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“BERLIN, May 10—(AP)—At one minute past midnight
panraday flag-bedecked traffic will end the epic of blockaded
rin
‘That's 3:01 p. m., MST, Wednesday.
So-far there hasn't been a, hitch ‘in fnal. arrangements,
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviel commander in Germany, and
ern powers bath have ordered that transport, trade
jmmunieation services between th zones resume at
time,
Things will revert back to the
way, they were on March 1, its,
when the blockade began,
Sixteen freight trains will move
nto the city daily. Highwaye wll)
be spen. The Soviets won’t—ar at
least say they won't — demand
travel permits, They also any they
will not try. to search allied bag-
Bue,
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin’s ‘Mayor Eynest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West German
republic he flown on street cars and
buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped
over other buses which will speed
tothe west German cities of Han-
over, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
toal-and six others of fresh pata-
tnes and consumer goods are sthed-
uted to move ints the city, which
ghee been supplied by the aulitt for
JD-anonths,
Twelve thousand tons of suppli ies
about the same figure the airlift
reached on its bést day.
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a Soviet
diplomatic defeat, the official So-
viet" army newspaper, ‘Pregliche
Tundschau, today called it un “wn-
questionable success of the policy
of unity which was always pur
sued by the Soviet Union and the
progressive forces of Germany.”
The'paper said that now that the
Rerlin. blockade was ending, “war-
mongers” would make new efforts
io split Germany—and claimed ap-
proval of the new West German
demogeratic ‘constitution marked
isk en niloeE:
| BERLIN, May 10—(4’)—At one minute past midnight Thursday,
flag-bedecked traffic will end the epic of blockaded Berlin.
That's 5:01 P. M., EST, Wednesday.
So far there hasn't been a hitch in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany, and the West-
ern Powers both have ordered transport, trade and communication
eee VEX Do 75,4 FY Dek SahQae Ge FisvVo 86h
sumed at that time.
Things will revert.back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will
move into the city daily. High-
ways will be open. The Soviets
won't—or at least say they won't
—demand travel permits. They
also say they'll not try to search
Allied baggage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin's mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West Ger-
‘man republic be flown on street
cars and buses.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh pota-
toes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
‘which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten months.
Twelve thousand tons of sup-
plies are to go into the city daily—
just about the same figure the air
lift reached on its best day.
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade,as a So-
viet diplomatic defeat, the official
Soviet army newspaper, Taegliche
Rundschau, today called it an ‘“un-
questionable success of the policy
of unity which was always pur-
sued by the Soviet Union and the
progressive forces of Germany.”
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(U. >}. Starf Correspondent)
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 28—(W.P)—
Claiming sufficient electoral
college votes to assure the elec-
tion of Gov. Alfred E. Smtih as
president, John J. Raskob, chair-
man of the democratic national
committee, conferred here today
with party leaders from eight
Mississippi Valley states.
“I prophesy that Smith and
Robinson will poll the greatest
popular vote ever accorded a
presidential candidate in the
history of our country,” he said.
“Never has the outlook for the
democratic party been better.;’
Raskob claims 346 electoral
votes, or 80 more than enough to
elect Smith, and believes that
out of the 185 remaining votes
| in the country, Smith “should
| corral 100 more.”
: Twenty seven states with 309
electoral votes which he assert-
ed, “any reasonably prudent
business man” would include in
the Smith column today are:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ken-
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, Montana, Ne-
braska, New Jersey, New Mexico,
New York, Nevada, North Caro-
lina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island,
| South Carolina, Texas, Virginia.
i Wisconsin and Tennessee.
“There seems little doubt,” he
said, “that six more states with
| an electoral vote of 27, should he
| classified for Smith and Robin-
son. They are Connecticut, Dela-
ware, -Indiana; North Dakota
South Dakota, and Wyoming.
“This leaves states with 18!
| votes,” he said, “everyone 0:
which is fighting ground, anc
there is good indication that the
democratic ticket will corral ove:
100 of these.”
The states called into confer:
ence today are Missouri, Illinois
Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebras
ka, Iowa, Kentucky sand Ten
nessee, of which RasKob includ.
| ed all but Illinois, Kansas anc
| Iowa in the Smith column.
| (United Press Staff Correspondent)
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 28—(UP) —
Cla:ming suffielent elec’oral college
votes to assure the election of Gov.
Alfred E. Smith as president, John J.
Raskoh, chairman of tho demacratic
national committee, eanferred here
today with party leaders from eight
Mississippi Valley states,
“T prophesy that Smith and Robin-
son will poll the greatest popwhur
vote cver accorded a .pres:dential
andidate in the history of our coun-
jtry,” he said. “Never has the outlook
for the democratic party been better.”
Raskob claims 246 clectoral votes,
Ee §0 more than enough to clect
Smih, and believes that ont of the
185 remaining votes [fn the country,
Smith should: coral 100 more."
Twenty seven states with 309 elec-
toral votes which he asserted “any
| reasonat Iy prudent business man”
would include in the Smith column
today are:
Alabama, Azona, Arkansas, Colo-
rado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky
| Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts
Minnesotn, Mississippi, Missouri
Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New
Metco, New York, Nevada, Nortt
Carolina, Ohlahoma, Rhode Island
Seuth Carolina, Teras, Virginia
Wisconsin, and Tennessee.
“There seems tttle doubt,’ he said
“That six more states with an elee
toral vote of 37, should be classifies
for Smith and Robinson. They ar
Connecticut, Deleware, Indiana, Nort
Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyomin
“This leaves states with'185 votes,
he said, “Everyone of which is fight
ing ground, and there is good indica
tion that the democratic ticket wi
| corral over 100 of these.”
| The states called into conferenc
|; today are Missoul, Illinoia, Kanaa:
and Iowa in the Smith column,
| same | train |
Rambouillet, France, Aug. 28 (AP).
Doris Stevens, American feminist lead-
er, and three of a group of feminists
who tried to “crash the gates” of the
presidential chateau today on behalf of
the equal right movement, were held in
custody at the police commissariat for
several hours for failing to have their
identity papers,
They were released this afternoon af-
ter all the statesmen who had lunch
with President Doumergue had gone.
The women sought a ten minute audi-
ence with the President's guests who
yesterday signed the Kellogg treaty.
| Rambouillet, France, Aug. 28.—(A.
P.)}—Doris Stevens, American femi-
nist leader, and three others of a
group of.feminists who tried to
“crash the gates” of the presidential
chateau today in behalf of the equal
rights movement, were held in cus-
tody at the police commissariat for
several hours for failure to have
their identity papers.
They were released at 3:30 o'clock
this afternoon after all of the states-
men who had lunch with Presideat
Doumergue had gone. The women
bad songht a ten minutes’ audience
with the president's guests who yes-
terday signed the Kellogg-Briand re-
nunciation of war treaty. The plan
of the feminists was to discuss with
them a project for an international
treaty establishing equal rights for
men and women.
Those held over the noon hour
with Miss Stevens were Mrs. Loring
Pickering, Fanny Bernand of France
and Mrs, Betty Gram Swing, former-
ly of Portland, Ore., and now wife
of an English correspondent. The
women all left for Paris.
| same | train |
ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s
astronauts came safely home
from man’s longest space
journey today, splashing
down with pinpoint precision
in the Pacific Ocean after 28
days and 11 million miles in
orbit.
‘We're all in good shape,
Commander Charles Conrad
Jr. reported as the spacecraft
descended. ‘‘Everything’s
On.”
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit to try to re-
pair a refrigeration problem
in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to
come home.
””
So, 10 minutes’ behind
schedule, Conrad, Dr. Joseph
P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz
undocked their Apollo ferry
Ship from the station and
executed a_ series. of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmos-
phere above Thailand for a
fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the
calm Pacific waters at 9:50
a.m. EDT about 830 miles
southwest of San Diego, Calif.,
within sight of the main
recovery ship, the USS
Ticonderoga. It was just after
dawn off the West Coast.
Hundreds of white-elad
sailors on deck and millions
watching television around
the world again had a
ringside seat toa U.S. man-in-
space landing as the Apollo
craft floated down through
low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes.
“‘Everyone’s in super
shape,’’ Conrad said ag the
spacecraft bobbed on the
water awaiting pickup.
Frogmen immediately leaped
from helicopters to secure the
spacecraft with flotation
collars.
The Ticonderoga reported
the astronauts had landed 6!»
miles from the ship and that
the ship was 6!» miles from
the target point, indicating a
perfect touchdown,
The Ticonderoga steamed
to pick up the Apollo capsule
with the astronauts still in-
side, in contrast to most
earlier U.S. tlights when the
See SKYLAB — Pave 6
| ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely from
man’s longest ‘space journey
today and despite, some early
dizziness and lightheadedness,
they ‘were pronounced in -ex-
cellent physical condition:
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Jo-
seph P. Kerwin and Paul JJ,
Weitz shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recov-
ery carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apolle ferry ship to a medical
- laboratory indicated the astro-
nauts had suffered some in-
itial effects in gravity after a
record four: weeks’ exposure
to space weightlessness...
But commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo para-
chuted' toward a pinpoint land-
ing in the Pacific after an U-
million-mile journey: “We've
all in. good shape. Every-
thing’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes Jater,
slill inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weight-
Jess exposure, were prepared
to lift them gut on litters.
But, alter consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of exenslae:
“medical debrieiin, :
“They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up “An-
chors Aweigh” for the all-
Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he
reached the medical lab door.
Kerwin was slightly stooped
and both he and Weitz were
somewhat unsteady in their
steps,
Doctors assisted both Ker-
win and Weitz by holding onto
one arm of each,
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
| different | train |
WASHINGTON (#) — President Kenn edy meets with former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower today in an evident bid to rally strong national support for critical
which he may consider necessary to deal with the increasingly dangerous Cuban cri
A White House announcement of the session — at Camp David, Md. — emphasiz-
ed Cuba as the topic for the conference. But it did not rule out the prospect that Ken-
nedy could discuss with his predecessor a broad range of intensifying cold war cone
flicts with the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David by helico pter Kennedy met with the National Secure
Before flying to Camp I
ity Council, presumably to
discuss possible future moves
against the pro-Communist
government of Cuba in the
wake of this week’s abortive
anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst_of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
~—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S.
money and arms. :
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro’s military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
Salinger Discloses
White House news _ secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and LEisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders. |
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a_ telephone
call to Friday morn’
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that “as leader of the Republi-
can party and as former presi-
dent he should know what the sit-
uation is.”
Salinger also disclosed that
Kennedy had been in indirect con-
tact with Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
feller of New York, another Re-
publican leader, and that he had
conferred Friday with Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz.
Follow Meeting
The contacts with Republicans
followed Kennedy’s meeting at the
White House Thursday with for-
mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, his Republican opponent
for the presidency last year.
Nixon said in New York Friday
night that he had told Kennedy
he would support him “even to
the commitment of American
armed forces.’’
Nixon said that as a private
citizen he would back Kennedy
in such a move if Kennedy con-
sidered it necessary to ‘‘stop the
buildup of the Communist beach-
head in Cuba.”
Both Kennedy and Eisenhower
arranged to fly to Camp David
by helicopter, Kennedy going di-
rectly from the White House and
Eisenhower from his farm. They
last met on inauguration day,
Jan. 20, when Kennedy took over
the reins of government.
Salinger was asked whether
See MEET Page 2?
| | WASHINGTON (Presi.
dent Kennedy meets with for-
mer President Dwight D. Eis-
enhower today in an evident.
bid te rally strong national
support for critical steps
jwhich he may consider neces-
isary to deal with the increas-
ingly dangerous Cuban crisis.
A White House announce-
iment of the session—at Camp
'Da' Md.—emphasized Cu-
tba as the topic for the confer-
ence. But it did not rule out
ihe prospect that Kennedy
jeould discuss 2 broad range of
lintensiiving cold war con-
iflicts with the Soviet U
Meets Seenrity Council
| Before Oy wo Camp David
toy helicopter Kennedy met wiih
fhe National Security Council,
ipresumably to discuss possible
future moves azainst the pro-
iComminisr government of Cuba
jin the wake of this week's abor-
ve antiCastro invasion.
i “In the midst of these Gevelop-
iments, -the President Awas report-
led to have ordered 2 thor
udv of reasons for. the defeat
or the rebel invasion stiempt
which began last weekend with
lithe United Siates’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U.S.
imoney and. arms. -
The President was understood
jlo be concerned about what some
‘authorities called 2 failure to cal-
feulate accurately in advance the
rengit: of Prime Minister Fidel
Casiro’s military reaction to the
prebel assailt-as well 25. possible
rrors in intellizence.
Picks Camp David
White House news secretary
Pierre Salincer disclosed Friday
ght that Kennedy and Eisen.
hower. would meet at Camp -Da-
d, the Catoctin Mountain re-
iiveat near Geitysburg, Pa.. which
Eisenhower used. for conferences
pwith foreigen leaders.
The President arrenzed the
Jencheon session ‘in a ielephone
call 10 Eisenhower Friday mor
ing. The former chief executive
Was at his Gettysburz farm.
Selinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up & 4
lon the Cuban situation, believin
that “as jeader of the Republi.
can parity and as former
dent he should know whet the si
ation is.”
Selinger also disclosed thet
ennedy had been in indirect ¢
tact with Gov. Nelson A. Rock
‘fel New York, ‘another Rew
d
arry
lpubliean leader, and that he
jconierred Friday with Sen.
iGoldwater. R-Ari
conta
Republicans
| same | train |
Fey FtPEe OME, | PRENSA
WASHINGTON (*—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid t rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis.
A White Hotise announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
/Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
| Before flying to Camp David
| by helicopter Kennedy met with
_the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive antiCastro invasion,
| In the midst of these develop-
iments, the President was report-
'ed to have ordered a thorough
‘study of freasons for the defeat
(of the rebel invasion attempt
| which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
;~and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. 58.
money and arms.
| The President was understood
|to be concerned about what some
| authorities called a failure to cal-
|culate accurately in advance the
‘strength of Prime Minister Fidel
| Castro's military reaction to the
‘rebel assault as well as possible
[errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa.. which
Eisenhower used for conferences
'with foreign leaders.
| The President arranged the
,luncheon session tn a telephone
'eall to. Eisenhower Friday morn-
\ing. The former chief executive
, Was at his Gettysburg farm.
| WASHINGTON (AP)—President Kennedy meets with
former President Dwight D. Eisenhower today in an evident
bid to rally strong national support for critical steps which
he may consider necessary to deal with the increasingly
| dangerous Cuban crisis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
|
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Commnist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
e e e
IN THE midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a_ thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. 8.
money and arms.
The President was understooc
| tO be concerned about what some
| authorities called a failure to cal
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fide
Castro's military reaction to the
rebel assalt as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
td e e
WHITE HOUSE NEWS _ chie!
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen
hower would meet at Camp Da
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., whict
Eisenhower used for conference:
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
call to Eisenhower Friday mom
ing. The former chief executiv
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wantec
to bring Eisenhower up to dat
|on the Cuban situation, believin;
\hat “as leader of the Republi
can party and as former presi
dent he should know what the sit
uation is.”’
, . ° i
‘| SALINGER ALSO disclosed tha
‘| Kennedy had been in indirect con
tact with Gov, Nelson A. Rocke
{feller of New York, another Re
publican leader, and that he ha
conferred Friday with Sen. Barr:
Goldwater, (R-Ariz.)
The contacts with Republican.
‘ollowed Kennedy's meeting at th
White House Thursday with for
mer Vice President Richard M
Nixon, his Republican opponen
for the presidency last year.
Nixon said in New York Frida
>| «ght that he had told Kenned
F{ .¢ would support. him ‘even |
-| he commitment of America
€} .rmed forces.”’
Nixon said that as a priva
.| itizen he would back Kennec
1 such @ move if Kennedy co
e dered it necessary to ‘stop tt
| ‘uld-up of the Communist beac!
» jead in Cuba."
d
Both Kennedy and Eisenhow
arranged to fly to Camp Dav
vy helicopter, Kennedy going ¢
rectly from the White House az
»paulgenhower from his farm. Th
last met on inauguration da
Jan. 20, when Kennedy took ov
the reins of geverament.= .
| same | train |
BERLIN. — U.P) — Russian
authorities began lifting the
Berlin blockade 40 hours be-
fore the deadline this morning
when they restored electric
The Soviet action gave
American sector housewives
unrationed electricity in the
middle of the morning for the
power
was forced upon Western Berlin
by the Soviet blockade last July
‘9.
At that minute the first of 16
allied trains a day will begin to
roll into Berlin for the first time
sily C. Chuikov, new Soviet
tary
Ss eS
line.
: Meanwhile, the allied airlift con-
t tinued. F crewmen were in-
_ | jured when a British air-
lift plane crashed in the Russian
oe ee
| Maj. Robert White of the air
force, sits at the controls of his
half-million horsepower X-15
rocket plane which he flew to
a new speed mark of 3,140 miles
per hour at Edwards Air Force
Base. Calif. It was the first
full-throttle test of the giant
engine and exceeded his form-
er record speed of 25905 m.p.h.,
set on March 7.
| different | train |
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI)—The
X15 Friday carried Maj. Robert White to a record
3,140 miles an hour—50 miles a minute—on the first
full-power trail of an engine intended to hurl the pilot-
controlled rocket plane to the fringe of space.
Unlike the Russian cosmonaut who orbited the
earth last week, White had control of the stubby re-
search plane from the time it was dropped from a B52
bomber at 45,000 feet over the Mojave Desert.
The 36-vear-old aviator
—who admitted a series of
minor problems kept him
“quite busv’ during the
11-minute flight — reach-
ed top speed at 80,000 feet’
to break his six-week-old
record of 2,905 m.p.h.
White said after the
flight — which was the
fourth record run in a row
for the rocket plane—that:
he felt it would reach its
goal of 4,000 m.p.h. by al-
lowing the engine to burn
‘longer. He shut down the
57,000-pound thrust rocket
‘after 67 seconds Friday.
_ The X15's peak of Mach 4.6 fast
‘enough to cross the continent from
‘Los Angeles to Washington in
‘about 40 minutes — didn't com-
pare with the Mach 30 speed of
‘Yuri Gagarin’s Russian space
'ship. However, the Gagarin ship
\was controlled at all times from
ithe ground.
| White conceded he had some in
‘flight troubles, but called them
i*minor."’ However, the “minor
\problems” included:
| Trouble starting the 57,000-
, pound thrust engine. White said he
started after the drop at 45,000
feet, but then shut down. It drop-
ipec 7,000 feet before the engine
restarted.
National Aeronautics and Space
|| Administration (NASA) disclosed
it anticipated possible trouble. I
*\ the engine had failed to restart
,| White was to have attempted ar
"emergency landing at Hidden Hill:
Lake.
—A small leak developed in the
‘}eabin at an altitude of about 95.
'|000 feet. White said his space suit
jautomatically inflated to protect
‘him as pressure in the cabin was
equivalent to an altitude of about
35,000 feet in a conventional air-
‘craft.
