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Human Bomb
Intended for
President - Elect
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. OP)
— A 73-year-old little man with
wavy white hair was held in $100,
000 bond today on a charge that
he intended to turn himself into
a human bomb aimed at the life
of President-elect Kennedy.
Richard Paul Pavlick, retired
postal worker from Belmont,
N. H., was given a hearing before
U. S. Commissioner George L.
Pink last night. Pink said the bond
was one of the highest ever set
in this city.
Pavlick was arrested yesterday
in Palm Beach and officers said
they seized several sticks of dyna
mite, blasting caps, wiring and
other paraphernalia in his auto
mobile and motel room.
Pavlick talked freely with
newsmen in the West Palm Beach
jail. The ruddy-faced, stocky man,
wearing a grey sweatshirt, seemed
to enjoy the excitement of his ar
rest.
He said he had intended to take
the life of the President-elect be
cause of the “the underhanded
way he was elected.”
“Kennedy money,” he rambled
on, “bought the White House and
the Presidency.”
He said he had always had an
inferiority complex, that he had
given his money to a children’s
home in New Hampshire before
he left for the south and had
originally purchased the explo
sives found in his car to blow up
tree stumps on his farm property
at Belmont.
U. S. Eases Number
Of Overseas Dependents
WASHINGTON UPt — The gov
ernment has eased its controver
sial order limiting the number of
military dependents overseas. Now
there are loopholes for some fami
lies to squeeze through.
Originally President Eisen
hower ordered that American
servicemen abroad could have no
more than a total of 200,000 de
pendents living with them. He
listed no exemptions.
Eisenhower’s order last Nov. 17
stemmed from this country’s ef
forts to stop the flow of gold from
the U. S. to foreign countries.
American servicemen and their
families spend American dollars
while overseas, and these dollars
sometimes are redeemed for
American gold by foreign banks.
The new Defense Department
memorandum could mean that
at least 60,000 more than the
original 200,000 dependents will
be allowed to stay abroad. In all,
there are 484,000 military depend
ents abroad.
In addition, the memorandum
slows down the effect of the Pres
idential order by canceling a sys
tem of strict monthly quotas of
reductions supposed to begin next
month.
Under the new setup, each serv
ice determines its own monthly
quotas. In all probability the few
servicemen ordered abroad after
the beginning of 1961 will travel
without their families.
SHORT AIR TRIP AHEAD
NOGALES, Sonora, Mex. tP) —
U. S. Consul Chester Kimrey, who
will retire Dec. 31, today received
orders from Washington to pro
ceed by air to his home.
Kimrey lives in Nogales, Ariz.,
just one block across the border
from his office.
Six Business Leaders to
Serve on State C of C
Legislative Committee
JUNEAU UP) — The appoint
ment of six state business leaders
to serve on the State Chamber
of Commerce’s Legislative Com
mittee was announced today by
Committee Chairman Norman C.
Banfield of Juneau.
Named to the committee were
George Sharrock and Larry Mar
tin of Anchorage; Clifford Burg
lin of Fairbanks; James Nordale
of Juneau; William W. Mitchell
of Ketchikan; and Don Hoover of
Nome.
With the exception of Sharrock,
all serve as legislative chairmen
for their respective City Cham
bers of Commerce.
The State’s Legislative Commit
tee will be charged with formu
lating the Chamber’s Legislative
program for submission to the
Legislature and with determining
the possible impact of each bill
introduced in the Legislature on
state business.
This Man Has an Anemia
Due to Iron Deficiency
CHICAGO UP) — Surgeons who
made a medical checkup on a
mental patient because he was
suffering from swollen ankles
recovered 258 objects from his
stomach.
Their report, listed these among
items recovered:
Twenty-six keys, 39 nail files,
3 sets of Rosary beads, 16 religi
ous medals, a bracelet, a necklace,
3 metal chains, a beer can opener,
a knife blade, 4 nail clippers, 3
pair of tweezers and 88 assorted
coins.
An “amorphous mass of eroded
metal sludge” weighing more
than three pounds also was re
moved by surgery.
The man was a patient in a
Brooklyn, N. Y., hospital.
Despite the large amount of
iron material oxidizing in the
man’s stomach he was suffering
a moderate anemia, a condition
sometimes due to iron deficiency.
Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, Archbishop
Of SL Louis, Named Cardinal
VATICAN CITY UP — Pope
John XXIII today named four
new Cardinals including the Most
Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, Archbishop
of St. Louis.
