Planes Bomb
Cuba's Air Force
Headquarters
By Harold K. Milks
HAVANA (.ft — Low-flying air
planes made bombing and rocket
attacks at dawn Saturday on air
ports in Havana and Santiago
and on Cuban air force head
quarters in San Antonio De Los
Banos.
The government radio accused
the United States of “direct re
sponsibility” and warned the
Cuban people the attacks may be
the “prelude to an invasion.”
It appeared the Cuban Air
Force itself was involved in the
attacks. Two Cuban Air Force
B-26 bombers landed in Southern
Florida a few hours after the
bombings and their crewmen
asked for asylum.
One Air Force officer landed
a bullet-riddled B-26 at Miami
International Airport. The plane’s
bomb racks were empty and one
of its two engines out of commis
sion. Two Cubans landed the
other B-26 at Boca Chica Naval
Air Station in Key West.
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
government radio said Cuba’s
delegation to the United Nations
in New York has been instructed
to lodge a protest blaming the
United States for the attacks.
The invasion-jittery Castro
regime immediately ordered all
soldiers and militiamen to their
posts.
Some of the attacking planes
were described as World War II
B-26s.
Oscar Awards Will
Go to Best Actors
And Actresses Tonight
SANTA MONICA, Calif. UP —
Most everybody is betting Liz
Taylor will win her first Oscar
tonight — everybody but the
beautiful star herself.
“I’m not betting on it,” Miss
Taylor told a reporter, “but I’ll
be there just the same.”
The two-hour Awards Show
telecast gets underway at 10:30
p. m. from the Santa Monica
Civil Auditorium.
Bob Hope will be master of
ceremonies.
According to most polls, only
the big contention is among the
men. It’s a down-to-the-wire race
between Jack Lemmon and Burt
Lancaster for best actor. The
same goes for Sal Mineo and Peter
Ustinov for best supporting actor.
Among the supporting actress
es, Shirley Jones, like Miss Tay
lor, is rated a shoo-in.
It will be a big night for Liz,
win or lose. It’s her first public
outing since her near fatal ill
ness.
She was nominated for “Butter
field 8.” Her competition is Greer
Garson for “Sunrise at Campo
bello,” Deborah Kerr for “The
Sundowners,” Shirley MacLaine
for “The Apartment,” and Melina
Mercouri for the Greek-made
“Never on Sunday.”
Should Lemmon win for “The
Apartment,” he will become the
first actor ever to win both the
supporting and top acting awards.
Lemmon won previously for
“Mr. Roberts.”
Lancaster, the rousing sawdust
revivalist of “Elmer Gantry,” has
never won an Oscar.
Thought for Today . . .
An atheist is a man who has
no invisible means of support—
John Buchan.
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Mamie and Ike
Welcomed Home
HARRISBURG, Pa. UP — A
brilliant sun and thousands of
Pennsylvanians welcomed Dwight
and Mamie Eisenhower home to
Pennsylvania today. It was the
state’s official welcome for Ei
senhower, who left the White
House Jan. 20.
The former President, looking
tanned and rested after a six
week vacation in California, was
obviously touched.
“I wonder whether you know
what coming home means to two
people who have wandered the
world the 45 years of their mar
riage,” he said.
“At last my wife and I have a
place to call our own—our home.”
A beautiful crystal vase, about :
15 inches tall, was presented the
Eisenhowers on behalf of the
citizens of Pennsylvania.
Gov. David Lawrence, a Demo
crat, headed state and and city
officials on the platform.
VERY OBLIGING . . .
JACKSON, Mich. UP — Paul
Peti of Okemus, Mich, pleaded ill
ness and asked sheriff’s officers
to open a window.
They did. Zoom. Out he went.
He looked like a paratrooper the
way he dove,” reported deputy
sheriff Clarence Waite.
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A REMINDER . . .
BERLIN UP — Communist East
Berlin’s city council has remind
ed residents 16 years after World
War II that they still must
register to get butter.
