Peace Monument Completed
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Trujillo Peace Monument is
one of many magnificent
structures built in tribute to
what Dominicans proudly
call the “Era of Trujillo.”
Tallest man-made monument in Latin America—the Trujillo
Peace Monument, overlooking Santiago, Dominican Republic—has
just been completed after nine years construction. The 200-foot high,
marble structure erected by the Dominican people will be dedicated
next year during observance of the 25th anniversary of Generalis
simo Rafael L. Trujillo’s era of peace and progress.
Virginia Police Expose
Deluxe “Abortion Mill”
PARIS, Va., UPi—A police raid
ing squad swarmed into farm
house near this small community
in northern Virginia’s “horse
country” late last night and dis
covered what they termed an
“abortion mill” that was “no
kitchen-table type of thing.”
A doctor, three other men and
three women were arrested by
officers, who said they found
nine women patients in the eight
room building.
Sheriff Sam S. Hall Jr., and
State Police Capt. G. M. Williams
said the physician, identified as
Dr. G. Thomas Strother, 54, erf
Brunswick, Md., was performing
an operation on one of the women
on a table is an upstairs bedroom
when they entered the building.
Medical examination disclosed
five other women had undergone
operations and three were wait
ing their turn, all of them from
Washington, D.C.
Dr. Strother was charged with
five counts of performing an ab
ortion, a violation of Virginia law,
and was released under $5,000
bond.
Police said a search of the
house turned up $3,600 in cash—
$1,200 on the person of Mrs. Ellen
Grimes of Alexandria, Va., a
goodlooking platinum blonde who
police said was the contact woman
for the group.
Parked near the farmhouse, the
police said, were four cars — a
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The women on whom opera
tions had been performed were
sent to Physicians Hospital in
Warrenton for ‘treatment.
A physician who accompanied
the 26 officers and investigators
on the raid said “Only one woman
in 1,000 might have had any
trouble” as a result of an opera
tion under the setup, which he
said was “very sterile.”
Rock Island R.R. Diesel
Train Derailment Sends
75 Persons To Hospitals
HALLAM, Neb., —Derailment
of the Rock Island Railroad’s
Rocky Mountain Rocket toppled
over eight of the 11 passenger and
Pullman cars of the train near
here Friday night sending at least
75 persons to hospitals for treat
ment.
At least 16 or 18 of the passen
gers were seriously hurt, reports
to State Safety Patrol Chief Col.
C. J. Sanders, at Lincoln, indi
cated.
Unofficial reports indicated that
about 150 passengers were on the
train, pulled by three diesel units,
one of which overturned.
Engineer Ensign of Fairbury,
Neb., said, “I don’t know what
happened. The ' train started to
shimmy and all of a sudden I was
thrown against the controls.
Red China’s Premier,
Chou En-Lai, To Visit
Burma Prime Minister
NEW DELHI, India, UP>—Com
munist Chinese Premier Chou En
Lai has accepted an invitation
from Burmese Prime Minister
Unu to stop over in Rangoon on
his way to Peiping after a three
day visit in the Indian capital.
An Indian government spokes
man said Saturday Chou would
spend Monday afternoon and eve
ning in Rangoon in response to “a
warm and cordial invitation”
from Unu. Then, Chou will fly to
Peiping the next day via Hong
Kong and Canton in the Air India
Constellation that India’s Premier
Nehru sent to bring him here
from Geneva.
The Chinese leader and Nehru
met for a total of four hours Sat
urday in the second day of their
conversations on Korea, Jndo
china and other foreign policy
issues.
There was no official comment
on the talks, but an Indian spokes
man said they were almost over
but for a brief meeting Sunday.
Farm Loans Violate Spirit
Of Law Aimed At Aiding
Farmers In Real Need
WASHINGTON, (flV-Sen. Wil
liams (R-Del), who hails from
chicken-raising country himself,
has raked the Agriculture De
partment for making poultry loans
to- “poor little farmers”—like an
unidentified doctor who Williams
said was “down to his last Cad
illac.”
Williams cited a number of
specific cases to back up his
charge in a Senate speech Friday
that some Farm Credit Adminis
tration loans violate the spirit of
the law which Williams said was
aimed at helping farmers who
were in real need, but unable
to get bank credit.
AH! YOUTH
MEMPHIS, Term., {®—An alert
motorist hurriedly telephoned
police Friday night and reported
he saw two youths “stuffing” a
girl’s leg into an automobile
trunk.
Investigation disclosed the boys
put their dates in the trunk to
save the admission price at a
drive-in theater.
To escape from the gravitation
al force of the earth, a rocket
would have to move at a speed of
seven miles a second.
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