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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1957
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70,000 Watch Parade in Kingston
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Centennial Queen Features Parade
SyriaMakesiuc/geSpurnsDe/ayP/ea Thrills Mark Angry Reply^^ L/ff/e Rock Schools
To America
With United States Government Forces Showdown for Governor
Siands Firm
Hits U. S. Plans For Jordan Airlift And to Intervene if Moscow Incites War
I I.n TLi; ROCK, Ai-k. (ID — f. S. Di.stnct Judge jRonald K. Davies refused even a moment's delay yes- jterday in the integration of a militia—guarded Little JRock high school. He thus makes inevitable a show- idown between Gov. Orvalj,	
F']. Faubus and the U. S.    ,. .     ...    ...   . ,    .
i which asked for the delay he re¬ fused  has presented  "hald and
allegations in his
Kingston's Centennial Queen, Irene Skeba of 4«'i Penn St., Kingston, rides high on her majestie  float  with   Ihe  princesses  of  her
cniirt as a Marine Corps honor guard adds to the color of this parade spectacle.
Prayer Meeting Scene Adds Variety
government.
Actually   Faubus.   by   calling [msupported'
BEIRUT, Lebanon (IP)— out the National Guard, has pre- petition
Svria's    leftist   regime vented the  integration of Cen- He    said    that    the    school
iral High School since Tuesday, hoards argumeni  in coun was
despite   two   prior   decrees   by "as  anemic  as  the  petition   it¬ self."  He  pointed  out  that  the
lashed out angrily yester¬ day at the L'nited States for its plans to airlift arms to .lordan and olher anti-Commu¬ nist Middle liast nations. At the same time. King Saud of Saudi   Arabia  made  a   surprise
(Background st^ry on Little Rock and ils integration strife on Page 2, Sec. 1.)
Little Rock integration plan was "originated and conceived by local citizens, acting through their own local school direc¬ tors."
flying visit to I^ebanon for talks Davies that it be thrown open „     u    . r .       m      . on the tense situation. to  Negroes.  Davies  said  today l'^''*'*"'^"' ^"'^" Dispute
The   new   developments   oc- that the alternative to defiance     "The plan  was  approved  by curred as President Eisenhower of the courts is "chaos." '^' ,/°";'   '^\^J rtJ^'T.
sternly     warned     Russia     the'    The   U.   S.   government   now Court  of  the  8th  Circuit,    he United   States   is   prepared   to has to make Faubus allow inte-jsaid.
intervene    if    Moscow    shouldRration or have the desegrega-     A delay might havT perm^^^
of;tion orders of its courts openly:raubus to send the National flouted bv other southern states. if'Uard home and ease the im- The .lustice Department hasi Passe between him and the U. S. said that its showdown with Kovernment. Even President Faubus will come in the courts. Fisenhower had entered the dis- A Constitution Duty "... It must never be for-
Precision, Big Spectacle
Crowds Jam Full Course of March; Centennial Starts
"push   Syria   into  any   acts agression   against   her   neigh¬ bors." An Official Reply
An official Syrian government statement   issued   in   Damascus
putp. with a personal appeal to Faubus to obey the courts. Fau- warned the United States thatgf^tten that I have'a" constiUi- hus, however.'had not promised Syria "will nnt tolerate anyitjonal duty and obligation from'that he would send the troops action against her security." It;\vhich I shall not shirk "jho'^e if a delay were granted. was Syria's first official reaction:Davies said on Saturday '       '" brief, this was the history
to  the  announcement  that   the|    "[n    "an     organized     society'^^Jhe dispute; U. S. would begin airlifting arms there  can   be  nothing  but   ulti to Jordan tomorrow. ;mate   confusion   and   chaos   if
Simultaneously,  Syrian  Presi-[court decrees are flouted, what dent   Shukri   el   Kuwatly   wasjever the pretext, quoted  in Cairo as  saying thati    "We   and   each   of   us  has   a^
Syria  would  "tear  up the  beltlduty  to conform  to the law oflFlownted Two Orders being clamped around  it." jthe land and the decrees of its!    He   thus   went   against   two
The    Svrian    statement    said dulv constituted  courts." 'Federal Court orders.   About 250
Faubus.    on    Monday    night, 'called   out   the   National   Guard to  prevent   integration   of  Cen¬ tral   High   School,   which   1,800 J white students attend.
