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Tired Castro Shouts Defiance to
‘Hypocrites’ and to U. S. "Insolence’
By ROBERT BERRELLEZ
HAVANA, UP — Looking grim
and haggard, Prime Minister Fidel
Castro told the Cuban people
early today that his revolution
faces difficult days.
Castro took only a sideswipe at
the# United States — usually his
favorite target — but lashed out
in a three-hour telecast at his
enemies at home and called them
“hypocrites who once posed as
friends of the revolution.”
He predicted that the revolu
tion would march on even if its
enemies “try to mobilize God
against us.”
“This won’t work,” Castro said,
“because one cannot have a good
idea of God if he doesn’t have a
notion of what it is to love his
neighbor.”
Obviously wearly from his
hours of directing the seareh for
Major Camilo Cienfuegos, his
missing army chief, Castro showed
only occasional flashes of his
usual fire and spirit. At times,
his customarily free-flowing ora
tory lapsed as if he was grasping
for a word. Bags under his eyes
were clearly visible.
He rejected the U. S. contention
that there was no evidence U. S.
based aircraft bombed and strafed
Havana in a leaflet raid over the
capitol October 21. Castro reiter
ated his charge that Major Pedro
Diaz Lanz, former commander
of the revolutionary Air Force
who defected, was responsible for
the raid. He claimed again that
two persons were killed and
scores wounded. '
In an obvious reference to the
United States, Castro declared
neither “threats, calumnies or in
solence will intimidate us. We are
happy just where we are because
reason is with us. Reason is not
with those who have more money,
more resources or more news
agencies. If they want to discuss
matters quietly and treat us
right, we’ll treat anyone right.”
Castro charged that the Platt
amendment giving the United
States special privileges in Cuba
was the chief source of Cuba’s
economic and social ills.
This amendment to the Cuban
constitution —r drafted in 1901 and
canceled in 1934 — gave the
United States naval bases in Cuba,
prohibited Cuba having commer
cial relations with other nations,
and gave the United States the
the right to intervene in Cuban
affairs if American property were
endangered. The only remnant of
it today is the U.. S. naval base
at Guantanamo.
Castro sharply criticized Amer
ican news agencies and some
American newspapers. A member
of a panel in a TV studio read
a Washington newspaper report
claiming Soviet submarines were
secretly delivering arms to Cuba.
“If we n^ed arms, we will not
bring them in like contraband but
through the open port of Havana
because this is a sovereign coun
try,” he shouted.
Anchorage Couple
Ecstatic Over New
Baby Promise
ANCHORAGE, UD — A child
less couple who has been chosen
to adopt the unborn, unwanted
child of a Timperly, England,
woman, couldn’t be more anxious
for the new arrival than if it
were their own.
They even have names picked
out — boy or girl.
“’If it’s a boy, we’ll name him
Michael,” Mrs. Jesse Malone said
yesterday. “If its a girl it will
be Nanette.”
Mrs. Malone and her husband,
an employe of the Federal Avia
tion Agency, said they plan to
Wing Mrs. Sheila Winkley of
Timperly to the United States so
the baby will be born an Amer
ican citizen.
The Malones were told yester
day that Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wink
ley had selected them to receive
the baby after going through some
200 letters from couples who
wanted the child.
The Winkleys say they did not
want the child because they could
not face another bout of baby
minding.
The Malones don’t mind.
“I’ve been knitting baby sweat
ers for all my friends,” Mrs. Ma
lone said yesterday. “Now I’ll
have to start knitting some for
myself.”
GALES RIP ENGLAND
LONDON, UP) — Fierce gales,
rain and blizzards lashed Britain
today. Two merchant ships are
adrift and in distress in the storm
tossed English Channel. Others
headed for shelter.
Two men died at sea and a
third was missing.
Mamie Gets ‘Loud’
Southern Hospitality for
65th Birthday Celebration
AUGUSTA, Ga., UR — In rai
ment that almost matched the
spectrum, President Eisenhower
turned out today to welcome the
First Lady to the South.
Mrs. Eisenhower came down
from Washington by train. She
peered up at gray skies and told
a welcoming delegation at the
station: “If the sun doesn’t shine,
Ike is going to 'be mad.”
“Don’t worry, her husband as
sured her. “It will burn off.’