The More The Merrier . . .
WATERVILLE, Maine UP — Mr.
and Mrs. Prosper Grenier are ac
cepting congratulations on the ar
rival of their 20th child. Grenier
is 44, his wife 43. The oldest
child still at home, a 23-year-old
son, says:
“The more the merrier.”
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Gagarin Dodges Reporters Questions
Most Artfully on His Orbit of the Earth
By Stanley Johnson
MOSCOW (J*) — Maj. Yuri
Gagarin held his first news con
ference Saturday and dodged the
questions of the world press al
most as artfully as he orbited the
earth. Nothing he said helped to
clear up questions which have
arisen about his space flight Wed
nesday.
Hundreds of reporters and
photographers, plus all the am
bassadors assigned to Moscow,
crowded into the green and white
stucco House of Sciences to hear
N. Y. School Students
'.re Unable to Read
NEW YORK iff! — Ten thou
sand seventh graders in New York
City’s public school system can’t j
read third-grade books. And 67,
167 of 172,000 junior high school !
pupils are more than two years j
behind in reading.
Dr. John J. Theobold, school j
superintendent, indignantly pre
sented these figures at a city |
budget hearing Friday in demand
ing more money for education,
including $3 million for remedial
reading teachers.
Theobold declared “we have
only two alternatives: Either you
give us the money we need or
we go back to 100 per cent pro
motion and say, ‘to hell with ed
ucation, we don’t need it.’ ”
It Took 190 Years . . .
HARRISBURG, Pa. OP) — After
190 years it became legal Friday
1 to sell oysters in Pennsylvania in
' months without the letter “R.”
Gov. David Lawrence signed
legislation repealing the 1771 act
; invoking the prohibition.
The real purpose of the law,
i legislators said, was not a super
1 stition about months without the
I letter “R” but rather the inade
! quatc refrigeration of the times
which made the oysters subject to
spoilage.
Agricultural Dept. Will Provide
Plant Inspection at Anchorage
WASHINGTON UP — Sen. E. 1
L Bartlett said today the Agri
cultural Department will provide |
plant inspection service at Anchor- !
age so Alaska importers will no
longer have to route shipments
through Seattle, Wash.
the world’s first successful astro
naut 1 cl 1 of his 108-minute flight
in outer space.
Gagarin did not answer ques
tions directly from the floor dur
ing the two-hour conference. He
read a prepared statement and
then made his replies to a series
of written questions he said had
been handed up in advance.
With a confident smile on his
lips, Gagarin opened the ques
tion period by saying many in
quiries had been received about
his descent and return to the
earth. With an adroitness worthy
of a politician, he lumped them
together and gave this answer:
“Many techniques for landing
have been developed in our coun
try. One is the parachute techni
que. On this flight we employed
the following: The pilot was in
the cabin, the landing proceeded
successfully and demonstrated the
success of all systems developed
for this flight.”
That was all he would say on
the subject and did nothing to
clarify a statement Friday by a
Russian scientist that Gagarin
“came down smoothly in a glide
near a field, landing on both feet,
even without tumbling.”
As for the fate of his vehicle,
Gagarin would only say: “The
entire space ship and its parts
can be used again.”
The question of whether he
could see out of the space ship
also came up. Gagarin said it
definitely had a porthole, thus
I contradicting A. A. Blagonravov,
j a leading Soviet space scientist
| who told an International Space
j meeting in Florence, Italy, that
; Gagarin had seen by “radio” —
| presumably meaning television or
l some other electronic scanning
j device.
Another question left unan
| swered concerned flight times
given earlier by Tass, the Soviet
News Agency said Gagarin took
only 15 minutes of his 108-minute
flight to travel from Siberia to
South America, but 53 minutes
to travel the next leg from South
America to Africa.
Gagarin was asked when photo
graphs of the trip would be avail
able. “There was no photographic
apparatus aboard so none can be
published,” he said.
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