JUDGE DAVIES
Holding firm to his original position in spite of Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus who has used National Guardsmen to block the court's order that the schools be intoprated. Fed¬ eral Judge Ronald Davies yes¬ terday brought the matter to a showdown by refusin'T thf> •^-•'"'nl board's plea for a delay.
Boy, 10, Kills Father Because 'He Beat Mom'
By SHELDON C. WINTERMUTE
Old Man Weather came to bat to chase away the threatening clouds with the result that an ap¬ plauding crowd of 70.000 per¬ sons enjoyed a 117-minute well- planned and supervised parade that officially opened the Kings-
-i a.^ to" Borough Centennial yester-
¦*¦.«  day afternoon.
Unlike most parades theri were no gaps or tinng waits for m.irching units to come into view. Even veteran state troop¬ ers, who take parade duty in stride, said in substance "This is the greatest"
It was just impossible for anyone to count the sea of faces that framed the line of march, which extended from Kincstnn-Fnrty Fnrt line on Wyoming Ave. tn the reviewing stand in front of the Kingston .Armnrv on Market St.
But the combined efforts of ICentennial officials, Kingston and State polire and other per¬ sons with training in estimating crowds, it was possible to .set lthe viewinc crowd at 70,000, al. Ithough there were some enthu- "iii^-jfc who thought it was mors .like ino.OOO.
New Records Set
One thing is sure. When those who arranged the celebration for Kingston's 200th anniversary look hack in the records thev will be able to point with pride to the fact that the opening pa¬ rade   of   the   100th   anniversary
A prayer meeiing scene of Ihe early days of Kingston—with some good hymn singing adding to tha effectiveness—marked the Dor¬
ranceton Mcthodist Church horse-drawn float as one of the best in the line of march. —(Photos by Bieley)
riTTSBURGH      aP)— ^ag ^^^ ^^jy ^^e most diver.i-
Chervenak,     10,,fied  in  Wvoming  Vallev's  his-
yesterday    he    shotltory,  but that the crowd  was
Colorado Girl Miss America
Woman, 75. Disappears On Way to Free World
Miss
Tn the midst of the worsening Middle  East  crisis.   King  Saud.
suddenly   flew   to   Beirut   from!	
Saudi  Arabia with  a  group of.
pO   retainers   and   held   hurried|^'^pcr|«Qpf^   fO   frV   Affaill BUENOS  AIRES   (IP —A   75-frightened by the number of unl-|tall<s with Lebanese government ' *
ATTANTTC CITY   N   J   m—>'**'¦•<*'''  grandmother who dis-;formed  men  at  the  Sao  Paulo,''"''^'^'''•, ^. .......
AiLAivrnc «..HY, IN. J. IIT    lappeared on a flight from Com-',,.,.^,^    („^i„Hin,   airiin.   offi '    Speculation mounted in Beirut Colorado, 20-year-old Marl-imun.sm to the free world was^''^^'^'   'ticluding   airline   ofH- ^^^^   ^^^j,   Hussein   of   Jordan lyn Elaine Van Derbur of Den- rhe  center  of  an   international,ca'",  police  and  customs  offi- would   stop   off   here   enroute ver,  m  sutuesque  blonde  with mystery today. jeers. llZ'"il^^^^']l^trJ'''lT.llyTnr
green   eyes,   was   named   ^-^'l^^J^TL^Zl'^^^^tf    "°"T' *'" ^h''*":' ^'^T A"--Vo r'e oTe th^^^^^^ America this moming in the di- |^,- G-- ln^t:%:^V,ll\;r:J,''^^^^^^^^ ^-^^P-nts sometime Mon-
max   of   a   week-long   beauty ^a, Rus.s,a, to Argentina to join^J^"''''' *^^. *''''^'^" '^'*°'^'*i''«>'' , ^ ,    ^
her daughter. He grandson. Greg-I to  "ave  continued  her  trip to|    Both Saudi Arabia and Jordan
'Syria does not intend to attack'     Faubus  declined  to comment itronps anri state police guarded anybody." He is scheduled lo toll his stnry the school throughout the week!
