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1 1 Ii-r I 1 I I I I i 1 £'- 1 fc I 'v -y v- 1 I I i I 'i I i I I 1 I i I 1 S' 1 1 1 i Vf v' 'T "1 1 1 1 1 -I 1 -V 'Ao 'i i 'has "T-jr -W V-ri'y I -M-I i 1 -r 'M -i jy I C- i o--'--- ESTABLISHED I82S VOL 121 v- TWELVE PAGES V- AUGUSTA MAINE MONDAY MORNING MAY 22 191 i PRICE SEVEN CENTS search had concentrated OHt 1 told him to scratch the southeastern Massachusetts par- ceiling or he'd kin the floor He ttculariy on Cape Cod where Por- yelled shoot don't shoot I KEENE MA (AP) On Niw- EnUnd'a moat maaalre manhuat came to aa end Sunday with the meek capture oTNormaa Porter Jr in predawn darkness while he was looting a market' of cash food and beer HIDE4ND4EEK Porter 21 had played Mdeand-aeek with of police and the FBI for a week Porter and a Jail companion broke out of Middlesex County Jail Cambridge Man on Day leaving behind slain Jail warden Warden David Robinson S3 was shot through the head as he tried to prevent the escape of Porter and Edgar Cook 48 Cook committed suicide Wednesday night as polfce closed in on his Keene Municipal Court Monday' on fugitive from Justice charges Porter told police be had been stealing cars since he was 11 Lacroix 'said -Porter had been in Keene eight years ago when he stole a car to return to Ms home In Woburn' Mass Sheriff Howard Fltxpatrlck of the Cambridge Jail talked with Porter at the police station here and quoted Porter as he doesn't believe Cook committed suicide "Cook would never commit suicide the police must have shot Fitzpatrick quoted Porter SMUGGLED GUN Porter told him Fitzpatrick said that the gun used in the shooting of Warden Robinson was not smuggled into the Jail but had been there before Porter arrived Porter kept it concealed under his pant leg he added Fitzpatrick said he plans to ask -the Massachusetts Legislature to provide a (SHOO reward to the two Keene patrolmen who captured Porter fingerprints had been found on stolen cars Patrolman Francis Donahue spotted I ear outside the market about I Ub la Itvrere a cash tifl' drawer canned goods four quarts-of milk cigarettes cookies bread and beer Donahue figured they had been stolen' front the market and called than hin patrol cruiser for help Officer Thomas Lacroix responded With drawn revolvers one entered from the front and the other from the rear Donahue gave this description of the capture: VI walked In the front door saw something behind the meat cabinet down at the other end of the store 1 stayed there for a few seconds to see what dl rection he would take He glided along the meat cabinet 'He got abmit IS feet from -me I-cocked my revolver and not He put up his arms Donahue' and Lacroix snapped cuffs on Porter A search revealed a five-inch knife Porter also had a stolen revolver in the car Lacroix said he recognised Porter a former resident of Augusta Maine when the light of a vending machine In the store lighted lip the youth's face asked him his name and he said 'Norman Porter told them I hadn't been so greedy I would have madr it I went' back in to the store for another case of beer Just before the first officer pulled Porter said he had planned to flee to Canada by way of Maine He added that be bad stolen 15 to 18 cars sinee his escape and broken 4nto three houses on Cape Cod Porter who has is' clean cut American youth type appearance Porter was awaiting trial on a charge of 'murdering a' store clerk- Two alert policemen flushed Porter out of Parle's market store ini Keene Previously the flashed the light in his iis scheduled to be arraigned in At least 20 persons were beaten and' clubbed in downtown Montgomery Saturday morning after hundreds of club-swinging white men and women attacked a racially mixed group of "freedom arriving here on a Grey-hoi id bus to test bus-statia rogation barriers The federal marshals had rushed to Montgomery earlier on orders from Atty Gen Robert Kennedy la the wake of the race riot Grey- 3 taunta to the Negroes and 'dared them to come outside State officers acted almost as speedily as the federal men Criminal investigators Willie Painter and Ralph Holmes of the State Public Safety Deportment were the first to start shoving the crowd back as It started toward the church after assembling across tfae street One 'ear parked near the church was set afire- by (he mob The state's public safety director Floyd Mann urged Negroes in the church to remain there until steel helmeted National Guardsmen could provide -safe conduct ROAR OF APPROVAL" News of the martial-law if the mi TWO BOYS Injured in weekend accidents here P- 12 Refugees Seek Millions To MONTGOMERY Ala (AP)-A white mob went a rampage here Sunday night and aa aroused Gov Patterspn put historic Montgomery under the Iron grip of jmartla! law UNLIMITED POWER The governor's emergency order