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By Quimby Melton
President Lyndon B. Johnson
is in Germany to attend the
funeral of former Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of West Ger
many. It is the first trip made
to Europe by Johnson since he
became President. Heads of
state from many lands, includ
ing the leaders of many of the
Western nations will be on hand.
Every precaution is being tak
en to make the visit of Presi
dent Johnson a safe one. (There
have been reports of a plot to
murder him.)
It is to be hoped and prayed
that nothing will happen to our
chief executive. America has not
yet gotten over the shock of the
murder of President John F.
Kennedy, whose death skyrock
eted Vice-President Lyndon B.
Johnson into the White House.
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Up until the end of World War
One no President had ever made
a trip, while president, outside
the Continental United States.
Woodrow Wilson broke this pre
cedent and was sharply criticis
ed for his visit to France. Since
then overseas trips by a Presi
dent have been frequent. Presi
dent Johnson, himself, only re
cently returned from a trip to
South America; and before that
he had gone to the Phillippines
and then on to Vietnam.
Following President Wilson’s
disregard of the ‘'unwritten
law” on staying home, Presi
dent Harding visited Alaska, not
then a state, and died shortly
after getting back to San Fran
cisco. Coolidge, who followed
him did not visit abroad and
Hoover, though prior to becom
ing president, and after becom
ing president made many trips
abroad, also stayed in America.
President Franklin D. Roose
velt, during his three and a por
tion terms, established a record
for overseas travel. Among oth
er trips were ones to meet Chur
chill aboard a battleship in the
North Atlantic, and conferences
at Casablanca, Cario, Techran
and Yalta.
President Harry S. Truman
went to Potsdam to meet Prime
Minister Attlee, of Britain, and
Josef Stalin of Russia.
President Eisenhower, who
succeeded Truman, called and
attended the “Big Four” meet
ing in Geneva attended by t h e
Prime Ministers of Britain, Fr
ance and Russia. Among the
three was Charles deGaulle, who
today seems to have forgotten
any friendship he may have had,
and any debt he owes Uncle
Sam.
Then came John F. Kennedy.
In what has been dubbed “the
fashion of new diplomacy” he
travelled into Canada, Mexico
and to Europe twice. Following
a meeting with Josef Stalin in
Vienna, the two failing to agree,
what is known as ‘‘the Cold
War” began.
With some two years left in
his present term of office it is
probable that President Johnson
will make other trips abroad.
Travel abroad among govern
ment officials is not restricted
to the President. Several Vice-
Presidents have been sent in
place of the President. Chief am
ong these has been Johnson, him
self, when he held the second
spot; and Dick Nixon, who made
a least two memorable trips as
representative of President Ike.
One of them resulted in the
‘‘Kitchen Debate” between Kh
rushchev and Nixon, another
the trip to South America when
he, representing the President,
was pelted with eggs and show
ered with insults. And then, of
course, Vice-President Humphrey
is somewhat of a “traveling
man.” He, like Nixon, has been
insulted and like Nixon welco
med.
And of course the Secretary of
State has been sent abroad so
many times he probably keeps
an overnight bag packed at his
office, ready to take off the mo
ment word comes from the
White House. And at least one
United States Senator, Robert
Kennedy, former attorney gen
eral in his brother’s cabinet, has
proven no “stay at home.”
Not to mention hundreds of
members of the Congress who in
one guise or another, manage
to find time for trips here
and there.
Air War Again
Carried To
Hanoi, Haiphong
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI) —The United
States carried the air war to
Hanoi and Haiphong today and
for the second consecutive day
battled Communist MIGs. Pek
ing Radio charged that U.S.
planes flew over China Monday
and that the Red air force shot
down two of them.
The Communists reported
heavy U.S. air losses in two
days of attacks. The Americans
reported losing four planes and
said U.S. pilots shot down two
Communist MIGI7s and da
maged many more on the
ground.
U.S. Air Force FlO5 Thun
derchiefs from Thailand
bombed a key railyard 2.25
miles from the center of Hanoi
today in the closest strike yet to
the North Vietnamese capital.
Pilots reported encountering
MIGs, heavy anti-aircraft fire
and surface-to-air (SAM) mis
siles.
U.S. Navy planes from
carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin
today bombed a cement factory
inside Haiphong and just 1.1
miles from its center. Previous
ly they had bombed a nearby
power plant which supplied
electricity for the cement plant
and for the Haiphong docks.