Tt  was  issued  at   almost   the'—^^ contends that he fears in- They turned bark eight Negroes'Michael same     time     that     Fisenhower 'eeration   now   would   cause   a who tried to get in Wednesdav  said
ser^'ed blunt notue in a Wash-ihloodv riot-in a national tele-^    Atty.  ^^en^  Herbert   Brownell    ^  i^j,]^   his'father,  not'the   brnest   ever   officially   re- inpton statement that he is pre-l^l^i""   .^"^t"^  Vr^'rV ° ^ ^ T^ "¦^''  ''T/pL,'" '"'¦^'"•i because of the beafings he re-^"'•'<*« <" ^hat timft pared   to  "exercise  as  needed''^.^^^--^ ¦^" ^^'W'^-^^- Rate the case: the FBI 'nvestiga- ^^^^^^^^ j^^^^rngs tie /«      ^^ ^^^ ^ different sort of pa.
the authority conferred on  himiJu^?* ^P*"""? ?^«'"''", , .  !,'"":.'^ .npro|re.ss now. or r^i^r-i^i^  mother ^ rade.
There were fhe usual contin-
lwTv« heiiino P'Prits   of  floaf.s,   military   units.
could    Include    use    of    armedl*'^" f. ""er rormai orner s,mpiy,nis   teiepnone   wa.s   tappea   «"° ^5^'' MichaeT a  eood-look nf f'''"'*'"^  """S'   ^"" •   ^"^  '"'^"V
forces. !;^P^^"I?5  "11^  *\*.  P^l!*'"" .,*.''!!'^*' "^^ ^vrL^"*^*'* ^^'¦^ «°'"S;fTfth^Brader ^^^ fh"   'ittle   annoying   things
ere miss/ng
were so well marchers in the 10 different divisions were able a steady step. There \v,is none of the usual march- inR prnhlems of having a hand in front beatinc nut 120 c.idence
the me
tha authoritv conferred on  bim "-"^^ ..f...... .....,,.. ,,,„,,,.-,,,,,,. uvg,^.,, „...>. ... '¦™--j,is  mother
by   last   Sping'i*   congressional  . ^he   lurist   fo lowed   up   his ly finished.   ?aubus telegraphed     -ididn^ mind getting a beat- Middle    East    resolution.     This|dP':ision    from    the   ^"''rfroom Mr.   Eisenhower that  he  fearedl.' °^°"j^t 'n^^'' ^^^^^^^
  pf    m-jflgji with a brief formal order simply,his   telephone   was   tapped   and "'^' ' ""^ '"^ **^''* ^'**''J'* "'^'"'"S
repeating  that  the   petition  to,that U. S. marshals were goinSf^ft^r-'d'^^^^^^ fhe   little   ai
delay  the  integration  here  "isito arrest him. Itective?  -'anrf  when   r    h^n^h? about p.irades w,
denied." i    Faubus called out  two com-'^f^.^*^,'-„f"d  when  I  thought     y,,^ ',   bands
Davies said the school board.' (Continued on Page 2. Sec. 1) f Michael   who had gone to his f''""':'^ ^hnt the n
Mayor of Little Rock Angered by Governor
gon bedroom   after   being   whipped       . with a belt for leaving his shoes ,.?..   _jl in the wrong place Frid.iy nirht, then   got   his   father's   shotgun
and went downstairs. . , ._     . .
Resting the long b.irrel of the """^ "" overlapping h_ind to the  st.-iir   rail,   he   ^hot T':,   ^^''VP"..  "     '^P:'^!"''
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on
Cher- rhvlhrn wilh the result ihat the as   he '^'"'chers looked like candidates came out of the living rnnm,       ^"^ « "'"ht cluh Congo line.
