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THE STARS AND STRIPES
Council President Urges Popularity Vote
Wednesday, February 4, 1959
At VFW Cornerstone Ceremonies
Rainier Challenged to Test
of such a manifestation of authority (suspending the constilution)
than signalures on a piece of paper."
Purpose of Simon's press conference was to release the texl
of an official council protest. The
protest informed the prince lhat
he had no authority to acl as he
did. that he had no reason lo suspend the constitulion, and lhal it
is high lime one of Ihe world's
few r e m a i n i n g absolute monarchs
showed a little 20th Century liberalism.
MONTK CAKLO ( A P ) — Dr.
Joseph Simon, president of Monaco's out-of-work N a t i o n a l Council, has challenged Prince R a i n i e r
III to put his popularity to Ihe
test of a vote.
Ruinier lust Thursday suspended the Monaco c o n s t i t u t i o n and
dissolved t h e council. The counCllmen have heen noisily protesting ever si riffOne t i l i n g t h a t has heen bothering council members is that t h e i r
fellow
MoM"i;as<|ues apparently
don't share l h » - i r outrage.
Friends of the prince have heen
c i r c u l a t i n g petitions supporting
t h e prince's actions. And the Monegasf|iies, who pay no tuxes und
have no m i l i t a r y obligations, have
been s i g n i n g them in droves.
But Simon hinted thai resentment smolders beneath the s m i l i n g
face of s u n n y Monaco.
"A s i g n a t u r e (on o petition) is
not a vole," Simon told a press
conference. "If the Monegasques
were allowed to vote there would
c e r t a i n l y he fewer votes in favor
Vincent Astor
Dead at 67;
Family Head
Russ Detain U.S. Convoy
At East Zone Checkpoint
(Continued I mm Pane, 1)
Week maya/ine as his only business connection. But his name has
for g e n e r a t i o n s been synonymous
with some ol New York's most
prominent landmarks—Astor Place
is a subway slop; the WaldorfAstoria Hotel combines the family
name w i t h the German hometown
of his i m m i g r a n t great-greatgrandfather.
Astor recently bought up n
square block three blocks north of
the Waldorf-Astoria for nn office
b u i l d i n g development which was
to have been called Astor Pla/.a.
Plans for t h e development were
dropped after almost the entire
block had been ra/ed, and the site
was sold to t h e First Naliorutl City
Bank, which is now erecting n
headquarters office building.
Astor was 21 when he came into
the estate of his father, estimated
at $70 m i l l i o n . He was married for
the first t i m e two years later tr.
the former- Helen Dinsrnore Hunlington. They were divorced. He
was married in IfMO to Mary Benedict dishing and divorced fron
her in 1953.
The o r i g i n a l John Jacob Aslor
son of u Walldorl, Germany, b u t c h er, came to America in 1784, traded in northwest territory furs und
in 1789 bought Ills first bit of
Manhattan real estate — lots on
the Bowery and Elizabeth Street.
This founded t h e family fortune.
Astor also founded u family, purl
of which went back across the Atlantic to rise to British peerage.
The reverse A t l a n t i c immigrant
'was William Waldorf Astor, a
cousin of Vim-en Astor's father,
Who became the first Viscount
Antor.
(Continued from Puftc U
to say t h a t the government has received p r e l i m i n a r y reports und is
iwaiting further information.)
The American convoy now has
been held up for u .longer period
t h a n in s i m i l a r incidents, involving
the i n s p e c t i o n issue, over the last
years.
The Soviets let the truck convoy,
carrying four jeeps, pass out of
West Berlin Monday on the 110mile run t h r o u g h s a t e l l i t e East
Germany.
When the convoy got to Marienborn, t h e Soviet border guards demanded the right to inspect the
jeeps carried inside the open-end
cargo trucks.
Cpl Richard C. Musiero, of Stockbridge, Mass., who was in charge
of the convoy and its four soldier
drivers, declined to allow inspect i o n of the jeeps.
The Russians then refused to
allow the convoy lo pass.
The U.S. Army instructs its convoy commanders to resist all Soviet
McEIroy . . .
