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DATA MICR07IL3I35 POBOX 1043 PERRY A33JEX WHITTIER CA 90630 VoL 43 No 29 12 Pages 2 Sections Palm Spring California Saturday September 6 1949 Washington Pressure On 'Aggressor1 Israel Is Urged by Gromyko EARLY WINNERS Mill Ohio Kathy Baumann (R) won tha talant eom- Katition at tha Milt America Pagaant in Atlantic City yesterday whila lisi Michigan Pamela Eldrad captured tha swim suit honors in the semifinal round Miss America 1970 will be named tonight (UPI Telephoto) News Roundup Alioto Sues Magazine for Libel Alioto a millionaire businessman is considered a front runner for the 1970 Democratic gubernatorial nomination Many feel that if he could upset Gov Ronald Reagan then he could earn a spot on the Democratic national ticket in 1972 It was Alioto who nominated Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 convention in Chicago The article asserts Alioto had given at least six underworld figures "bank loans legal services business counsel and opportunities and the protective mantle of his 10 Cents RELUCTANT Supremo Court Justico Hugo Black roluctantly uphold yastarday the Nixon Administration's proposal to dalay desegregation in 30 Mississippi school districts In a five-page opinion Black said ho hopes the complaining Negroes will present their case to the full Supremo Court "at the earliest opportunity" Ho said thoro is no longer any reason whatever to support a duel school system in Mississippi (UPI Telephoto) Justice Cites Court in Slow Desegregation WASHINGTON (UPI) Justice Hugo Black has blamed the Supreme Court for the slow progress toward school desegregation since the 1954 decision In an opinion Black admitted was to him he upheld Friday the Nixon proposal to delay desegregation of 38 Mississippi school districts In the five-page opinion Black blamed the overall lack of progress toward school desegregation over confusion on the Supreme Court's term "all deliberate Black said federal courts have been struggling with the phrase ever since the Supreme Court used it in 1955 in an elaboration on the 1954 decision He said that so long as the phrase must be taken into account total integration will not come about deliberate has turned out to be only a soft euphemism for Black said "Deplorable as it is to Black said of the Mississippi case "I must uphold the order which both sides indicate could have the effect of delaying total desegregation of these schools for as long as a The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Legal Defense Fund immediately said it would appeal to the flill Supreme Court as Black urged them to do in his opinion The next term of Court opens Oct 6 Meanwhile Friday the Justice Department filed its seventh desegregation suit against a Georgia school system It charged in US District Court in Savannah that Long Cochoran District opened its schools on a modified freedom of choice plan instead of a unitary nonradal syrtem as it agreed to do In Macon Ga the US District Court issued an order requiring the Clinch County Board of Education to desegregate immediately two classes of black students that had been assigned as solid blocks to a previously all-white school The order required desegregation of grades one through seven in the Fargo school by Monday of six additional elementary classes by Jan 1 and of the three remaining grades by next September Brazil Ready To Exchange For US Envoy RIO DG JANIERO (UPI) The Brazilian government prepared today to fly 15 prisoners to Mexico in order to secure the release by Brazilian leftist terrorists of kidnaped US Ambassador Burke Elbrick An announcement on the departure of the 14 men and one woman was expected to be made following a cabinet meeting called for 9 am (8 am EDT) by the three-man military command which replaced ailing President Arthur da Costa Silva this week The two leftist terrorist groups which claimed responsibility for kidnaping Thursday said the ambassador would be released unharmed once the prisoners reached their destination The kidnapers said the group was to be flown to Mexico Chile or Algeria Foreign Minister Jose Magalhaes Pinto said Friday night he had been informed Mexico had agreed to give asylum to the prisoners He said they were expected to be flown out today In Mexico City Foreign Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores said Mexico will grant political asylum to the prisoners Magalhaes Pinto was to have gone on a nationwide radio-television hookup Friday night to explain the steps he had taken to transport the prnera to exile His appearance was cancelled without explanation It was believed his announcement was called off because of delays in gathering together the prisoners a job complicated by bad weather Most of the prisoners were held on a prison island in Guanabara Bay off Rio but some were jailed in other states $50000 Fire Guts Awning Firm in Indio INDIO The gutting by fire early Friday of Desert Blind and Awning Company with estimated loss of $50000 was the costliest