The X15 engine, harnessing near-
ly a half-million horse power, was
at full throttle for 67 seconds on
the 11-minute flight. Top altitude
on the flight was 103,000, com-
pared with 169,600 feet — 32 miles
|—on Joe Walker's record flight of
|March 30.
Walker had experienced the
| same restarting difficulty with the
|X15 as did White Friday. Howev-
jer, White — who said he was
“quite busy” as a result of the in
flight difficulties — had no com-
/parable vibration as the X15 came
jin for a landing.
NASA said official figures prob-
| ably would be available Saturday
jon the actual speed of the X15,
jwhich is designed to go faster
‘than 4,000 m.p.h. at an altitude
‘of 100 miles. White said he re-
mained confident in the ability of
jthe X15 to reach the 4,000 m.p.h.
| At the top of the arc on Fri-
on acta White experienced a
|
| White also reported when the
‘engine did restart, it forced him
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| EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (AP) — Maj. Bob White
flew the X15 rocket plane to a
new controlled flight speed record
of 3,140 miles an hour Friday,
despite engine trouble and a leak
in his pressurized cabin.
The new mark is 235 m.p.h.
faster than White’s previous rec-
ord of 2,905 m.p.h. last March 7,
but the Air Force officer said he
felt no sensation of greater speed.
The engine trouble came a split
second after the X15 dropped
‘away from its B52 mother ship
'140 miles east of here above Hid-
iden Hills, Calif.
| The engine ignited briefly, then
lout out. For the next 30 seconds,
while the X15 fell helplessly from
45,000 feet to 37,000 feet, White
labored frantically to get the en.
gine restarted.
Finally he succeeded. The en
gine’s 57,000 pounds of thrus'
came on at full throttle, driving
\him back in his seat with a fore
‘three times that of norma
gravity.
At 90,000 feet his pressurize
Sriag nak titel comgeose
a gee pressure in th
€' Momentum carried him on |
N' 103,000 feet, close to the planne
peak for the flight. Then cam
“ithe long glide back to base.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lead-
ers of the world’s superpowers
signed at the summit teday an
agreement pledging to diffuse
the risks of nuclear
avoiding milita
frontations between nalions,
“A truly historic ceremony,”
said Soiet Communist Party
Secretary Leonid 1, Brezhnev
after he and resident Nixon
Signed the agreement in the
White House East Room on the
fifth day of their summit talks
The document applies not
only to US-Soviet relations,
bul fo relations either has with
any other country-- large or
sisal,
In impromptu comments at
the signing ceremony, Brezh-
nev looked akead to a reunion
summit in 1974 in Moseow, He
said he believed this and olher
future mectings “would consoli-
dade stiit further and deepen’?
the advances made in the joint
effort lo free the world of the
fear of nuclear W:
Later inthe day, Nixon and
Rrezhney were to fly fa the
Western White House in San
Clemente, Calif. continuing
while en route their summit
talks that until today had ém
compassed mnere than 26 hours.
The twa leaders tluclared in
the agreement that they were
“conscious that uuclear war
would haye deyastating con
ee EE ERE og me
said they wanted “lo bring
about conditions in whiet the
danger of an outbreak of nucic-
ar war anywhere in (he warld
would be reduced and ultimate.
ly eliminated,”
They pledged their countries
to “aet in such ¢ way as lo pre
yent the development of situ.
ations capavle of causing a
dangerous exacerbation of their
relations, as to avoid military
confrentations, and as to exe
clude the outbreak of nuclear
war between Uiem and between
and Brezhnev also
agreed that their countries
‘vill refrain from the threat or
the use of farce against the otl»
er party, against the allies af
the other party and against otlr
er countries, in circumstances
which may endanger int
nallonal peace and security.”
Ata news conference prior to
the formal signing, presidential
adviser Henry A, Kissinger
skirted questions on whether
this clause would forbid C5.
bombing of Cambodia or woul
have prevented the Soviet it.
yasion of Czechoslovakia,
Kissinger noted, however,
that GS, air strikes agains!
Communist forees in Cambodiz
were umer way at the time th
agreement was being: nego
Hated and that te bombin,
‘vas nol raised as applying
Guat onrteular situation,”
When a newsman asked
whether the agreement would
forestall any Soviet action
against China, Kissinger re
sponded that the accord was
‘not conceived as protection
for any country’ but added it
would ‘have the practical com
sequence of applying to ihe sit-
uation you described,”
“PIL see you tomorrow at the
sighing, '’ Nixon reminded
Brezhney just velore midnight
‘ThurGday as he left the Soviet
Emtossy aiter a banquet of
caviar, Lorseh, Russian beef
and fish, two kimls of vodka
and Seviet chamy
The acre of unlimil.
ed (uration and, unlike a
treaty, does nat require Senate
ralifivation,
The GCOword document calts
for the countries to ‘imme
diately enier info urgent cor
suliations” ol any time inter-
national densions reach a ptint
where the risk of nuckear war
is involved,
The agreement was reached
as the two leaders looked ahead
toa reunion suminit in Moscow
in 1974— the Larget dale tor for
mally limiting the atomic arse
nals of the fwo county
| WASHINGTON — Chairman Win-
slow of the federal board on media-
tion announced Tuesday that conduc-
tors, trainmen on railroads of the
western ‘territory had reached an
agreement on rates of pay and work-
ing rules. This probably ends danger
of a threatened strike, it was believed.
The association of general commit-
tees in the western territory must
ratify the agreement,
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VP AERP SSSANNA LAVIN N40 Fs
President Kennedy meets
with former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to
rally strong national sup-
port for critical steps which
he may consider necessary
to deal with the increasing-
ly dangerous Cuban crisis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
‘Md, — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Council Meets
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the. National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future ‘iioves ‘against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend. with
the United States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S.
money and arms.
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro’s military reaction to the
rebel assault as weil as possible
errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet, at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
Call to Ike
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.. _
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that ‘‘as leader of the Republi-
can party and as former presi-
dent he should know what the sit-
uation is.”
Salinger also disclosed that
—— |
| WASHINGTON, (AP).-—-Presi-
dent Kennedy today appointed
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former
“Army chief of staff, to make a
special survey of U, S. capabili-
‘ties in the field of “nonconvent-
jonal” warfare such as guerrilla
activity.
Taylor immediately went on
the job. He attended a meet-
ing this morning of the Na-
tional Security Counci|—one of
the few sessions of that major
defense group since Kennedy
took office, *
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said that “non-
conventional” warfare in tnis
case is not used in the usual
sense of nuclear warfare but of
tactical operations,
Salinger said Kennedy decided
within the last few days that such
a survey is necessary and asked
Taylor Friday to conduct it,
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Si BOW ew ERR RA Be re SS
Brazil and Argentina pledged
themselves Friday night to fight
Communist penetration in the
Western Hemisphere and backed
President Kennedy's “Alliance for
Progress” program for Lat”
America.
In a historic move, Presidents
Janio Quadros of Brazil and Ar-
turo Frondizi of Argentina also
agreed to consult each other per-
manently on all common matters
and to coordinate all their actions
within the continent.
It is the first time in history
South America’s two biggest
nations have joined in such
close cooperation, one veteran
diplomat said.
The leaders ended a two-day
conference here by issuing four
documents: a declaration of prin-
ciples, amounting to a firm stand
against Communist penetration
into Latin America: the conven-
tion on friendship and permanent
consultation: and two declara-
tions dealing with economie and
cultural matters.
Meeting in this southern Brazil.
ian port across the Uruguay River
from Argentina, Quadros and
Frondizi were full of praise for
Kennedy's Latin American pro-
gram.
They said the long-sought goals
for Latin America, as contained
in the spirit of the Bogota Char.
ter, “have just received their most
valuable support in the program
of ‘Alliance for Progress’ propos-
ed by the President of the United
States of America.”
Their document suggested, fur-
ther, that Washington's plan be
augmented by Brazil's own “Op-
eration Pan America,” a plan
originated by former Brazilian
President Juscelino Kubitschek.
In their joint declaration of
principles, Quadros and Frondizi-
pledged firm support of “Western
and Christian” principles. Though
the 700-word communique never
mentioned communism by name,
it aligned the two big nations
hemisphere — an indirect refer.
against alien interference in the
ence to the revolt-torn affairs in-
Cuba.
The declaration said Brazil a
Argentina adhere to “the institu.
ions of representative democra-.
~y.” It affirmed their joint stand
in “repelling the direct or indi.
rect interference of extra-contin-
“ntal factors’ in the Western *
Hemisphere. I
| ‘Brazil and Argentina pledgec
‘themselves Friday night to fight
Communist penetration in the
Western Hemisphere and backed
President Kennedy's ‘‘Alliance for
Progress” program for Latir
America.
In a historic move. Presidents
Janio Quadros of Brazil and Ar-
‘ture Frondizi of Argentina alse
agreed to consult each other per-
manently on all common matters
and to coordinate all their actions
‘within the continent. It is the first
‘tame in histery South America’s
‘two biggest nations have joined
‘in such close cooperation. one vet
,eran diplomat said.
i 4 Documents Issued
The leaders ended a two-das
jconference here by issuing fow
‘documents: a declaration of prin
‘ciples. amounting to a firm stam
‘against Communist penetratio:
_into Latin America: the conven
| tion on friendship and permaren
consultation: and two declara
‘tions dealing with economic am
cultural matters.
| Meeting in this southern Brazil
“ian port across the Uruguay Rive
‘from Argentina. Quadros am
| Frondizi were full of praise fo
Kenredy’s Latin American pro
svam.
: Braz#'’s Plan
3 They said the long-sought goal
for Latin America, is coniaine
“tin the spirit of the Bogota Chartei
‘have just received their mos
|valuabie Support ia the progran
lof “Alliance for Progress” es
posed dy the President of th
“(United States of America.”
"| Their document suggested. fin
Uher. thal Washington's plan b
saugmented by Brazil's gen “Op
eration Pan America.” a plat
‘originated by former Brazilian
‘President Juscelino Kubitschek.
In their jomt declaration of
‘principles, Quadros and Frondizi
pledged firm support of “Western
and Christian” principles. Though
the 700-word communique never
mentioned communism by name,
it aligned the two big nations
‘against alien interference in the
‘hemisphere — an indirect refer-
‘ence to the revolt-torn affairs in
Cuba.
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came safely home from
man’s longest space journey to-
day, splashing down with pin-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 mil-
lion miles in orbit.
“We're all in good shape,”
Commander Charles Conrad Jr
reported as the spacecraft de
scended. ‘“‘Everything’s OK.”
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit to try to re
pair a refrigeration problem in
their space station. But Mission
Control decided there was noth.
ing the astronauts could do and
told them to come home.
So, 10 minutes behind sched-
ule, Conrad, Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
from the station and executed a
series of maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the at-
mosphere above Thailand for a
fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
Pacific waters at 9:50 a.m.
EDT about 830 miles southwest
of San Diego, Calif., within
sight of the main recovery ship,
the USS Ticonderoga. It was
just after dawn off the West
Cinaet
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
U.S. man-in-space landing as
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes.
“Everyone's in super shape,"’
Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars.
The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauts had landed 61% miles
from the ship and that the ship
was 6'2 miles from the target
point, indicating a_ perfect
touchdown.
The Ticonderoga steamed to
pick up the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts still inside, in
contrast to most earlier US.
flights when the spacemen
were lifted to the carrier by
helicopter.
Medical requirements dic-
tated the pick up method today.
Medical experts were not cer-
tain how the astronauts would
react after returning to earth’s
gravity following record ex-
posure to space weightlessness
so they decided the astronauts
should be subjected to as little
activity as possible until they
can be examined in mobile
medical laboratories aboard the
Ticonderoga.
The landing completed an
historic space mission that last-
ed 28 days and 50 minutes. Dur-
ing that time the spacemen cir-
cled the earth 395 times.
Mission Control was kept in
suspense for most of the final
76 minutes of the flight — a pe-
riod when the Apollo ship was
out of radio contact with
ground stations.
The Ticonderoga’s radar
picked up the streaking craft at
a distance of 188 miles, 10 min-
utes before landing.
While out of radio contact, at
9:11 a.m., the astronauts con-
ducted the critical retrorocket
burn that slowed their 17,100
mile-an-hour speed by 130
miles, allowing earth's gravity
to tug the spacecraft out of or-
bit and start the long glide
through the atmosphere to the
eastern Pacific.
The refrigeration trouble
caused considerable concern. A
maneuver intended to correct it
caused a brief gyroscope prob-
lem that caused the 10-minute
delay in the astronauts’ depar-
ture from the orbiting labora-
tory.
“We're free,’’ Conrad report-
ed seconds after the control
center flashed the go-ahead for
undocking from the 118-foot-
long laboratory.
They left behind a space sta-
tion which they had salvaged
with some daring, difficult and
often ingenious repair tasks
after it was damaged during
launching May 14.
After the undocking, the as-
tronauts made a 45-minute fly-
around inspection of the sta-
tion, televising pictures of the
odd-looking space vehicle to
mission control for evaluation
by experts.
Then, in quick succession,
they triggered the engine fir-
ings that gradually dropped
them closer to earth from their
original orbit.
| ABOARD USS _ TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely from
man’s longest space journey to-
day and despite some early diz-
ziness and _ lightheadedness,
they were pronounced in ex-
cellent physical condition.
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Jo-
seph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated the astro-
nauts had suffered some initial
effects in gravity after a record
four weeks’ exposure to space
weightlessness.
But commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘We're all in
good shape. Everything’s OK,”
Dr. Royce Hawkins, the as-
tronauts’ chief physician, con-
firmed this after consulting
with doctors on the carrier. He
told newsmen at the Houston
Space Center:
“They look quite good. They
appear far better than I ex-
pected. They’re excellent.”’
Hawkins said Conrad, a vet-
eran of three previous space
flights, was in the best condi-
tion, with normal blood pres-
sure and pulse and only slight
lightheadedness.
He said both Kerwin and
Weitz suffered from dizziness
and lightheadedness and that
Weitz’ blood pressure at first
was on the low side.
After splashdown Kerwin
blew up an inflatable suit over
the lower part of his body to
help increase blood circulation,
Hawkins said.
{See Skvlah Pave %)
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‘Berlin (4—Russian authorilies
bepan lifting the Berlin blockade
40 hqurs hefore Ihe deadline taday
when they restored electric power
to paris of the western sectors,
Laclion gave American
sector houses unrationed, elec:
tricity In the imfddle of the morn-
ing tor the first time since pwnwer
rativning was furced upon western
Berlin by the Soviel blockade Ival
July
Radios played and electric stoves
glowed as tha power flowed into
American sector lines from the
Soviel sector, All af Berlin's ma-
jor power geneiating statlans are
in the Soviet zone,
German electric power aulhori-
tins said the resteration of elec-
tricity 1o the western sectors wouit
take place gradually.
Hull service, such as oxisled be-
Tore the Russians cut off power,
during the first weeks of their
blockade, will not be effecied until
some lime Thursday, they said.
Trains, Ready To. Move,
Restoration of power was starled
40 hours before the official time set
for ending the blockade--12:01 a.m.
Thursday (8:01 pm, EDT.
Wednesday}.
At hal minute the (rst of 16
allied trains a day will begin io
roll into~Berlin for the first tlme
since the Rilssians cul off all sur-
face transporlalion il months ago.
Western authorities nreanwhile
intructed Lord Mayor Ernst Rew:
ter to lift Allied counter-blockade
measures against the Saviet-zoue,
al ihe same time.
‘The directive issued in. Lhe
name of the Berlin Kommanda-
iura, The Soviet Berlin comman-
dant walked out-of the Kemman-,
daturnseliecd ABR a deap BLY.
lke pe eacn rea
SuAMNApiees He BEEN represented,
Although Kommandatura orders
would be effective only: in Berlin,
an American spokesman said
measures for lifting the counter-
blockade amtomalientiy will apply
{a the western and eastern occu-
pailon zones, .
Wilt Lift Restrictio
‘the number of trains a day was
set under an order by Gen. Vas-
©. Chuikov, new Soviet mili
tary commander, providing that
trafic regulnilons between the,
Enst and West zones return to the,
statns of March 1.348,
The 16 trains will supply the
western sectors with about 10,000
tons 2 day, somewhat Jess than the
Ang-o-American airlift achieved at
its highest point.
AN freight and passengers an
the trains will be passed without!
redlriclion. However, the ‘Rus-|
sians «lil will retain the privilere|
of licensing fieight shipments
going westward out of Berlin,
At the same time the Russians
will remove ail police restrictions
which have sealed off the eastern
and western sectors of Bertin H-
self since the Mockadg started,
‘The western mazk, however, sill
will he banned in the Soviet zone}
Pending the decision on thy aques-|
tion of currency in 8¢1}
| AVelosc, Va. sda SO im ol
/ieen-vear-oid Dana Marie Weave,
an afiractive high school junior.
| found brutal beaten to
t @ guiez setting of
chen of -Christ Episcopai
| Eer tom iingernails gave evi-
‘dence of an intense struggle with
ithe assailant who clubbed her and
:then choked or gagged her. The
| ci ner said she did not ap-
‘bear to have beer raped.
| With apparently little to go on
! police turned te the campus of
| Virginia Tech at nearby Blacks
‘burg. Va., to question three stud-
fents with whom Bana Marie and
[two friends had been automobile
[riding Sunday afternoon.
| Ther had been told the students
ilet the girl out at the church at 6
[p. m, Sunday after drooping the
otzer two girls at their homes.
Dana Marie had said she wanted
ito attend a meeting of the Young
{People’s Service League. But
{the meeting was cancelled and the
| troup had gone on a picnic in-
| stead.
H Names Not Revealed |
{ Police did not disclose the
j Dames of the VPI siudenis and
, indications were imat they looked
to them for any pussibie further
:word on the girl's pians for Sun-
:day evening when they said they
jeft her. *
Yhe pienickers returned to the
schurch at about 8 p.m. None en-
, tered the kitchen. although several
of the girls hung up some vest-
‘ments @ few feet outside the
kitchen dooz.
From the approximate time ot
death fixed by the coroner Dane
/Marie may already have heen
; dead. ot
! The coroner, Dr. Charlies L
‘Irvin, said she had been dead
‘about 12 hours before 2 janitos
j made the discovery at 8 a m
; When he came in to clean.
She was found lying on the
eor near a couple of smashec
, 50% drink bottles. She had <
‘large bruise on the neck anc
; bruises on her legs indicating sh:
_may have been kicked while bein;
choked, *
' The girl was a member of ;
family known widely in Roanoke’
, political and business iife. Weave:
Heights. a political subdivision, i
named for her grandfather.
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*"" An anli:Casiro radio broadcast from an island of!
Central America today told: two rebel battalions ap.
parently fighting on Cuban.scil that’help was on the
way and urged them ‘nol to surrender.
The appeal-from Swan Island was made a few
ei Ate be Nene Poh ea
hours after the Castro govern:
ment put before Havana tele:
vision cameras some’ prisancrs
captured after last. weekend's
ihvaslon, Oné admitted their
mission falled “and said not
many rebéls “had « escaped.
others saicl propaganda fram
Swan island and Narth
Ameriva had misled them.