Elevation of Archbishop Ritter
brings U. S. representation to
six. The others are Cardinal Spell
man of New Vork, Cardinal Meyer
of Chicago, Cardinal McIntyre of
Los Angeles, Cardinal Cushing of
Boston and Cardinal Muench,
former bishop of Fargo, N. D., and
now a member of the Vatican
Curia.
Archbishop Ritter, 68, was born
in New Albany, Ind. He was or
dained May 30, 1917, and con
secrated a bishop on March 28.
1933.
Teeth are in Good Condition
HOLLYWOOD UP — A dentist
says Elizabeth Taylor’s teeth are
in perfect condition.
Only a month ago one abscessed
tooth was pulled in London and
headlines proclaimed that more
might have to go.
The actress became ill after ar
riving in London last September.
Her illness was diagnosed as an
inflamation of the outer lining of
the spinal cord and brain. The in
fected tooth was given as a con
tributing factor.
Dr. Stanley Vogel of Beverly
Hills said yesterday he found Miss
Taylor “in excellent d e n ta 1
health.”
Robert Kennedy,
Douglas Dillon
Fill 2 More Posts
WASHINGTON UR — President
elect Kennedy today named his
brother, Robert F. Kennedy, At
torney General in his administra
tion, and chose C. Douglas Dillon
to be Secretary of State.
Robert F. Kennedy, 35, was the
President-elect’s campaign mana
ger, and has had government ex
perience as counsel of the Senate
Rackets Investigating Committee.
This is the first time in U. S.
history that a President, or Presi
dent-elect, has chosen a brother
to be in his cabinet.
Dillon, 51, is now Undersecre
tary of State, and is a Republican.
His appointment is one the finan
cial community will likely view
as assurance there will be no
radical fiscal experiments in the
Kennedy Administration.
With these appointments, Ken
nedy completed the selection of
his cabinet except for Postmaster
General. There were reports that
this job would go to J. Edward
Day, a Los Angeles insurance ex
ecutive.
The appointments for Secretary
of the Treasury and Attorney
General were announced in quick
succession—Dillon’s first and then
Robert Kennedy’s.
Dillon stood smiling beside Ken
nedy as the announcement of his
appointment was made from the
doorstep of the President-elect’s
home in Georgetown.
Kennedy said that Dillon wish
ed to return to private life, but
had agreed to accept the cabinet
post. Dillon has served with the
Eisenhower Administration since
1953 when he was appointed Am
bassador to France.
Youths Switch Clothes
Wrong One in Navy
ADAK UPl — A 17-year-old Cali
fornia boy passed himself off as
his 19-year-old sailor brother for
two months before authorities at
Adak Naval Station found him
out, the Navy said yesterday.
The base legal office said it
discovered only Tuesday that the
youth known here as Fireman Ap
prentice Richatd Allen Kelly Jr.
was really William John Kelly.
The youths switched clothes and
identities in Oct., officers said,
while Richard was home on leave
with orders to report to Adak. He
had just been detached from the
USS Porterfield.
Richard and William are the
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Allen Kelly Sr., Lancaster, Calif.
Richard Jr. assumed his broth
er’s name and got a job in Bur
bank, Calif., officers said.
Questioned here about the mix
up, Williams said: “Do you think
this will hurt my chance of join
ing the Navy? I want to enlist
because I like it fine.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with snow showers.
Easterly winds 20 to 30 mph. Low
tonight, high tomorrow 32.
In the last 24 hours high of 32,
low of 26.
Sunrise at 10:00 a.m., sunset
at 1:56 p.m.
Robert Erwin, District Attorney
here has passed the 1960 Alaska
State Bar examination along with
14 other candidates, eight of
whom are in Anchorage.
Mr. Erwin was admitted to the
bar in the State of Washington
before coming to Alaska.
Two Airliners Crash in Mid-Air
Over Brooklyn; 125 Die in Wreckage
NEW YORK in! — Two huge
airliners, groping through snow
shrouded skies for landings, col
lided and crashed into the city
today with fiery devastation. At
least 125 were killed.
The disaster was one of the
worst in American aviation his
tory.
It unleashed flames and havoc
on the ground, turning an entire
square block of Brooklyn into an
arena of terror. Residents fled
apartments screaming as walls
caved in and fires broke out in a
dozen buildings.
So far, however, only one per
son on the ground was known
killed. Of the 125 persons aboard
the two planes, one lived, a young
boy.
An army of emergency workers
fought through the fires and
wreckage, with possibly other
casualties to be found.
