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Nat ‘King’ Cole Attacked on Stage
Of Birmingham' City Auditorium
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., UP)—Nat
(King) Cole, Negro singer and
pianist, was attacked on stage last
night by a group of white men
who climbed across the floodlights
at Birmingham’s municipal audi
torium.
An audience of nearly 4,000
gasped as the 37-year-old Cole
was knocked to the floor, together
with a microphone into which he
was singing in his intimate,
breathy voice that has sold many
million records.
Six white men were charged
with assault with intent to murder
here following the Cole incident.
Cole, 37, was only shaken up as
he went down to the floor as one
of his assailants, running up to
the stage from the rear of the
darkened city auditorium, grabbed
at the singer’s knees and lunged
into the microphone.
An audience of about 4,000, all
white under Birmingham’s strin
Queen and Princess
Get a Lot of Mileage
Out of Their Hats
LONDON, UP)—You might clip
this out and paste it on your wife’s
mirror: Queen Elizabeth II and
Princess Margaret get a lot of
mileage out of their hats.
Both were photographed at the
wedding of one of their cousins.
Princess Margaret wore a fluffy
pillbox. It was readily recogniz
able as the same one she had on
six months ago at a reception for
the President of Portugal.
The Queen’s hat was a concoc
tion of pink petals. She was wear
ing it last summer when she was
touring Nottingham.
To carry the austerity theme
still further, they both were wear
ing the same old coats—Margaret
a blue velvet and the Queen a
blue satin.
gent segregation law, brought the
Alabama-born Negro back for a
tremendous ovation shortly after
the attack.
“I just eamd to entertain you,”
he told them. After a quick check
by a physician, Cole went ahead
with a later show for an all-Negro
audience.
Today he said he was “not mad
with anyone in,the South.”
“The people here in Birming
ham were just great,” he added.
“I just hope I can get back to Ala
bama again soon to sing. I know I
have many friends in the state
and I believe in them.”
The attack on Cole followed
widespread advance rumors of a
demonstration against the show.
Police swarmed from the wings
and from posts in the audience to
grab three men on the stage and
three others a short time later.
All those arrested denied the
North Alabama Citizens Council’s
campaign against “rdck and roll”
and “.Negro music” had anything
to do with their actions.
Cole is not a “rock and roll”
singer. He is principally a ballad
singer.
Those charged with assault with
intent to murder, a felony punish
able by up to 20 years in prison,
were Willie Richard Vinson, 23,
E. L. Vinson, 25; Kenneth Adams,
35; Orliss Clevenger, 18; and Mike
Fox, 37, all of Anniston, and Jesse
W. Mabry, 43, Birmingham.
Adams is a member of the board
of directors of the Anniston Citi
zens Councils.
Outside the auditorium police
found a car containing two .22
rifles, a homemade blackjack and
a pair of brass knuckles.
Cole today cancelled scheduled
appearances in three other south
ern cities. He said he would not
appear tonight at Greenville, S.C.,
or later at Charlotte or Raleigh,
N.C. He will resume at Norfolk,
Va., Saturday.
Weather Bureau Chief Warns Against
Changing Weather hy Nuclear Bomh
TUCSON, Ariz., WV—'“Weather
control is not something to be
played around with,” the chief of
the U.S. Weather Bureau has ad
vised a group of world experts on
clouds.
Dr. F. W. Reichelderfer, speak
ing at a conference on weather
modification studies at the Uni
versity of Arizona, said yesterday
a nuclear bomb set off at the right
place might produce a cloud of
dust that would temporarily warm
the arctic air and cause some of
the icecap to melt.
Dr. Reichelderfer said one group
is of the opinion “this could raise
the level of the Atlantic Ocean by
10 to 15 feet and put many dock
installations under water.”
The weather Bureau chief, for
mer president of the World Me
teorological Organization, said the
Krakatao Volcano in the South
Pacific threw great amounts of
dust into the air many years ago
and caused a change in the cli
mate.
Dr. Reichelderfer said the ef
fects of this volcanic eruption
might be copied “by throwing
enormous quantities of dust into
the air which would prevent the
radiation from the earth from
escaping.”
“It might be possible,” .he said,
“to use atomic explosions to put
such dust clouds into the air, say
in the Arctic . . . One school of
thought believes temperatures
might be increased so that some
of the arctic ice w’ould melt, put
ting more water into the air and
causing more snow.”
He warned, however, that it
would not be a good idea to melt
too much of the ice. According to
one estimate, he said, the sea level
would be raised between 100 iand
200 feet and most of the East
Coast of the United States would
be put under water if all the arc
tic and antarctic icecaps were
melted.
I Hospital Receives
! First $5,650 Cheek
Of Ford Grant
A simple envelope with airmail
■postage containing a check for
$5,650 was received by the May
nard-MacDougall Memorial Hos
pital today. The check is the first
installment of the Ford Founda
tion Grant to our hospital as part
of an* enormous program of care
fully planned philanthropy.
A second check in like amount
will be mailed to the MMM Hos
pital next March to complete the
grant.
The conditions under which the
grant was received is that the
money be used for the following:
1. Improvement of or additions
to physical facilities, equipment or
services.
2. Additions to or training of
personnel.
3. Conducting research.
Suggestions for the use of this
money in line with the above
wishes of the donor are earnestly
solicited by the hospital.
Seven Men Die
in Two Alaska
Plane (rashes
ANCHORAGE, IJV—T w o air
planes which crashed 200 miles
apart Monday in rugged central
Alaska coastal highlands carried
seven men to their death and ser
iously injured an eighth.
The smashed remains of the
twin-engined aircraft were found
about the same time late yester
day by search planes which had
fanned out over a large part of
the area south, west and southeast
of here when neither reported in
on schedule.