Tho Swan sland beoad-
casi, monitored by The As-
sociated © Bress in -Mtaril,
Fis, also repealed troop
movement Instructions — it
had sent out during the
nalght.
ad [old eariler of new
ismallj landings made in Cuba,
jbut-no other source confirmed
this. Some rebel sources . in
Milam! did say, however, tha
lhetween 500 and 1,500 guerrll
Was were headed for Cuba fo1
a new Invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de
seribed the Cuban capital-as 2
lly of feny and susptcton. [1
sald a new wave of arrests and
detentions reached into almost
every family, Suspects jammec
CUBA: See Page §
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was an the way’ and
urged them not to surrender,
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put. before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after last
weekend's invasion, One. admitted
their mission failed and said not
‘many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
The Swan Island broadcast,
monitored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla.,. also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night.
SMALL LANDINGS
It had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault,
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspcion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into’ almost every
family, Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living. conditions were
described as growing worse,
, The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro’s-top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana. .
NEUROSURGEON
The diplomatie source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vincial hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
is Cuba’s economic czar,
The government radio network
Said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
;ers who are trying to overthrow
his pro-Communist regime.
A Havana televisicn station Fri-
| day night prepared the people for
big ‘Castro Day” victory celebra-
tions with a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban exiles,
SON OF LEADER
One prisoner was Joe Miro Tor-
res, son of the top Cuban rebel
Jeader Jose Miro Cardona. Miro
Torres bit his lip and rocked in
his chair as he admitted that his
force was defeated and his opera-
tion ended in failure.
The rebel leader’s son said on
Havana television that he had
been well treated since his cap-
‘ture. All his comments were in
the form of answers to his inter-
rogators.
“Then it is not just to say that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
{ma beasts%” Miro Torres was
asked.
“Absolutely not,” he replied be-
fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel of in-
terviewers what he and his men
expected to find when they land-
ed, Miro Torres said:
“We thought the militia and the
army would join us.”
“That is what you were told. But
what did you find?”
“They fought us very hard and
defeated us."
“Then you were defeated?”
Miro Torres was asked.
“Yes,” he answered.
| Miro Torres also responded
| “no” when asked if any appreci
table number of invaders had ¢s-:
caped, ee
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Washington—(?—President
Eisenhower Friday approved
plans for launching a planned
artificial earth satellite — an
‘unmanned globe for purely
‘scientific purposes.
| Government scientists ex-
plained the thought is that one
or more of the space objects
would circle the earth 200 or 300
miles up at a speed of 18,000
m.p.h.
| They might remain for days or
weeks, then fall back down and
disintegrate.
The White House said informa-
tion obtained from the project—
‘it is hoped the satellites can be
launched by 1957 or 1958—will
|be available to scientists of all
nations, Russia included.
Government scientists, partici-
|pating in an extraordinary news
\conference at the White House,
|said the satellites are not yet in
| existence, only in the planning
_ Stage.
In Two Years
But they said confidence that
_|they can be launched within per-
,| haps two years is based on rocket
_\flights going up to 250 miles.
}| The satellites, according to pres-
ent thinking, would be about the
|| size of basketballs.
What they might be made of,
.|the experts do not yet know.
1; There is hope that they can
s carry instruments. Even if they
\don’t it was explained, valuable
5 information on the earth’s upper
. atmosphere is expected.
g| The satillites would encircle
y ithe earth once every 90 minutes,
e so that even if they remained up
-.ionly a day or two there would
's be opportunity for study.
it} Scientists of all nations are to
be informed of the orbits the
satellites will travel and the fre.
quencies on which they will
broadcast, if it is possible to
equip them with radio,
U. S. Participation
The whole project {s designed
as part of this country’s partici
pation in the International Geo
physical year, from July, 1957
}-|to December, 1958.
o|. The period has been set aside
j.|by some 40 nations, Russia in.
1s|Cluded, for research and world.
r-| wide observations in the field of
e|the earth sciences.
The satellite program, on the
r-|basis of present, rough plans, is
h| expected to cost some 10 millior
}-| dollars.
r| Presidential Press Secretary
t-|James C. Hagerty told the news
p.jconference: “I would like te
re Stress that this project is entirely
id |for scientific purposes.”
“Do you mean,” he was asked
“as distinct from warmaking pur
yn | poses?”
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o]| “If you wish, yes,” Hagerty re
n-|Plied. “The data that will be co!
injlected from this developmen
1e| Will be available to all scientist:
o}|throughout the world.”
ut|. What will this rather fantasti
te |development mean in the way o
benefits for mankind?
er| Various scientists at the confer
ss\ence, representing the Nationa
yr-| Academy of Sciences and the Na
re|tional Science foundation, sai
nt|there are possibilities in severa
e- | directions.
te| For one thing, more informa
m-|tion may be obtained about th
11t|inosphere, which is important {;
eq|radio communications.
in-| Information may be obtaine
which may improve weather fore
a | casting.
in-| A better idea may result of th
ng | effects of the light and ultra vic
ry.|let radiation from the sun.
-1| More information may be ot
es | tained on cosmic rays and meteo:
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least, itt poe Pa lene oy: ome
with radio.
| The whole project is designed
‘ge part of this country’s
paten in the international
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cember, 1968.
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by some @ nations, ae
cluded. for research and
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the earth sciences,
The satellite program, “en the
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— Ww cost some million
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Presidential press secretary
Jarmes ©. Hegerty told the sews
conference that
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“as Gotinet fem weeny pue-
which may upprove fore.
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ABOARD USS— TICONDER.,
OGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came safely home from
man’s longest space journey to-
day, splashing down with pin-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 mil-
lion miles in orbit.
“We're all in good shape,”
Commander Charies Conrad Jr.
reported as the spacecraft de-
scended. “Everything's OK.’ |
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit to try to re-
pair a retrigeration problem in
their space station, But Mission
“ontrol decided there was noth-
ng the astronauts could do and
old them to come home.
So, 10 minutes behind sched-
ile, Conrad Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
vin and Pau! J. Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
irom the station and executed a
series of maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the atmos.
phere. above Thailand for a
fiery descent,
The Apollo craft hit the calm
Pacific waters at 9:50 a.m.
EDT about 830 miles southeast
of San Miego, Calif., within
sight of the main recovery ship,
the USS Ticonderoga. It was
just after dawn off the West
Caact
| Hundreds of white-clad_ sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
‘U.S. man-in-space landing a3
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
‘ange and white parachutes.
| “Everyone's in super shape.”
‘Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars.
| The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauts had landed 6'2 miles
‘from the ship and that the ship
was 612 miles from the target
point, indicating a _ perfect
y touchdown
| The Ticonderoga steamed to
. pick up the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts sti.. inside, in
, contrast to most earlier U.S.
flights when the spacemen
1 were lifted to the carrier by
. helicopter.
t Medical requirements dic:
) tated the pick up method today,
. Medical experts were not cer.
stain how the astronauts would
t react after returning to earth's
gravity following record ex
posure to space weightlessness
‘so they decided the astronauts
‘should be subjected to as little
activity as possible until they
‘can be examined in mobile
medical laboratories aboard the
Ticonderoga.
The landing completed = an
historic space mission that last-
ed 28 days and 50 minutes, Dur-
‘ing that time the spacemer cir-
‘cled the earth 395 times.
Mission Control was kept in
‘Suspense for most of the fina!
76 minutes of the flight — a pe-
riod when the Apollo ship was
out of radio contact with
ground stations,
The Ticonderoga’s radar
\picked up the streaking craft at
a distance of 18% miles, 10 min-
‘utes before landing.
While out of radio contact, at
(9:11 a.m., the astronauts con-
‘ducted the critical retrorocket
‘‘burn. that slowed their 17.106
‘imile-an-hour speed by — 13¢
} miles, allowing earth’s gravity
’ to tug the spacecraft out of or
‘bit and start the long glide
through the atmosphere to the
, eastern Pacific.
- The reirigeration trouble
| caused considerable concern. A
; maneuver intended to correct i
. caused a brief gyroscope prob
lem that caused the 10-minute
delay in the astronauts’ depar-
ture from the orbiting labora-
tory.
“We're firee,’’ Conrad report.
ed seconds atter the control
center flashed the go-ahead for
undocking from the 118-foot-
long laboratory.
_ They leit behind a space sta-
tion which they had salvaged
with some daring, difficult and
often ingenious repair tasks
after it was damaged during
launching May 34.
After the undocking, the as
tronauts made a 45-minute fly:
around inspection of the sta
tion, televising pictures of the
odd-looking space vehicle t
mission controi for evaluatior
by experts.
Then, in quick succession
they triggered the engine fir
‘ings that gradually droppec
.them closer to earth from thei
original orbital altitude of 27
miles.
. To get the astronauts to med
ical trailers on ooard as quick
ly as possible after landing, th
.carnmer was to steam to the
. Apollo capsule and hoist it or
deck with a crane. In earlie
118 manned space flights. the
astronauts were plucked by
helicopter from their floating
spaceships.
Speed in retrieving the astro-
nauts is essential because doc-
tors are keenly interested in
‘their initial reaction to earth
gravity after four weeks’ ex-
posure to weightlessness.
“In general, the three crew-
; men are in good health,” said
, Dr. Royce Hawkins, the astro-
, nauts’ chief physician, Thurs-
day. “The re-entry stress and
_reintroduction to gravity is the
_critical period in question
_ how.”"
» Testing just how well man
, can, withstand the decondition-
, ing effects of living for long pe-
riods in space is one of the
main objectives of the Skylab
. program.
1 Two more missions are
r planned, with the Skylab 2 and
5 3 crews scheduled to rocket up
to the laboratory on July 27 and
- in October. They'll remain
- aboard for 56 days each, contin-
e uing the medical, earth re-
e sources, solar astronomy, space
n manufacturing and other ex-
r periments started by the first
a Crew)
| ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (4) — Skylab’s
astronauts came home from man’s longest space voyage
today, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean after almost
being held over in orbit to try to repair a faulty system
in their space station.
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul
J. Weitz ended their 28-day journey when their Apollo
ferry ship parachuted into the water.
The main recovery ship, the aircraft carrier Ticon-
deroga, was in the prime recovery area about 830 miles
southwest of San Diego, Calif., ready to hoist the astro-
nauts aboard for a series of vital medical tests to deter-
mine how well they withstood their record exposure to
space weightlessness.
| Hundreds of white-clad_ sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-|
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
U.S. man-in-space landing as)
the Apollo craft floated down,
through low-hanging clouds andl
dangling under three huge or-|
ange and white parachutes. |
‘Everyone's in super shape,”
Conrad said as the spacecraft.
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars. |
The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauts had landed 6!2 miles
from the ship and that the ship
‘was 6'2 miles from the target
‘point, indicating a perfect
‘touchdown,
- The Ticonderoga steamed to.
pick up ‘the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts still inside, in.
contrast to most earlier U.S.
flights when the spacemen
were lifted to the carrier by
helicopter.
Medical requirements dic-)
tated the pick up me‘hod today.
Medical experts were not cer-)
tain how the astronauts would)
react after returning to earth's:
gravity following record ex-|
posure to space weightlessness.
so they decided ‘he astronauts
should be subjected to as little.
activity as possible until they)
can be examined in mobile
medical laboratories aboard the
Ticonderoga. |
The landing completed an)
historic space mission that last-,
ed 28 days and 50 minutes. Dur-}
ing that time the spacemen cir-|
cled the earth 395 times.
Earlier, Mission Control con-)
sidered holding Conrad, Kerwin.
and Weitz in orbit longer to|
troubleshoot a refrigeration)
problem.
But controllers decided there,
was nothing the astronauts
could do and gave them the
green light to start the home-'
ward voyage.
They had separated their!
Apollo ferry ship from the 118-|:
foot-long laboratory. |
After separation they made a. f
45-minute fly-around inspection.
'
Continued on Page 2, Col. 5. |
| different | train |
We shOlLasnird Van, (eat J
President Eisenhower told
Republican lawmakers today
that the GOP can control the
national administration “‘for-
ever” if it works in unity for
principles that the people
“an accept in confidence.
He also deseribesl as “complete
bosh’ suecertans that the Amer-
jcan people have been ied to expect
too much tes soon gut of the
Geneva summit conterence and a
let-down wll work against the Re-
publican party.
The President spoxe informally
at a breakfast at the Statler Hotel
attended by all but 11 of the 249
Republican senators and represen-
tauves,
The preadjournment gathering
WaS OP.ote a ey INE DUD yeah Lae
tional Chairmen Leonard W. Hail.
Members ot the Cabinet were
there as well as top White House
starf members.
There was a 1956 second term
atmosphere as the President en-
tered the room, with many of the
legisiators chanting “We want
Ike.’
Others wore Iarge red and white
buttons imscribed “Ike in 1956,."’
Although the President made no
mention of a second term, he
urged the legislators when they
§0 home to carry a positiv mes-
Sage to their constituents about
the work they have done and will
do.
He suggested the gist of that
message should be that the United
States is not going to default on
the principies it scands tor.
He recommended emphasis also
on plans to keep working for high-
way, school construction, health
programs, and a policy of keeping
up strength to protect the nation
while it seeks the road to pneace.
</s> | WASHINGTON (® — President
Eisenhower told Republican law-
makers today that the GOP can
control the national administration
.‘*forever’’ if it works in unity for
‘principles that the people can ac-
cept in confidence.
| He also described as ‘complete
/bosh’”’ suggestions that the Ameri
ean people have been led to ex-
‘pect too much too soon out of the
Geneva summit conference and
a let-down will work against the
Republican party.
The president spoke informally
at a breakfast at the Statler Ho-
tel attended by all but 11 of the
249 Republican senators and rep-
resentatives.
2nd Term Air
The preadjournment gathering
was arranged by Republican Na-
tional Chairman Leonard W. Hall.
Members of the cabinet were
there as well as top White House
staff members.
There was a 1956 second term
atmosphere as the president en-
tered the room, with many of the
legislators chanting, ‘‘We want
Ike.”
Others wore large red and white
buttons enscribed ‘‘Ike in 1956.”
Although the president made no
mention of a second term, he
urged the legislators when they
go home to carry a positive mes-
sage to their constituents about
the work they have done and will
do.
Stand By Principle
He suggested the gist of that
message should be that the United
States is not going to default on
the principles it stands for.
He recommended emphasis also
on plans to keep working for high-
way, school construction, health
programs, and a policy of keeping
up strength to protect the nation
while it seeks the road to peace.
Hagerty said Eisenhower repeat-
ed what he has said before—that
he is interested in unification of
the Republican party behind a set
of principles that would be accept-
ed in trust and confidence by the
people,
Praises Leaders
He said his definition of a true
Republican is one who best repre-
sents those principles for which
the party stands and is not run-
ning for election just because he
is a Republican.
The president praised his party
leaders in congress for the work
they did in the 83rd and S4th ses-
sion and said in many ways he
is prouder of the work of the Re-
publican organization in this ses-
sion than in the last.
</s> | same | train |
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
The Swan Island broadcast,
minotored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night.
No Confirmation
It had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described as growing worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro’s top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
Sent To Hospital
The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vincial hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
is Cuba’s economic czar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
his pro-Communist regime.
A Havana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
big “Castro Day” victory celebra-
tions with a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles,
Leader’s Son Held
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
| BY INE ASSUCIATED PRESS
An anti-Castro radio broadcast from an island off
Central America today told two rebel battalions appar-
ently fighting on Cuban soil that help was on the way
and urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island was made a few hours
after the Castro government put before Havana tele-
vision cameras some prisoners captured after last week-
end’s invasion. One admitted their mission failed and
said not many rebels escaped. Others said propaganda
tyom swan Island and
North America had misled
them,
_ The Swan Island broad-
‘cast, monitored by The As-
‘sociated Press in Miami,
Fla., also repeated troop
movement instructions it
had sent out during the
night.
* It had told earlier of new small
‘landings made in Cuba, but no
outer source confirmed this, Some
‘rebel. . sources.. in -Miami did ..say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault:
A dispatch from. Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described as growing worse.
Guevara Wounded
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
‘one of Castro’s top aides, was
‘seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
| the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
| Havana.
_ The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vincial hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
is Cuba’s economic czar,
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
his pro-Communist regime.
A Havana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
big “Castro Day” victory celebra-
tions with a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles,
Torres Captured
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
his force was defeated and his
operation ended in failure.
“The rebel leader’s son said on
Havana television that he had
been well treated since his cap-
ture. All his comments were. in
the form of answers to his inter-
rogators.
“Then it is not just to say that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man beasts?” Miro Torres was
asked.
‘Absolutely not,” he replied be-
fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel of in-
terviewers what he and his men
expected to find when they land-
ed, Miro Torres said:
“We thought the militia and the
army would join us.”
_ “That is what you were told. But
‘what did you find?”
“They fought us very hard and
defeated us.”
“Then you were defeated?”
‘Miro Torres was asked.
“Yes,” he answered.
Negative Answer
Miro Torres also responded
‘no’ when asked if any appre-
ciable number of invaders had
escaped.
| Jose Miro Cardona appealed
| same | train |
ABOARD USS_ TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects) from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million.
mile journey: ‘‘We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 64% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later.
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
. gravity after their long weigh.
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up ‘Anchors
Aweigh’”’ for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reachec
the medical lab door. Kerwir
was slightly stooped and bot!
he and Weitz were somewha
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
| ABOARD USS ‘TILUNUE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
neuts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
acsoss the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly @ steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
weigh
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: “We're all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth's
gravity after their long weigh-
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after counseling with
=o Kerwin, physician,
sald they couid . to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up “Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts began removing
thousands of feet of film and
tape and equipment from
medical, earth resources and
astonomy experiments that
may tell man much about his
earth, his sun and his physical
being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two Sday Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 2.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 am. EDT
about 83 miles southwest of
San Diego, Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The @,0-ton Ticonderoga
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed a
line to frogmen in the water.
| same | train |
ABOARD USS TICON.
DEROGA (AP) — Skylab’s
jaatronauta came home safe-
Hy today from man’s long~
leat space journey and shiuri-
ned stretchers to walk
sinartly but —unsteadily
across the deck of this re-
covery carrier.
‘The wobbly 69 ateps-from the
Apollo ferry ship’to a. medical
laboratory indicated’ Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph, P. Ker-
win ant Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some eifecta from a
Tecord four weeks’ exposute to
space weightlessnean,
But: Commander ‘Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-millign-
‘mile journey: “We're all in
geod shape. Everything's OK,"
‘They splashed down right on
target, just 644 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth's
gravity after their Jong weighs
lesa exposure, were prepared
to Ltt them out on litters,
But, after -consuliation._with.
doctors, Kerwin, a physitian,
said they could walk ‘to the
medical traiter where they be=
gan six hours of extensive met=
ica} debriefing,
‘They emerged smiling from
the hitch and satuted as the
steps at first bit gradually
picked up atcam ag he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctots assisted bolh Kerwin
and Weltz by holding onto one
atm of each,
Experls immediately began
removing thousands of foet of
tlm and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy —experimente
thot may tell man mich shout
his earth, his sum and hin physi.
