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Vol 68—No 173
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PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY APRIL 20 1961
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Senate Probe
Into Liquor
Ads Recessed
OKLAHOMA CITY (iP)—Investi-
gation of Oklahoma's liquor busi-
ness begins a weekend breather
today after two days of testimony
about kickbacks bombings and
threats
The disclosures came in crowded
committee hearings with Rep John
Steele Eatson doing most of the
questioning He heads the legal
advisory committee making the
study
The Marietta lawmaker Wednes-
day clashed on one occasion with
an attorney for a witness as the
committee heard charges and de-
nials of kickbacks to retailers
Panages Star Witness
Star witness was George Panages
former head of operations for
Famous Brands Inc a Tulsa whole-
sale firm and now operations chief
for Gleason Romans Inc another
Tulsa wholesaler
Panages produced a list of more
than 30 retail stores which he said
were given close to $10000 a month
in kickbacks from Famous Brands
lie said he made out the lists and
either he or the owner Herman S
Brown made the payments He said
he was sick of the payoffs and
started working with Crime Bureau
agents in November
Panages testified Brown's firm
grossed between $175000 and $180-
000 in May 1960 but by Nov 1960
the firm was taking in between
$400000 and $500000
Osborne Said on List
On the rebate list he said was
Steve Osborne operator of Best
Liquor Store in Tulsa
Osborne was on the witness stand
most of the afternoon He denied
ever receiving a kickback He
directly challenged Panages testi-
mony that Brown had loaned Os-
borne between $500 and $1000 and
was applying a $162 a month kick-
back to the debt
Accompanied by Jack Sellers
Drumright attorney Osborne with-
drew his agreement to taking a lie
detector test He told the coNmit-
tee Tuesday he would be glad to
take one anytime
I
Polaris Missile
Firing Indicates
Problems Solved
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (JP) —
The successful firing of a Polaris
missile from the nuclear subma-
rine Robert E Lee indicates the
Navy has solved problems which
plagued some Earlier underwater
launches of the rocket
The Lee unleashed the Polaris
over a 1150-mile course Wednes-
day The Defense Department
sticking to a new policy declined
to announce test results but in-
formed sources reported all flight
objectives were achieved
This was the second straight suc-
cessful submarine launching of the
Polaris since the Navy announced
it hi‘cl made a relatively minor
change designed to eliminate dif-
ficulties which affected the missile
when it was launched from under
sea
Before the change was made
four submarines launched a total
of 18 missiles 10 of them success-
ful ful
At this point in the program
the Defense Department without
explanation said it would not an
flounce test results of any missile
launchings conducted "away from
public view"
The missile Wednesday was fired
30 miles offshore and was clearly
visible to shore observers But
defense officials said the new pol
icy applied
House Group Approves
Latin America Request
WASHINGTON (W)--In an ob-
vious bid to bolster Latin-American
friendship the House Appropri-
ations Committee today approved
an administration request for S600
million to raise living standards in
South American countries
Included was WO million to help
Chile rehabilitate areas devastated
by a series of earthquakes last year
The committee acted ahead of its
routine schedule explained Rep
Otto E Passman ID- La because of
"the gravity of the Cuban situa-
tion and the outside possibility that
some of our good friends and neigh-
bors south of the border would mis-
understand any reductions"
Didn't Pay Full Amount
NORTH BEND Ore — The
Bev and Mrs William Walker filed
their federal income tax return in
proper form—but sent only 45 per-
cent of the money due They esti-
mated the 55 percent they did not
remit represented money for fu-
ture or past wars In Portland In-
ternal Revenue Service officials
said the full tax would be collected
0 THE WEATHER
AT PONCA CITY AIRPORT:
(Data from FAA Flight
Service Station) -
7 pm 81 1 am 71
7 am 71 1 pm 84
Today's high to 1 pm 84
Yesterday's maximum 00
Minimum past 24 hours 68
Relative Humidity 48 percent at
I pm
Max wind velocity 31 mph Time
9:53 am
Barometric press 1 pm 2365
Falling
Barometric press reduced to sea
level 2970
AT FIRE STATION No It
Today's high 84
Minimum past 24 hours 67
Yesterday's maximum 20
G Cooper
Is Gravely
III at Home
HOLLYWOOD 01—Sources closc
to Gary Cooper say the veteran
film star is gravely ill with can-
cer—and knows it
The word followed an announce-
ment by a family spokesman
Wednesday that the lanky laconic
actor is critically