A bush pilot first found a Cor
dova Airlines plane broken to bits
at the 3,000-foot level in mountain
country 75 miles southwest of here
on the Kenai Peninsula. A rescue
crew later reported “no surviv
ors”
The airline plane met its fate
while on a dog-legged 100-mile
flight from Anchorage to Seward.
Its six occupants included an
unidentified military passenger,
Raymond Gillis, of Seward, Bruce
Robertson, Seattle, B. J. James,
Milton, Wash.; Douglas Sayre, Ju
neau; and the pilot, John Wade,
Anchorage.
They never were heard from
after leaving Anchorage.
The other broken plane, an am
phibious Grumman, yielded the
body of Haake Christensen, pilot
and operator of an Anchorage air
line. Trapped in tangled metal
and fabric was Wells Ervin, An
chorage businessman. They were
found five miles south of Cordova.
Peter Gatz, Income Tax
Representative, Will Be
Here Until Saturday
Peter Gatz of the Internal Rev
enue Office of Fairbanks arrived
today and will be at the Federal
Building today, Thursday and Fri
day to assist anyone with income
tax problems. He will leave Nome
| on Saturday.
Snow Removal Cost Nome $17,000
This Yean Predicted That New
Cat Blade Will Cut Costs in Hall
The biggest item on the agenda
of the City Council Monday eve
ning was the staggering cost of
snow removal, which amounted to
over $8,000, not including the cost
of the new blade and repairs to
’dozers, which brought the cost up
to over $17,000.
The new blades especially made
for snow removal by Herb Eng
strom, have brought high praise
from the Street Department, with
the prediction that it will cut
snow removal costs in half.
The Fire Department reported
only two minor fires during the
month, v?Vbh costs totaling $36.
It was also reported that tests
have been made on carbon dioxide
fire extinguishers and all other
fire fighting equipment.
A minimum of fires this year is
credited to the fire prevention
campaign last fall which made
the public fire conscious.
The Police Department reported
49 arrests and fines amounting to
$258; 14 dogs were disposed of
and eight were impounded; there
were five juvenile cases and 38
complaints were investigated.
The City Clerk was instructed
to ask the cooperation of the two
sanitary services, as well as the
M-K Co. and the military, to use
their dozers and assist in cleaning
up the winter dump and help
clean up that part of town.
The city was notified by APW
i that the $25,000 set aside for
| equipping the new school addition
1 has shrunk to $15,000, w,hich will
be available to be requisitioned by
the city when ready.
Judges for the election on April
24th were named. They are Violet
Glass, Loretta Waldheim, Fred
Rohn; clerks were Jessie Barber
and Omie McCarthy.
The Chamber of Commerce re
ported much enthusiasm and ac
tivity on a possible museum for
Nome and the cooperation of a
suitable site was requested from
the city. /
C of C Tourist Committee
Plan Museum For Nome
If the enthusiasm of the tourist
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce is a gadge, Nome will
have a museum to display its
souvenirs of the frontier days,
and the many things which have
gone to make up its colorful his
tory.
A good location is sought and a
building suitable for displaying
the wide variety of items plan
ned as well as grounds where
early engines and early mining
equipment may be permanently
displayed and preserved.
Eisenhower Getting More Votes
Than Stevenson in Illinois Primary
CHICAGO OP—President Eisen
hower moved out ahead of Adlai
E. Stevenson today in returns
from the Illinois presidential pref
erence primary.
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes
see, making a write-in bid, was
left far behind in what amounted
to an election year popularity con
test.
Eisenhower, who took almost 55
percent of the Illinois vote in his
duel with Stevenson in the 1952
presidential election, passed Ste
venson in the count of ballots in
midmorning.
Returns from 8,797 of the state’s
9,511 precincts in Eisenhower’s
race against the nominal opposi
tion of Sen. William F. Knowland
Eskimo From Stebbins
Killed On Sea-Tac Hivvay
SEATTLE, OP — Patrick Jack,
22, of Stebbins, Alaska, was killed
Wednesday night when struck by
an automobile as he attempted to
cross the Seattle-Tacoma High
way.
Jack, an Eskimo, was a patient
at the Riverton Sanitarium south
of Seattle. The coroner’s office
said he was following two com
panions, Jim Elook and Lloyd An
drew, across the highway after
visiting a tavern.
The Stebbins man ws struck by
a car driven by Taija Miyamoto,
26, of Seattle. State Patrolman
Floyd Campbell said Jack was 43
feet from the nearest cross walk.
and Lar Daly on the Republican
side gave Eisenhower 679,891,
Knowland 30,620, and Daly 8,783.
Stevenson was the only con
tender listed on the Democratic
ballot, but Sen. Kefauver, who did
not campaign in Stevenson’s home
state of Illinois, received some
write-in votes.
Returns from 8,470 of the state’s
precincts gave Stevenson 671,237.
Kefauver received 26,306 write
ins in 7,757 precincts.
Stevenson had less than a 2 to 1
advantage in Cook County (Chi
cago), his party’s stronghold, with
all but a few precincts reporting.
Downstate, normally Republi
can and a source of Eisenhower’s
growing strength, gave the Presi
dent a 2 to 1 ratio on a votes-per
precinct check.
The down-state vote was being
watched for farmer reaction to
the Eisenhower Administration’s
farm policies.
Eisenhower was expected to
have virtually all the 50 GOP del
egates chosen to go to the Repub
lican nominating convention and
delegates with 10 votes to be chos
en later in a state convention.
The Democrats also chose dele
gates with 50 convention votes.
Twenty-three of the delegate can
didates were for Stevenson and
three had declared for Kefauver,
with the others open minded or
uncommitted.
No delegates are bound by the
preference outcome.