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightlesy
world will play a major rate in
determining if man tan func.
tion offictenily in future long~
duration flights. The flrst of the
two 58-day Skylab missions ia
scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit taday to try
lo repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station, But
Misslon Control decided thera
Was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home,
‘Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Welt: un+
docked thelr Apailo ferry ship
and executed a series of
Maneuvers that gent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thaltend for the flery de-
acent.
The Apolta craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. EDT
about 80 miles southwest af
San Diego, Callf. Tt wag just
alter dawn off the West Conat.
The 42,000-ton ‘Ticonderoga
’Qontinued om Pare $
| ABOARD USS TICONTES
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro.
mauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jours
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this reeovery
carrier,
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship ta a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Ir., Dr. Joseph P, Ker~
win and Paul J, Weitz bad suf-
fered same effects from a rer.
ord four weeks’ exposure Lo
Space weightlessness,
But Commander Cowad re
ported as (he Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-prillion
mile journey: ‘We're all in
youd shape, Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6! miles from the
Ticanderaga,
Thirty-nine minuies later,
still inside the Apolio, they
were on the carrier dec:
Dectors, not knowing bow
they might react to earth
gravity after their long weight:
less exposure, were prepared to
1Ut them out on litters.
But, atter consultation with
doclors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be
gan six hours of extensive mail.
ieal debriefing,
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck ug ’Anchers
! Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked wilh hesitant
steps .at first. but ‘gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the -medical lab door, Ker
was slightly stooped and bat:
ke and Weilz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps,
Doctors assisted bolt Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto onc
arm of each,
Experts immedidtely began
removing thousands of feet of
film and fape and equipment
from medical, earth resowces
and astrocomy experiments
Gat may tel man much about
lds earth, his sun and his physi-
eal being,
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz. fared in the weightless
world will play a mnajor rele in
determining if man can Lune.
tian efficiently in future long.
duration flights, The first of the
(wo 5Gaday Skylab missions is
scheduled For launch July 27
The astromuts almost were
held over in orbil
ta repair a
lem in Meir space station,
Ten imiutes venind seledule,
Comal, Kerwin and Wei
doeked their Apollo ferry
and executed a series, of
nianeuvers that sent ther
slamming into the atmosphere
aboye Thailand for the deseent,
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came safely home from
man’s longest space journey to-
day, splashing down with pin-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 mil-
lion miles in orbit.
Just 39 minutes after touch-
down, Charles Conrad Jr., Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz were thoisted onto the
deck of this recovery carrier,
still inside their Apollo ferry
ship,
“We're all in goed shape.
Everything’s OK,” com-
mander Conrad radioed as
the spacecraft descended
through the clouds and fanded
within view of USS Ticon-
deroga, just 6% miles away.
That indicated the astronauts
had suffered no adverse phy-
sical reactions on returning
to earth's gravity after a rec-
ard four weeks’ exposure to
.Space weightlessness.
Ten minutes later they
climbed through the hatch,
smiled and waved as the ship’s
band played “Anchors Aweigh”
for the all-Navy Skylab crew.
They walked unsteadily to-
ward a mobile medical labora-
tory, showing some effects
from the four weeks’ exposure
to weightlessness,
! How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can fune-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
The Rev. Darrell Rupiper,
OMI, of Omaha, son of Mr.
and Mrs, Norbert Rupiper
of Route 3, Carroll, has been
appointed by the general ad-
ministration. as a member
of the new seven-man Pro-
vincial Council of the Very
Rev. Francis George, OMI,
provincial of the Oblate Cen-
tral Province, The seven will
serve as consultors to the Pro-
vincial for the next thnee
years in working with and
being ‘accountable to 249 Ob-
late priests and brothers in
nine midwestern states. They
will be installed June 28 at
an 11:30 a.m. concelebrated
mass in Christ the King
Chapel at the Shrine of Our
Lady of the Snows in Belle-
ville, I,
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today te
try to repair a refrigeration
problem in their space sta-
tion. But Mission Control de-
cided there was nothing the
astronauts could do and told
them to come home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
| The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 8:50 a.m. CDT
about 830 miles southwest of
San Diego, Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The 42,000-ton Ticonderoga
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed a
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft and
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck.
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and others watch-
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
U.S. man-in-space landing as
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes,
“Everyone’s in super shape,”
Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup, Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars,
The Ticonderoga reported
the astronauts had landed
6% miles from the ship and
that the ship was 6% miles
from the target point, indicat-
ing a perfect touchdown.
The Ticonderoga steamed tc
pick up the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts still inside, ir
coritrast to most earlier U.S.
flights when the spacemen
were lifted to the carrier by
helicopter,
| Medical “requirements — dic-
tated the pick up method today.
Medical experts were not cer-
tain how the astronauts would
react after returning to earth’s
gravity following record ex.
posure to space weightlessness
So they decided the astronauts
should be subjected to as little
activity as possible until they
can be examined in mobile
medical laboratories aboard the
Ticonderoga.
The Janding completed an
historic space mission that last-
ed 28 days and 50 minutes. Dur-
ing that time the spacemen cir-
cled the earth 395 times,
Mission Control was kept in
Suspense for. most of the final
76 minutes of the flight — a pe-
riod when the Apollo ship was
out of radio contact with
ground stations,
The ‘Ticonderoga’s radar
picked up the streaking craft
at a distance of 188 miles,
10 minutes before landing.
While out of radio contact, at
9:11 am., the astronauts con-
ducted the critical retrorocket
burn that slowed their 17,100
mile-an-hour speed by 134
miles, allowing earth's gravity
to tug the spacecraft out of or-
bit and start the long glide
through the atmosphere to the
eastern Pacific,
The refrigeration trouble
caused considerable concern. A
maneuver intended to correct i
caused a brief gyroscope prob
Skvlab .... See Pace 9
| ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely trom
man’s longest space journey to-
day and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to. a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 1-million-
mile journey: ‘“We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s ok.’
They splashed down right on
target, just 6% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth's
gravity after their long weight-
Jess exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up “Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onte one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station. But
mission control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
hname_
could do and told them to come
home.
BEHIND SCHEDULE
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
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By Thomas A. Reedy
BERLIN, May 10-—-()—-At one minute past midnight Thurs-
day flug-bedecked traffic will end the epic of blockaded Berlin.
That's 4:01 p. m., C.S.T., Wednesday.
Sc far there hasn't heen a hitch in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany, and the
western powers both have ordered that transport, trade and com-
munication services between
their zones resume at that time.
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will
move into the city daily... High-
ways will be open. The Soviets
won’t—or at least say-they won’t
—demand travel permits. They
also say they'll not try to search
allied baggage.
Resume Mail Service.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin’s Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red
and gold flag of the new west
German republic be flown on
street cars and buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped
over other buses which will
speed to the west German cities
of Hanover, Hamburg. and
Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
which has been supplied by the
airlift for fen months.
Twelve thousand tons of Sup-
plies are to go into the city daily
—just about the same figure the
airlift reached on its best day.
Soviets Claim “Success”
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a So-
viet diplomatic defeat, the offi-
cial Soviet army newspaper,
Taegliche Rundschau, today cali-
ed it an “unquestionable success
of the policy of unity which was
always pursued by. the Soviet
Union and the progressive forces
of Germany.”
The paper said that now that
the ‘Berlin blockade was ending,
*“rarmongers” would make new
efforts to split Germany— and
claimed approval.of the new
west German democratic consti-
tution marked such an attempt.
But throughovt. the, border
area inere was excitement in the
air as willing workers installed
radio and telephone equipment,
repainted border signs and clip-
ped weeds beside the long-neg-
jected highways.
The British expected to have
the first train into the city,
| ST SSS hres ats 44 BEA SO
BERLIN (AP)—At one
minute past midnight Thurs-
day flag-bedecked traffic will
end the epic of blockaded
Berlin.
That’s 4:01 p. m., CST,
Wednesday.
So far there hasn’t been a
hitch in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet
commander in Germany, and
the western powers both have
ordered that transport, trade
and communication services
ibetween their zones resume
at that time.
Things will revert to the way
they were on March 1, 1948.
when the blockade began.
16 TRAINS
Sixteen freight trains will
move into the city daily. High-
ways will be open. The Soviet’s
won’t—or at least say they
won’t—demand travel permits.
They also say they’ll not try to
search Allied baggage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin’s Mayor Ern-
est Reuter ordered the black,
red and gold flag of the new
West German Republic be flown
on street cars and buses.
The Berlin flag will be
draped over other buses which
will speed to the west German
cities of Hanover, Hamburg and
| Frankfurt.
TRAIN CARGOES
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes. and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
| Which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten months.
Twelve thousand tons of sup-
plies are to go into the city
daily—just about the same fig-
ure the air lift reached on its
best day.
While most of the world
hailed the end of the blockade
as a Soviet diplomatic defeat,
the official Soviet army news-
paper, Taegliche Rundschau, to-
day called it an ‘unquestionable
success of the policy of unity
which was always pursued by
the Soviet Union and the pro-
gressive forces of Germany.’
RUSSIAN VIEWS
The paper said that now that
the Berlin Blockade was ending,
“warmongers” would make new
efforts to split Germany—and
claimed approval of the new
West German democratic consti-
tution marked such an attempt.
But throughout the border
area there was excitement in
the air as willing workers in-
stalled radio and_ telephone
equipment, repainted border
signs and clipped weeds beside
the long-neglected highways.
BRITISH MOVE
The British expected to have
the first train into the city.
Restrictions on movements he-
ween the Soviet and western
sectors of Berlin are to be re-
novd at the same hour that the
slockade ends. °-
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PARIS (UPI)—Rebel generals
supported by Foreign Legion par.
atroops seized Algiers today and
claimed the army had taken ove!
Algeria and the Sahara Desert
from President Charles de
Gaulle's government.
The insurgents announced ove
Algiers radio that they had_pro-
claimed a ‘slate of siege’
throughout Algeria. The general:
appealed to the army, navy, ait
foree and police to join them.
The French government imme
diately canceled all military
leaves.
The bloodless coup d’etat ap-
parently was led by Gen Raoul
Salan, a former French com-
mander in Algeria. The African
territory was reported calm in the
early hours of the revolt.
At least 2,000 and perhaps as
many as 6,000 troops of the Fo
eign Legion’s 1st Paratroap Regi-
ment were said to be involved in
the seizure of Algiers. The rebels
alsa claimed the support of troops
in southeastern Algeria.
In Paris, however, Information
Minister Louis Terrenoire said the
insurgents controlled only Algiers.
He said the generals commanding
the garrisons of Oran and Con-
stantine, Algeria's other principal
cities, wee rloyal to De Gaulle,
| PARIS (UPI) — Four rebel
French generals supported by
Foreign Legion paratroopers
seized Algiers in a bloodless coup
today and announced they had
taken over Algeria and the Sa-
hara Desert from President
Charles de Gaulle’s government.
Premier Michel Debre went on
a nationwide radio and television
hookup to appeal for ‘absolute
obedience” in France but already
minor right-wing violence was re-
ported in France itself.
A bomb exploded at the town
hall of the Neuilly district of
Paris. Police said the bomb was
the type used by right-wing ex-
tremists in past acts of terror
against the De Gaulle govern-
ment.
State Of Siege
. The insurgent army and air
force generals in Algiers an-
nounced over Algiers radio — re
named “Rado France’’ — that
they had proclaimed a state of
siege throughout the African ter-
ritory. The generals appealed to
the army, navy, air force and po-
lice to join them.
De Gaulle apparently was taken
completely by surprise, although
opposition among Frenchmen in
Algiers to his policy of permitting
Algeria eventually to become in-
) dependent has been rising. But the
- government reacted swiftly.
_ France canceled all military
leaves. De Gaulle called a cabine'
meeting to consider further action
and conferred during the day with
Debre and Adm. Georges Cabain-
er, chief of staff of the French
navy. Debre named Gen. Jean
Olie as new commander-in-chief
in Algeria to replace Gen. Fer-
nand Gambiez who was arrested
by the insurgents. Olie flew im-
mediately to Algeria.
Uphold Old Promise
A rebel broadcast said the gen-
erals in Algiers were upholding
the promise to “keep Algeria
French” that the army made on
May 13, 1958, at the height of the
Algiers uprising that wrecked
France's Fourth Republic and re-
turned De Gaulle to power.
(Diplomatic quarters in London
expressed doubt that today’s re-
volt could muster enough support
\to topple De Gaulle.)
Police in the south French city
of Lyon arrested a number of
rightist opponents of De Gaulle's
Algeria policies, and reliable po-
lice sources said there also had
been ‘numerous’ arrests in
Paris.
The sources said a number of
high army and navy officers and
civilian officials had been round.
ed up for questioning.
No Disorders Reported
Although there were no immed.
jate reports of disorders in Al.
geria, reports from the big west.
ern port of Oran said Europear
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THE HAGUE (AP) — The Im
ternational Court of Justice
called on France today to re
frain from nuclear testing in
the South Pacific pending a fi-
nal decision on the legality of
the test series,
By an %&6 vote, the court
ruled that Australia and France
should not take any action in
the meantime “which might exe
tend the dispute or prejudice
the final decision of the court,”
The court’s ruling followed
applications last month by Aus»
tralia and New Zeland seeking
an injunction against the
French test series,
The court said it would
schedule further hearings in
September and December, It
did not say if France, which
boycotted last month’s hear
ings, would be represented at
the forthcoming sessions,
In their pleadings before the
court, representatives of both
the Australian and New Zeae
land governments said further
nuclear tests in the South Pa
cific would present unaccep»
table health and environmental
dangers to the population ofthe
areas concerned,
The Australian attorney gen
eral, Lionel Murphy, said the
forthcoming series might be of
“fa size and yield hitherto um
equalled,”’
The people af fle southern
hemisphere “will pay with their
lives for the French decision to
go ahead with their spring test
program,” he added,
France so far has refused to
give any information as to the
nature and yield of-the devices
which it proposes to explode,
The only indication so far
that the tests are imminent
were reports last Saturday
from Tahiti saying six French
namy vessels, known to be cor
nected with the tests, left there
last week bound for the Mu
ruroa Atoll,
| ABOARD USS
TICONDEROGA (AP) —
Skylab’s astronauts came
safely home from man’s
longest space journey to-
day, splashing down with
pinpoint precision in the
Pacific Ocean after 28 days
and 11 million miles in
orbit.
‘‘We’re all in good
shape,’’ Commander
Charles Conrad Jr.
reported as the spacecraft
descended. ‘‘Everything’s
OK.”
The astronauts almost
were held over in orbit to
try to repair a
refrigeration problem in
their space station. But
Mission Control decided
there was nothing the
astronauts could do and
told them to come home.
So, 10 minutes behind
schedule, Conrad, Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul
J. Weitz undocked their
Apollo ferry ship from the
station and executed a
series of maneuvers that
sent them slamming into
the atmosphere above
Thailand for a fiery
descent.
The Apollo craft hit the
calm Pacific waters at 9:50
a.m. EDT about 830 miles
southeast of San Diego,
Calif., within sight of the
main recovery ship, the
USS Ticonderoga. It was
just after dawn off the
West Coast.
Hundreds of white-clad
Sailors on deck and
millions watching
television around the world
again had a ringside seat
to a U.S. man-in-space
landing as the Apollo craft
floated down through low-
hanging clouds - and
dangling under three huge
orange and white
parachutes.
‘‘Everyone’s in super
shape,”’ Conrad said as the
spacecraft bobbed on the
water awaiting pickup.
Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to
secure the spacecraft with
flotation collars.
The Ticonderoga
reported the astronauts
had landed 6'2 miles from
the ship and that the ship
was 6!» miles from the
target point, indicating a
perfect touchdown.
The Ticonderoga
steamed to pick up the
Apollo capsule with the
astronauts still inside, in
contrast to most earlier
U.S. flights when the
spacemen were lifted to
the carrier by helicopter.
Medical requirements
dictated the pick up
method today.
Medical experts were
not certain how the
astronauts would react
after returning to earth's
gravity following record
exposure to space
weightlessness so they
decided the astronauts
should be subjected to as
little activity as possible
until they can be examined
in mobile medical
laboratories aboard the
Ticonderoga.
The landing completed
an historic space mission
that lasted 28 days and 50
minutes. During that time
the spacemen circled the
earth 395 times.
Misson Control was kept
in suspense for most of the
final 76 minutes of the
flight — a period when the
Apollo ship was out of
radio contact with ground
Stations.
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Roanoke, Va., May 9 (P)—Sixteen
Fear-old Dana Marie Weaver, an
attractive high school junior, was
found brutally beaten: to death to-
day in the quiet setting of the
kitchen of Christ Episcopal Church.
Her torn fingernails gave evi-
dence of an intense struggle with
the assailant who clubbed her and
then ehoked or gagged her. The
city coroner said she did not appear
to have been raped.
With apparently little to gO on
police turned ta the campus of Vir-
ginija Tech at nearby Blacksburg,
¥a., to question three students with
whom Dana Marie and two friends
had. been automobile riding Sunday
afternnon.
They had been told the students
Jet the girl out at-the church at 6
p.m. Sunday “after dropping the
other two giris at their homes.
Dana. Marie had said she wanted
to aftend a meeting of the Young
People’s Service League, But the
meeting was cancelled and ithe
group had gone on a picnic instead.
Police did not disclose the names
of the VPI students and indications
were that they looked to them for
any possible further word on the
girl's plans for Sunday ev ening
when they said they left her.
The picnickers returned to .the
church at about § p.m. None en-
tered the kitchen. although several
of the girls hung up some vest-
ments a few feet outside the
kitchen door.
From the approximate time ‘of
death fixed by the coroner Dana
Marie may already have been dead.
The coroner, Dr. Charles L. Irvin.
said she had been dead about 12
hours béfore a janitor made the
discovery at 8 a.m. when he came
in to clean.
| ABOARD USS_ TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
spece weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘‘We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”’
They splashed down right on
target, just 64% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weight-
less exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a_ physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up ‘‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
Pacific waters at 9:50 a.m.
EDT about 830 miles southeast
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BERLIN (UP)--Forty hours
before the Boylin blockade fs due
Lo be lifted the Russians today
gave the Western sectors of the
city a present of several hours
of unrationed electricity,
Hh was (he first time house-
wives in the Western sectors had
enjoyed unrationed electneity in
the middle of the morning since
power ratloning was imposed on
the city by the blockade that
started July 9,
Cotes Tried Out
Tho direet, enuse af the electric
service which the Western sectors
revolved Was a two-hour test of
the longs distance power cables
which bring curent inte Berlin
from penerating plants deep In the
Hussain zone in Saxony» Anhalt,
Gaman autharihes at the Bewag
power control stanion in Weston
Berlin snd they were engaged
With fests wih fhe Bewag plant in
the Savjot zone
Geist reports had Hailed the uns
lestnicted madmomning flaw of oloee
Wiety fo consumers ay a surprise
hfang of the power ration 40
hanrs ahead af sehedule )
German electric power authere
thes said tho restoration of elec.