The weather was in the mild,
high 50s in spite of the overcast,
and Eisephower was ready for an
afternoon of golf. In apparel that
grew progressively more color
ful from bottom to top:
Black slippers, grey slacks, grey
and tan plaid shirt, gold figured
necktie with the green and red
insignia of the Augusta National
Golf Course, brilliant green Au
gusta National blazer, brown felt
hat.
Mrs. Eisenhower was looking
sprightly for someone who will be
65 years old Saturday. The Presi
dent is planning a small, phiVate
birthday dinner for her.
Tin to Stretch Like Rubber
Is Latest Science Feat
WASHINGTON, UP — Scientists
are developing tin compounds that
stretch like rubber and can be
vulcanized. They say the new de
velopment may help meet space
age demands for materials that
resist heat and flames.
Dr. J. C. Mintermoso, of the
Quartermaster Research and En
gineering Command, Natick,
Mass., described the new ma
terial today to chemists and en
gineers attending the Interna
tional Rubber Conference.
Legislative Council
Committee Meets
Here Wednesday
A subcommittee of the Legis
lative Council will open a one
day hearing here Wednesday to
have the benefit of local thinking
on proposed merit and retirement
systems for state employes and
other subjects of legislation.
Members of the permanent in
terim committee meeting here
will include Senator Bill Beltz,
Unalakleet, president of the Sen
ate; Senator Eben Hopson, Bar
row, and Representative Axel
Johnson, Kwiguk. Other members
of the Legislature from this area
have been invited to sit in with
the subcommittee. The meeting
will be held in the court room of
the new federal building begin
ning at 10 a.m.
Bills on the merit and retire
ment systems for state employes
were introduced in the 1959 ses
sion and were referred for in
terim study. The State Depart
ment of Administration and the
Legislative Council staff have
been exploring some of the as
pects of these bills preparatory to
seeking public action to the gen
eral proposals.
The subcommittee is particu
larly desirous of having toe views
of local citizens and organizations
on other matters which may be
of concern to the Legislature.
Those wishing to present lengthy
and detailed statements are re
quested to make an oral summary
of a written statement so that the
remarks can be duplicated later
for other members of the Council
and Legislature.
The Council members at the
Nome subcommittee hearing will
proceed on Thursday to Fairbanks
where the fall meeting of the full
Council is scheduled for Novem
ber 20 and 21. They will be ac
companied by John C. Doyle,
Juneau, executive director of the
Council, who has been attending
all subcommittee meetings.
17 Girls Dispossessed by
Fire at Kenai Cult Colony
HOMER, Alaska,-(41 — Fire de
stroyed a dormitory housing 17
girls at the Fountain of the World
religious cult colony near this
Kenai Peninsula community
Thursday. There were no injuries.
Colony leaders said the blaze
destroyed the girls food and cloth
ing and an appeal was made to
residents of the surrounding area
for aid, particularly for milk for
the youngest of the girls, who
ranged in age from nine months
to 14 years.
The cause of the fire was not
determined.
TYPHOON BLASTS OKINAWA
NAHA, Okinawa, (41 — Typhoon
Emma blasted through Okinawa
early today with winds of more
than 110 miles an hour ripping'
roofs from houses, uprooting trees
and causing landslides.
Downtown Naha was flooded
with water six feet deep in low
lying areas. Two deaths in the
area were reported.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with snow and easterly
winds 15-25 mph with stronger
gusts and freezing rain. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 26,
the high tomorrow 30. Sunrise at
8:27 a.m., sunset at 3:04 p.m.
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Herter Assures India The United States
Feels Reds Are ‘Wholly In The Wrong’
WASHINGTON, OW—The Unit&d
States swiftly assured India of its
moral backing today in a border
dispute with Red China. India
says the Chinese forcibly seized
some of her territory.
Secretary of State Herter, who
first told a news conference this
country was taking no sides,
later issued a statement saying
the Red Chinese, in using force,
were “wholly in the wrong.”
President Eisenhower is sched
uled to go to New Delhi on a
goodwill mission within a month.
Officials were afraid that unless
Herter’s remarks were clarified,
resentment against the United
States might sour the President’s
visit.