gave the adjutant general Mai Gen Henry Graham almost unlimited power -to take whatever steps are necessary to restore order to the riot-torn state capitaL Patterson acted swiftly after a screaming Jeering mob of several hundred white persons defied pistot-earryUi marshals and started across a street toward Negro-church where a mass-meeting was la progress There were no reports on injuries The surging crowd was' finally forced back after officers tossed tear gas bombs and city and Mate police need to the church with sirens wailing to reinforce those already on duty- 1 ft" whs the second outbreak of ugly Axing in two days in this SYLVAXIA adding to Waldo-boro plant P- 5 NEW CABINET takes over in South Korea P- 7 bropgfit a prolonged roar NEARLY 200 girls camp out at of approval from the men and Liberty a PROTESTS Their presence had provoked an angry protest from the governor He told Atty Gen -assistant Byron White that the federal officers might be put in jail if they tried to exert their authority before local officials asked for their nelp The marshals stood ready to enforce -a federal-court injunction newly issued to forestall further rioting The court order blaming the Ku KIux Klan for earlier incidents prohibited anyone in Alain from interfering or frying to interfere with the "freedom Norman Porter Jr 21 seemed to bo wearing a faint smile as he was held In Keene NIL Jail Sunday after being captured while breaking into a grocery tore Porter was held on murder charges steming from the hilling of' a Cambridge Mass Jail master a week ago The former Augusta resident had been the object of a New Englandwide manhunt (AP i 1 women inside the church The: Rev Martin Luther King Jr the famed Negro integration leader wee in the church for a speech when the rioting exploded In a prepared address he had protested that Alabama in the outbreaks of race violence had "sunk to the level of barbarity compa-(Cealiaaed Oa Page I Cell 8) MONTH OF May is full of miracles and Constance Trott writes of one taking place in cUssrooms: the miracle of the unfolding of the human' mind as little ones the joy of reading (Maine Flavor) P-5 state capital where the ConfedecJ riding interstate buses At the Negro church Sunday lacy was horn during the Civil War 1 100 yean ago night the enraged mob TT Index pressed on many fronts The Miami News called on people throughout tho to contribute since believe a human life la In Detroit a committee including Mrs Franklin Roosevelt Dr Milton Eisenhower and labor leader Walter Reuther was formed to raise fluids -Cuban exiles and other groups Joined in the campaign In Geneva International Red Cross Committee President Leopold Boiasier 1 said the organisation is eager to help free the captives Boissier declined comment on the merit of Castro's offer but declared would do our utmost for these people without mixing in politics We care for people1 not for Boissier expressed confidence that Castro would not object Red Croes supervision in the prisoner deal Ulises Car bo 'one of the prisoner representatives declared We are hopeful of receiving the help-we came Amnsements P- Csmics F-Croanrerd F- Edltorlal F- ji Financial F- 18 Ssy F-Tt jv Gardiner F- 4-5 TV F- 7 HalloweU F- WinUtrep F- MIAMI FU (AP) An unparalleled search for millions of dollars to ransom Insurgent prisoners from' Communist-tinged Cuba went forward Sunday ia- spired by the arrival of io rep- rescatativcs of- the captives CAMPAIGN The Cuban Revolutionary Council which organized the April 17 invasion that resulted in the capture of 1200 men hnnounced it would direct the campaign for their release Jose Miro Csrdona council president expressed confidence that Prime Minister Fidel CsS- i tro's terms could be met The Cuban prime minister offered to re-lease the prisoners for 500 American tractors or bulldozers The prjsoncr representatives remained at a Miami Beach hotel to await results If something pot-'itiVe materializes by Tuesday afternoon they may remafn four -days- more to see the' deal -through Thdy arrived unescorted Saturday by airliner from Ua-vena -Miro Cardona said after confcr-flhg with the prisoners at his sick bed Saturday night that he will JOSE 'MIRO CARDONA "Maine is not so far Mrs' John Reed wife of Maine's Governor proved the point over the weekend Her daughter--Miss Ruth Ann Reed acquired a new outfit in the process' The women of the Blaine House oiued forces with the Maine Truck Owners Assn and the Dept of Economic' Development to Illustrate to industrialists that -he Pino Tree Statrlsnt so remote from the -big New York market Weather Cloudy and cool with scattered showers and a few thundershowers Showers followed by clearing and cool tonight Tries-day fair with little change in temperature open a ransom account Monday in a Miami hank' -Already on hand -are a $23000 donation from William Pawley farther US ambassador to Cuba and a $25000 loan from the Miami National- Bank Antonio de- Varou revolut lottery council member 'rushed to Miami from WasMngtoa and conferred with Miro Cardotaa The1 campaign for foods in the strange ransom operation was $18 MILLION Exiles -here estimated that tractors of the Had stipulated Mr Castro would cost approximately $10 million IT ALL STARTED at 4 pm Thursday in Old Town where the First Lady selected a hilt of cloth from a woolen min and officiated ns it was shipped to New York via -a Maine- Frrigbtways truck -Tho truck rolled from the yard TEMPERATURES AUGUSTA Boston 73 Chicago S3 Denver -68 Fort Worth Honolulu- if Juneau '55 41 50 48 X68 vr qtjRuovgralKooJcaJMUUon jec? ulany scheduled 250 miles to Boston and 470 miles to New York leaving Maine the City' Before 41 58 77 S3 56 -48 58 Los Angeles Miami y(New York Phoenix Portland Washington 74 87 74 95 64 71 "Augusts Police had at 'first a myitcry on The contractor oa the Second avenue project their hands Sunday but now hive nothing more- Robert C- Hutchinson 12 Johnson St 'than a problem was being sought for any information concern- II nfl nw MIMnl UMtfka at Caxtn L- found by severalyouths ALMANAC May 22 9 May -28 Juno 8 9 Juno i3 -f-j Sun Rises 4:05 anv Sun Sets 7:07 pm(' Day's Length 15:08 Day's- Increase 8:12 pED Photo by Hantington Mrs John Reed ships bolt of clotK from Old Town it 1 Freight way a'drlvey and on the wsyto Mabe with a full load of raw wool for the state's woolen day! in the garment Just begun but the over 400 miles -LV THE SHOWROOM Of Jsy-mee Fashions Mrs Reed selected the style of garment preferred atvJ5eeond avenue construction site Sunday mproiug- caused local and State Police to initiate a large-scale Investigation V- Serial numbers found on the bottom of tho safe were being checked as a clue to the owper Police were looking for any breaks over the weekend Involving safe theft Truck t(re tracks near the spot where tho safe: was found were' being analysed home Sunday 'afternoon Hutchinson called (he police station and informed them that' be had dumped the safe there that the' combination did notwork correctly and that he had planned to bury tt Monday The problem at hand for police now is how to get a 500 or 000-pound safe that work out of their garage and dispose of it Maybe they cab bury It 3 Sism Stand ari Tima big truck took similar material from other mills in the state totaling over 24000' pounds Theiiicvl-drivriirigx)utQtIld Town hit-Jhe to Wateiwjlto -for slated stop From ft hooded for Augusta beefed across1' tho Maine Turnpike through New Hampshire to' Boston At Lowell Mass a new driver took the wheel and continued the overnight haul to New York Way point of the round trip janrt'-It was 6 am when the material arriVed at Dana Terminal on lHh Avenue In New York Clty'At 8 am Conboy Trucking I Corp largest distributor of woolen igoods had taken tho Old load into custody Their track-shuttled 'the elath to the Ounegen Sales Store precisely one piinute ahead of time' As employek of -'New York manufacturing hustled materials and samples through the heart of the busy garment district Mrs Reed and Miss Helen Phllbrook her social '-secretary having arrived by plane Joined In the procession of dollies and cxrta 'J as of -j- ZENITH TV Bima PICTU8I L8S5 78011811 i 1 FRANK POMEXLEAU fssludve XseM I 45 Bridie The new world hod State of Maine away' was delivering its goods on West 38th irtreet at the same time the Ndw York firms Maine's first lady trailed the big bolt of cloth past lines of honking trucks brushed past pushers who were shouting and Jockeying for position and finally stepped into one the City's leading houses i mills' -s -y--f Over 940 Imlies and less than 42 hours later Mrs Reed bought tho Jersey and -skirt In 4ha Old Town atom of Ben Sklar- much to the delight of young Reed by her daughterr 4-ytsr-old RuthAnU Reed From (hop she was off Jo the cutting room where ehe miad the first slice In the woolpn -cloth Five hours later Mrs Reed picked up tho finished product and handed it to the waiting driver of the Conboy truck At 6 pm tho packaged garment was ln: the hands of -a Maine FULL AND PART TIME EXPERIENCED SALES LADIES ray 115 por hour plus commission and benefits vv ROOFING ALL TYPES OF SIDING y- 4-i s-- ALUMINUM -A- SPECIALTY APPLY: FOR FREE ESTIMATES 4 Fast Recovery Water Heatergf rod3s Chuckle! 4T Never said I didst like her" a woman defended her elf merefy uid that all the polish the had was1 ei her finger -m jftuwrriaai rwurti Cum APPAREL STORE Q1 3'48 Thn Hdusn of All Sisosi SptciaRtinf in droiseiN Apply In person at 339 Wafer Stria) on Wodnnsday May 24' J- AUGUSTA SPECIALTY CO' INCi -e-y a a th MA fi4u riala4 FmnkL'Poiiierleaii r' 45 Iridge It Aiqusre 7 -v 9( i- 'I'.