{nelly fo the Western sector
would fake place arodually,
Full sonic, stich as existed bee
{fore the Russians cut off the power
during tho first weeks of their
hlockaide, wall not be effected unthl
fome time Thursday, they said,
Wesiemn authonties meanwhile
structed Lord Mayor, Ernst
Router to HM Aled counier-hlack-
ade measures against fhe Soviet
zone Al the agreed {ime
ft The directive was jssued jn the
name oof the Berhn Konmmandsa+
tua, The Soviet Bertin comnyan
‘|dant wilhed out of the omman-
‘[datura July J, 1948, leaving only
ihe Amenean, Brhash and Freneh
comnnunders in Borin represented
| 16 Trafiis ‘Te Roll
At that nupute the first of 16
TAlied tatins a day will begin to
roll nto Bern for the first time
‘Tsinco the Russhinsy cant off all sure
fice Hhimapartahon JL months 3g0.
The number af trams a day was
set under an order by Gen Vassily
iC Chinkoy, new Soviet miblary
‘commander, providing that traffhie
regulations between the Fast and
i \Wost vanes return to the/status of
AMareh 1, 3938
The 16 trains wil supply the
Western seetors with abowt 14,000
“Htons a day, somew init Jess than the
fAnglosAmerican air UTC achreved
Fag Its Highest pout,
AI leignt and passengers on
the iram wil be passed without
restiection. Tuwever, the Russians
. st will retain (he privilege of Ii.
feonsing. freluht shipments going
ip vestvard out of Berhn,
At the samo fine the Russians
will remove all pohee restrictions
which have sealed off the Mastern
wd Western sectors of Berlin ite
sel€ since the blockade started,
Mark SU Banned
The Western marth, hawevor, sul
wall be banned mr the Soviet zone
“pending the docision on the ques-
Lion of eurrency in Berlin”
") Wostern Berlin's Mavor Reuter
‘jordsred the blaek, dod and gold
flu of the now west Gorman re.
i pubbe be Sawn on strect cars and
a
%
' Isso,
{ The Berlin flag will be draped
ypover ofhor busses which will speed
jo the West Gorman eles of Han:
over, Hamburg and Frankfurt
-| While most of the world hafled
the end of the blockade as a Soviet
diplomatie defeat, the offlelal So:
Hiviel army newspaper, Tacgliche
Rundsehsu, taday ealled Jt an “uns
qnesttonable success of the pohey
of unity which was always pursued
by the Soviet Union'and the pre
Nliaeaccium {apen. af Cippmany
| DETROIT. (#)—Walier P. Reuther appealed directly to
| Henry Ford, 2d, yesterday to resume Ford strike peace talks
| today. and Ford prompily accepted.
The young company president rejecied, however, Reuther's
invitation to attend the conference personally. - He also. turned
down the CIO United Attto Workers president's challenge toa
dehate if the peace talk« fail
| different | train |
iGovernor Arthur
{North Dakota. died bere at 6°45
|today of heart disease. He was
54 years old and had twice been
elected governor on a Republican
ticket. Mrs. Sorlie and other
members of the family were at the
bedside.
Although no official
had been ae aued from the govern-
ors temporary home here it had
been known for several days that
he was near death.
The governor's famils was no-
tified earlier that he was in a
Governor e@ had been mar-
‘Tied twice. His first wife was
jJennia Adegard. There were
[three children. in 1918 Sofice
|married Grace H oe. Tro
chiidren were born to them.
The governor was bora ia Al-,
‘perta Lea. Minaesota. April 26.
1874. He went to North Dakota
several Fears ago. Li
| In 1925 Sorlie was elected ror
-ernor and ‘as re-elected ino
years azo.
The death of Gor A. G. Serine
ioday removed irom ihe ranks ot
the non-p: an republican race §
tion one of ike sironsgest advroca-
‘tes of state-owned industri¢s.
“The business man governor,”
was always one of the boosters of
the state-owned ilour mul at)
Grand Forks, which to a fact-find- !
tng legisiatt.e commuitiee., has!
cost the state miuhous of dollars: |
Sorlie » said to have upheid |
staunchiy operation of the mill,
despite the ioss to the taxpasers
of the state, on the grounds that
it was “good adverusins.””
During the Republican national
convention in Kansas City Sorhe’s
friends planned a favorite son
boom for the governor but it had
uo support from the delegates.
Sorlie was among the leaders
of advocates for farm rehef. When |
the idea of leading a caravan on’
the Republican convention in June.
was propounded he swung behind |
it euthusiastically and tried to
organize such a march from farm- i
ers of the northwest. He led a
small group of farmers to Kansas
City but the number was far be-!
low what the governor had honed ‘
for.
| Sat aati ig oelt sie alee aatr bldg 3
RAMBOUILLET, France, Aug 28
~-Ten world leaders of the women's
equal rights movement stermed the
gates of the presidential palace here
Tuesday.
They demanded that the Kellogg
peace treaty plenipotantiaries, Junch-
ing with President Doumergte, sign
a treaty giving women all over the
world equal rights with’ men.
All ten were arrested and borne
off, struggling, to the police station
They included Mige Doris Stevens,
wife of Dudley Field Malone, New
York lswyer; Mrs. Harriet. Picker-
ing, wiférof Loring-Pig awide-
pwn New: York
3 A He pe E el
rand -, wits of “Raymond
Griticawink London gotretpondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger and New
York Evening Post; three French
feminists, two German and one
‘Itallan. ?
After they had tunched in prigon,
five were released on théjr promise
to create no more disturbance. The
other five, including Miss Stevens,
would give no such pledge and were
heid until the visiting diplomats had
atarted again for Paris,
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SOS” SSSR SB NRA ES ANB ES
Wafburg said he regards the real
threat from Russia as political and
not military.
“There has been and is a very
\definite Soviet threat to peace,” he
‘said. “But this Soviet threat has
_been and still is primarily a threat
lof communist penetration, of sub-
version and only secondarily a
threat of military conquest.”
The foreign relations committee
heard Warburg as the first wit-
/ness on a speed-up schedule leaders
\have mapped out with the aim of
|getting senate approval by July 1
of both the pact and a $1,130,000,-
| 000 arms-for-Europe program.
| This stepped-up schedule was ar-
lranged after a conference by Sec-
retary of State Acheson with Sena-
;tors Connally, democrat, Texas,
jand Vandenberg, republican, Michi-
| gan.
| The pact would pledge the Unit-
ed States, Canada and 10 western
European nations to mutual aid in
opposing aggression, Signed _here
(Continued on page 9)
| WASHINGTON, May 10—(4—
James P. Warburg, former New
York banker and writer on inter-
national affairs, said at the sen-
ate’s Atlantic pact hearings today
that the real threat from Russia is
political and not military.
“There has been and is a very
‘definite Soviet threat to peace,”
he said. “But this Soviet threat
has been and still is primarily a
threat of communist penetration,
of subversion and only secondarily
a threat of military conquest.”
The foreign relations committee
heard Warburg as the first witness
on a speed-up schedule leaders
have mapped out with the aim of
getting senate approval by July 1
of both the pact and a $1,300,000,-
000 arms-for-Europe program.
This stepped up schedule was
arranged atter a conference by
Secretary of State Acheson with
Senators Connally (D-Tex) and
Vandenberg (R-Mich).
The pact would pledge the
United States, Canada and 10 wes-
tern European nations to mutual
aid in opposing aggression, Sign-
ed here April 4, it will become
binding on the United States only
when approved by a_ two-thirds
senate vote.
Warburg said that if the United
States intends to defend western.
Europe's frontiers in event of war,
then he would oppose the pact,
But he said he would approve
if this nation is “committed to
‘avenge and liberate, but not neces-
* — ‘
Sl ii a ae I MS ae
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) -- Skylab's astro-
nauts came safely home from
man’s longest space journey to-
day, splashing down with pin-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 mil-
tion miles in orbit. ;
Just 39 minutes after touch-
down, Charles Conrad Jr., Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz were hoisted onto the
deck of this recovery carrier,
still inside their Apollo ferry
ship.
“We're all in good shape..Ev-
erything's OK," cammander
Conrad tadioed as the space-
craft descended through the
clouds and landed within view
of USS Ticonderoga, just 6%
miles away. That indicated the
astronauts had suffered no ad-
verse physical reactions on re-
turning to earth’s gravity after
a record fur weeks’ exposure
to space weightlessness.
Ten minutes later they
climbed through the hatch,
smiled and waved as the ship’s
band played “Anchors Aweigh”
for the all-Navy Skylab crew.
‘They walked unsteadily to-
ward a mobile medical labora-
tory, showing some effects
from the four weeks’ exposure
to weightlessness.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weighiless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
Misson Control was kept in
suspense for most of the final
76 minvtes of the flight — 4 pe-
riod when the Apollo ship was
out of radio contact with
ground stations.
The ‘Ticonderaga's radar
picked up the streaking craft at
a distance of 188 miles, 10 min-
utes before landing.
While out of radio contact, al
9:11 a.m., the astronauts con
ducted the critical retrorocke
burn that slowed their 17,10
mile-an-hour speed by Ik
miles, allowing earth's graviq
to tug the spacecraft out of or
bit and start the long glide
through the atmosphere ta th
eastern Pacific.
The refrigeration troub!
caused considerable concern. 4
maneuver intended to correct |
caused a brief pyrascope prob-
lem that caused (he 10-minute
delay in the astronauts’ depar-
ture from the orbiting labora-
tory.
“We're free"! Conrad report-
ed seconds after the control
center flashed the go-ahead for
undocking from the 118-foal-
Jong laboratory, .
They feft behind a space sta-
lion which they had salvaged
with some darffig, difficult and
aften ingenious repair tasks
after it was damaged during
launching May 14.
After the undocking, the as-
tronauts made a 45-minute fly-
around inspection of the sta-
tion, televising pictures of the
add-looking space vehicle ta
mission control for evaluation
by experts.
Then, in quick succession,
they triggered the engine fir-
ings that gradually dropped
them closer to earth from their
original orbital altitude of 275
miles.
To get the astronauts to med-
ical trailers on board as quick-
ly as possible after landing, the
carrier was (0 steam to the
Apailo capsule and hoist it on
deck with a crane. In earlier
U.S. manned space flights, the
astronauts were plucked by
helicopter from their floating
spaceships.
Speed in retrieving the astro
nauts is essential because doc
, tars are keenly interested it
their initial reaction to eart!
: (Continued an Page 3A}
| Washington - (AP) - A Re-
publican critic of the North
Atlantic treaty stalked out of
Senate hearings on the pro-
posed 12-nation pact yester-
day with an angry protest
that Chairman Connally (D-
Tex) was inflicting “gag
rule.”
Connally heads the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee which has
been conducting the hearings
Through with Hearings
Senator Watkins (R-Utah) walk-
ed out“in silent fury, but later to
| a reporter: °
“I'm sick and tired of it. I don't
intend to be lectured. humiliated
‘and embarrassed by the chairman
any longer. I'm through with the
hearings and any further questions
I have to ask will be asked from the
ee floor.”
Watkins is not a member of the
committee, but has been given the
special privilege of questioning wit-
/nesses at his own request. He has
persistently challenged the need for
ihe treaty.
| At the outset of the hearings two
' weeks ago. Chairman Connally ac-
cused both Watkins and Senator
Donnell (R-Mo) of trying to “ob-
| Struct, impede and filibuster against
_ the treaty.” P
Watkins and Donnell hotly denied
| the accusation.
Objects to Questions
| The row—threatening trouble for
| the administration when the Senate
begins debate on the treaty—de-
veloped as Watkins started to ques-
tion Mrs. Kathryn H. Stone of the
U. 8, League of Women Voters.
Connally objected that instead of
| asking questions, Watkins was “mak-
| ing a speech.”
That sent Watkins out of the
room in @ huff, However, his col-
league, Senator Donnell, sat tight
and told newsmen:
“I expect to question as many of
the witnesses as I have time to.”
Watkins subsequently issued a
statement declaring that “ever since
the chairman grudgingly granted”
him and Donnell the right to ques-
tion witnesses, Connally has “con-
stantiv made our efforts both diffi-
cult and embarrassing.”
i
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By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres.
ident Dwight D, Eisenhower to
day in an evident. bid ‘to rally
strong national support for critt-
éal steps which he may consider
fecessary to deal with the in.
creasingly dangerots Cuban cr‘
tis. ; .
A White House announcement
of the seasion—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized. Cuba as the
topic for the conference, But it
did tot rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could disctisa with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts. with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the Natlonal Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
fuiure moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive antl-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report:
ed to have ordered a thorouch
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United Statés’ motal support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. 8,
money and arms.
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
etrors it Intelligence.
White House news © secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Bisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
call to- Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Bilsenhower up.to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that “as leader of the Republi-
can party and as former prest-
dent he should know what the sit-
uation is."
Salinger also disclosed that
! Kennedy had been in indirect con-
tact with Gov. Nelson A, Rocke-
feller of New York, another Re-
publican Jeadeér, and that he had
conferred Friday with Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz, -
The contacts with Republicans
followed Kenmedy’s meeting at the
White House Thursday with for-
(mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, his. Republican opponen‘
for the presidency last year.
Nixon sald in New York Friday
night that he had told Kennedy
he would support him ‘even to
the commitment of American
armed forces.” ,
| Nixon said that as a private
citizen he would back Kennedy
in such a move if Kennedy con-
sidered it necessary to “stop the
(Conrmuse on Page Twos
KENNEDY
| 4
’
; MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet Premier
(Nikita Khrushchev told Presideat
ennedy today the invasion of
ba is “a crime which has re-
olted the whole world.”
| “Kt has been established incon-
trovertibly that it was the United
States that prepared the interven-
tion. financed. armed and trans-
‘ported the mercenary bands
which imvaded Cuba.” Khrush-
chev said in a message to Presi-
dent Kennedy, handed to EL. L.
Freers. U.S. charge d'affaires.
| Khrushchev was replying to a
j communication several davs ago
from Kennedy.
As distributed by Tass. ihe Sovi
ite mews agency, the Khrushchev
|statement referred to a Kennedy
statement that rockets that might
ibe used against the United Siaies
‘could be stationed in Cuba, with
| the inference that this posed prob-
jlems for the United Siaies in rela-
‘tion to the whole Westera hemi
| sphere.
| “Mr. President. you ere folow-
‘ing a very dangerous path.”
Khrushchev said. "Ponder that.”
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Moscow —(4)— Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev told President
Kennedy today the invasion of
Cuba is “a crime which has re-
volted the whole world.”
“It has been established in-
controveritably that it was the
United States that prepared the
intervention, financed, armed and
transported the mercenary bands
which invaded Cuba,” Khrush-
chev said in a message to Presi-
dent Kennedy, handed to E. L.
Freers, U.S. charge d'affaires.
Khrushchev was replying to a
communication several days ago
from Kennedy.
Tass Report
As distributed by Tass, the So-
viet mews agency, the Khrush-
chev statement referred to a Ken-
nedy statement that rockets that
might be used against the United
States could be stationed in Cuba,
with the inference that this posed
problems for the United States in
relation to the whole Western
hemisphere.
“Mr. President, you are follow-
ing a very dangerous path,”
Khrushchev said. “Ponder that.”
The Soviet premier went on to
mention the situation in the Far
East. He contended the United
States had seized Formosa, and
said this started the United States
“on the road of plunder.”
Formosa Issue
He said the United States
threatens war in case Communist
China moves for unity with For-
mosa,
“And this is being done by a
nation which has officially recog-
nized that Taiwon (Formosa) be-
longs to China,” Khrushchev said,
The premier continued:
» “You may, of course, express
your sympathies for the imperial-
ist and colonialist countries, and
this will not surprise anyone. For:
instance, you vote with them in
the United Nations.
“This is a matter of your mo-
rality. But what has been done
against Cuba is no_ longer
morality. This is gangsterism.”
Khrushchev said the United
Nations must denounce these ac-
tions.
“If the American government
considers itself entitled to take
such measures against Cuba as it
has been resorting to of late, the
U.S. president must recognize
that other countries have no less
er reasons to act in a similar way
with regard to states on whose
territory preparations are indeed
being made which constitute a
threat to the security of the So
viet Union,” he said.
“We, for our part, do not hold
such views,” he continued,
| MOSCOW (Soviet Premier
Khrushchev told President Ken-
nedy today the invasion of Cuba
is “a crime which has revolted
the whole world.”
“It has been established in-
controvertibly that it was the
United States that prepared the
intervention, financed, armed
and transported the mercenary
bands which invaded Cuba,"
Khrushchev said in a message
to President Kennedy, handed
to E. L. Freers, U. S. charge
d'affaires. It was in reply to
Kennedy's ‘recent communica-
tion. .
“Mr. President, you are fol-
lowing a very dangerous path,”
Khrushchev said. ‘Ponder that."
tions with a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles.
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
his foree was defeated and his
opration ended in failure.
| The tebel leader’s son said on
Havana television that he had
been well treated since his cap.
ture, All his comments were in
the form of answers to his inter-
rogators.
“Then it is not just 10 say that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu
See ARRESTS, Pg. 2, Col. 7
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An anti-Castro radio broadcast from an island off Central
America today told two rebel battalions apparently fighting
on Cuban soil that help was on the way and urged them not
to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island was made a few hours after
the Castro goverpment put before Havana television cameras
some prisoners captured after last weekend’s invasion. One
admitted their mission failed and said not many rebels had
escaped. Others said propaganda from Swan Island and
. < Sees Hae aes
Worth America nad misied
them.
Repeats Instruction
The Swan Island broadcast,
monotored by, The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
‘peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night. ;
It had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described as growing worse.
Hears Guevara Wounded
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic ‘source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro’s top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
The diplomatic source said ¢
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro.
vincial hospital where Guevara al
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32
is Cuba’s economic czar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro
unseen in public for almost <
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad.
ers who are trying to overthroy
his pro-Communist regime.
A Havana television station Fri:
day night prepared the people for
big “Castro Day” victory celebra
tions with a five-hoffr live inter:
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cubar
exiles,
Rehel’s Son Taken
One prisoner was Jose Mirc
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb
el leader Jose Miro Cardona
Miro Torres bit his lip and rockec
in his chair as he admitted tha
his force was defeated and _ hi:
operation ended in failure.
The rebel leader’s son said or
Havana television that he hac
been well treated since his cap
ture, All his comments were ir
the form of answers to his inter
rogators,
“Then it is not just to say tha’
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man beasts?” Miro Torres was
asked. -
“Absolutely not,” he replied be
fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel of i
terviewers what he and his me
expected to find when. they lan
ed, Miro Torres said:
“We thought the militia and the
army would join us.”
“That is what you were told. But
what did you find?”
“They fought us very hard and
defeated us.”
“Then you were defeated?”
Miro Torres was asked,
‘Yes,’ he answered, :
Miro Torres also responded
“no” when asked if any appre-
ciable number of invaders had
escaped.