Cooper who will be 60 on May
7 is confined to his Bel-Air home
The onetime Montana cowboy
has starred in 70 pictures winning
Oscars as the World War I hero
in 1941's "Sergeant York" and as
the duty-bound sheriff in 1932s
-High Noon"
Speculation about his physical
condition had heightened since the
annual academy awards ceremonies
Monday night Fellow star James
Stewart accepted a special honorary
award for Cooper and addressing
him directly into the television
camera neatly broke into teats as
he spoke words of tribute
So emotional was Stewart's praise
that a recent explanation of Coop-
er's confinement — that he suf-
fered a pinched nerve in a movie
fight scene — was questioned
Publicist Warren Cowan an-
noarned Wednesday: "Because the
Cooper family has been inundated
by inquiries about his health since
the James Stewart presentation I
am a asked by the family to say that
he is gravely ill"
Cowan did not disclose the na-
ture of the ailment This word
came afterward privately from
several sources
Senate Expected
To Pass ifics
Wage Bill Today
WASHINGTON (JP)—The Senate
is expected to pass President Ken-
nedy's minimum wage bill today by
a margin of 25 to 30 votes
With Kennedy as floor manager
the Senate a pprov ed a similar
measure last August 62 to 34 Ad-
ministration lieutenants expect a
similar margin this time
Action on all amendments was
completed late Wednesday after
backers of the President's bill had
succeeded in beating down all ef-
forts to reduce the measure's pro-
visions '
But Senate Democratic leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana de-
layed the final hour of debate and
vote until today after several sen-
ators said Wednesday night they
were anxious to get away for
speaking engagements
With no further changes possible
the Senate is certain to 'pass the
legislation in the form Kennedy
recommended it
This calls for an increase in the
$1 an hour wage floor to $125 by
1963 and coverage of 4 million more
employes under the wages and
hours act Most of these workers
would be in retail stores service
establishments a n d construction
jobs
It then will be up to the admin-
istration to win the broadest meas-
ure it can in a Senate-House con-
ference The House passed a much
narrower bill providing for a $115
minimum and coverage of 12 mil-
lion additional workers
Survivor of Air Force
Plane Crash Critical
HONG KONG (W)--A US serv-
iceman survivor of an Air Force
plane crash that killed 15 others
was in critical condition today
The US Command on Formosa
Identified him as Airman Richard
W Ferron 24 son of Mrand Mrs
Ernest Ferron of Westbrook Maine
The plane a twin-engine C47
was returning service personnel
and dependents to Formosa from
a vacation in Hong Kong when it
struck a fog - shrouded mountain
Wednesday in this British crown
colony Passengers included three
women and a child
Doctors at the British Military
Hospital here gave the airman only
a 50-50 chance to pull through
They said he was suffering from
skull fractures a broken arm shock
and exposure
Mock Nuclear Attack
Scheduled in State
OKLAHOMA CITY (M—Nearlx
200000 "paper deaths" will occur
April 28 in an imaginary nuclear
attack in Oklahoma Civil Defense
Director Tom Brett said todaM
Brett said Operation Alert will
be to test the defense capabilities
of local state and federal civil de-
fense Because of the military installa-
tions in the southwestern part of
the state that area will be a hot-
spot in the nationwide attack Brett
said
He said the first word of the
mock attack will be at 3 pm April
28 when all radio stations get word
to convert to conelrad frequencies
640 and 1240 Standard broadcasts
including television will be off the
air for 30 minutes
Israel Celebrates
JERUSALEM (R) — Israel cele-
brated its 13th anniversary as a na-
tion today with a parade of military
might hi Jerusalem including tanks
and :wavy arms brought into the
city defiance of the UN Security
Coed An estimated 250000 people
anVauded and cheered as column
afrer column of tanks heavy arta-
lety antitank nUssiles and other
weapons rolled past
Richard Nixon
Has Conference
With Newsmen
WASHINGTON (tP) — Richard
M Nixon said today he finds a
great deal of popular support for
President Kennedy ' as an indi-
vidual But he said he finds "very
little interest in and virtually no
support for his program"
The former vice president told
a news conference he believes
there is little support "for a pr6-
gram as far to the left as the
Kennedy economic program"
To Start Tour
Nixon narrowly defeated by
Kennedy for the presidency in last
Novembers election declined to
grade the first 90 days of the new
Democratic administration b u t
said he would do so in a cross-
country speaking tour starting
next month
With a smile he said that Ken
nedy had said during the campaign