It was the second day of
escalated air war aimed at
bringing so much pressure on
Hanoi the Communist regime
would agree to negotiate.
Monday, the planes bombed two
MIG airfields previously off
limits—Hoa Lac, 19 miles west
of Hanoi, and Kep, 37 miles
northeast of Hanoi.
An American spokesman re
ported the loss of four planes
during the two days of stepped
up warfare, with the rescue of
four fliers and the loss of four
others. Communist broadcasts,
condemning what they called
new acts of aggression, claimed
up to 18 planes shot down with
a number of pilots captured.
The most disturbing claim
came from Peking which said
two Navy F4B Phantom jets
flew over Kwangsi Province,
which borders North Vietnam,
and that Chinese MIGs took to
the air and shot down the
planes Monday afternoon.
Hanoi is about 75 miles from
the Chinese border and Hai
phong about 60. The air base of
Kep attacked Monday is 50
Godard Elected
ABC President
Marion Godard was elected
president of the Griffin Ameri
can Business Club at today’s
meeting. He will succeed Mel
vin Waldrop.
E’lected to serve with Godard
were:
Ed Harper, first vice president;
Jack McAllister, second vice
president; Jim Crawford, sec
retary; Wilson Cooper, treasur
er; Jack Bowden, sergeant at
arms; Carl Clark, chaplain; and
Bill Westmoreland, parliamen
tarian.
Five Students
Shot In Protest
At Southern U.
By ROBERT CAREY
United Press International
BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI)
—Five Negro students were
shot by a night watchman today
at Southern University during a
demonstration protesting the
university’s refusal to rehire
three professors.
East Baton Rouge Parish
(county) Sheriff Bryan Clem
mons said there were no
fatalities.
Seven injured students were
taken to Our Lady of the Lake
Hospital but a spokesman said
it was not immediately known
which were shot. Clemmons
said only five were wounded by
gunshot.
Clemmons said one of the
students at the predominantly
Negro college was shot in the
stomach, and the others in the
legs.
He said a Negro night
watchman apparently fired a
shotgun into the ground as a
warning, and pellets ricocheted
and struck the students, inflict
ing superficial wounds.
“We don’t know why,” he
DAILY NEWS
Established 1871
miles from the border and the
air base at Hoa Lac is about 10
miles—a matter of seconds for
the 1,500 mile per hour jets.
A brief Japanese language
broadcast monitored in Tokyo
claimed ‘‘another great victory”
by the Chinese air force and “a
victory for Mao Tse-tung’s
thought.” It said the Chinese
pilots would be awarded medals
for their defense of China.”
There was no immediate
American comment on the
Chinese claims. The United
States has scrupuously avoided
flights over the Chinese main
land and informed sources said
a zone along the border had
been marked off limits to
prevent any incidents. In the
past. Navy jets have flown over
the Chinese island of Hainan off
the south coast.
Space Shot
Stopped In
Last Second
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)
After the countdown came
within one second of blastoff
today, the Air Force called off
an attempt to launch two
advanced Sentry satellites and
three midget moonlets atop a
powerful Titan 3CK rocket.
The five-in-one shot was
expected to be rescheduled for
later in the week.
The countdown was stopped
automatically an instant before
a planned launch at 5:25 a.m
EST when trouble was detected
in the triple-barreled super
Titan.
Engineers later traced the
apparent cause of the problem
to a valve that failed to open as
planned five seconds before
launch time. The valve con
trolled steering fluid for one of
the rocket’s two large solid
fueled boosters.
The postponement was called
at 6:50 a.m. EST to correct the
difficulty. If one of the 1.2-
million pound thrust solids lost
its steering control on liftoff,
the 703-ton vehicle would be
destroyed.
The two 731-pound space
Sentinels were part of the
Defense Department’s Vela
program designed to detect
violations of the treaty signed
with Russia and 100 other
nations in 1963 that outlaws
nuclear tests everywhere except
underground.
From their planned 69,000
mile high orbital vantage point,
the new Vela satellites were
expected to have a key role in
the elaborate U.S. system to
guard against clandestine tests
in and above the atmosphere.
Six other nuclear detection
satellites were orbited in pairs
in 1963, 1964 and 1965. All still
are operating, but none can
effectively spot bootleg blasts
on or near earth. The advanced
satellites make up for the
deficiency.
said. “Everything is in a state
of confusion.”