Appeals to Pope
Jose Miro Cardona appealed
from his New York headquarters
to Pope John XXIII, asking the
pontiff’s intercession to halt fir-
Cuba .eccccee S0@ Pave 7
|
ce OEE ee
An anti-Casiro radio bro-
adeast fram an island off
Central America today told
two rebel battalions appar.
ently fighting on Cuban soil
thal help was on the way
and urged them nol to sur-
render,
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
j Castro Eovernment put befare
Havana television caucras some
‘prisoners captured alter — last
I woekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed amd said no
many yebcls had escaped. Othe:
said propaganda from Swan
{and amt North America had ny
jled them.
The Swan tsland hrnadeast
monilared by The Associaler
Press in Miami, Fla, also re
peated troop mavement instruc
Bons it had sent aut during the
palahl,
Wt bad lold earlier af new smal
landings made iu Cuba, bub an
other source confirmed this. Same
rebel sources in Miami did say
however, thal between 580 ane
1,500 guerrillas were headend fa
Cuba for a new invasion assault
A dispateh from Ilavana de
|seribed the Cuban capilal as;
city of fear and suspicion. I sai
anew wave of ar and deten
tions reveled into almost eve
‘| family. Suspects jammed swalle
| jails and living conditions wer:
described as prowing warse,
| same | train |
RAMBOUILET, France, Aug. 28.—
| Police arrested 10 world famous fem-
inist leaders today when they tried to
storm the gates of the presidential
padace here,
The women were attempting to get
; before the world peace plenipotentiar-
lies, who were visiting President
Doumergue, their demand for a_ uni-
| versal treaty granting equal rights
to their sex.
i Miss Doris Stevens, wife of Dudley
Field Malone, the American lawyer,
was among those arrested.
The 10 women appeared at the
gates of the palace carrytng foreign
| flags, banners and placards demand-
jing that the plenipotentiaries sign an
‘equal rights treaty” and tried to en-
ter the palace grounds.
Palace guards ran at them and, as-
sisted by gendarmes, carried the wom-
en, struggling and _ kicking to the
police station. They were released
after establishing identity.
| Rambouilet, France, Aug. 28.—
(?)—Doris Stevens, American fem-
inist leader, and three others of a
group of feminists who tried to
“crash the gates” of the presiden-
tial chateau today in behalf of the
equal rights movement, were held
in custedy at the police commis-
sariat for several hours for failure
to have their identity papers.
They were released at 3:30
o'clock this afternoon, after all f
the statesmen who had lunch with
President Doumergue had . gone.
The women had sought a 10-min-
ute audience with the president's
guests, who yesterday signed the
Kellogg-Briand renunciation of
war treaty. The play of the fem-
inists was to discuss with them a
project for an international treaty
establishing equal rights for men
and women.
Those held over the noon hour
with Miss Stevens were Mrs. Lor-
ing Pickering, Fanny Bernand of
France and Mrs. Betty Gram
Swing, formerly of Portland, Ore.,
and now wife of an English cor-
respondent. The women all left
for Paris.
The women, members of a party
of about a dozen, appeared at the
chateau gate before the arrival of
Secretary of State Kellogg and oth-
ers of the treaty signers and
sought to present a petition to the
French president. This‘ read:
“Having not yet received an ap-
pointment for a requested audience
at Paris with the plenipotentiaries
who are to be your guests today,
the women’s committee of interna-
tional action has sent its emis-
saries to ask a brief audience with
them. We are at the gate. We ask
tan minted ?”
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Los Angeles, Aug. 28—-(AP)--
| Three letters containing fervid ex-
‘pressions of affections, written to
Mrs. Myrtle Mellus by Leo P.
Kelley, her butcher boy lover shortly
‘before her death, today held the at-
‘tention of the prosecution and de-
'fense in his trial for her murder.
| The letters together with a photo-
graph of Kelley, were found secreted
in false bottoms of drawers of Mrs.
Mellus’ dressing table when the en-
tire court went to the Mellus home
yesterday. Kelley pointed out the
secret compartments to the court
with the comment they contained
“something interesting.”
James P. Costello, deputy district
attorney refused to make the letters
public.
| ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (UPT)
— Skylab’s astronauts landed in “super
shape” in the Pacific Ocean today and
walked shakily a few minutes later to the
doctors’ office to see how well they had
withstood a record 28 days in space.
The bullseye splashdown and quick
recovery by this veteran aircraft carrier
marked a flawless end to a mission that
started with failure. The flight took a
major step toward giving man a place in
space.
Charles “Pete” Conrad, Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz returned in the
Apollo command ship in which they were
launched May 25. The big space station
remained in earth-orbit, ready for its
next crew in five weeks. .
President Nixon quickly sent a tele-
gram to the men who had just completed
an 11.5 million mile journey and invited
them to visit him at San Clemente, Calif,
Sunday.
“You have given conclusive evidence
that even with the most advanced scien-
tific and technological support in the
world, the courage and resourcefulness
of good men are still central to the suc-
cess of the human adventure,” the Presi-
dent said.
Conrad, commander of the nation’s
first space station mission, reassured
recovery forces several times that he
and his crewmen were all right after the
strenuous re-entry which quickly built up
deceleration forces 314 times the force of
gravity.
“Everybody’s in super shape,” Conrad
radioed after three orange and white
striped parachutes eased the command
module into the gently rolling seas of the
Pacific 834 miles southwest of San Diego.
The spacecraft was hoisted aboard this
ship with the pilots still inside, a switch
from past procedures made to keep the
astronauts’ exertion to a minimum.
Medics were ready to carry Conrad, Ker-
win. and Weitz on stretchers, if neces-
sary, from their scorched capsule to the
blue mobile medical aboratories 66 feet
away.
But the astronauts, smiling and wav-
ing, climbed out of the Apollo under their
own power. They stood on a wooden plat-
form briefly, chatting with Dr. Charles
Ross, the flight surgeon, and then care-
see Skylab—page 2
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ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA
(AP) — Skylab’s astronauts came home
safely from man’s longest space journey
today and despite some early dizziness
and lightheadedness, they were pro-
nounced in excellent physical condition.
conditon.
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P.
Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz shunned
stretchers to walk somewhat
unsteadily across the deck of this
recovery carrier
The wobbly 60 steps from the Apollo
ferry ship to a medical laboratory
indicated the astronauts had suffered
some initial effects in gravity after a
record four weeks’ exposure to space
weightlessness.
But commander Conrad reported as
the Apollo parachuted toward a pinpoint
landing in the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: “We're all in good shape.
Everything’s OK.”
Dr. Royce Hawkins, the astronauts
chief physician, confirmed this after
consulting with doctors on the carrier.
He told newsmen at the Houston Space
Center:
“They look quite good. They appear
far better than I expected. They're
excellent.”
Hawkins said Conrad, a veteran of
three previous space flights, was in the
best condition, with normal blood pres-
sure and pulse and only slight
lightheadedness.
He said both Kerwin and Weitz
suffered from dizziness and
lightheadedness and that Weitz’ blood
pressure at first was on the low side.
After splashdown Kerwin blew up
an inflatable suit over the lower part of
his body to help increase blood
circulation, Hawkins said.
The astronauts splashed down right
on target, just 6% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later, still
inside the Apollo, they were on the
carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how they might
react to earth’s gravity after their long
weightless exposure, were prepared to
lift them out on litters
But, atter consultation with doctors,
Kerwin, a physician, said they could walk
to the medical trailer where they began
six hours of extensive medical
debriefing.
They emerged smiling from the hatch
and saluted as the ship’s band struck up
“Anchors Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew. -
Conrad walked with hesitant steps at
first but gradually picked up steam as he
reached the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both he and
Weitz were somewhat unsteady in their
steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin and
Weitz by holding onte one arm of each.
| ABOARD USS. TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
- ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier,
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
° Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
‘space weightlessness. .
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘‘We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 642 miles from the
Ticonderoga. .
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weight-
less exposure, were prepared to
lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hour's of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up “Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each. ;
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man.can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
U.S. man-in-space landing as
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes.
‘‘Everyone’s in super shape,”
Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars. ~
The Ticonderoga reported. the
‘astronauts had landed 6'2 miles
from the ship and that the ship
was 6'» miles from the target
point, indicating a perfect
touchdown.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. EDT
about 830 miles southwest: of
San Diego, Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The landing completed an
historic space mission that last-
ed 28 days and 50 minutes. Dur-
ing that time the spacemen cir-
cled the earth 395 times.
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MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — Two rebel battalions, ap-
parently fighting Castro forces on Cuban soil, were
urged not to surrender in a broadcast today from Radio
Swan. They were told help is on its way.
The two umts were identified:
as “Battalions 2 and 5° in a,
broadcast heard at the Associated
Press Miam: monitoring station |
The same broadcast repeated:
previous instruction to a_ unit
called *‘Mision Alborada’’ to ad-
vance ‘“Alborada’’ is a Spanish
word for dawn Dictionaries give
it a military meaning of * dawao
battle °’
“Battalions 7 and 4’ were urged
by the Swan broadcast to ‘'Pro-
ceed to Point Z’’ Instructions
also were repeated for ‘‘Air
Group North Point’’ to proceed
to point “Nino .3 N-S" “Squad-
rons 4 and 5'' were described as
protecting Operation Alborada.
Radio Swan is a powerful ant-
Castro transmitter broadcasting
from Swan Island in the Carib-
bean, off the Central American
coast It can be heard in Miami
‘at 1190 on the broadcast band
and at 6 megacycles on the short
\wave band
| The newscast said that exiles
in Miami are planning a hunger
strike.
The strike will continue until
the Organization of American
States and the countries of the
‘Western Hemisphere, including
the United States, act to stop
ithe bloodbath in Cuba,” the
broadcast said.
| WASTINGIUN (4) — AN
anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central
America today told two rebel
battalions apparently fight.
‘ing on Cuban soil that help
‘was on the way and urged
them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Is-
land was made a few hours
after the Castro government
put before Havana television
camera's some prisoners cap-
tured after last weekend's in-
‘vasion. One admitted their
mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped.
Others said propaganda from
Swan Island and North
America had misled them.
The Swan Island broad-
cast monitored by The Asso-
ciated Press in Miami, Fla.,
also repeated troop move-
ment instructions it had sent
out during the night.
It had told earlier of new small
‘andings made in Cuba, but no
other source conf this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
Havana City Of Fear
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described as growing worse. .
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as yg Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
of Castro's top aides, was
ctor 2 wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said |
*Tfoen ta Pace t@ Siaecei
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this
recovery carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weite had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo
parachuted toward a pinpoint
landing in the Pacific after an
ti-millionmile journey:
“We're all in good shape.
Everything's OK ”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6'2 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing ae
they. might react to earth’
gravity after their long weig &
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they
began six hours of extensive
medical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck up ‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps
i
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each. :
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth. his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin
“and Weitz fared in the
weightless world will play a
major role in determining if
man can function efficiently in
future long-duration flights.
The first of the two 36-day
Skylab missions is scheduled
for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try to
repair a refrigeration problem
in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
bome.
Ten minutes behind
schedule, Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz undocked their Apollo
ferry ship and executed a
series of maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the at
mosphere above Thailand for
the fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. ED17
about 830 miles southwest oi
San Diego, Calif. It was jusi
after dawn off the West Coast
The 42,000-ton Ticonderogz
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed z
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft anc
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck,
Hundreds of white-clad sail
ors on deck and millions
watching television arouna the
world again had a ringside seat
to a U.S. man-in-space landing
as the Apollo craft floatec
down through low-hanging
clouds and dangling under
three huge orange and white
parachutes.
“Everyone’s in supet
shape,’ Conrad said as the
spacecraft bobbed on the water
awaiting pickup. Frogmer
immediately leaped from
helicopters to secure the
spacecraft with flotation
collars. :
The Ticonderoga reportec
the astronauts had landed 6):
miles from the ship and that
the ship was 6'z miles from the
target point. indicating a
perfect touchdown.,
The Ticonderoga steamed to
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| WASHINGTON, Mar. 7 (AP)
-~Oliver Wendell Holmes, as-
sociate justice of the supreme
court, makes his debut as a radio
speaker Sunday, Mareh &—his
#0th birthday.
In his second floor study today
workmen tiptoed about installing
a microphone. There is not even
a radio set in the house. One will
be connected after the micro-
phone is put in,
The speech by the oldest man
ever to serve one the supreme
bench, is the first public notice
he has taken of a birthday.
They have been events for a
long time to those about him.
For years a deluge of requests
from newspapermen for inter-
views and a series of plans by ad-
mirers for public demonstrations
have preceded each anniversary.
The newspapermen got no fur-
ther than his secretary and the
admirers are always’ forced to
bow to his pronounced distaste of
publie eulogies.
There is no trigidity and little
austerity in his consistent aver-
sion to publicity and display.
Court members in getting to the
bottom of cases before them often
ask counsel penetrating and
sharp questions. Many a lawyer
retains an affectionate memory of
Justice Holmes as he leaned for-
ward with a friendly smile and
helped the barrister out of legal
morass with a suggestion,
His friends say his logical mind
can see no reason for a fanfaron-
ade over birthdays. His conces-
sion on his 90th anniversary is
regarded as reluctant yielding to
the desire of sincere friends to
honor him.
The radio program in his hon-
or begins at 10:30 p. m. EST.,
Sunday night. Dean Charles E.
Clark of the Yale Law _— school,
from the studios of the Columbia
broadcasting system in New York,
will introduce Chief Justice
Hughes.
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. Kansas City, Mar. 7--Mrs. Myrtle A.
Bennett rejoiced today in acquittal on
-amurder charge growing out of the
bridge game slaying of her husband.
_ “Words cannot express my thanks for
vindication,” she said.
The 35-year-old widow was freed yes-
terday by the verdict of a jury which
had de‘iberated her fate eight and one
half hours.
The decision removed her from jeo-
pardy for the killing of John Gilbert
Bennett, 36, in their fashionable apart-
ment the night of September 29, 1929,
following a quarrel over his failure to
fulfill a four-spade bridge bid. The de-
fense contended Bennett was slain in
a struggle over a pistol he asked his
wife to obtain for him.
John V. Hill, assistant prosecuting
attorney remarked:
“It looks like an open season on hus-
bands.”
“Of course I'm satisfied,” said James
A. Reed, former United States senator
and chief of defense counsel. “But I'm
out of the criminal court business.”
Leslie R. Choate, jury foreman, said
the state “did not prove her guilty be-
yond a reasonable doubt.”
| KANSAS CITY, Mar. 7. (AP).—
Mrs. Myrtle A. Bennett rejoiced to-
day in acquittal on a murder charge
growing out of the bridge game
Slaying of her husband.
“Words cannot express my thanks
for vindication,” she said.
The 35 year old widow was freed
yesterday by the verdict of a jury
which had deliberated her fate
eight and one half hours.
Mrs. Bennett trembled as the jury
entered. The verdict read, she smil-
ed in comprehension and arose, sup-
ported by J. Francis O'Sullivan of
defense counsel. She turned to the
jury, a handkerchief to her lips:
“I thank you, gentlemen,” she
said.
The decision removed her from
jeopardy for the killing of John
Gilbert Bennett, 36, in their fash-
fonable apartment the night of.
September 29, 1929, following a
quarrel over his failure to fulfill
a bridge bid. The defense contend- ~
ed Bennett was slain in a struggle
over a pistol he asked his wife to
obtain for him.
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Washington, May 10.—(P)—
House spy hunters said today they
have testimony that the son of
a University of California official
helped a Communist attempt to in-
filtrate the school’s atomic labora-
tory in 1941.
The testimony was given ifn
secret session by Paul Crouch, ad-
mitted former Communist of
Miami, Fla., who is scheduled to
testify again at a hearing of the
house un-American activities com-
mittee on May 24. (There is
some doubt that he will appear
then, however. Committee aides
said Crouch was under the im-
pression that he had been released
from a grand jury subpoena in
‘New York but that there may
| have been a misunderstanding
abont it).
“Tl was active in trying to {n-
filtrate all scientific research at
ithe University of California,”’
Crouch told the committee last
| Friday behirid closed doors.
' In that project, he said, he was
‘assisted by the son of the univer.
(sity official, who drove him te
‘secret meetings in swank south-
ern California homes. Because
the testimony was taken secretly
the committee would not permil
‘use of the official's name.
The plan, Crouch said, was t
‘organize the laboratory workers
\into special sections of the Com
munist party. So secret was the
project he said, that instead o!
using names of individuals, party
communications referred to then
jin Greek figures.
Pleads Innocent
Riverside, Calif., May 10.—(#
—Mrs. Agnes Garnier has pleade
innocent to a murder charge i!
,;the shooting of wealthy John E
..Owen, president of the Nationa
Anartment House Owners’ associa
| BERLIN. — U.P) — Russian
authorities began lifting the
Berlin blockade 40 hours be-
fore the deadline this morning
when they restored electric
The Soviet action gave
American sector housewives
unrationed electricity in the
middle of the morning for the
power
was forced upon Western Berlin
by the Soviet blockade last July
‘9.
At that minute the first of 16
allied trains a day will begin to
roll into Berlin for the first time
sily C. Chuikov, new Soviet
tary
Ss eS
line.
: Meanwhile, the allied airlift con-
t tinued. F crewmen were in-
_ | jured when a British air-
lift plane crashed in the Russian
oe ee
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
leaders of the world’s two nu-
clear superpowers pledged in a
landmark agreement today to
regulate their relations in a
way to reduce the risk of nucle-
ar war.
President Nixon and Soviet
Communist party Secretary
Leonid I. Brezhnev reached the
accord in the fifth day of their
summit talks and prepared to
sign it at the White House be-
fore heading for California
where they will conclude their
meetings Sunday.
In addition to its application
to U.S.-Soviet relations, the
agreement applies also to the
relations of either party with
other countries. In this way, al-
though technically bilateral, the
agreement has multilateral im-
plications.
The two leaders declared in
the agreement that they were
“conscious that nuclear war
would have devastating con-
sequences for mankind’ and
said they wanted “to bring
about conditions in which tie
danger of an outbreak of nucle-
ar war anywhere in the world
would be reluced and ultimate-
iv eliminated.”
They pledged their countries
to “act in such a way as to pre-
vent the development of situ-
ations capable of causing a
dangerous exacerbation of their
relations, as to avoid military
confrontations, and as to ex-
clude the outbreak of nuclear
war between them and between
either of the parties and other
countries.”’
Nixon and Brezhney also
agreed that their countries
“will refrain from the threat or
the use of force against the oth-
er party, against the allies of
the other party and against oth-
er countries, in circumstances
whica may endanger _inter-
national peace and security.”
At a news conference prior to
the formal signing, presidential
assistant Henry A. Kissinger
skirted questions on whether
this clause would forbid U.S.
bombing of Cambodia or would
have prevented the Soviet in-
vasion of Czechoslovakia.
Kissinger noted, however,
that U.S. air strikes against
Communist forces in Cambodia
were under way at the time tine
agreement was being nego-
tiated and that the bombing
“was not raised as applying to
that particular situation.”
When a_ newsman asked
whether the agreement would
forestall any Soviet action
against China, Kissinger re-
sponded that the accord was
“not conceived as_ protection
for any country’? but added it
would ‘“naave the practical con-
sequence of applying to the sit-
uation you described.”
