Cuban Revolt Fails After Hours of
Palace Attack Threatens President
By GEORGE KAUFMAN
HAVANA, Cuba, UP/ — Havana
returned to normal yesterday in
the wa^e of a short-lived revolt
that took about 40 lives.
Banks and stores reopened and
tourists 'began to arrive by plane.1
Tank-backed troops, ordered
into action by President Fulgencio
Batista, put down the revolt Wed
nesday night. Led by students, it
aimed to capture or kill the presi
dent.
A curfew, imposed after the as
sault on the Presidential Palace
in the heart of Havana was lifted
Wednesday night. Many persons,
including American tourists,
moved about as usual in bars, res
taurants and night clubs.
Armored cars and tanks still
mobilized about the palace, Batis
ta’s office and residence, were
the only open signs of the trouble
that erupted violently Wednesday
afternoon.
Police cars and military vehicles
prowled the streets, as they have
since repeated isolated bombing
incidents began several months
ago.
The brief attempt on Batista be
gan with a caravan of buses and
cars roaring into the palace plaza.
A band of armed students .rebels
streamed off.
Apparently operating under pre
arranged plans, one group imme
diately charged into the palace
while other attackers took cover
in nearby buildings and laid down
a curtain of protective fire.
Shooting also broke out in other
parts of the city.
Palace guards went into action
and word was flashed to Colum
bia Barracks, eight miles away,
for help. Tanks and troops quickly
poured into the city, cordoned off
the palace area and opened a
counter-attack.
Batista, Cuba’s ex - sergeant
strong man, was eating a late
lunch on the second floor of the
palace when the shooting started.
After riding out the fighting on
the floor beneath him, he went to
his private office and directed the
army counterattack.
The action in the palace area
died down after about two hours
and the military command an
nounced order was restored. Gun
fire continued for a brief time
in other parts of the capital, but
a government announcement later
said the uprising had been defin
itely quashed.
The president said his chief
worry during the attack was for
his young son, who was taking an
afternoon nap. His mother was
with him.
“Fulgencito was told that the
shots he heard were firecrackers,’’
the president said.
PROUD JAPANESE OHARA
ALL SET FOR PADDY'S DAY!
NEW YORK, iff — Hirmoichi
Ohara, a Japanese exchange stu
dent, says his name makes him
highly eligible for marching in
Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day
Parade.
Ohara, 29, studying at Manhat
tan College, Wednesday showed
newsmen a top hat and green
ribbons he has in readines for the
big parade.
“I don’t have the right accent
but I have a proud name,” said
Ohara.
Hungarian Patriotic Day
Sees Tightening of
Red Guard at Shrines
BUDAPEST, UP> — Communist
police and militia clamped a rigid
guard on strategic centers and
national shrines today as Hungary
observed its big patriotic day, the
109th anniversary of the revolt
against Austria.
Transportation Tax is
in Senate
JUNEAU UP—A proposal to levy
a 10 percent tax on transportation
in Alaska was indefinitely post
poned in the Senate this week by
a vote of 12 to 4. •
The bill had been proposed by
Sen. William Beltz of Nome.
18 DEAD, MANY INJURD IN
CRASH OF TRAINS IN FINLAND
IITTALA, Finland, UP — Two
fast express trains crashed head
on today in a blinding blizzard
in this rugged, forested country
SO miles north of Helsinki. At least
18 persons were believed dead and
more than 50 injured.
Small Business Tax
Relief Sought by
Fairbanks Solons
JUNEAU, UR—A complete over
haul of the territorial business
license tax is proposed in a bill
introduced Wednesday by House
Speaker Richard Greuel and Rep.
George McNabb, both Fairbanks
Democrats.
The aim of the measure is to
provide for tax relief for small
businesses under terms of the
gross business license tax. The
much-criticized levy, one of the
basic planks in the territory’s tax
structure, assesses a tax on the
gross revenue of a business, re
gardless of the amount of profit,
if any.
The new bill would leave un
changed or lower the gross tax on
all firms doing half a million dol
lars worth of business—or less—
in any one year.
