BURNED CAR IS CLUE TO RIGHTS AIDES

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 24, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT JUN 2 4 194
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By William Chapman
Staff Reporter
JACKSON, Miss., June[
23-The' car once . drivel
by three missing civil right
workers was found burned
in a Mississippi swamp to-
day and President Johnson
announced that he was
deriding former CIA Direc-
tor Allen Dulles into the
State.
There was still no trace of
the men missing since Sunday
night.
Dulles will leave Wednesday
to meet with Gov. PaulJohn-
son, other Mississippi officials,
the FBI "and others who have
NAACP -protests . disap-
pearance of three civil
rights workers. Page B9.
information on the law observ-
ance problems that exist there
and are a matter of such great
concern," a White House an-
nouncement said.
Gov. Johnson issued a state-
ment herd saying he would be
"glad" to meet with Dulles.
"So long as Mr. Dulles is ob-
jective, I have no doubt he
will find that law and order
prevail and will be maintained
.by State and local authorities
. and that any incident or
strife or civil disorder cones
from the professional visiting
'troublemaker."
Fiv&`?Iiour'Meeting
Mr. Johnson met for five
hours with Attorncy General
Robert F. Kennedy, who'post-
poned a trip to West Ger-
many, Deputy Attorney' Gen-
eral Nicholas do B, Katzen-
hach, and Assistant Attorne
nuri5o :u' aqlizea
Jo1111so111'leugges " ""?
' ice l)partmcnt's civil.rights
Help, Sends Dulles division.
Earlier, the President and,
To Mississippi f the Attorney General had met'
tobert Goodman and Mr. and
Irs. Nathan Schwerner of'New
York, parents of two of the
nissing men, and assured them
hat the Federal Government
as doing all it could to find
heir sons.
The White House statement
?eitorated the President's con
ern as to the "whereabouts
lid physical safety" of the
ussing men.
ledge by Governor
It noted that Governor John
on had premised that law en
orcement facilities in Missis
ippi "will he utilized to their
till extent to prevent acts of.
iolence or public disorder,",,
nd said that the President;
`called for the cooperation and!
lie restraint of all the citizens
a society .ree of anarchy, vio
lence and disdain for the law.'
The missing men are An
drew Goodman, 20, and Mich
ael Schwerner,? 24, both, o
New York, and James Cheney,
22, a Negro from Meridian,
miss.
Federal and State agents
identified a station wagon
found burned in a swamp near
Philadelphia, Miss., as the. one
they had used.
Fears have risen for the
three men since they failed
to return to Meridian from
hiladelphia Sunday night.
Members of the "Mississippi
Summer Project" assigned to
ivil rights work in Meridian,
they had gone to Philadelphia
to investigate reports of a
burned Negro church.
The first report. of a dis-
overy was made here this
afternoon by Gov. Johnson?
FOIAb3b
Johnson said the burned-ott
car was spotted in a swan;
about 12 miles east of Phila
delphia in Neshoba County.
At least 16. patrolmen; tw
special agents and an undis
closed number of FBI agent
had been drawn to the area PYRGHT
awaiting a later report tonight
Asked if he feared for th
three men's lives, the Gover
nor said:
"Offhand, I would say no
But that's just something you
don't guess about. It's a big
state with a lot of territory.
You just can't watch every-
body."
Spokesmen for 'the Council
of Federated Organizations
the compined civil rights or
ganization, said. here that the
three left Meridian Sunda
mor.ning.to investigate the re-
ported burning of a Negro
church in Philadelphia a week
ago.
Neshoba C o u n t y Sheriff
Lawrence Rainey said Cheney
had, been arrested for speed.
ing and fined $20 and that all
Neshoba County, in-the-mid-
not regarded as one of the
.most dangerous counties in
Mississippi f or integration
work. It has a population of
about 15,000 whites, 4600 Neg-
roes and 1200 Choctaw In-
dians.
Before discovery of the car,
John Lewis, chairman of the
Student Non-Violent Coordi-
nating Committee, issued a de-
mand here for "presidential
protection" of civil rights
workers' in Mississippi. At
least 175 Negro and white stu-
dents have come into the State
in the last few days to begin
voter registration projects and
see (Federal) marshals all
across this State." The Coun-
cil of Federated Organizations
expects "harassment, intimida-
tion and outright violence,"
Lewis said.
He also referred to explo-
sions which shook the homes
of two Negro families Monday
night in McComb, deep in
southwestern Mississippi
where a strong resurgence of
the Ku Klux Klan has been
;observed.
I another 300 are expected this
weekend.
Meanwhile, Governor John?
son put before the Mississippi
legislature today his tuition-.
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