that "he intended to do a great
deal in the first 90 days I think
it's not quite fair to hold to 90
days He ought to be given 10 more
days"
Questioned about Kenned y's
handling of the crisis in Cuba
Nixon said he had discussed the
situation with Republican congres-
sional leaders this morning but was
not in a position to say more than
that it obviously was a very grave
crisis
Won't Comment on Crisis
'Nothing is more irresponsible
than for someone outside the gov-
ernment to pop off on an interna-
tional crisis" he said "Conse-
quently I haven't any criticism
to make and won't have unless I
have some constructive proposal
to make to solve the crisis"
He said "our national interest
requires the United States to do
everything it can consistent with
its treaty obligations to help the
people of Cuba realize their as-
pirations to have a free and in-
dependent country"
Liquor Dealers
Say They Didn't
Receive Payment
TULSA (iP)--Tulsa liquor dealers
named in testimony before a leg-
islative committee strongly denied
Wednesday they got kickbacks frdrn
wholesalers
George Panages former operation
manager for Famous Brands Inc
Tulsa wholesale firm told the
House Legal Advisory Committee
that the biggest payoff went to
what he referred to as the "Mirkin
chain"
But Phil Mirkin co-owner of the
Stop & Shop Liquor Store said
"His remarks are an out-and-out
lie an entire falsehood" Mirkin
said Panages would answer in court
for his testimony
"I didn't get any kickback let
alone the MO a month he's talking
about" said Tex Meyer owner of
the Bottle Shop another retailer in
Tulsa
Of an allegation that he got $105 a
month in kickbacks George Albert
Richardson owner of the C and R
store said:
"They must be kidding I'm just a
small operator and not in line for
anything like that"
Also denying charges were Ken-
neth A Burke owner of the Ranch
Acres Liquor Store Al Adwon
manager of Al's Liquor Store and
Bob Brewer manager of the Hall-
mark Liquor Store
Paul Mihos co-owner of Paul and
Jim's Liquor Store had no com-
ment on the allegation that his
store had received a kickback of
$90 monthlf
Methodist Missions
Board Reports Deaths
NEW YORK (iP)--Eight Methodist
pastors have been reported killed in
the month-old civil war in Portu-
guese African territory of Angola
the Methodist Board of Missions
said today
The mission aid the pastors all
Africans "were killed by either
Portuguese civilians or military
forces after hurried trials"
At least half the denomination's
150 African pastors in Angola "are
reported either in prison have fled
with their wives or have been
killed" the board said
"Reports say that many Methodist
churches and schools have been
completely destroyed or badly dam-
aged" the board said
Fidel Liked To Make Announcements
Castrors Absence May Mean
EDITOR'S NOTE — News ana-
lyst William L Ryan widely
traveled specialist In Communist
affairs was in Cuba during Fidel
Castro's rise to power and a
number of times thereafter
By WILLIAM L RYAN
Associated Press News Analyst
MIAMI Fla 01) — What the Ha
vana radio proclaimed today as a
triumph for the Castro regime
over its enemies may yet turn out
to be the beginning of its down
falL
There were some things wrong
with the Havana proclamation
First the voice of the "maxi-
mum leader" still was curiously
missing
Second it conceded that anti-
Castrrk guerrillas had daperfied
into hiding The anii-Castro revo
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CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER Dr Raul Boa puts cigaret to mouth
as he chats with Soviet delegate N'slerin Zorin during Interval in 99-
nation political committee session ou Cuba at the United Nations In
New York (AP Wirephoto)
Gas Advertisement
Bill Dies in House
By LARRY OSIUS
Associated Press Staff 1Vritee
A School Land Commission debate took up most of the Senate's at-
tention Wednesday while the House killed a gasoline price advertising
bill and beefed up the regulation of beer taverns
Both close out their 16th legislative week today For the House it is
expected to be the last "quiet" session for several days
Speaker J D McCarty said two controversial rural electric coopera-
tive bills will be taken up Monday followed by the first of the four
major appropriations on Tuesday
The beer tavern bill by Rep Jodie Mod of Cheyenne would force
taverns to remove paint or other obstructions from their front win
do away with blinds or curtains
and keep their interiors "well and
adequately lighted" Swiss Say U S
The gasoline pricing bill which
almost passed several weeks ago
was shouted down The rejection Persons Nabbed
was confirmed later by a 57-40
roll call vote The bill would have By Cuban Forces
forbidden service station operators
from advertising their gasoline
prices on signs larger than ses-n WASHINGTON (IP) The Swis !