blaze in Indio in three years it was learned today A fire department spokesman noted that the fire losses for the entire year of 1968 totaled only $38500 The previous most destructive fire in the three year period was the one which burned the railroad depot to the ground in 1966 Firemen with two engines after being called to the location at 5:45 am brought the flames under control in 30 minutes but stood by nearly four hours to prevent recurrence and to secure equipment The firm is located at 81-576 Highway 111 A policeman narrowly escaped injury when superheated air inside the building caused front windows to explode outward blowing out glass and debris for over 30 feet barely missing the officer Destroyed were Venetian blinds shades carpeting office fiirniture lamps hassocks and footstools Damage was done to equipment and machinery Fortunately George Farmer the owner had stored important records in a fireproof container Firemen said the fire had started about an hour before it was discovered Cause is believed to have been a faulty flourescent light fixture which short circuited and ignited the wooden frame of a display case Tne AY earner CLOUDY AND HOT Forecast: Variable clouds today tonight and Sunday Scattered thundershowers especially aftcrnooi and evening Chance of Isolated and brief heavy showers sear the mountains Gusty winds at times 25 to 35 mph Not much temperature change Highs both days 192 to 119 Lows tonight 77 to 85 at a news conference in Belgrade at the end of a five-day official visit to Yugoslavia "Countries which have close relations with Israel-such as the United Siates-could contribute to solving the Middle East problem more than they have so Gromyko said "I hope the United States will make wider use of the possibilities it has to work in the interests of peace and security in that He reiterated Soviet support fur a UN resolution saying no solution was possible without unconditional withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab territory it occupied during the 1967 Middle East war "Israel is the aggressor occupying Arab territories which do not belong to Gromyko said Friday night a US State Department spokesman confirmed a report that the United States has started delivery of 50 Phantom jets to Israel Gromyko did not mention the subject at his conference The report was carried by the semiofficial Cairo newspaper A1 Ahram which said Israel was pressing for an additional 25 Phantoms and 80 Skyhawks It said Israeli premier Golda Melr would negotiate the purchase of the planes when die visits Washington Sept 25 Lebanon meanwhile protested to the UN Security Council an Israeli air and ground attack against its territory (See GROMYKO Page 2) Bomb Scare At Home Of Mayor's Kin SAN ANSELMO (UPI)- Demolitions experts were called to the home of restaurateur Peter Alioto Mayor Joseph Alioto's cousin Friday to investigate what appeared to be a bomb left on his front porch Alioto and his wife Tanya of San Anselmo returned from San Francisco about 2:30 am Friday and found a shoebox with a note attached reading: "Do not open until after midnight Your husband knows what it is and more to Alioto threw the ticking shoebox into the family swimming pool and called sheriffs office The deputies cut a small hole in the box and saw a clock and wires Inside and Immediately called the bomb squad from the Presidio base in San Francisco After surrounding neighbors had evacuated the area experts dismantled the simulated bomb very elaborately constructed Were you away this summer? time now to RE ORDER YOUR DESERT SUN which will keep you up on Society News Niant life local sports The latest Stocks Activity and generally the best reporting of the news in our desert area Palm Springs Phono 325-5005 Palm Desert 345-1900 By United Press International Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said today the United States has not done all it can to bring stability to the Middle East and urged Washington to bring pressure for peace on the state of Israel The Soviet official made the comment Two Possible Tate Suspects Under Probe NEW YORK Two Californians arrested here on arms and drug charges also are being investigated as possible suspects in the killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others in Bel Air last month Police said the two men Daniel Weatherl of (229 2nd ave) Chico and Dennis Harford of (IIS Almond ave) Oroville both 24 had three loaded guns 100 pounds of marijuana and $4000 in their possession when they were arrested on a Brooklyn street Friday "Los Angeles has asked us to run a ballistics check on the three guns (a 25 caliber automatic a 38 caliber revolver and a 22 caliber revolver) and they are sending men here to question the police sources said Although the home towns of the two men are in north central California both had recently been reported in Los Angeles Miss Tate was killed with a knife but the other four victims in the case-hair stylist Jay Sebring coffee heiress Abigail Folger Voityck Frokowsky and