Police Walkie-Talkie
father,    Michael    F. venak   .Ir.,   in   the   chest
. ,„,T,, ,. nrAr-if-    *   1    .tr,.     Ail      j r    •      xt     Husband Became Enraged
Lli TLh R(){ K, Ark. tlP)—At least one of nine Ne-!    C"her\'cnnk   and   his   son   had      Ihe spectators along the line
groes eligible to attend the school said she will trv to returned   from   a   fishing   trip, of march so enjoyed the scene
pageant at Convention Hall. her daughter. He grandson. Greg-1---'----^^^^ rn"?he°lTs" f^"  so   Monday.   The  Governor indicated   that  armed, MrsCher^-enak told police. Her unfolding in front of them from
Th« fivmtnnt   mioht Ineh Mt<i« ory Vimick, said she may have Buenos Airee elxwrd Pan Amer- are oeiievea inciuaea in me u. a. n i   * j lu        u     i j        t    c   i     j     > j  i    husband became anerv and ac- start to finish that policing was
Il.il  „^„u!-^"-„^.n fallen into tiie hand, of Soviet ,can   Flight   201,   although   ehe P «" ,»« ^^"^h arms shipments to, force will be at the school despite Saturday S mandate S {J.rof       '"«^
Colorado, who played an organ recital In the talent division, was
crowned    the    nation's    beauty
secret poUce. iRed Tried to Stop Her
Middle F.ast nations which fear
Isaid her daughter lived in Santa Syrian  aggression  with  Soviet
However, Eugenia Vimick, of
,Fe, Argentina. m      inr.     J. I    . Vimick  said   the   Soviets  al-Vrhere la She*
queen   for   1958   after   winning ^^^y ^ad made one attempt to "^""* " *"
over 30 other young lovely giris,stop  her,  but failed.     He said
in three gruelling nights of com- Swiss police snatched her from the Buenos Aires suburb of Ave!-;
petition   before  tonight's   semi- Soviet diplomats Aug. 29 when laneda, said Mrs. Friedman was
final and final  rounds. A.rJrt tnmute her^'*   ^^'''^'^^^  "'oJ'"   '^'"''p '^P^'-'f'""
_,,...       ...  .1,  rt,.. Airport enroute nere. from   Odessa   to   Buenos   Airesi
The fairest beauty in all  the,    He  said  Mrs.   Friedman  was iong  had  been  sought  through!
land weighs 130 pounds and has tnen put aboard Swissair Flight,tj^e Argentine Foreign Office     !
measurements of .T5-2,5.,36, Trail- 460  for  Sao  Paulo,   Brazil  the|    j^^^   y,^„,^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^j,],^^!
ing   her   In   order   were   Miss *a^« ^^^y- ¦^^'^'^ "'^"f.'i^^L'^ff"Ihad not reached her home here,
ommendation to the airline man-i^ ^^ ^j,^ ^^^^ ^„ ,^„_ C^^g.
'^e OM- lady «Tiyed In that «;^^^^, «  •«*«='>  '<>'  ^
city   with   all   her   belongingsS^r*"'^**"**'^'
supplied weapons.
Independent Gets Bomb Warning
of the court. He has ordered an-.
Georgia, Jody Elizabeth Shat tuck, 20. of Atlanta; Miss Okla home, Mary Nancy Denner, 21
of Alva: Mi,9s California. Loma'packed in wooden box. showingi
M. Anderson, 18, of .Sacramento, obvious fear and distrust of the^^g^jjjj^jjj SoeHman
and Miss Florida, Dorothv Maria strange new free worid, , r
Steiner, 20, of Booa Raton, '    She   was   reported  especially ^grjcs Anniversary
NEW YORK m
Casual Shifiing of Denomination May Tend to Uniie Proiesianis
OBERLIN, Ohio HP—The ca.sual way In which many Amerioan Protestants shift al¬ legiance from one denomina¬ tion to another was depicted today as a major force for church unity.
The "stability" of church memljership *n the United States ie beiing studied by e section of the Oberhn con¬ ference on church unity, A section report 8«id that in a typical U. S, congregation, from 30 to ."50% of the mem¬ bers may be "transfers" from some other denomination.
Dr. Rosewell P, Barnes, as¬ sociate general secretary of the national Council of Churches and a conference section leader, said one fifth of America's families change residences each year. When a church-going family settles in a new neighborhood, he said, "many considerations be.sides previous denominational loyal¬ ties enter into a choice of a new local church affiliation." Cities  Shifting
He said a family may choose a church on the basis of "convenience of access, social congenially of the con¬ gregation, the quality of the religious education program, the youth program, or the popularity of the minister." Thie   constant   ehifting
around of Bapti.'rts, Method¬ ists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and other Protestants "tends to de-emphasize denomina¬ tional differences and smooth the path toward Christian unity," Bamee said.
Another oonference section reported In a preliminary re¬ port that many suburban churches are in danger of be¬ coming "exclusive clubs" In which membership is effec¬ tively restricted to white fam¬ ilies of middle class economic brackets. Churches Must Conform
It said churches have tend¬ ed to accept and conform to the "racial and economic stratification" of American neighh)orhoods, rather than bear witness in their own life to the "universality" of Chris¬ tian brotherhood.
The spirit erf candid self criticism by the churches was a marked feature of the Ober- lin conference,
Dr, Joseph Sittler, professor of theology at the University of Chicago and chairman of World Council of Churches commission on worship, said the Sunday worship service in "thousands of American churches" has been "de¬ graded" into a kind of "brain¬ washing" operation.
