The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 81, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1958 Page: 2 of 28
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2.A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
40 Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, September 4, 1958
TO ENFORCE LAW
Macmillan Eyes
Racial Violence
By PATRICK MASSEY on any fresh outbreak
LONDON (AP)—Prime Minister Police courts around Notting
Macmillan’s Cabinet declared Hill were filled again Wednesday
Wednesday night the law will be with a procession of riot suspects ■
Gibbons ‘Willing’
To Face Re-Vote
WASHINGTON (AP)—Harold J. election go" to Walla on a 70-61
Gibbons, whose right to run the count
Here! T.G.&Y’s Semi-Annual
Teamsters Union in St. Louis has
"Oh. no." Gibbons replied. ap-
been challenged before the Senate parently startled by the idea.
Rackets Committee, said Wednes- “But I’m entirely willing to have
day he is willing to have a new a neW election," he said. The com-
election. mittee did not ask him whether
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if needed at
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While the a
enforced with utmost strictness to and exhibits of weapons such as
crush racial violence now flaring knives, iron bars, bottles and
in Britain. C_________j
At the same time the govern . .
ment hinted it is considering curb C has wiA p Diedse
on the free flow of immigrants wesiilicn 1 IcuQC
to Britain from the Common - "
wealth countries. Many of the im-I # - A •
migrants are colored Honest Campaign
The statement from No. " - Pt -*-) ASA
Downing St., the Prime Minister’s,
residence, followed four straight. By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
nights of race rioting in London.
MEADE ALCORN .
. . . burying hatchet
But he insisted that seven-offi-he planned to call one.
cers of a Tampa, Fla., local-
1000 miles away—be permitted to
vote in it , -
It was these seven votes that
put Gibbons into office as presi-
dent of the St. Louis Teamsters
Council last January. The final
tally was 76-70
Witnesses before the Rackets
Committee have accused the 47-
■year-old Gibbons of seizing power
through a rigged and crooked
election.
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Gibbons acknowledged to the
un- senators that conceivably he could
G
lied that "I would say it is
WASHINGTON ■ AP)—The rival true, "that the code condemns have blate the union^
The series of disorders centered national political party chairmen distortions and falsification oftion by allowing the Tampa dele
around the Notting Hill district, pledged a fair, honest campaign fact
open
Wednesday. Then they promptly Butler brake in to say: "We
squared off on whether President don’t view the code as restricting
cred residents-manv of them Eisenhower is a part time chief us from continuing to make that
red residents—many Of Lem executive
from the West Indies, Nigeria and - ’
other Commonwealth countries.
Mobs of white teen-ager have
launched violent atatcks -en col-
Macmillan conferred with Home
Secretary Richard Butler over the
issue, which has caused wide-
spread indignation among Britons
and an official protest from
Ghana. The West African Negro
nation charged some of its nation-
als had been assaulted in the riots.
charge, with some degree of ac-
But Paul Butler for the Demo-ceptance by the American people."
crats and Meade Alcorn for the Alcorn said he wouldn’t regard
Republicans did bury the political the Republicans as restricted in”
hatchet momentarily—mainly in answering any comments the
the skull of Democratic Gov. Or- Democrats might make on civil
val Faubus of Arkansas.
1
gates, all members of a carnival
workers local, to cast their bal-
lots after tabulation of the votes
from some 20 locals had shown
him trailing E. E. (Gene) Walla
for the presidency.
, In view of this admission, Rob-
ert F. Kennedy, committee coun-
sel, asked Gibbons whether he
would be willing to give up the
9 to 9
thursday
The national chairmen appeared
together—on a smiling, first name
rights or the attitude of Eisen
bower. Nor, he said, would they seven Tampa votes and let the
basis—at a news conference con-
ducted by Charles P. Taft, chair-
The 10 Downing St. statement man of the four-year-old Fair
said "utmost strictness will be ob- Campaign Practices Committee
They sat down and signed a
served in the impartial enforce-
ment of the law and in preventing code of fair campaign practices
the illegal carrying of offensive on behalf of themselves and their
parties, just as the party chairmen
had done previously in 1954 and
weapons," adding: "Meanwhile it
is important that the significance
of the incidents should not be ex-
aggerated at home or overseas."
Scattered incidents were report-
ed during the day in suburbs
about five miles from the Notting
Hill area
Youths hurled stones and milk
bottles through the windows of
houses with colored residents.
Others started a fire outside a
house. .
Scotland Yard called in about
200 extra police to clamp down
1956.
Alcorn was asked whether he
would classify it as dirty politics
if the Democrats say Eisenhower
is a.‘part time president. He re-
Cuban Weapon
Runner Draws .
Z-Year Term
BROWNSVILLE (AP) - Marco
Antonio del Conde, 32, and a
Mexican national, was sentenced
to two years in prison in Federal
Court today for attempting to run
guns to Cuban rebels.
Federal Judge James V. Allred
revoked a two year suspended
old epidemic of sleeping sickness sentence which he gave del Con-
old epidemic sleeping sickness de last May in connection with a
killed 151 South Koreans Tuesday gun running attempt here. He
and Wednesday, bringing the to-was under five years’ probation,
tat fatality coun: to 916. More than The Mexico Citv sporting goods
4 000 Koreans have been stricken, store operator was arrested along
The U.S. Army aviation section with 34 other men when , Coast
sent out light planes in spraying Guard cutter ramme<j , boat
operations to destroy disease-car- loaded with automatic weapons in
rying mosquitoes. I the Gulf near here last March.
No new cases of encephalitis Last week del Conde was ar-
were reported among US. serv- rested at Gilmer in connection
icemen in Korea beyond five with another cache of weapons in-
stricken and one death reported tended for Fidel Castro’s rebels,
earlier. Three U.S children have He pleaded guilty before Judge
been reported stricken in Japan. Joe Sheehy at Tyler and was sent
In Japan and Formosa, the dis- here to settle the previous case.
Sleeping Sickness
Death Toll 916
SEOUL (AP) - The five-week
ease appeared on the wane, with Sheehy said del Conde would be
166 deaths reported so far in Ja- sentenced at Tyler following the
pan, and 39 deaths in Formosa, settling of the Brownsville case
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be restricted in mentioning the
views of Faubus or Sen. James
O. Eastland (D-Miss) on racial
and civil rights matters.
But the Republican approach,
Alcorn said, will not be to reply
in kind to the type of statement
"we have been accustomed to."
Asked to clarify that, Alcorn said
he had in mind some of the state-
ments Faubus has made which he
said don’t contribute to solution
of the racial problem.
Anything Faubus says on this
issue. Butler put in, is not con-
sistent with the attitude of the
Democratic party. The party re-1
pudiates the governor’s state-
ments, he asserted.
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