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Mule Telegraph
Brings Out News of
New Tibet Uprising
(Editor’s Note — Associated
Press Correspondent Henry Brad
sher is o na trip to Bhutan, Hirfia
layan kingdom between India and
Tibet. This dispatch, dated May
27, was brought out by mule, the
only transportation available.)
By HENRY S. BRADSHER
PARO, Bhutan, UP) — Severe
lighting between Tibetan guer
rillas and Chinese Communists
has occurred recently in south
central Tibet.
Truckloads of Chinese dead
have been brought by night into
Cyantse, southwest of Lhasa. The
number of Chinese killed is not
known but is believed high.
Serious trouble for the Chinese
is also reported in western Tibet,
near the Ladakh area which both
the Chinese and Indians claim.
There are some indications but no
confirmation that this trouble in
volves dissatisfaction and even de
fections among Chinese troops as
well as clashes with Tibetan
guerrilla.
The general picture, according
to reports from usually reliable
sources and from Tibetan refu
gees, is an upsurge of resistance
to the Chinese this spring. Some
sources describe the trouble as
the most severe since the Chinese
crushed the Tibetan uprising of a
year ago.
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Gangland Style Ride Ends
Life of Brooklyn Youth
NEW YORK, (It) — A 17-year
old Brooklyn boy was taken on a
gangland style ride and shot to
death while he begged for mercy.
Police said the victim, Vincent
Graffeo, had a record of burglary
arrests. They speculated that
other members of the same bur
glary gang killed him to keep
him from “squealing” on them.
The slain youth was free in bail
pending action in a burglary case.
Graffeo was driven in an auto
mobile to a quiet, tree-lined resi
dential street in Brooklyn’s flat
lands section at about 1:45 a.m.
Other occupants of-the car dragged
him out, beat him and shot him.
An occupant of another car nearby
joined in the attack.
“Please don’t shoot me,” were
Graffeo’s last words.
A nearby resident whose name
was withheld by police for fear
of possible reprisal, reported some
details.
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Gales Doubts Reds
Will Chance War in
Bombing Bases
WASHINGTON, W) — Secretary
of Defense Thomas Gates Jr. said
yesterday he doubts Russia would
risk a general war by firing mis
siles at Allied air bases suspected
of launching spy planes.
Gates told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee in its closed
door investigation of the summit
collapse he thinks Soviet Premier
Khrushchev’s direction to shoot at
any such base is “part of a stepped
up cold war of aggressive propa
ganda.”
"I think he must take the re
sponsibility of starting a general
war, if he hits one of our Allied
bases for any reason,” Gates said
in testimony made public after it
had been scanned by censors.
“I doubt very much that they
are willing to take it now. I think
they absolutely know they will
commit suicide the moment they
try it.”
The testimony from Gates
wound up the committee’s in
quiry into the U-2 incident and
other events related to the summit
collapse.
Chairman J. William Fulbright
(D-Ark) called the hearings “fruit
ful and useful.”
Gates also disclosed the U-2
flights over the Soviet Union had
produced a wide range of “vital
information,” including locations
of missiles and planes and sub
marine and atomic prouction.
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New York Commission
Suspends Sugar Ray
NEW YORK, UH — The New
York State Athletic Commission
yesterday suspended the boxing
license of Sugar Ray Robinson
until he can make peace with the
Maryland commission.
The former middleweight cham
pion was suspended by the Mary
land body May 19 for failure to
show up for a scheduled fight in
Baltimore.
Sugar Ray was slated to meet
Pedro Gonzales May 14 but the
bout was postponed until May 16.
Robinson didn’t show up and
failed to notify the boxing pro
moters.
The decision here is not likely
to affect Robinson’s scheduled
title fight in Boston June 11 when
he meets Paul Pender, who is the
middleweight champion in Mas
sachusetts and New York. Massa
chusetts failed to honor the Mary
land suspension.
Catholics Battle Police
In Polish Province
WARSAW, Poland, UD — Roman
Catholics and police battled Mon
day in a provincial capital in a
clash set off by government at
tempts to take over a church
building for a community center.
It was the second such outbreak
in the Polish provinces within
five weeks.
Church sources said Stefan
Cardinal Wysinski, head of the
church in Poland, met yesterday
with his bishops and other ad
visers as news of Monday’s reli
gious outbreak at Zielona Cora
spread.
Young Brothers Die In
Illicit Flight Attempt.
POMONA, Calif., Wl — Twd
young brothers who once vowed
to “learn to fly or die trying,”
stole a plane Wednesday night,
flew it erratically for 10 minutes,
then were killed by a screaming
power dive into the ground.
The boys, whose only qualifca
tions for flying was that one had
read a book about it, circled a
residential district of this Los An
geles suburb then plunged their
light plane with terrific impact
into a schoolyard. It exploded and
burned. Near their bodies was that
of their pet dog, a fellow pas
senger.
James and Thomas McDonald,
14 and 12, tried last March 15 to
steal a plane parked alongside the
Piper tri-pacer they took shortly
before midnight Wednesday.
They were caught the first time
before they got off the ground.
That was wen tey made teir fly
h'Tat was when they made their
fly-or-die vow.
Juvenile officers severely rep
rimanded them and they promised
to try to get along better with
their parents — and not to try to
fly again. Officers said the boys
were chronic runaways.
The stolen plane was owned by
a construction company. The air
port is open for private lanes to
come and go at any hour. Keys are
required to start planes, but the
locks can be by-passed with wires
— an old trick of car thieves.
The older boy was the one who
had read the books on flying.
Juvenile officers said he told
them: “I just know I can fly.”
The officers said the boys told
them in March that they were
going to fly to Pocatello, Idaho,
where they had friends and rela
tives. On that occasion, they short
circuited the ignition and got the
engine started but couldn’t get the
fuel mixture right for takeoff be
fore the owner caught them.
U. S. Spy Pilot’s Father
May Go To Russia
WASHINGTON, Uft—The Wash
ingotn Post says the father of
Thomas G. Powers, pilot of the
U. S. reconnaissance plane downed
in Russia, is reported to have re
ceived an invitation from Soviet
authorities to visit his son.
The story says the father,
Oliver Powers of Pound, Va., de
clined Wednesday night to com
ment on the report. He applied
May 16 for a passport.
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