NEW LEAD IN SWAMP SEARCH

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 13

NEW LEAD IN SWAMP SEARCH

(N.Z Press Association—Copyright)

PHILADELPHIA (Mississippi),

June 29.

Two white men similar to two of the three missing civil rights workers were seen near the edge of a swamp 12 hours after their disappearance. A highway patrol investigator, Gwin Cole, said today that a local resident had reported sighting the men.

Mr Cole declined to elaborate on the latest development other than to say the resident said the men were standing near a station waggon. The vehicle was near the side road in the Bogue Chitto swamp where the burned out vehicle of the missing civil rights workers was found last Tuesday.

I Those missing are Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner I and a Negro named James Chaney. The highway patrol witness said one of the men he saw was heavy like Schwerner, and the other was lighter. Truce Possible There is a possibility of a truce in the racial conflict in St. Augustine. Florida, for the first time in nearly two weeks A new effort to establish a bi-racial committee to seek peace is reported to be nearing success. There have been almost no communications between the two races for more than a week, following the collapse of the first effort to find a settlement.