One plane, a United Airlines
DC8 jet with 83 aboard, struck
in heavily populated Brooklyn,
hurling debris like bomb frag
ments, and setting 10 apartment
buildings on fire. A church—
ironically named “Pillar of Fire”
—was demolished.
It was the first crash in this
country of a pure jet carrying
passengers.
The other plane, a Trans-World
Airline Constellation carrying 42,
raked over Staten Island, and
came to rest in harbor water. It
also started fires in the area, but
they were quickly controlled.
Heavy snow was falling when
the crash came about 10:40 a. m.
The disaster recalled another
plane collision over the Grand
Canyon on June 30, 1956, when
128 were killed. It also was be
tween TWA and United Airliners.
Today’s TWA flight was from
Dayton and Columbus, Ohio,
coming in for a landing at La
Guardia Field. The United Air
liner, out of Chicago, was stab
bing through the murk for Idle
wild International Airport.
The DC8 jet plummeted like a
flaming rocket into an area on
Flatbush Avenue, setting off an
inferno. Every available piece of
fire and emergency equipment
was rushed to the scene.
Street side morgues were set
up, and ambulances formed a
screaming cavalcade heading to
hospitals.
The lone passenger to survive
was identified as Stephen Baltz,
11, of Chicago’s suburban Wil
mette. He was on his way to
join his mother, who was visit
ing relatives in New York.
Although only one victim on
the ground had been found by
early afternoon, firemen still had
mountains of wreckage and rub
ble to search.
The FBI sent a seven-man dis
aster squad from Washington to
aid in identifying victims.
A control tower spokesman at
La Guardia Field said the TWA
plane was being watched on radar
scope as it came in, when the
image suddenly disappeared from
view, apparently when the planes
collided and fell.
At just what point over the
city they came together was not
precisely determined. But the
stricken craft apparently swerved
apart, plunging toward their sepa
rate dooms.
Rebel Government
Overthrown in Ethiopia
LONDON Iff) — A broadcast
over the Addis Ababa radio claim
ed today the rebel government
set up in opposition to Emperor
Haile Selassie has been over
thrown.
The broadcast said the an
nouncement was made on orders
of Maj. Gen. Merid Mengesha,
who had been described as a
traitor yesterday by a rebel-con
trolled station.
The exact situation in Addis
Ababa still was obscure. Resident
correspondents had been unable
to get news out.
But Haile Sealassie himself,
ready to fight for his throne and
blaming “irresponsible persons”
for the uprising apparently was
in or near Addis Ababa, his capi
tal.
A Loyalist “Voice of Ethiopia”
broadcast had reported the “Lion
of Judah” back in Ethiopia.
In nearby French Somaliland
French news agency monitors
heard the “Voice of Ethiopia” say
army units faithful to the emperor
had routed the insurgents.
JET BOMBER EXPLODES
MOSES LAKE, Wash. Iff) — A
tail gunner, injured when he
jumped 15 feet to a concrete run
way, was the only casualty as a
B52 jet bomber with 10 men
aboard exploded and burned on
landing yesterday.
The other five crewmen and
four Air Force officer passengers
scrambled safely from the $8 mil
lion plane, which had been crip
pled in an aerial refueling acci
dent over Northern Idaho. The
crash landing was made at Larson
Air Force Base near here.
President Bars Cuban
Sugar Imports to U. S.
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Eisenhower, citing Cuba’s “policy
of deliberate hostility toward the
United States,” today barred im
ports of Cuban sugar for the first
three months of 1961.
In giving Cuba no quota for
the first quarter of next year,
Eisenhower said such action “is
in the national interest of the
United States.”
Eisenhower also said he will
urge again that Congress amend
the Sugar Act to relieve the Presi
dent from the obligation of buy
ing sugar from the Dominican Re
public.
The ban on sugar imports from
Cuba runs through next March
31, when the Sugar Act expires.
Three Billion Greeting Cards
Mailed During Holiday Season
WASHINGTON UPi — About
three billion greeting cards are
being mailed this holiday season.
That is an average of nearly 17
cards for every American. This
was the word yesterday from
Postmaster General Arthur E.
Summerfield. Understandingly, he
appealed to the public to mail their
cards promptly. For anyone who
planned to mail cards to distant
states it already is late. The dead
line for that, Summerfield said,
generally was Dec. 10, which is
already past. However, he said
cards may still generally be de
livered between any two points
in the U. S. if dropped quickly
into the mail box. Today, Sum
merfield said, is the last recom
mended date for local Christmas
mailings.