Clemmons rushed 25 patrol
cars to the perimeter of the
campus with orders not to enter
unless the situation warranted.
He said the university’s 12-man
security force was handling the
situation so far.
“There are at least 1,500
students out there, but the
situation is now quiet,” he said.
“The campus is secure.”
The hospital identified the
seven students brought to the
emergency room as Linda
Revel, Rosemary Jones, Cheryl
Barnba, Ebenetter Lee, Percy
Harvey, Emmett Robertson and
Julius Jefferson.
The students began lying
down on the road leading to the
campus shortly after the
shooting.
Police had barricaded the
entrances to the campus today
following a handclapping, shout
ing demonstration Monday by
students protesting the failure
to rehire the professors and
university restrictions on
students.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, T uesday, April 25,1967
Wide Alert Out For Five
Wanted In Church Robbery
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BEFORE THE FUNERAL of former West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Presdent Johnson held
informal police talks with West German Presdent
Heinrich Luebke, right, and other European states
men gathered for the state funeral.
DeGaulle, LBJ
Sit Together At
Adenauer Rites
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
COLOGNE, Germany (UPI)
—President Johnson and Pres
ident Charles de Gaulle of
France sat side by side in
mourning today at the funeral
of their old friend, Konrad
Adenauer, in Cologne’s ancient
cathedral.
With a sonorous Kyrie Eleison
(Lord have mercy) by the
choir, Josef Cardinal Frings,
archbishop of Cologne, per
formed the Requiem Mass for
the 91-year-old architect of West
Germany’s emergence from
ruin to dignity after World War
11.
Johnson and De Gaulle were
the most prominent among the
Jackson Woman’s
Death Ruled
As Accident
JACKSON, Ga. (UPl)—Jus
tice of the Peace Don Mont
gomery Monday ruled the
shooting death of Mrs. Dorothy
McLees an accident.
The 47-year-old practical
nurse died Saturday after being
struck in the back of the head
with a bullet from a .45 caliber
pistol her husband. Jack A.
McLees, said discharged acci
dentally.
McLees earlier had been
charged with murder.
Butts County Sheriff J. D.
(Bud) Pope said McLees re
ported he drew the pistol and
it accidentally discharged four
times.
Coroner Jack R. Newman
said the fatal bullet penetrated
a screen door and a glass win
dow before striking the woman.
Pope said when he arrived at
the McLees home he found the
husband “in a state of shock.”
Don Crowder
Reelected
VFW Commander
Don Crowder was reelected
post commander of the Noah
Barfield VFW Post Monday ni
ght to serve during the 1967-68
year.
Other officers elected includ
ed James Birdwell, senior vice
commander; Jack Gill, junior
vice commander; Calvin Davis,
quartermaster: John Goddard,
judge advocate; Jimmy Seay,
chaplain; Harry Grobner, surg
eon; Wayne McKneely, three
year trustee; Claude Barrow,
two-year trustee; and Jimmy
Nichols, one-year trustee.
Appointive officers will be an
nounced.
largest host of Western states
men to gather since the funeral
of President John F. Kennedy in
Washington, Nov. 25, 1963.
Tile city was solemn. Neigh
boring Bonn, where a memorial
was held earlier in the
Bundestag (parliament) was
deep in mourning for “der alte”
(the old one).
Three Bonn University
students caught pasting anti-
Vietnam war posters in Bonn
were immediately arrested.
Outside the cathedral a crowd
of tens of thousands jammed
the square and the streets
around the building. Uniformed
police and plainclothesmen kept
watch from nearby rooftops.
It was the second farewell
tribute to Adenauer, the first
chancellor of West Germany.
A crowd of 2,000 gathered’ )in.
the Bundestag at Bonn 15 milea
from Cologne for a memorial
service.
Johnson and De Gaulle, two
tall men, dwarfed West German
President Heinrich Luebke as
he stood between them at the
Bundestag.
Today’s encounters were their
first meetings since the funeral
of John F. Kennedy in 1963. So
far they have not had a chance
for real discussions. But after a
cool start their brief exchanges
appeared to have become more
friendly.
The first meeting came when
they gathered with West Ger
man President Heinrich Luebke
the nation’s lower house of
parliament, for the opening
prior to entering the Bundestag;
ceremony commemorating
Adenauer.
They simply shook hands and
exchanged a brief hello without
smiles before they marched in.