inches high and 12 inches government has reported that abou
' - Governor Bill Passed 20 Americans have been arreste(
The l-lOUL also passed a Sen in Havana State Department offi
ate bill limiting the functions on cials said today
which the governor can spend his Three of the 20 were newsmen tht
emergency and contingency fund report said but it did not give then
to natural disasters use of the Na- names-
tional Guard and elections ex-
cept special elections called by Earlier reports from other guar
the pvernor It now goes to the ters had said that Robert Berrellc
governor of The Associated Press and Refill
Also approved were Senate Raymont of United Press Interms
amendments to a House bill rats- tional had been placed under ar
ing the interest rate on School
rest
Land Commission loans from three The Swiss also reported a rumoi
percent to four percent It also not confirmed—that the pro-Corn
goes to the governor munist Castro regime was prepar
The Senate debated another ing to round up all Americans it
School Land Commission bill for Cuba for questioning
three hours and then delayed a The word was received from tht
decision Swiss Embassy in Havana by wal
Sale To Help Tax Rolls of Bern It broke what had beet
Sen Leon Field of Texhoma is described as a corrununication
author of the bill directing the blackout in diplomatic contact witi
commission to sell all of its 795911 the Cuban capital since the fight
acres of land Field contended the jog started early this week
sale would put the land on local The Swiss Embassy is handlini
tax rolls US interests in Cuba because Us
It would raise $55 million which United States has broken diplomat
could be invested and would earn ic ties with the Castro government
$2 million more per year than the The United States has asked tla
current income from leasing the Swiss to tell the Castro regime ts
land Field said take every nreealltion for the gn
Daily Jet Service
In Area Started
DALLAS (iP)--Daily jet service
between Mexico City San Antonio
Dallas Kansas City and Minneapolis-St
Paul will be inagurated
April 30 by Braniff International
Airways
R H Burck vice president of
traffic and sales for Braniff said
Braniff's route between Mexico and
the midwestern cities will use Boe-
ing El Dorado super jets
New Electra II service also will
start April 30 The prop-jet planes
will provide new flights between
Dallas Washington 1)c and New-
ark Houston-Chicago via Dallas
Oklahoma City Wichita and Kansas
City and between Houston Dallas
and Denver
Mt Etna Erupting
CATANIA Sicily tTh—Fire and
lava shot 1000 feet into the air
early today in a new eruption of
Mt Etna which has been erupting
intermittently for the past yuar
lutionarycouncll claims they have
joined up with holdout rebels in
the Escambray Mountains and if
so they are beginning a resistance
oddly similar to the one which
brought the 2Gth of July Move
ment to power after a long hit
andrun struggle
Since the victory of Fidel Cap
tro's 26th of July Movement On
New Year's Day 1959 there has
been no pronouncement as im-
portant to the regime as the one
this morning
In the past Castro himself
never missed an opportunity to
make an announcement of major
importance Invariably he has
taken to radio and television and
spoken for four or five hours at
a stretch on matters far less criti-
cal than the business befote the
regime today
WASHINGTON (IP) — The Swiss
government as reported that about
20 Americans have been arrested
in Havana State Department offi-
cials said today
Three of the 20 were newsmen the
report said but it did not give their
names'
Earlier reports from other quar-
ters had said that Robert Berrellez
of The Associated Press and Henry
Raymont of United Press Interna-
tional had been placed under ar-
rest The Swiss also reported a rumor
—not confirmed—that the pro-Communist
Castro regime was prepar-
ing to round up all Americans in
Cuba for questioning
The word was received from the
Swiss Embassy in Havana by way
of Bern It broke what had been
described as a communications
blackout in diplomatic contact with
the Cuban capital since the fight-
ing started early this week
The Swiss Embassy is handling
US interests in Cuba because the
United States has broken diplomat-
ic ties with the Castro government
The United States has asked the
Swiss to tell the Castro regime to
take every precaution for the safety
of Americans in Cuba Some 1200
US citizens are said to be in Cuba
many of them longtime residents
there
Red Foley's Personal
Records Are Discussed
SPRINGFIELD Mo 611 — The
personal records of Clyde (Red)
Foley television entertainer were
brought out Wednesday in the coun-
try music singer's second trial on
income tax evasion charges
Dub Allbritten Foley's personal
manager from 1954 to 1936 told the
jury about a file folder he main-
tained to keep track-of the singer's
financial dealings
He said the folder was available
to Foley but he added that the de-
fendant didn't come to the office
very often
He wait lax about keeping pa-
pers" Allbritten said
Foley is accused of failure to pay
$28000 in income taxes for 1954 and
1935 His first trial ended in a hung
jury
What has happened to him? Is
he just playing it safe cagily
staying In the background until
the smoke clears? That would be
unlike him Castro has had a
penchant for lumbering loudly into
any and all situations and dorni
nating the show
Has he been shoved aside by the
Communists who may feel ne corn-
mitted blunders which interfered
with Soviet bloc efforts to organize
the country and its economy in
the image of a "people's deinoc-
racy?" It is possible There have
been signs of Soviet annoyance
with him
Is Castro still among the living?