Replying to news conference
questions, Herter said the United
States has no way of knowing di
rectly whether India or Red China
is right in the disputed territorial
claims, and has taken no sides on
the issue.
But 35 minutes later he issued
a formal statement saying:
“The questions asked me on
this subject seemed to me di
rected at the legal rights along
the borders, and my answers ac
cordingly related only to the le
gality of the rival claims. There
is the further and more important
point that, whatever may be the
merits of a dispute, force must
not be used to settle it. The Chi
nese Communist regime has clear
ly used force and, in this respect,
is wholly in the wrong.”
In taking this position, Herter
put the United States more in
line with Indian Prime Minister
Nehru’s policy which calls for
settlement by negotiation and
condemns the use of force.
At issue is 57,000 square miles
of territory which has long been
in controversy as to its real own
ership although for many years it
has been under Indian adminis
tration.
Chrysler Plants Also
Folding for Lack of Steel
DETROIT, UFl — A steel short
age, which has knocked General
Motors out of automobile build
ing, will shut the first Chrysler
assembly line today and bring
that automaker’s idle to 7,500.
General Motors has 220,000 out
of 320,000 hourly rated employes
idled.
Chrysler announced that its De
troit Imperial assembly plant will
suspend operations at the end of
today’s shift, idling 1,100, and an
additional 230 will be laid off at
its Detroit gear and axel plant.
The company said its other as
sembly plants across the country
are scheduled to operate next
week on short work weeks of
three or four days.
Ford, which makes approxi
mately half its own steel, has
canceled earlier plans for cur
tailed work weeks. American Mo
tors and Studebaker-Packard ex
pect prestrike inventories to car
ry them through until new steel
is available.
Sub-Sub-Zero Temps and
25-Inch Snow Herald
Montana’s Winter Season
DENVER, Colo., —An Arctic
blast plunged temperatures far
below zero in many parts of the
Rocky Mountains today on the
heels of a 25-inch snowfall that
buried Montana. (
Drummond, in the Helena-Butte
area of western Montana, recorded
34 below zero, the coldest read
ing in the nation. Montana’s
warmest minimum was 6 below
zero at Glasgow.
The Continental Divide formed
a barrier that moderated temper
atures west of the mountains.
At least 15 deaths have been
attributed to the massive storm
which rushed out of Canada and
now has engulfed much of the
nation’s midsection, from the
mountains to the Midwest.
Seven deaths within a week
have resulted from Montana’s
whiplash storms. Four were air
men who died in the crash of
three jet fighters. Two motorists
were killed and a Butte man died
of exposiure.
The Weather Bureau issued
heavy snow warnings today for
the area froim Michigan through
Iowa.
Western GOP
Challenged to Lead
1960 Victory Fight
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
LOS ANGELES, UP) — The
GOP’s national chairman threw
down an indirect challenge to
western Republicans last night at
the opening of a four-day meet
ing pointed'at victory in I960.
Sen. Thurston Morton (R-Ky) de
clared “There is a definite re
surgence of Republican strength,
in the western states.”
The party chairman told dele
gates from 15 states, including
Hawaii and Alaska:
“You have a good chance of
electing more senators and Con
gressmen.
“It’s important for Republicans
to go out and work to recapture
governorships the party has lost
in recent years.”
Morton cautioned GOP workers
to beware of what he termed
phony Democratic charges that
the Eisenhower . Administration
has made an orphan of the West
on critical issues of reclamation,
power and natural resources de
velopment.
“The truth is,” he said, “that
there has been more solid prog
ress in each of these fields under
this administration than during
any other comparable period.”
Other advice came from Sen
ator Barry Goldwater of Arizona,
chairman of the Republican Sen
atorial Campaign Committee, in
a speech today.
“If the Republican Party is to
lead this nation forward to a
restoration of freedom, we must
be ourselves.
“We must reassert that it is
not only impossible to out-prom
ise die big giveaways of the wel
fare staters, but morally wrong
and destructive of freedom.”
REDUCING PILL COMPANY'S
CLAIMS UNDER SCRUTINY
NEW YORK, UP) — Advertising
used to promote sale of the Regi
men brand of reducing pills is
under investigation by District
Attorney Frank S. Hogan who
said his office is seeking to de
termine whether claims made for
the pills constitute false and mis
leading advertising under the state
penal code.
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