De Gaulle was on Luebke’s
right because he takes diploma
tic seniority due to his longer
term of office, and Johnson was
on his left.
Once inside, they sat on either
side of Luebke during the hour
long series of speeches and all
but ignored each other.
From the Bundestag, they
drove in separate cars through
the sunny, crowd-lined streets
to Luebke’s residence for a
luncheon for visiting chiefs of
state and government.
Here the frigid atmosphere
warmed a bit for the first time.
They started by exchanging a
more relaxed handshake and a
few words, then walked with
Luebke to a rear terrace
overlooking the broad Rhine
River to post for photographs.
Still in their positions on
Luebye’s left and right hand
they leaned across him—at a
plea from the cameramen—for
yet another handshake and then
Luebke joined them for a three
way handclasp.
Johnson was smiling broadly
and for a moment a quick smile
passed across de Gaulle’s face.
Vol. 95 No. 96
Warrants Charge
Youths With
Robbery, Rape
Law enforcement officers ac
ross the nation were being alert
ed today for five Spalding you
ths wanted in connection with
the robbery of a church and the
rape of two girls, both 18.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert who is
heading the investigation said
warrants for the five have been
taken, charging them with ar
med robbery and rape. Both
charges are capital cases in Ge
orgia.
Sheriff Gilbert did not identify
the five.
He said he had learned they
had planned a trip and that they
had left their places of residen
ce here.
The sheriff said the five, who
ranged between 17 and 20, were
not students here nor were they
employed.
The sheriff got an early after
noon break in the investigation
Monday and before nightfall had
warrants for the arrest of t h e
five were in the works.
The FBI, GBI, State and Grif
fin law enforcement officers all
were working with Sheriff Gil
bert in the case.
When he learned of the incident,
Gov. Lester Maddox comment
ed Monday: “This is unbelieve
able. It is an unbelievably hein
ous crime. Anyone who would
go into a church and rob people
in church and carry off some
people are not acting like human
beings — they’re acting like
animals.”
The case exploded Sunday
evening at the Pleasant Grove
Methodist Church, a Negro con
gregation in Spalding County
near the Orchard Hill commu
nity. The church is located in a
rural area where there is little
population.
The Rev. R. W. Sutton, pastor
for five years, had just finished
his sermon and the offering
was being taken when the doors
of the church were thrust open.
Four youths, three of them
partially disguished, rushed in
with shotguns and held up the
congregation. A fifth youth ap
parently wanted outside in a
car.
They took the offering from
the collection plates and money
from the pocketbooks of those
at the service.
The minister, the Rev. Sutton,
said some 18 people were at the
worship service. All were order
ed to toss their pocketbooks in
the aisles.
The gunmen took two 18-year
old girls from the congregation
as hostages and turned out the
lights in the sanctuary. They
warned the congregation not to
turn on the lights or to follow
or the girls would be harmed.
The two girls were found on a
road where they had been left
bound after being raped.
The Rev. Sutton who serves
several churches as pastor con
ducts worship services at Plea
sant Grove every second Sun
day morning and every fourth
Sunday night. The Sunday night
service was the only one sche
duled at night for the month.
Wounded Gl
Telephones
From Vietnam
A Griffinite serving in Viet
nam with the Green Beret who
was wounded telephoned relati
ves in Griffin Monday night.
Ronnie Stanfield Polk talked
via of a shortwave radio and
telephone hookup to his wife and
mother in Griffin. They are
Mrs. Diane Polk and Mrs. Sara
Proctor, of 627 East Chappell
street.
The Griffin GI told them he
had been hit by six bullets in
both legs during a battle. He
said 12 men were in his unit and
he and one other man survived.
The rest were killed, he said.
Polk said he hopes to be back
in the United States for treat
ment of his wounds.
Wilkinson Prison
Given 45 Days To
Clean Up Or Close
By DONALD PHILLIPS
ATLANTA (UPl)—The Wilkin
son County prison camp has 45
days in which to clean up or it
may lose its state prisoners.
Corrections Department Di
rector Asa Kelley said he would
recommend to the Board of
Corrections the camp be given
30 to 45 days to clean up its
“old, unclean and unsanitary”
facilities or lose the prisoners.
In a report of a new investiga
tion at the prison camp, Kelley
also revealed a prisoner who
King Says He
Won’t Run For
11. S. President
By JAMES K. CAALAS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. said today a
Negro could be elected presi
dent of the United States “in
this generation” but added it
would not be him.