It would boost the tax on all
firms grossing more than half a
million dollars. Its authors say it
would increase territorial revenue
by more than $2Vfe million a bi
ennium.
BRITAIN CUT FLEET RESERVE
LONDON, UR — Britain an
nounced today it is slashing the
number of men in the Royal Fleet
Reserve from 30,000 to about
5,000 as part of the armed forces
economy drive.
World War II Figure
A?sass*nated in Israel
TEL AVIV, UR — Rudolf Kast
ner, controversial Hungarian Jew
ish leader in World War II, died
today of an assassin’s bullets.
Kastner was found bleeding
profusely from three chest wounds
in a street early March 4.
BOLIVIANS DEPORTED
SALTA, Argentina, UR—A plane
guarded by Bolivian police
brought 35 Bolivians to exile in
this neighboring South American
country yesterday. They were de
ported for opposition to the re
gime of President Hernan Sites
Zuazo.
HORSE BODEIS RECOVERED
PHILADELPHIA, UR — The
Philadelphia Board of Education
decided to look further into ^ an
expence account that read, re
cover two horse bodies, Roosevelt
Junior High School, $100.
It found the bill was for repair
ing two leather gym horses.
First Basketball Biayoff
ANCHORAGE, UP> —Anchorage
beat Juneau 55 to 44 here la.-t
night in the first game of a three
game series for the Alaska Hig
School Basketball Championship.
Anchorage is the western title
winner and Juneau holds the
southeastern crown.
‘Fiction Becomes
Fact* in TV Disney
J
Story of Atoms
Sunday, March 17, from 7 to 8
p. m., one of the most significant
events of the new year takes
place with the Disneyland pres
entation of “Our Friend the
Atom,” an unprecedented Tomor
rowland production two years in
the making. The timely program
will be seen exclusively on
KNOM-TV, Channel 4, and the
ABC Television Network.
In commenting on the momen
tous project, Walt Disney offered
the following though Is:
“Fiction often has a strange way
of becoming fact. Not long ago
we produced a motion picture
based on the immortal tale, “20.000
Leagues Under the Sea,’ featuring
the famous submarine ‘Nautilus.’
According to that story the craft
was powered by a magic force.
“Today the tale has come true.
A modern namesake of the old
fairy ship — the submarine ‘Nau
tilus’ of the United States Navy
— has become the world’s first
atom-powered ship. It is proof of
the useful power of the atom that
will drive the machines of our
atomic age.
Congress Committee
Favors Allowing Britain
Loan ‘Breathing Spell’
WASHINGTON, UR — The Sen
ate Banking Committee unani
mously approved today an admin
istration request for authority to
postpone up to seven annual pay
ments due from Great Britain on
U. S. loans.
The committee acted promptly
after a 50-minute hearing at which
Secretary of the Treasury Humph
rey supported the deferment plan
as a “fair and businesslike ar
rangement.”
He testified that the United
Kingdom should have the breath
ing spell, asserting it was “perfect
ly plain” its international ex
change situation warranted it.
Teamsters’ Hoffa
Charged With
Senate Spy Attempt
WASHINGTON, UP) — James R.
Hoffa, reputed to be the real
power in the giant teamsters
union, was arrested Wednesday
night on a charge of trying to
bribe a lawyer to feed him secrets
from the Senate investigation in
to labor racketeering. He quickly
posted $25,000 bond and was re
leased pending a hearing March
28.
Almost simultaneously the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation ar
rested Hyman I. Fishback, 47, a
Miami, Fla., lawyer, on related
charges of bribery. He made bond
on the spot at his Coral Gables
home and a hearing was set for
him today.
The accusation against Hoffa,
44-year-old vice president of the
teamsters union, was that he
hired John Cye Cheasty, a New
York attorney, to get a job with
the special Senate committee and
provide Hoffa with information.
from committee files. The Senate
group’s inquiry so far has cen
tered cn teamster affairs.
Cheasty, the FBI announced,
ostensibly took Hof fa’s offer but
actually informed the committee
and the FBI and cooperated fully
with them in the month since he |
was approached.
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