Ile was reported to have been fish-
ing in the Bay of Cochinos area
when the first anti-Castro guer-
rillas hit the beach over the week-
end and may have been in the
axea Cdt LEagaleLltativil buu21w1g
:71astroFrees CIE) iril
To Havé Wiped tut
Rob Invaders in Cuba
Kennedy's Tax Program
Is Received by Congress
WASHINGTON (X)—President Kennedy today sent Congress a tax
plan which he said would help modernize American business and create
500000 jobs Ile said a possible general tax cut should wait until next
year
The President said his proposals would attack "expense account liv-
ing" discourage tax cheating and reduce the worrisome flow of US dol-
lars abroad without cutting into federal revenucs
In a 6300-word special message Kennedy described his program
as "a first though urgent step" toward broad tax reform in I962—reform
which he said could combine elimination of loopholes and discriminatory
provisions with I lowering sf basic tax rates
These were among the most notable items in the first-step package:
A special tax incentive for business to modernize and expand with-
holding of taxes on dividends and interest repeal of the special tax treat-
ment given dividends and discour-
agement of corporate investment in a I
competing industrial countries A Aphil t: 1-
Kennedy also proposed stricteu
curbs on tax-deductible expense ac-
counts the elimination of foreign
"tax havens" and the collection of
taxes from high-income Ameri-
cans — notably movie stars — who
move abroad in the hope of escap-
ing the US income tax
Revenues To Be Cut
He said the business investment
incentive would cut revenues- by
$17 billion a year However he said
the other items would offset this
and leave at least $50 million to
spare
Many of the specifics were sure
to stir controversy aplently How-
ever there could be little argu-
ment over Kennedy's main objec-
tives: to stimulate the economy
make US business more compe-
titive with fast-stepping foreign
competition and reduce the nation's
balance of payments deficit
'roe key item and perhaps the
116rovertial was the pro
centive for business ex-
pansion aid modernization In es-
sence Kennedy would permit com-
panies to subtract from their tax
bills an amount equal to part of
their annual investment in new or
improved facilities
Opposition Indicated
Many businessmen already have
indicated opposition to this "tax
credit' idea Some have said they
would rather be allowed to Increase
their depreciation allowances thrd
is the amount they can set aside
free from tax to offset the inevit-
able againg of new or improved
facilities which must eventually be
replaced
John Birch Society
Head Repeats Charge
SHREVEPORT La (IP) — The
founder of the John Birch Society
has again charged that Communists
have infiltered t h e Protestant
clergy in the United States
Robert Welch retired Massa-
chusetts candy maker who organ-
ized the ultra-conservative group
charged in a copyrighted speech
here Wednesday night that "the
largest single body of Communists
in America is in our Protestant
clergy"
Welch made a one night stop in
Shreveport on his speaking tour of
the Southwest He spoke one hour
and 45 minutes to a crowd esti-
mated at 2000
The speech dealt with what
Welch called the "prinoipie of re-
versal" being used by the Com-
munists He said the principle is
at work among Protestant clergy-
men "because that is almost the
last place the ordinary American
would expect to find him"
Welch has made similar charges
in previous speeches
Czechoslovakia Thinks
US Involved in Crash
PRAGUE Czechoslovakia (X) —
Czechoslovakia's official news
agency CTK expressed suspicion
today that the United States had
something to do with the crash
March 28 of a Czech airliner near
Nuernberg West Germiny in
which all ti2 persons aboard were
killed
The Communist agency said the
crash occurred near an American
military installation and that "pre-
cisely at the time of the crash
there was increased air activity in
the air as was definitely proved
by Czechoslovak radio locators"
He's 'Out'
Castro's name was signed to the
proclamation of victory over the
rebels The army command signed
the major communique Wednes-
day a departure from a custom
in which Castro announced every