The Sunday Independent re^ ceived   a    bomb    scare    this ;Atty. Gen morning at  12:0,')  Ihrough  an  'ruling   on anonymous   phone   call   from an elderly man.
Answering the phone call, reporter John Dugan was told, "There's a bomb placed in your building. Get out quick,"
Trying to draw out the call¬ er, Dugan attempted to ques¬ tion him and again was told "There's a bomb set to go off
other    contingent    of    National;
Guardsmen   moved   to   the   be- to use the National  Guard  un- leaguered     school     yard     this limited^'"
week, A    court    injunction    against
The controver.sy swiftly dovel-further    blockading     of     Little oped a third side after the deci-'Rock's  Central   High  School  by[shoes
sion   when   Little   Rock   Mayor Arkkansas   National   Guardsmenputting them  under his hed. Woodrow
giving  him  "cold no problem, although Chief Ed-
storage" eggs to eat. He hurled ""is Williams of Kingston Police a dish of corn in her face, she Department had one of the said. Imost   elaborate   crowd   control
Cher\'enak,     a     steelwnrker.ip'ans ever arranged for a local then   thrashed   his   boy  with   a parade.
belt,   she   said,   fnr   leaving   his      For the first time on  record,
bv   a   couch   instead   of 'he    20    municipal    police    of
Kingston,   assisted   by   ,10   uni-
Mann    asked    State,was   viewed   as   an   early   prns-j     Mrs. Chervenak  said she had formed    members   of   the   hor-
Bruce Bennett for a pect this week should they stillgone   to   the   kitchen   and   was ough's   Civil   Defense   Auxiliary
whether   city   police be nn hand   A cnntempt nf court weepine  and  cleaning  the corn Police  Unit,  used walkie-talkies
can intervene to clear t.he streets citation against laubus also wasifrom the floor  when  she heard to keep in  touch with all  units
in prospect the  shotgun  blast at  vital  points along  the three-
Thurgood     Marshall,     specials ^h"  found   her   hu.sband  face mile line of march^ In ad^ NAACP counsel, .said it will bejdown on the floor   bleeding. "^^ J";^'^|'^'^,^;''''^y^ ,?f':
„«  tr. fi,=  i«.4i„iH,,oi  Moor« r,,, I       ' ''hot daddv.    her son said   talion furnished two radio Jeeps up  to the  individual  Negro pu-;    ^^^^    chervenak   went   fn   a fnr    column    control    and    the
at the .school. Questions Jurisdiction
Mann, who has bitterly op¬ posed Gov. Orval Faubus' dras¬ tic move, asked Bennett:
"Who has jurisdiction for the purpose of law enforcement of the city streets'
Do I have legal authority
Francis Car¬ dinal Spellman observed the, 25th anniversary of his eleva¬ tion to bishop yesterday by cele¬ brating a Solemn Higfi Pontifi¬ cal Mass before 50,000 persons in Yankee Stadium.
The 68-year-old archbishop of New York was honored with a special message from Pope Pius XII, a spiritual bouquet from members of his archdi¬ ocese and a special procession of the largest gathering of the church hierarchy ever to appear at a Roman Catholic religious function in New York.
The largest altar ever con¬ structed for a field Mass in New York,was erected on the base¬ ball diamond, extending from first base to second base and then to third. The center of the altar was over second base.
in   your  place  at   1:30.    Get jto use the city palice force to
clear the lanes of traffic and to keep' the crowd moving to pre¬ vent  blo^J^ing of traffic''
"If force should interfere with
out."     At   that   the   phone clicked.
Nanticoke High School Prin¬ cipal Martin Grontka received a similar call on Friday and dismissed classes as a pre¬ cautionary measure.
pils  and   their   parents   whether|_„. . . t	
.!,„ ;ii ._.. .» ' u,. „,iii.^„   neichbor   for
they will try to enter the militia- ringed high srhool next week.
help   and   police 165th    Military     Police    outfit were   called   in.    The   bov   w.is from   Harieton   had   eight   MPs arrested on a charee of murder on motorcycles for patrol duty. Carlotta    Walls,    I,^,    one   of and lodged in juvenile detention     The   parade   started   off  with nine Negroes who were to have headquarters, the    traditional    first    division
attended, said she will try to Yesterdav the boy and his grouping of poHce escorts, par- go to class Monday, imother had a tearful reunion at ade niarshals, official* and hon- "I'll  go  if wo are  given  pro-'flp'^'tive  headquarters nred  (guests.   Honorarv  marshal
te<linn    frnm
Valley Scenes
West Side young man wear- inn liin hrotlter's vfio stiit without leave, on the rri~u night thnt the Inttrr fitinllu put a date uith THK girl of /n.s dreamn.
