, a Swiaa mlaa whoae world la dark and aiient feela the face of her nurae and doc wounded-TT-and said that waa a tor at Perklna School for the Blind, .Watertown, Maas., where she has arrived for special tests. DougiSa E. Moore.annpunced. lunch becauae he had hired a lawyer to tiona are not revlewable on appeal he aaid he expecta an attempt by counter protest leaders will hold a conservative estimate. Republican Vice Preaidem Richard The Swi»i raised 83,000 to fly deaf-blind tot from Zurich with nurse Anita Utzinger. Dr Edward contest an earlier disorderly to any at«te court. - southwide meeting . in Raleigh charge. Counsel for the city denied Black, in an 8-page opinion re Later, police officials upped the M. Nixon and other civil righta J. Waterhouse, Perkins School director places child's fingers on his face to let her know that a new estimate of dead to "nearly 60.’’ backera to “ uaurp the rulea.” friend haa come into her lonely world. School will attempt to see how much the roay-cheeked, April 15-17. this and said Thompson had a rec viewed the incidents leading to In Florida, however. Gov. Leroy ord of eight convictions for drunk Thompson’s arrest, and said that One police officer deacribed ths Under one method federal dia brown-haired cklld can be taught. (AP Photofax t. ______________ trlct courta could appoint ref Collins said he thought it was "un enness in a year’s time. just aa conviction upon a charge scene; "A world war battlefield— - ereea to regiater Negroea qualified fair and morally wrong” for a de .Counsel for Thompson said he not made would be Mieer denial Bodies lay mangled and sprawled under atate law and to make aure partment store owner not to allow, was arrested Jan. 24, 1959, while of due process of law, "So ia it a all around. A Johannesbu^ news Eyes, Ears of Noted Author Negroes to patronize one part of violation of due procees- to con photographer commented: "I took they were allowed to vote and State News waiting for a bus to take him have their Vote counted. the store while being permitted to home. He waited in a sniall tavern, vict and punish a man without pictures of more bloodshed than Aa an alternative, the Preaident trade in other sections. the Liberty End Cafe, where he evidence of hia guilt.” I have ever before seen in South could appoint federal enrollment The governor delivered a state said he had bought a dish of Black aaid the manager of the Africa.” offlcera to carry out a aimilar Polly Thomson, 75, Dies; Roundup wide radio and television address macaroni and a glass of beer. cafe had never objected to Thonap- The barrage drove back the yesterday to try to calm racial Unction. Police said they entered the crowd, leaving dead and wounded Clark deacribed the amendment tensions stemming from sitdowns tavern for a routine inspection and (Oonttnaed on Page Seven) in the streets. Police called in aa a compromlae deaigned to rec Hartford. March 21 (fih — The in several Florida cities. armored cars and jet fighter Helen Keller’s Associate New England Regional Conference Collins conceded the depart planes to break up the demonstra oncile the viewa of thoae who fa l'N| vor the adminiatration’a plan for of the National Aseociation for the ment store owner has a legal right tion. V , Bridgeport, March 21 i/f)— Polly Advancement of^ Colored People to single out one department "and It was part of a national cam court-appointed refereca and thoae say he does not want or will not al who advocate the appointment of Thomson, 75, for many years the has set S aturda/as the day for paign billed as' non-violent end peaceful demonstration picketing low Negroes to patronize that one Reds Ask Research admlniatrative officera by the eyes and ears of Helen Keller, died aimed at abolition of the passes of New England's Kresgc, Wool department. But I still don't think preaident. last night in Bridgeport Hospital that all non-white in South Africa after a long illness. worth, Grant and Kress Variety he can square that right with muat carry. In the Houae. where civil righta Stores. The picketing is scheduled moral, simple justice . legialation alao la up for action, Miss Thomson became secretary- But violence erupted at Sharpe- companion to the blind and deaf for Hartford and other New Eng Of Subsurface vllle, a native quarter near backera of the referee plan pre (Continued on Page Three) dicted Ita approval there. A vote writer in 1914. The job evolved in land cities. ' 3 0 r ,4 i^ C, Roy Jackaon. <rf, HArt^ortl en It may come tomorrow after to a lifelong friendship. She lived with Miss KellW' at the latteriii vice-president of Bie^Nsw England Geneva. Mart* 21 (#)—Rumia’s*> After introducing th* Sovflet pro- ihoottng. region, aaid the picket decision poeal, Taarapkin told the western (Couttaned oii’ Page Sevea) home in Easton. Conn. Semyon K. Taarapkin aaid today ambulsBces still were runnlnjgbsck Describing how she- interpreted was mads Saturday. at a mwUog Bonsai Returns his propoesd moratorium on small delegfites that his government would allow .some on-sUe Inspec- and forth to hospitals in 'VereeMig- Ur M W iCmer, Mig| Thomeon once in Boston. He said the plckieUiig underground nuclear teats _*hould ing. Hospital offlcials refunil 4 o - explained: will be foUsM^ nettr Mbwday with remain in force for an lnltij*(: roT tions to guard against the small un derground exploeions.