thing
Whatever the answer to the
questions it seems likely that
something has happened to change
the status of Castro And some-
thing has happened too to the
status of the regime because of
the strike against it by people on
the outside who want passionately
to return in peace to their home
land
The regime has no guarantee
that there will not be new and
greater infiltrations swelling the
small guerrilla resistance now in
Cuba to a force which really can
threaten to topple the Communist-
dualiauted guvekluncat i liavaaa
Adolf Eithmann
Is Cool During
Playing of Tapes
JERUSALEM (1P) — Adolf Eich-
mann was cool and matter of fact
—with one notable exception—dur-
ing the long session when he told
his story to his Israeli captors and
a tape recorder and informed
source said today
He showed a little feeling when
he said he expects to get the death
sentence" the Israeli informant
reported
"I know I may face a sentence
of death" said Eichmann in a
recorded statement that was play-
ed back Wednesday for the three
judge court trying him on charges
of mass rnurele:: of Europe's Jews
"I cannot claim mercy because
I am not worthy of it" Eichmann
continued "I should have hanged
myself in public so that all the
anti-Semites in the world woulki
have had these terrible events em-
phasized for them"
"He was quite businesslike the
rest of the time" the Israeli
souree reported "but he seemed
moved a little emotional when
he read this"
Seventy-seven cartons of tapes
were made of the long hours of
interrogation that followed Eich-
mann's capture in Argentina last
year The prosecution Wednesday
began playing back excerpts at
the trial bringing into the record
the former SS officer's own ver-
sion of the Nazis " final Solution
of the Jewish Problem"—rneaning
total annihilation of Europe's Jew-
ry—and the part he played in it
Police Nab Mental
Patients in Kansas
GREAT BEND Kan (IP) — Four
patients were captured near Great
Bend I'Vednesday two hours after
they escaped from the ward for in-
sane criminals at Lamed State Hos-
pital They seized two employes as
hostages but released them un-
harmed The fugitives took $100 and two
ears at a used car lot in Great Bend
split into pairs and continued their
flight
More than 50 law enforcement of-
ficers in live central T(ansas coun-
ties participated in the search
Two of the fugitives George
loersehler 34 of Lansing and Ron-
ald Magers 32 of St John were
captured by State Troopers Jerry
Tillery and Tony Bendel on a coon-
ty road at the Barton-Stafford coun-
ty line south of Ellinwood
The other two Johnny King 28
of Newton and Joe Wolverton 21
of Leavenworth were captured at
the junction of US 281 and Kansas
19 about 14 miles south of Great
Bend by Sheriff Frank Gere of
Stafford County Undersheriff
Wise and Police Chief Burton Green
of St John
LATE NEWS
WASHINGTON (A— President
Kenneuy declared today the
United States will not hesitate in
meeting Its Mitigations to Its own
security in the Cuoan situation—
should that become necessary
In an address prepared tor the
American Society of Newspaper
Lditors Kennedy again said that
unilateral American intervention
In Cuba would have been con-
trary to traditions and interna-
tional obligations but let the
record show that our restraint is
not inexhaustable"
"Should it ever appear" Ken-
nedy added "that the inter-Amer
can doctrine of noninterference
merely conceals or excuses a pol-
icy of nonaction—if the nations of
this hemisphere should fail to
meet their commitments against
outside Communist penetration—
then I want it clearly understood
that this government will not hes-
itate in meeting its primary obli-
gations which are to the security
of our own nation"
WASIIINGION (111 — Me Sen-
ate today passed President Ken-
nedy's bill raising the 61 an hour
minimum wage to $125 by 1963
and bringing 4086 million addi-
tional workers under the act
Kennedy won a smashing vie
tory in the five-day fight as ad-
ministration forces blocked any
major change In his measure be
tore 1as4Lag
Exile Group
Says Other
Troops Near
By The Assoelated Press
Prime Minister Fidel Castro as-
serted today he has wiped out rebel
invaders on Cuba's southern
beaches and captured large stores
of US arms including Sherman