(Continued from Paye I)
fensi- M i n i s t e r Rodion Malinovsky
As to Malinovsky's assertion t h a t
Soviet b a l l i s t i c rockets "can carry
t h e i r hydrogen charges to any
point o n e a r t h . . . t o t h e very
p o i n t , " T w i n i n g merely said:
"That's q u i t e a statement*"
Asked w h e t h e r he believes it,
he replied, "No."
McEIroy wont i n t o more detail.
McKlroy discussed Malinovsky's
general claim to have the Western
Allies outgunned in all categories
of weapons, McEIroy said:
"I disagree categorically. I believe our i n t e l l i g e n c e gives us a
p r e t t y good picture, and I am not
concerned about any such boastful
statement."
Of the i-laim to pinpoint accuracy, McEIroy commented, "I
(Continued from Pago I)
be most interested in knowwas his recording of "It Doesn't would
ing
w
h
a
t p i n p o i n t accuracy means.
Mailer Any More."
It could mean delivering a missile
Holly was married seven months 5,500 miles, 10 miles off target. If
ago. The o t h e r two were single.
they actually mean hitting a pin. A strong southerly wind and point target, I don't believe it."
light blowing snow filled the air
when the plane took off about
1 am. The Beachcraft Bonanza
burned when il crashed in u field
By Associated Press
on the Albert Juhl farm 15 miles
northwest of Mason City.
The start of racial integralion
. Other members of the troupe at seven public schools in Virginia
which appeared at Clear Luke had apparently did nol cause much of
left after the show by chartered a stir among Southern political
bus for Fargo
leaders who opposed integration.
Holly, Valens and the Big
Reactions were as varied as the
Bopper decided to fly in order to feelings among the people of the
arrive ahead of the troupe and region, with Deep South States
make advance preparations.
still determined to resist and the
- The four bodies were badly governor ot border state Kentucky
burned.
pleased that some progress was
oJerry Dwyer, owner of the fly- being made toward ichool integraing service, set out to look for the tion.
party when no word came back
Generally, there was little to
from his pilot, He was delayed indicate that the end of massive
several hours 'n searching for the resistance in Virginia, a spiritual
plane because of early morning leader of the old Confederacy,
fog.
might have any marked effect on
In Hollywood, trade sources said other states determined to mainthe combined record sales of the tain the South's traditional way of
three singers was in the millions. life.
Plane Crash Kills
3 Rock Roll Idols
lemunds for the inspection of truck
interiors.
The. Army is now demanding
that the Russians allow the convoy
to proceed immediately without
any interior inspection , and only
the required .check of the cargo
manifest.
- - . . . Associaled Press reporler Rolf
Steinberg dro.ve .from .Berlin ,to
Murienborn and reported' seeing
the U.S. convoy parked beside the
autobahn near the Soviet checkpoint.
:
Holding a silver trowel loaded with wet cement, Vice President
"The -Russians shooed my car Richard M. Nixon prepares to seal a box of documents into the
through so fast and across the West cornerstone of Veterans of Foreign Wars new headquarters building
German border that I didn't have in Washington. Inserting the box is VFW Commander-in-chief John
a chance to talk with the Ameri- W. Mahan.
—United Press International Photo
cans," Steinberg said.
"Later, they told me I would
have to get permission from East
Berlin before I could talk to the
Americans."
Food Delivery
Bundled in blankets, the five
U.S. soldiers escorting the convoy
are spending their second cold
night in the trucks near the high(Continued from Page 1)
.schools on a segregated basis for
way. They are parked inside East highs had been closed since Sep- the remainder of the school year.
Germany about 100 yards from the tember in a futile attempt to preU.S. District Judge John E.
American checkpoint at Helmstedl vent integration.
: Miller, of Forl Smith, " Ark., deon the West German side of the
Seventeen Negroes enrolled Mon- clared he did not think he could
border
day
in the six schools, and they all • reopen Ihe schools—even on an
The Russians are allowing a U.S
basis — as long, as
turned
up again Tuesday morning integrated
Army officer to cross over to tall
Arkansas
school-closing
law reto the stranded Americans and to for classes. Seven of them are in mained in force.
