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Gaitskell Dies of Virus
LONDON (/I*)— Hugh Gaitskell,
leader of the Labor party and po
tentially the next prime minister,
died last night after two weeks
illness with a mystery virus. He
was 56.
His death threw the leadership
of the principal opposition party
into confusion at a time it ap
peared to be making gains against
Prime Minister Harold Macmil
lan’s Conservatives. The net ef
fect may be to help the Macmil
lan party in the next national
election, to be held this year or
next.
He more than any other single
figure brought n semblance of
unity to the party in the last dec
ade's bitter divisions over how
Britain should prepare its mili
tary defenses.
Within two years after he en
tered Parliament Gaitskell was
minister of fuel and power.
In 1950, at the age of 44, he
succeeded Sir Stafford Cripps as
chancellor of the exchequer—equi
valent to the U.S. secretary of the
Treasury.
After the Conservatives won
power again, Gaitskell won over
rival claimants to become Labor
parly leader in 1955,
Three candidates are in view as
Gailskell’s likely successor.
They are George Brown, 48, the
party’s deputy leader and defense
spokesman; Harold Wilson, 46, the
party’s expert on foreign affairs,
and James Callaghan, 50, expert
on fiscal policies.
Wilson has the support of the
parly’s left wing. Brown is sup-
Kennedy Mourns Gaitskell
WASHINGTON {/!’)—President
Kennedy, mourning the death of
Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the
British Labor party, said yester
day, “Freedom loses a gallant
champion,”
Kennedy, in a statement, said
Gailskcll’s “strength of character,
force of intelligence and generosi
ty of purpose made him one of the
foremost figures in the Western
community.”
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bor party. Callaghan’s best chanc
es may come as a compromise can
didate between the other two.
Death came swiftly.
Early last month, he was filling
a round of engagements apparent
ly in full health and vigor. He
spent a few days in a hospital be
fore Christmas suffering from in
fluenza.
Court Sessions Begin
For PTC Settlement
PHILADELPHIA </P)—'The city
of Philadelphia went to court yes
terday to seek immediate end of
a four-day crippling transit strike.
It asked appointment of a re
ceiver to take over the Philadel
phia Transportation Co.’ and sign
a temporary agreement with the
strikers.
The city said this would get the
trolleys, buses and subway-ele
vated trains running again.
The legal action, pressed by
Mayor James H. J. Tate and two
councilmen, had one unexpected
result: It halted negotiations be
tween the Philadelphia Transpor
tation Co. and the Transport
Workers Union, ALF-CIO, repre
senting its 5,600 striking operating
and maintenance employes.
PTC President Robert H. Stier,
who has coupled any settlement
with approval of higher fares, said
he wasn’t sure now whether he
can represent the company at the
bargaining table. He said he must
first check his legal position.
James L. Stern, deputy city so
licitor, asked Common Pleas Court
to appoint a receiver to take over
the giant PTC system. The re
ceiver, said the suit, would nego
tiate a temporary agreement per
mitting the strikers to return to
their jobs pending final settle
ment of the contract dispute be-
He came out and went home.
Then on medical advice he can
celed a New Year’s visit to Mos
cow for talks with Premier
Khrushchev. A few days later, he
was back in Middlesex Hospital.
He had developed a virus infec
tion of the membranes surround
ing his heart and lungs.' He had
pleurisy and pericarditis. There
were later complications. The in
fection spread to his kidneys.
tween management and labor.
The suit stated that Philadelphia
owns transit property worth some
$2OO million, which it leases to
PTC, and contended this property
is threatened with “irreparable
harm" if the strike continues.
The walkout has forced 500,000
daily riders to find alternate
modes of travel.
Communists Argue
BERLIN (IP) Two world
Communist - camps tore into each
other yesterday in a knock-down
word battle bound to vviden the
gaping hole in the international
movement’s ranks.
Red China’s delegate scorned
Soviet'Premier Khrushchev’s ad
vice to soft-pedal the- Moscow-
Peking dispute, assailed him
anew and ran into a noisy storm
of abuse and jeering at a meet
ing of Communist leaders in East
Berlin.
Khrushchev himself traded
snubs with the Red Chinese.
While Chinese'Delegate Wu Shiu-
Chuan was speaking,. Khrushchev
was conspicuously absent on a
visit to an East Berlin television
factory.
When Khrushchev returned for
the. afternoon meeting the Red
Chinese chief delegate was ab
sent.
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Urges Negro Rights
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP)
North Carolina Gov. Terry San
ford urged yesterday equal em
ployment of Negroes and thus
apparently became the first South
ern governor to take this, stand.
“The time has come for Ameri
can citizens to give up this re
luctance (to hire Negroes), to quit
unfair discrimination, and to give
the Negro a full chance to earn
a decefit living for his family and
to contribute to higher standards
for himself and all men,” San
ford said.
AT THE same time, Sanford, a
Democrat • who-, was one of the
first to throw his weight behind
President Kennedy who_was then
seeking the presidential nomina
tion at Los Angeles in 1959, an
nounced the formation of a 24-
member North Carolina Good
Neighbor Council.
He said the council is one of
five steps the state is taking to
ward' equal employmeftt for Ne
groes. He said the purpose of the
council is to encourage employ
ment of qualified people, without
regard to race, and to urge young
people to become better trained
for employment.
Speaking to the North Carolina
Press Association meeting here,
Sanford said the time has come
for U.S. citizens to abandon their
reluctance to accept the Negro in
employment.
AS ONE of the five steps the
state is taking, Sanford said he
has asked state officials to formu
late policies that will not exclude
Negroes from state employment.
Negroes now do not hold any state
jobs of importance in North Caro
lina.
“Despite great progress,” San
ford added, “the Negro’s oppor
tunity to obtain a good job has not,
been achieved in'* most places
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across the country. Reluctance to
accept the Negro in employment
is the greatest single bloclc to his
continued progress and to the full
use of the human potential of the
nation and its states.”
Justice Dept.
Issues Request
For Integration
WASHINGTON (JP) The Jus
tice Department asked courts in
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi
ana yesterday to order the racial
integration of schools -which re
ceive federal funds because of
pupil enrollments swollen by fed
eral employees' children.
The suits contend segregation
of the children of servicemen and
other federal workers in these
areas violates the 14th Amend
ment to. the Constitution and
harms the morale of servicemen
and the civilian workers.
If the suits are successful,
South Carolina would be the only
state remaining with no inte- x
grated elementary public schools.
The suits are similar to one filed
last Sept. 14’ in Prince George
County, Ya., which .Virginia is
fighting in the courts.
Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy said the government
has a direct interest in seeking an
end to “unconstitutional school
segregation in the- areas because
government employees and mon
ey are involved.”
But he added: “We are not say-'
ing to the school districts, ‘De
segregate. or the government will
take its money away..”.
There was no immediate com
ment from _ any of the- city and
county officials named in the suit.
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