Tuo ^'orth Wilket-Barre vriffhhnrg, vho agree on everything except pnlitirx, having a heated argument or*r tht hark fence and hnt nf them bringing tht fiebate tn a elott uith this grin— "Harry, mit mind is made.up —dnn't eonfuB* mt with tht /acta,"
Price of Sunday Independent Will be 20 Cents Next Week
mnbs ¦    'aid   an'     Wrs.   Cbervennk    tnid    police was Burgess William Martin ef
other   of   the   Neeroes    Delores hpr  husband   had   been   beating Kinqston and the active marshal
this, what legal remedy do we,.       pninHpvtPr   \\    " ' iher frenuentlv, beginning a vear was R.  Lanninc  Transom    Her-
have'' Ann  j-oinaexier.   !.¦>. , ^  ^.  lafter    thev    were    married    11 m.in f. Kersteen hr.ided the big
"Is   the   Governors'   authority      "he  President  interrupted  his y^^^,  ^^^.^ ij,, ^f parade aides as rhairman
 jNewport, R. I. vacation and con-      ^^jp^ ^pi^^ beaten Friday, she of the centennials special events
ferred at length with Attv Gen ,aid she h.id thought of com- cnmmittee. Riding in a position Herbert Brownell who has been mitting suicide, but "I looked of honor was Burgess Chariee running Ihe legal developments at the babv, Janet, and knew I Stretch of neighboring Forty from   the  Washington  end   The,couldn't  do  it. Fort.   Unable to attend as chlrf
President was notified immedi- Janet, her second child, Is executive nf the other neighbor* ately of Davies' ruling. three   years   old. (Continued on Page 2, Sec, 1)
In order to meet the advancing costs of publication, the price of the Sunday Independent will be 20 cents beginning with the issue of Sunday, September 15.
Alabama Klansmen Confess Cruel Butchery; Left Simple-Minded Negro on Road in >tgony
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Around Ihe Town. .Three
Better English Three
City Hail News ....Three
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Frank Tripp Three
Home of the Week Six House Doctor Six
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BIRMINGHAM. Ala. np— Two Ku Klux Klansmen ron- fe.ssed yeterdav Ihat they and four others did a cruel job of butchery, using razor blades and turpentine, on a feeble¬ minded Negro they chose at random "to scare hell out of."
They said they went out looking for the first Negro they could find after a Kian meeting. They dragged back a Negro named Judge Aaron to their little block meeting house with a dirt floor and there" bv lamp light, emascu¬ lated him  "100%."
Cyclops Arrested
Three klansmen in alt were held, including the e.xalled Cyclops of a local "Kalvern." one of the many loosely or¬ ganized Klan chapters that have sprung up in the South since school integration began.
The Cyclops, Joe P. Pritch- ett, 31, according to the state¬ ments of the other two, wore a robe with gaudy red trim at the lime Aaron was seized and mutilated.
Pritchett, who refused to make a statement. John N. Griffin. 38, and William J. Mil¬ ler. 28, all were held under $5,000 bail on a charge of mayhem. The crime carries up to 20 years imprisonment in Alabama.
Aaron is in fair condition at the Veterans Administra¬ tion Hospital, where he was taken after police found him in agony by a roadside early last Tuesday.
Miller and Griffin, accord¬ ing to officers, said they, Pritchett and three other Klansmen went out Labor Day night looking for "some damn Negro to Kare hell out of.'
Zion City, a ramshackle Negro neighborhood, seemed a likely place, they said, and there they found Aaron talk¬ ing to a woman outside her house.
SUrk Cruelty
They grabbed the bewfld- ered tQegro, duihped him Into one of two cars they had and drove him back to Ihe klan building for the "operation." the two men were quoted. They said they had bought ¦ package of razor blades and a bottle of turpentine ljefore» hand.
After they mutilated Aaron, they said, they poured the fiery spirits on his wounds. Aaron was then put in the trunk of an automobile and "thrown out" near Springdale. his home, where police found him several hours later.       >
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