Norview
High
School
and.
five
in
deliver hot food and other supplies
The judge criticized the Justice
nearby N o r v i e w Junior High
to them.
Department twice in his remarks.
Besides Masiero, the
Army School.
School Superintendent J. J. Brew- He called the departments brief
identified the soldiers with the
convoy as: Pfc B e n j a m i n G baker kept watch as the students attacking the school board as not
Peoples, Sp4 Elwood F. Johnson entered Norview High. So did a acting in good faith "entirely
arbitrary" and added he was
Sp4 James E. Cook, and Sp4 Rober police detail.
gratified that Ihe Justice DepartE. Love.
A group of perhaps a dozen white menl's .allorneys, in oral remarks,!
boys at one entrance jeered a bit took a somewhat different attias some of the Negroes went in- tude.
Cabinet OKs Naming
side.
State Court Ruling Awaited
Brother Heir to Castro
Brewbaker said the school board
Later he said "some people don't
HAVANA (AP)—The provisiona has not tackled the problem of so- seem to recognize that education
government cabinet has approvec cial activities at the integrated is Ihe responsibilily of the slale
a decree naming Raul Castro heir schools. He said he personally is and Ihe Juslice Deparlmenl seems
to his brother as commander of the "discouraging any such activity at to be among them."
armed forces.
this time."
The denial of the board's petilipn
Raul, 2G, would succeed Fidel
"leaves us where we were," comthe revolutionary leader, in the Segregated Little Bock
menled board presidenl Ed I.
event of "temporary or definite'
McKinley, Jr.
School
Opening
Barred
absence of Fidel. The decree folThe nexl major slep expecled in
lowed the wishes of Fidel, who
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)—A
previously said he wanted hi Federal judge Tuesday denied the Ihe long inlegralion dispule is a
brother to succeed him in any Little Rock school board permission decision on whelher Ihe Arkansas
emergency.
to reopen its four closed high laws, under which four high
schools were closed ' to prevent
integration, a r e constitutional.
They are before the Arkansas
Supreme Court.
Gov Ernest F. Rollings of South pleased that the people of Virginia
Carolina said public schools in "have now decided that some KKK Leader Seized
that state would remain segre- progress ought to be made in the
Posing as Private Eye
gated.
direction of integration."
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP)-James
Gov. Orval E. Faubus of ArkanIn Louisiana, state Sen. W. M.
sas said he remains "unalterably Rainach, chairman of the joint (Catfish) Cole, self-styled minister,
opposed to forcible integration legislative committee on segrega- and Ku Klux Klan leader in North
from any source."
tion, said he felt that "a much Carolina, was jailed here on a
Heber Ladner, Mississippi secre- more vigorous use of state execu- charge of posing as a. private de->
tary of state, said:
tive power, in Virginia's case, tective.
Cole was leader of a Klan rally
"It is a sad commentary when would have prevented the token
which was routed by gun-shooting •
the states cannot govern their own integralion in lhat slate."
educational programs, which was
Sam Engelhardt, Alabama state Lumbee Indians near Maxton, N.C.,
the i n t e n t 4 of the Founding Democratic chairman, said he was l»-st year. He was freed under bond,
Fathers. To me, to have the U.S. cerlain the Virginia move "doesn't in Norlh Carolina pending outSupreme Court force upon the indicate any weakening on our part. come of an appeal of his conviction
r
sovereign slates a concept so for- And. we must face these things of inciting to riot.
eign to our American way of life realistically — in Alabama there
Officers said Cole and James F.
is one of the most dangerous de- would be bloodshed," He said this Mulligan were held here after they,
velopments in this century."
would be true in any • section of were warned not to follow people !
On the other hand, Gov.-A. B. Alabama, "and we're just not around without a state-issued pri-,
Chandler of Kentucky said he was going to integrate, period."
vate detective license.
Integrated Schools Run
Smoothly for Second Day
Marked Effect Doubtful in Other Dixie States