“T’ll see you tomorrow at the
signing,’’ Nixon reminded
Brezhnev just before midnight
Thursday as he left the Soviet
Embassy: after a Danquet of
caviar, borsch, Russian beef
and fish, two kinds of vodka
and Soviet champagne.
| ASHINGTON, March 6.—Pres-
ident Hoover today accepted
the resignation of Alexander Legge
of Chicago, as chairman of the
federal farm board and appointed
James C. Stone, of Kentucky, to
succeed him.
In making the announcement,
President Hcover said he knew he
reflected “the view of the agricul-
tural community when I express
intense regret upon the retirement
‘of Mr. Legge.
“The vacancy,” President Hoover
said, “created by the elecation of
Stone to the chairmanship will not
be filled for two or three weeks.
Urged To Contlaoue
“Chairman Legge has been urged
by every farm organization in the
United States to continue hi
work,” the president sald, “and -
have urged him with all the force
I could command. He, however
feels that he must go back to hi.
business.”
The chairman termed his res{g
nation as “a mere formality.”
i “As a matter of fact,” the state.
ment continued, “I have beet
|; working overtime for nearly eigh
,.months, it being clearly under
'istood when I accepted the posi
tion that it was for a one-yea
period in helping to get the or
ganization set up and the wor!
1 started.
: Now A Going Concern
>| “The program has progressed t
-| See YAMES STONE. Page il
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sa wee eS Se
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASF,
Calif. (AP)—Maj. Bob White flew
the X15 rocket plane to a new
controlled flight speed record of
3,140 miles an hour Friday, de-
spite engine trouble and a leak
in his pressurized cabin.
The new mark is 236 m.p.h.
faster than White’s previous ree-
ord of 2,905 m.p.h. last March 7,
but the Air Force officer said he
felt no sensation of greater speed.
‘Engine Trouble
The engine trouble eame a split
second after the X15 dropped
away from its B52 mother
140 miles east of here above
den Hills, Calif.
| The engine ignited briefly, then
/cut out. For the next 30 seconds,
while the X15 fell helplessly from
45,000 feet to 37,000 feet, White
labored frantically to get the en-
gine restarted.
Finally he succeeded. The en.
gine’s 57,000 pounds of€ thrust
came on at full throttle, driving
him back in his seat with a force
‘three times that of normal
gravity.
White zoomed to 80,000 feet, the
altitude at which he reached the
new speed record, then shut off
his engine.
Cabin Springs Leak
At 90,000 feet his pressurized
cabin sprang a leak. Instantly
‘and automatically, his space-type
flying suit inflated to compensate
for the loss of pressure in the
. cabin,
' “T was still able to function
. normally,”” White said, so he con-
- tinued the flight.
1 Momentum carried him on to
103,000 feet, close to the planned
i peak for the flight. Then came
1 the long glide back to base.
| SHELBY, N. C., Aug. <6.
_Three buildings in the busi-
ness district collapsed today
when a retention wall caved
jin.
Seven bodies were imme-
diately removed from the
‘ruins and it was believed
‘others were in the debris as
‘police, firemen and volunteer
workers started to remove the
‘wreckage.
A bank, grocery store and
'a tailorshop were on the
ground floors of the build-
‘ings, two stories high. The
‘erash occurred during the
rush hours and it was believ-
ed the death toll would mount
steadily. ,
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SPY j%SEREs SRR E Bsr BN
An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
Airs Troop Orders
The Swan Island broadcast,
monitored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla. also re
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night,
It had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miarm did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described as growing worse.
Seriously Wounded?
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro’s top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vinecial hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
is Cuba’s economic czar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
his proCommunist regime.
‘Castro Day’
A Havana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
big “Castro Day’”’ victory celebra-
tions with a five-hour live inter-
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
“fea today told.two rebel battalions
‘apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that. help was on the way: and
~urged- them-not-to“surrender—-—
The appeal from Swan Island
‘was made a few hours after the
Castro ‘government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners, captured after last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said not
‘ mahy rebels had e&caped. Others.
' gaid propaganda -from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
_ The ‘Swan. Island broadcast,
monitored by. The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out duri ring the
night. |
-—It-had-told-earlier- of new small.
‘landings ‘made ‘in Cuba. but no
other source. confirmed: this. Some
‘rebel sources in Miami did say.
however, that ‘between 500° and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban. capital as a
-city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
fails and. living conditions were
‘described as’ growing worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diflamatic ,source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
_one._of . Castro’s top: aides, .was..
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Tirhes said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source: in
Havana,
The diplomaite . source said a
“neurosurgeon. was. sent. to a pro
vincia! hospital where‘Guevara al-
_legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
‘is Cuba’s economic czar.’
The government. radio’ network
said Prime Minister Fidel Casird,
unseen in public for almost a
week,’ was personally directing
mop-up_ operations in. the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to- overthrow
_his _pro-Communist_regime.-
‘A Havana television ‘station Fri-:
day night prepared the people for
_ big “Castro Day” victory celebra-
tions with a five-hour live inter-.
view of prisoners the government
claims’ it ‘captured during the
abortive invasion - by | Cuban
. exiles, - ce .
“One ‘prisoner was “Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
‘el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit bis lip and rocked
in his chair as. he admitted. that.
his: force was defeated ‘his,
operation ended in failure...
. The rebel’ leader's son said :on.
Havana vision. that. he’ “had
_been_well: treated. since his cap-_
ture. All his comments were in
the form of afswers to his inter-
rogators.
“Then it is not just to say. that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man’ beasts?” . Mird Torres was
asked, os
"Absolutely not,” he replied be:
fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel-of in-
terviewers what he and his men
expected to’ find when _they land.
_ed, Miro Torres said:
' ““We thought the militia and the
army would join us."
“That is what you\were told. But-
what ‘did-you find?” '
“They fought. us very hard and.
_-Wefeated_us,”" =
“Then you. were “defeated?”
Miro Torres wag asked, ’
_ “Yes,” he answered.
~ Miro’ Torres “also "responded
“no” when asked if any appre-
ciable_ number is invadety had
escaped.
Some of the other prisoners on.
the show. seemed to give com-
‘pliant answers, but one talked
back defiantly: to. his accusers. .
Jose Miro’ Cardona errand
from his New York .
“ing” squad” executions :of captured
rebels. A Havana dispatch Fri-
day said the number shot had
reached: 29. in three days.
- Miro Cardona said in his cable
to the Vatican that the Pope’s
voice, “exemplifying Christian
charity, could ‘save the lives of
‘ many idealistic men” by interced-
ing through the International Red
Cross. Miro Cardona also mes
saged the presidents of 11 Latin
| American nations, asking them to
“act promptly”. to prevent more
_executions’ = =
| same | train |
| An anti-Castro radio broadcast from an island off Cen-|
tral America today told two rebel battalions apparently
dighting on Cuban soil that help was on the way and urged!
jthem not to surrender,
i The appeal from Swan Island was made a few hours
jafter the Castro government put before Havana television
.caineras some prisoners captured after last weekend's inva-
-sion. One admitted their mission failed and said not many
‘rebels had escaped. Others said propaganda from Swan
- Island and North America had misled them.
the swan lslund broadcast,
minotored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
peated ireop movement instruc.
tions it had sent out during the
night.
it had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 yuerriflas were headed fot
Cuba for a new invasion assault
A dispatch from Havana de.
See Guerrillas—Page 2; Col, i
| By the Associated Press
An anti-Castro ra di io
broadcast from an island off
Central America today told’
two rebel battalions appar-'
.ently fighting on Cuban soil!
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender. .
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
The Swan Island. broadcast,
minotered by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re--
peated troop movement instruc-.
tions it had sent out during the:
night.
It had told earlier of new seni
landings made in Cuba, but no.
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and:
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault. :
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a>
city of fear and suspicion. It said.
a new wave of arrests and deten-
_tions reached into almost every’
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were’
described as growing worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro’s top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this: Week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
The diplomatic source said a
“neurostirgeon was sent to a
provincial hospital where Gue-
vara allegedly was taken,
Guevara, 32, is Cuba's econam-
ic czar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
his pro-Communist regime,
A Mavana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
big “Castro Day” victory celebra-
Hons with a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles.
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
his force was defeated and his
operation ended in failure.
The rebel leader’s son said on
Havana television that he had
been well treated since his cap-
ture, All his comments were in
the form of answers to his inter-
rogatars.
“Then it is not just to say that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man beasts?" Miro Torres was
asked.
“Absolutely not,’ he replied be-
fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel of in-
terviewers what he and his men
expected to find when they land-
ed. Miro Torres said:
“We thought the militia and the
army would join us.”
“That is what you were told. But
what did you find?’
“They fought us very hard and
defeated us.”
“Then you were defeated?”
Miro Torres was asked.
“Yes,” he answered,
Miro Torres also responded
“no” when asked if any appre-
ciable number of invaders had
escaped,
Jose Miro Cardona appealed
from his New York headquarters
to Pope John NNIil, asking the
pontiff’s intercession to halt fir-
ing squad executions of captured
rebels. A Havana dispatch Fri-
day said the number shot had
reached 29 in three days.
Miro Cardona said in his cable
to the Vatican that the Pope's
voice. “exemplifying Christian
charity, could save the lives of
many idealistic men” by interced-
ing through the International Red
Cross. Miro Cardona also mes-
saged the presidents of 11 Latin
American nations, asking them to
“act promptly” to prevent more
executions.
President Kennedy was to meet
today with former President Ki.
senhower at Camp David, Md.
to discuss at lunch the recent
events in Cuba. The two, hage te
met since Kennedy’ took :
| same | train |
| Wasaingion, March ¥ (Oliver
Wendell Holmes, associate justice of
the Supreme Court, makes his debut
las a radio speaker Sunday, March 8
nis 90th birthday.
In his second door siudy ‘today
workmen tiptned about installing 3
microphone. There is not even 3
dio set in the house, One is 10
ibe gomnecied after the micophone
pis put in.
speech by the oldest cnatt
ever to serve on the Supreme bench.
js tke Ors public notice he has
kea of a birthday.
They have been events %
lume to these about
years a deluge of ts from
newspaper men for interviews and a
geries Of plans by adeniters for pub-
hic «aemenstrations have proceded
paph 2iniversary.
‘The newspaper men get, mo far
ghee than hin sceretary ang the ad-
Timittrs are always forosd to bow 10
his prenounoed distaste of public
eulogies, Several Vimes ieee meni
hers of the vourt have felt a timely
fripute was dae, but even a preporsl
to plage a vase of red) roses wefore
hig, on the bench remained a pro
pons] because Tt war felt be might
mot Uke tt
phere de mo srieidity and ite
jausienit In hie concitiend arresior
‘ te publicity and dleplax Cou
qmembetk in getting ‘6 the dovior
lot qnaee before them salen ak cetin:
‘ ae] pencorling ADE Sharp quertiens
_ | Many a duwyer relatos an aftection:
tate tein wf duslice Holmes 7
‘he Teed frrward with a friendh
Clomie ana helped the berieter ow
bf on Seen) mornsk with a maneeciion
"| fie Sriends pny ile Ing ‘anine
Clann see pe tach for a tanfaeoned
Alnver birthdays, Als oc cing
Ytaja Hoth anniversary is Terarded &
Clequetant yieiding: 1 the dere
Sieineere qrienda to benar him.
v) Phe dag. however, wil) che auvythio
Tet a eunwecion of babdebwkee 1s
lsum us. He plans to remain wt hea
Poyrarhertt..
The teale preva In hla hen
peeine nt 1030 P.M. ES. T. San
day might, Deen Chaties T. Char
af the ‘Yale binw Senedd, team th
[station of the Colambin Brosde oa
ing Sreiem in Rew Fork, svill ints
fuse -Phlef Justice Fusghes. Th
postin perk fro th
ate lta
a long
eet
aren
. bein,
meeetrnd for Jostice Folin.
| London — (P)—A helly-disputed
bill to nationalize most of Bri-
tains Jron and steel Industry
went fo the house of lords tadiy,
Ik was passed night by the
house of commons.
The lords plauned to bring the
measure—main item in the labor
government's Socialist pregram—
to ecnrly consideration, It is ex-
pected generally the upper cham-
ber will riddle ab with amend-
ments, and return it to commons
whieh then wall restore at vartually
to presort form, to lsecame law,
Sociahsts call the bill an “at.
tack on the heart of capitalism,"
because control of :ron and steel
means control essentially of Bri
tish mannfacturing, from bicyele
to battleships.
The bijl, proposed by the Labor
government, went to the house 0:
lords after a Conservative mo.
tion in commons to reject it was
| defeated 384b-203.
Il authorizes the government tc
» buy the stock of 107 companies
but actual direction of the com:
panies would stay in the hand:
of the men who run them nov
as private enterprises. The com:
panies would work under 3
government holding corporatior
relaming their present firn
names. hey would be free. te
camplele with cne another, bu
hot to the point of clashing will
the nolding corportion's overal
general plan.
ee te
n
| different | train |
WASHINGTON, May 10—.?)—
A row between Chairman Tom Con-
‘nally of the Senate Foreign Rela-
‘tions committee and Sen. Arthur
'V. Watkins, R., Utah, threatened
today to upset the administration’s
plans for eurly action on the At-
tenes pact.
Watkins stomped out of the com:
mittee’s pact hearings yesterday.
! claiming that Connally jad “humil-
jated and embarrassed” him. A fre-
quent critic of the treaty, he indi-
cated he would have a lot to say,
‘about it when it comes up for
ratitication before the full senate
later.
Some GOP senators immediately
rallied to his support. Sen. Styles
| Bridges, R., N.H., said the Connally-
) Watkins flare- “up “sure will” pro-
long senate debate on the pact.
: Sen. Bourke B. Hicklenlooper. R.,
a, said the incident “won't short-
! en debate any.” Sen. Robert A, Taft
i declined to comment, but he al-
i ready has said he favors full dis-
, CUSSION before the senate acts on
‘eilher the pact or the corollary
arms-tor-Europe program.
. Despite the ruckus, Connally re-
_affzmed his intention of pressing
‘aor speedy action on both issues.
Be predicted that Watkins’ “Grom-
yko” would have little effect on the
, outcome. The reference was to So-
| viet Delegate Andrei Gromyko’s
‘dramatic walkout at a 1946 ses-
sion of the United Nations secur-
ity council.
Though Connally is confident of
' getting a favorable senate vote on
| the pact and the arms plan, he and
‘Sen Arthur H. Vandenberg, R.,
i Mich.. have decided to stay on the
1 ob here. rather than attend the
torthecoming big four conference on
| seman
They turned down an invitation
[10 accompany the U.S. delegation
to the Paris parley which opens
May 23. However, they adyised
oecratary of State Dean G. Acheson
iaat they would attend the con-
| ierence later if there is an “urgent
need.” .
Connally may go before, the Dem-
ocratic policy committee later to-
day to seek a priority for the trealy
on the senate calendar. He wants
action on the pact and the arms pro-
gram by July 1 at the latest.
| PARIS (UPI) — Rebel
generals supported by
Foreign Legion paratroops
seized Algiers today and
claimed the army had
taken over Algeria and the
Sahara Desert from Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle’s
| government.
The insurgents announced over
Algiers radio that they had pro-
claimed a “state of siege’
throughout Algeria. The generals
appealed to the army, navy, air
force and police to join them.
The French government imme-
diately canceled all military
leaves.
The bloodiess coup déetat ap-
parently was led by Gen. Raoul
Salan, a former French com-
mander in Algeria. The African
| territory was reported calm in the
early hours of the revolt.
At least 2,000 and perhaps as
many as 6,000 troops of the For-.
eign Legion's Ist Paratroop Regi-
ment were said to be involved in
the seizure of Algiers. The rebels
also claimed the support of troops
in southeastern Algeria.
in Paris, however, Informatior
Minister Louis Terrenoire said th
insurgents controlled only Algiers
He said the generals commandin;
the garrisons of Oran and Con
stantine, Algeria's other principa
cities, were loyal to De Gaulle
Communications Cut
UPI's” Algiers corresponden
Alan Raymond telephoned Pari:
|just before the government cu
‘off communications with Algiers
He said paratroops seized the
official residence of Delegate Gen
‘eral Jean Morin, De Gaulle’:
chief civilian representative in Al
geria.
Morin was taken prisoner, alon;
with Public Works Minister Rob
a ert Buron, who had just arrive
“i from France, and Gen, Fernan
3} Gambiez, the French militar
commander in Algeria.
Raymond said Algiers was calr
_/early today, with Europeans an
=| Arabs going about their busines
Y| as usual. The only sign that any
"thing had happened was the ur
‘usual number of troops in th
is | Streets.
n| The French government cut o!
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ABUARVD Ud) LILVUNI/E-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad _ re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘‘We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”’
They splashed down right on
target, just 642 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirtynine minutes _ later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth's
gravity after their long weigh-
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck up ‘Anchors
Aweigh”’ for the all-Navy crew
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was Slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can fune-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space statior. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a_ series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 am. EDT
about 830 miles southwest of
San Diego, Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The 42,000ton Ticonderoga
quickly steamed alongside the
threeton Apollo and tossed ¢
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft and
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck.
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
U.S. man-in-space landing as
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-thanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes.
‘Everyone's in super shape,”
Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars.
The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauts had landed 6'2 miles
from the ship and that the shir
was 6'» miles from the target
point, indicating a_ perfect
touchdown.
| ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this
recovery carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weite had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo
parachuted toward a pinpoint
landing in the Pacific after an
ti-millionmile journey:
“We're all in good shape.
Everything's OK ”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6'2 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing ae
they. might react to earth’
gravity after their long weig &
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they
began six hours of extensive
medical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck up ‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps
i
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each. :
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth. his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin
“and Weitz fared in the
weightless world will play a
major role in determining if
man can function efficiently in
future long-duration flights.
The first of the two 36-day
Skylab missions is scheduled
for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try to
repair a refrigeration problem
in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
bome.
Ten minutes behind
schedule, Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz undocked their Apollo
ferry ship and executed a
series of maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the at
mosphere above Thailand for
the fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. ED17
about 830 miles southwest oi
San Diego, Calif. It was jusi
after dawn off the West Coast
The 42,000-ton Ticonderogz
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed z
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft anc
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck,
Hundreds of white-clad sail
ors on deck and millions
watching television arouna the
world again had a ringside seat
to a U.S. man-in-space landing
as the Apollo craft floatec
down through low-hanging
clouds and dangling under
three huge orange and white
parachutes.
“Everyone’s in supet
shape,’ Conrad said as the
spacecraft bobbed on the water
awaiting pickup. Frogmer
immediately leaped from
helicopters to secure the
spacecraft with flotation
collars. :
The Ticonderoga reportec
the astronauts had landed 6):
miles from the ship and that
the ship was 6'z miles from the
target point. indicating a
perfect touchdown.,
The Ticonderoga steamed to
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BERLIN, May 10 (®—Forty hours before the Berlin blockade is
jue to be lifted the Russians today gave the western sectors of the
city a present of several hours of unrationed electricity.