“I have no interest in any po
litical candidacy,” said King at
a news conference called to dis
cuss rumors that he was con
sidering running for the presi
dency in 1968.
“Several groups and individu
als urged that I become a can
didate,” King said. “I must con
fess that I was quite surprised
by these sentiments and find it
very hard to take them serious
ly.”
He added, “While I under
stand the stirrings for a candi
date who will take a firm-prin
cipled stand on the question of
the war in Vietnam, and the
problems of the poor in urban
ghettoes, I must also add that I
have no interest in being that
candidate.”
King said his role “is one
which operates outside the
realm of partisan politics, rais
ing the issues and through ac
tion creating the situation which
forces whatveer party that is in
power to act.”
Responding to a newsman’s
question, King said a Negro
could be elected president “in
the not too distant future, in this
generation.”
He called criticism of the
peace movement by government
officials “a subtle, sinister, evil
attempt to confuse the minds of
the American people.”
He said “our bombings (of
North Vietnam) prolong the war
more than peace demonstra
tions. You don’t bomb people
into submission.”
King also" said he was “abso
lutely opposed” to the possible
presidential candidacy of former
Alabama Gov. George C. Wal
lace “whose thinking is repre
sentative of the 18th century
and has no place in the 20th
century.”
“His mere candidacy will cre
ate an atmosphere for new big
otry and new h a t r ed,” King
said
King’s political stand had
been expected.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Tonight and Wednes
day cloudy with scattered show
ers and a few thundershowers.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 70, low today 47, high
Monday 75, low Monday 59; sun
rise Wednesday 6:00, sunset
Wednesday 7:16.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
CHICAGO (UPI) —Firemen
said as they were escorting
residents down ladders at
burning Jackson Viet Hotel
Monday a woman with her hair
in rollers whispered:
“Now be careful. I can’t get
my hair messed up.”
drowned in icy water while act
ing as a human duck retriever
at the camp had been ordered
to the pond by a guard.
Kelley said Willie James Dud
ley was ordered to the pond to
retrieve after guard Thomas E.
Godfrey returned from the pond
to the prison camp and asked
the guard in charge to send a
prisoner to help retrieve ducks.
Dudley went to the pond and
jumped into the water to get
three ducks shot by guard Wil
liam P. Murphy. He drowned.
An earlier investigation re
vealed Dudley had volunteered
to jump into the water and the
guard had warned him not to
go if he could not swim.
Kelley said there was no evi
dence the prisoner was actually
ordered to jump into the wa
ter but was told “to assist in
retrieving ducks.”
Meanwhile, the 22 prisoners
at the camp were on a hunger
strike, Kelley confirmed. He
said the convicts refused to “eat
or work because the warden
won’t let them see their girl
friends.”
Kelley said prisoners were
were apparently allowed to see
persons other than members of
their immediate family even
though it was a violation of pri
son board policy.
He said he would send an in
spector to the camp to inform
prisoners that either they work
or face disciplinary action.
“We can’t force them to eat,”
Kelley said.
The Wilkinson camp was spot
lighted recently when four Ne
gro fugitives surrendered them
selves to Gov. Lester Maddox at
a public reception at the gov
ernor’s mansion and complained
of conditions at the camp.
Kelley said he found no in
stances of cruel treatment of
prisoners but said guards had
violated rules and the heating,
cooling, water and medical sys
tems were inadequate.
He also said mail was de
livered only once a week, there
were not enough rest periods
and food could be improved.
Kelley blamed the conditions
on the poor pay of prison help,
calling the starting salary of
$326 per month for guards “ut
terly ridiculous.”
He said the key is “more mo
ney” and vowed he would ask
the legislature “again and
again and again” for funds.
Other developments in the
prison system probe Monday
were:
-Gov. Maddox revealed a Ne
gro, likely a legislator, would be
appointed to the Corrections De
partment team soon to begin an
investigation of all prison
camps.
--A six-man House committee
began a separate investigation
and vowed it would avoid any
“whitewash.”
-Maddox invited prison war
dens to tour the Fulton County
public works camp as a “good
example.”
—Sen. Hugh Gillis of Soperton,
a member of the Corrections
Department - legislative probe,
said all prison camps could not
be closed, only the worst ones.
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a better man than you are,
you’ll have to let him have
some ideas that differ from
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