Stephen Parent were shot Police never have announced the caliber of tiie gun used in the killings Chief Asst Brooklyn Dist Atty Elliott Golden said Weatherl and Harford arrived from California about a week ago and rented a car at Kennedy Airport They were in the car when they were arrested by two detectives from the Safe and Loft Squad Police said both' men were armed Weatherl carrying one gun and Harford the other two They said 68 bricks of marijuana were found in suitcases in the rented car and $4000 in cash wrapped in a plastic bag was under the front seat Libya Regime Eases Curfew ROME (UPI) new regime today announced a further relaxation of the curfew hours clamped on the oil-rich nation after the bloodless coup last Monday Radio Tripoli said In a broadcast monitored here the Council of the Revolution said the curfew would be lifted from 7 am to 7 pm It had been in force except for a few hours around noontime since the coup In London the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced Britain gave diplomatic recognition to the new regime The Foreign Office statement said: "Her government have noted the desire of the Revolutionary Command Council in Libya for friendly relations with Britain and their declared intention to respect their international obligations For their part Her government wish to continue these friendly SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Mayor Joseph Alioto has sued Look Magazine for $125 million over an article linking him with leaders of the Costra Nostra The article will appear nationwide on Tuesday Alioto whose unde was murdered outside a barber shop by the Black Hand in 1917 told a City Hall news conference Friday the story is wanton and reckless disregard for the He filed his libel suit in US District Court against Cowles Communications Inc publisher of the magazine and editorial chairman Gardner Cowles Da Nang Under SAIGON (UPI) Communist troops blasted the city of Da Nang and nearby military installations with nearly 200 rockets or mortar rounds early today in their heaviest attack on the Northern coastal area in a year spokesmen said The assault in and around South second largest city in the predawn hours killed 17 South Vietnamese civilians and three Americans communiques reported They wounded 23 Vietnamese and 120 Americans Three Americans died when Communist infantrymen slammed almost 40 82mm mortar rounds in a Marine Corps prison southwest of Da Nang and followed the barrage with a ground attack Four of the mortar rounds struck Red Leaders Pass HONG KONG (UPI) Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived in Hanoi today to attend the funeral of North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh The possibility of a chance meeting with China's Chou En Lai was ruled out by the Chinese early departure The Chinese delegation hastened to Hanoi only a few hours after the 79-year-old Vietnamese leader died of a heart attack Wednesday However it left Thursday night instead of waiting for next funeral There had been speculation that Kosygin and Chou who's governments Police Stave Off BFLFAST Northern Ireland (UPI) Police forced back a mob of hymn-singing Protestants early today who marched toward the city's Roman Catholic district to tear down Catholic barricades left from religious riots last month Armored cars baton charges and calming words from Protestant leader Rev Ian Paisley helped push back the mob who erected barricades of their own and threw gasoline bombs at police ranks Heavy Rocketing plywood and tin huts where prisoners were sleeping A spokesman said two of the dead and 36 of the wounded were prisoners It was believed to be the first Communist attack of the war on an American stockade or brig Guards beat off the assault but Communist losses were unknown A mortar round which fell on the Naval Hospital compound on the edge of Da Nang caused no casualties but a direct hit on a South Vietnamese army amunition supply dump near the Da Nang River set off explosions which killed one American and injured three others in nearby bunkers military sources said in The Night have been at odds over border disputes would be brought together by Ho's death The most widely held opinion among diplomats and specialists both in Ilong Kong and at the Paris peace talks was that the Chinese wished to underscore their differences with Russia by refusing to have any top ranking official at the same functions as Kosygin Lesser speculation was that the Chinese might be preparing to send an even higher level delegation that might include Mao Tse-Tung the Communist party chairman Protestants No injuries were reported but one store was gutted by flames Paisley left later for Philadelphia and a six-day tour of the United States to tell true facts about the situation in He told newsmen before boarding a plane in London he would give documentary evidence in the United States that Bernadette Devlin a civil rights activist and member of the British Parliament had lied during her tour of the United States.