tanks But he conceded his forces
have suffered heavy losses
The rebel leaders insisted the
main invading force has fought
through to guerrillas waiting in
the Escambray Mountaios of central
Cuba to carry on the war against
the pro-Communist regime
Echoing Crstrb's claims Moscow
radio charged US Marines are
poised to strike and repeated Soviet
government warnings that the use
of American forces would have dire
consequences
Cubans Suffer Blow
Moscow said Castro had "dealt a
colossal blow to the forces of ag-
gression" but "this does not mean
that the threat to the independence
of Cuba has been removed and that
the interventionists ha v e relin-
quished their criminal schemes"
An anti-Castro leader in Puerto
Rico reported Wednesday night that
a new landing had been made in
Cuba He did not give the location
of the beachhead
There were rumors—entirely un-
confirmed—that more landings were
immenent
The Cuban government communi-
que claiming total victory over the
invasion force that hit the swampy
beaches of Cochinos Bay Monday
said "Giron Beach which was the
last stronghold of the mercenaries
fell at 5:30 pm yesterday"
Castro Signs Communique
Signed by Castro- as prime min-
ister and commander in chief the
communique claimed the invaders
"suffered heavy casualties dispers-
ing in a swamp area from which
no escape is possible" Put Castro
conceded his forces paid a "high
toll in courageous lives"
The Cuban Revolutionary Coun-
cil which organi7eO the striking
force cif Cuban exiles had said
earlier that the "landings" were
only a phase of its campaign to
overthrow Castr o It disclaimed
them as "an invasion"
"We did not expect to topple
Castro immediately or without set-
backs" the council said in a com-
munique issued Wednesday night
in New York
Expect Mounting Campaign
The rebel command now ap-
peared to be anticipating a mount-
ing guerrilla campaign which they
hoped would steadily attract pop-
ular support within Cuba much in
the manner of Castro's guerrilla
campaign from the mountains of
Oriente Province that ultimately
brought the downfall of Fulgencio
Batista
Associated Press correspondent
Rem Price in a dispatch from the
US Naval Base at Guantanamo
Bay said anti-Castro Cubans in
Oriente Province are fearful that
the rebels waited too long to strike
and thus allowed Castro to arrest
or scatter leaders who might have
been rallying points for an uprising
Price quoted an American source
familiar with the activ ities of
Cubans in Oriente as saying the
population hopes the revolt against
Castro will succeed "but they are
doing nothing until they have a bet-
ter idea of what is happening"
The whereabouts of Castro was
a mystery Although a prolific
speaker with a penchant for the
limelight he has not been heard
over the Cuban radio or seen on
television since the insurgents le-
vaded Cuba Monday
More Arrests May Be
Made for Map Thefts
HOUSTON (ir) - There may be
more arrests in a multi-milliondollar
theft of survey maps from
eight or more oil companies
City and county officers seized
three men Wednesday and charged
them with receiving and conceal-
ing stolen property
Deputy Sheriff Joe Thorpe said
Investigators expected to take four
to five other persons into custody
today
Those arrested Wednesday are
Charles Leroy Moore 61 Houston
geologist Donald Irving Dennis
50 Dallas oil operator and Mar-
cus Wescott Beach 37 Dallas
manufacturer's representative Jus-
tice of the Peace W C Ragan set
bond at $10000 for each
Officers said they found about
1000 maps in the trunk of Moore's
ear after a traffic policemen pick-
ed him up on a drunk driving
charge and there were 5000 to
10000 maps at Moore's home
Cubana Airliner Lands
At US Base in Bermuda
HAMILTON Bermuda (ATI — A
Cubana airliner enroute frorri Ma-
drid to Havana made an unaa-
thorized landing at a US Air
Force base here today and was
detained by military authorities
A statement issued by Kindly
Air Force Base said the liner lack
ed insurance coverage required
for landing at a United States mil
itary field
The base reported that 13 crew-
men and eight passengers Were
aboard and that accommodations
had been provided for them at the
ban
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