It was the first time housewives in the western sector had enjoyec
unrationed electricity in the middle of the morning since power ration-
ing was imposed on the city by the blockade that started July 9
ing was imposed on the city by
| The direct catise of the electric
‘service which the western sectors
received was a two-hour test of
the long-distance power cables
which bring current into Berlin
from generating plants deep in
the Russian Zone jin Saxony-An-
halt. German ‘authorities at .the
Bewag Power Control Station ir
; Western Berlin said they were en.
lgaged (in tests with the Bewag
Plant {fn the Soviet Zone.
Radios played and electric stoves
glowed as \the power flowed into
| American; ector lines from. the
' Seviet"Sector, All of Berlin's ma-
‘jor power generating stations are
in the Soviet sector.
Restoration of power was started
‘10 hours before the official time
set for ending the blockade—12:01
jam. Thursday (2:01 p.m. PST
Wednesday).
Western authorities meanwhile
instructed Lord Mayor Ernst Reu-
Iter to lift Allied counter-blockade
measures. against the Soviet Zone
jat the same time.
ITRAINS TO ROLL
| At that minute the first of 1€
| Allied trains a day will begin tc
roll into Berlin for the first\time
since the Russians cut off all sur
face transportation 11 ménths ago
| The number of trains a day wa:
'set under an order by Gen. Vassil
.C. Chuikov, new Soviet military
“commander, providing that traffi
“i regulations between the Kast an
West Zones return to the status o
'iMarch 1, 1948.
“| The 16 trains will supply th
‘Western Sectors with about 10,00
tons a day, somewhat less than thi
jAnglo-American airlift achieved a
lits Bighest point.
lI] freight and passengers on th
trains will be passed without re
istrictions. However, the Russian
jstill will retain the privilege o
Ieensing freight shipments goin
‘westward out of Berlin.
The western mark, however, sti!
“'witl be. banned in the Soviet Zon
Oa, : é
i“pending the decision on the ques
itinn of currenery in Rerlin”’
t
| | RAMBOUILLET, France, Aug.
|
28.—(AP)-—Doris Stevens, Amer-
ican feiinist leader, ond three
athers of a group of feminists who
tried to “crash gates” of the
dential chateau today in be-
of the equal rights movement
were held in Enad at the lie
ariat for several urs
for failure to have their identity
papers.
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The Eastern Seaboard from Virginia to Massachusetts was
hit Monday by a string of quick, violent storms that brought gusts
up to 110 miles an hour and caused eight deaths.
In some areas the storm carried rain, but weather bureau of-
ficials said there was no danger of floods, much to the relief of
an area that has already experienced two disastrous floods this
season.
Upstate New York was hit with scattered snow, ranging from
light in some areas up to six inches around Olean..
The squalls, traveling on the
edge of a fast-moving cold front,
came from the west with frighten-
ing speed and were gone again in
as little as 15 minutes. But the
cold air remained over the area
and the forecast for Tuesday was
cloudy, cooler and windy weather.
In some sections residents re-
ported the storms were like tor-
nadoes, with swirling winds that
toppled trees, broke power lines,
skimmed roofs off some buildings
and crumbled others, upset air-
planes and swamped boats.
A sunny, pleasant day suddenly
darkened and _ iemperatures
dropped a degree a minute,
Cows Crushed
Among the storm victims were
185 cows whose barn at Ferguson-
ville, N.Y., was lifted from its
foundations and crushed fiat.
Farmer Ray Hawley had been
milking but got out of the barn
just in time after hearing the
shriek of the oncoming storm.
In New York City, where the
temperature dropped from a com-
fortable 70 degrees to 57 within
20 minutes, the storm hit just at
ithe height of the late-day com-
muter rush hour. Power failures
|delayed trains.
| Numerous towns were left with-
out lights or telephones for hours.
| At Sydney Airport in Delaware
|County, N. Y., a gust of 110 miles
an hour was recorded. A house
\trailer there was blown over with
73-year-old Mrs. Ethel Goble in-
jside. She crawled out through a
window and had only minor in-
juries.
</s> | The Eastern Seaboard from Vir-
ginia to Massachusetts was hit
yesterday by a string of quick,
violent storms that brought gusts
up to 110 miles an hour and caused
seven deaths.
In some areas the storm carriec
rain, but weather bureau officials
‘said there was no danger of floods,
much to the relief of an area tha!
has already experienced two disas
trous floods this season.
The squalls, traveling on the
‘edge of a fast-moving cold front
lcame from the west with frighten
ling speed and were gone again i:
jas little as 15 minutes. But the
jcold air remained over the are
jand the forecast for today was
cloudy, cooter and windy weather
In some sections residents re
ported the storms were like tor
nadoes, with swirling winds tha
toppled tyees, broke power lines
skimmed roofs off some building:
and crumbled others, upset air
planes and swamped boats,
A sunny, pleasant day sudden):
\darkened and temperature
‘dropped a degree a minute
Among the storm victims were
35 cows whose barn at Ferguson
ville. N. ¥.. was lifted from it:
‘foundations and crushed fiat
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ARF CE EN WIGICW Fr PCosF
An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured alter last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
Jed them.
Troop Movement
The Swan Island broadcast,
monitored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla, also re-
peated troop movement instruc.
tions it had sent out during the
night.
It had tald earlicr of new small!
landings made in Cuba, but no!
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say!
Hnwever fhat hetween SNO and!
AWN BUELL IMG Well ARMM bu!
‘Cuba for a new invasion assault
| A dispatch from Havana de
|scribed the Cuban capital as ¢
: city of fear and suspicion. It saic
a new wave of arrests and deten
tions reached into almost ever;
amily. Suspects jammed swolle:
jails and living conditions were
‘described as growing worse.
The New York Times quoted <
diplomatic source in Washingtor
‘as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara
seriously wounded in the heac
earlier this week. The Times saic
the information reached Washing
jton from a diplomatic source ir
Havana.
Economic Czar
The diplomatic source said a
‘neurosurgeon was sent to a pro.
lvincial hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32
is Cuba’s economic czar.
| The government radio network
said Prime Minister-Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
‘his pro-Communist regime.
A Havana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
big “Castro Day’’ victory celebra-
tions with a five-hour lve inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles.
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres. son of the top Cuban reb-
el Jeader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
his force was defeated and his
operation ended in failure.
Well Treated
The rebel Jeader’s son said on
Havana television that he had
been well treated since his cap-
ture. All his camments were in
the form of answers to his inter-
rogators.
“Then it is not just to sav that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man beasts?” Miro Torres was;
asked.
“Absolutely not,” he replied be-
fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel of in-
terviewers what he and his men
expected to find when they land-
ed. Miro Torres said-
“We thought the militia and the
army would join us.”
“That is what you were told. But
what did you find?”
“They fought us very hard and |
defeated us.”
“Then you were defeated?"
Miro Torres was asked. i
“Yes.” he answered, i
Miro Torres also responded
io’ when asked if anv appre-’
viable number of invaders had
scaped. }
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| night.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of
the world’s two nuclear superpowers
pledged in a landmark agreement today to
regulate their relations in a way to reduce
the risk of nuclear war.
President Nixon and Soviet Communist
Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev
reached the accord in the fifth day of their
summit talks and prepared to sign it at the
White House before heading on to
California where they will conclude their
meetings on Sunday.
In addition to its application to U.S.-
Soviet relations, the agreement applies
also to the relations of either party with
other countries. In this way, although
technically bilateral, the agreement has
multilateral implications.
The two leaders declared in the
agreement that they were ‘conscious that
nuclear war would have devastating con-
sequences for mankind’’ and said they
wanted ‘‘to bring about conditions in which
the danger of an outbreak of nuclear war
anywhere in the world would be reduced
and ultimately eliminated.”’
They pledged their countries to ‘‘act in
such a way as to prevent the development
of situations capable of causing a
dangerous exacerbation of their relations,
as to avoid military confrontations, and as
to exclude the outbreak of nuclear war
between them and between either of the
parties and other countries.”
Nixon and Brezhnev also agreed that
their countries ‘‘will refrain from the
threat or the use of force against the other
party, against the allies of the other party
and against other countries, in
circumstances which may endanger inter-
national peace and security.”
At a news conference prior to the formal
signing, presidential assistant Henry A.
Kissinger skirted questions on whether this
clause would forbid U.S. bombing. of
Cambodia or would have prevented the
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Kissinger noted, however, that U.S. air
strikes against Communist forces in
Cambodia were under way at the time the
agreement was being negotiated and that
the bombing ‘‘was not raised as applying to
that particular situation.”’
When a newsman asked whether the
agreement would forestall any Soviet
action against China, Kissinger responded
that the accord was ‘‘not conceived as
protection for any country’ but added it
would ‘“‘have the practical consequence of
applying to the situation you described.”
U.S. allies in Europe have expressed
reservations in the past about any
agreements which would restrict their use
of American-supplied nuclear weapons in
the event of a massive, conventional Soviet
attack.
Kissinger said ‘‘Several NATO allies
were closely consulted’’ during
negotiations of the agreement and cited a
clause which states that the accord does
not impair “‘the obligations undertaken by
either party towards its allies or other
countries in trsaties, agreements andother
appropriate documents.”
If the agreement fails, Kissinger said,
“existing obligations...will be maintained’’
by the United States.
“Vl see you tomorrow at the signing,”’
Nixon reminded Brezhnev just before
midnight last night as he left the Soviet
Embassy after a banquet of caviar, borsch,
Russian beef and fish, two kinds of vodka
and Soviet champagne.
Kissinger said of the new agreement
today:
‘‘Agreements are not always maintained
and there is nothing self-enforcing about
this document.’’
But he added that ‘‘this document could
be a landmark on the road toward ‘a
structure of peace...a step toward a new
era of cooperation...lifting the fears of
nuclear war from mankind.”
The agreement is of unlimited duration
and, unlike a treaty, does not require
Senate ratification.
The 600-word document calls for the
countries to “immediately enter into
urgent consultations’ at any time inter-
national tensions reach a point where the
risk of nuclear war is involved.
The agreement was reached as the two
leaders looked ahead to a reunion summit
in Moscow in 1974—the target date for for-
mally limiting the atomic arsenals of the
two countries.
The two leaders popped a surprise in
their banquet toasts, disclosing that
Brezhnev had extended and Nixon had
accepted an invitation to return to the
Soviet Union next year for a third summit
in as many years.
| Rambonillet, France, Aug. 28.—(
—Doris Stevens, American feminist
Jeader, and three others of a group
of feminists who tried to “crash the
gates” of the presidential chateau
today in behalf of the equal rights
movement, were held in custody at
the police commissariat for several
hours for failure to have their identi-
ty papers.
They were rcleased at 3:30 o'clock
this afternoon after all of the states- |
_ (Continued on page eight)
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URUGUAIANA, Brazil (AP) —
Brazil and Argentina pledged
themselves Friday night to fight
Communist penetration in the
Western Hemisphere and backed
President Kennedy's “Alliance for
Progress’ program for Latin
America.
In a historic move, Presidents
Janio Quadros of Brazil and Ar-
turo Frondizi of Argentina also
agreed to consult each other per-
manently on all common matters
and to coordinate all their actions
within the continent. It is the first
time in history South America’s
two biggest nations have joined
in such close cooperation, one vet-
eran diplomat said.
The leaders ended a_ two-day
conference here by issuing four
documents: a declaration of prin-
ciples, amounting to a firm stand.
against Communist penetration
into Latin America; the conven-
tion on friendship and permanent
consultation; and two declara-
tions dealing with economic and)
cultural matters.
Meeting in this southern Brazil-|
ian port across the Uruguay River
from Argentina, Quadros and
Frondizi were full of praise for]
Kennedy's Latin American pro.
gram.
| They said the long-sought goals
for Latin America, as contained
in the spirit of the Bogota Charter,
“have just received their most
valuable support in the program
of ‘Alliance for Progress’ pro:
posed by the President of th
United States of America.”
Their document suggested, fur.
ther, that Washington's plan be
augmented by Brazil's own “Op-
eration Pan America,” a plan
originated by former Brazilian
President Juscelino Kubitschek.
In their joint declaration of
principles, Quadros and Frondir1
pledged firm support of ‘Western
and Christian’ principles. Though
the 700-vord communique never
mentioned communism by name,
it aligned the two big nations
against alien interference in the
hemisphere — an indirect refer-
ence to the revelt-torn affairs in
Cuba.
The declaration said Brazil and
Argentina adhere to “the institu-
tions of representative democra-
cy.” It affirmed their joint stand
in “repelling the direct or indi-
rect interference of extra-contin-
ental factors” in the . Western
Hemisphere.
|
URUGUAIANA, Brazil (AP) —
d|/ Brazil and Argentina pledged
e| themselves Friday night to fight
g; Communist _ penetration in the
Western Hemisphere and backed
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America.
In a historic move, Presidents
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|}turo Frondizi of Argentina aiso
agreed to consult each other per-
manently on all common matters
and to coordinate all their actions
within the continent. It is the first
time in history South America’s
two biggest nations have joined
in such close cooperation, one vet-
eran diplomat said.
The leaders ended a two-day |
conference here by issuing four I
documents: a declaration of prin- |
ciples, amounting to a firm stand
against Communist penetration | ,
into Latin America; the conven-
tion on friendship and permanent | ¢
consultation; and two declara-
tions dealing with economic and T
cultural matters.
Meeting in this southern Brazil-
an port across the Uruguay River in
rom Argentina, Quadros and hi
‘rondizi were full of praise for
cennedy’s Latin American pro-
ram.
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or Latin America, as contained tu
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-.
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
re came raat safely today
rom man’s lon space jour-
hey and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad fte-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: “We're all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 614 miles from the
Ticonderoga. |
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth's
gravity after their long weight-
Jess exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on iitters,
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band strukup “Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. oe
was slight]: and bo!
he one Wate wore ‘were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit teday to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station. But
Mission Cantrol decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atm
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 8:50 am, CST
about 830 miles southwest of
San Diego, Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The 42,000-ton
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed a
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft and
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck.
| ABOARD USS_ TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
spece weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘‘We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”’
They splashed down right on
target, just 64% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weight-
less exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a_ physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up ‘‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
Pacific waters at 9:50 a.m.
EDT about 830 miles southeast
See ASTRONAUTS Page 2
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
_ An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
‘prisoners captured after last
Weekend's invasion, One admitted
their mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan _ Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
The Swan Island broadcast,
monitored by The Associated
| Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
‘peated troop movement instruc-
| tons it had sent out during the
night.
| It had told earlier of new small
‘landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
‘Cuba for a new invasion assault.
| A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
‘city of fear and suspicion. It said
'a new wave of arrests and deten-
‘tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
‘described as growing worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
'as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
‘one of Castro's top aides, was
'seriously wounded in the head
‘earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
_ The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
_vincial hospital where Guevara al-
‘legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
is Cuba's economic czar.
The government radio network
/Said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
“unseen in public for almost a
| week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
his pro-Communist regime.
| WASHINGTON — ( —
President Kennedy toda >
inted Gen. Maxwell [
aylor, former Army Chief
of Staff, to make a special
survey of U. S. capabilities
in the field of “non-conven-
tional” warfare such as guer-
ila activity.
Taylor immediately went
on job. He. attended a
|meeting this morning of the
|National Security Council—
one of the few sessions of
‘that major defense group
'since Kennedy took office.
The White House an-
/nouncement was made only
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. (AP)—Maj. Bob White flew
the X15 rocket plane to a new
contrelled flight speed record of
3,140 miles an hour Friday, de-
spite engine trouble and a leak
in his pressurized cabin.
The new mark is 235 m.p.h.
faster than White’s previous rec-
ord of 2,905 m.p.h. last March 7,
but the Air Force officer said he
‘felt no sensation of greater speed.
The engine trouble came a
_ split second after the X15 drop-
_ ped away from its B52 mother
ship 140 miles east of here above
Hidden Hills, Calif.
The engine ignited briefly, then
cut out. For the next 30 seconds,
while the X15 fell helplessly from
45,000 feet to 37,000 feet, White
labored frantically to get the en-
gine restarted.
Finally he succeeded. The en-
gine’s 57,000 pounds of thrust
‘came on at full throttle, driving
‘him back in his seat with a force
‘three times that of normal
‘gravity.
_ White zoomed to 80,000 feet,
the altitude at which he reach-
ed the new speed record, then
shut off his engine.
_ At 90,000 feet his pressurized
cabin sprang a leak. Instantly
and automatically, his space-type
flying suit inflated to compensate
for the loss of pressure in the
cabin.
“IT was still able to function
normally,’’ White said, so he con-
tinued the flight.
Momentum carried him on to
103,000 feet, close to the planned
peak for the flight. Then came
the long glide back to base.
| Maj. Robert White of the air
force, sits at the controls of his
half-million horsepower X-15
rocket plane which he flew to
a new speed mark of 3,140 miles
per hour at Edwards Air Force
Base. Calif. It was the first
full-throttle test of the giant
engine and exceeded his form-
er record speed of 25905 m.p.h.,
set on March 7.
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WASHINGTON, April 22 ()—
President Kennedy was to meet
with former President D. Eis-
enhower today in an evident
bid to rally strong national
support for critical steps which
he may consider necessary to
deal with the increasingly dan-
gerous Cuban crisis.
A White House announce-
ment of the session—at Camp
David, Md.—emphasized Cuba
as the topic for the conference.
But it did not rule out the pros-
pect that Kennedy could discuss
with his predecessor a broad
range of intensifying cold war
conflicts with the Soviet Union.
| BAD MA ARAN the ARANARE AU YD PE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
dent Kennedy meets with former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
‘today in an evident bid to Tally
‘strong national support for criti-
‘cal steps which he may consider
ecessary to deal with the in-
‘creasingly dangerous Cuban cri.
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session — at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
‘topie for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
jPredecessor a broad range of in-
jtensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
* * ”
BEFORE FLYING to Camp
David by helicopter Kennedy
met with the National Security
Council, presumably to discuss
Possible future moves against
the ‘pro-Communist government
ot Cuba in the wake of this
week's abortive anti-Castro in.
vaston,
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the president was report
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which hegan last weekend with
lthe United States’ moral support
— and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. 5.
money and arms, .
The president was understood
to be concerned ahout what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
| White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower woutd meet at Camp Da:
vid, the Catoctin mountain re.
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders,
The president arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Rk ok
SALINGER SAED Kennedy
wanted to bring Eisenhower up
to date on the Cuban situation,
believing that “as leader of the
_ (See KENNEDY — Page 16) »
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‘astra radio breadcast|
An anti-Castro radio breadcast
frem an island off Central Amer- |
ica today told two rebel battalions:
tly fighting on Cuban soil
dt help was on the way and
urged them net to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
made a few hours after the
. government put belore
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after ast
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their misssion fai'ed and said noi
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan ls-
land and North Americ, had mis-
led therm. |
The Swan Island broadcast,
minotored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla. also re-
peated troop movement instrur-
tions it had sent out during the
night.
4 eee Vig Ferner vr hew = al
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
irebel sources in Miami did Say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault
A dispatch from Havana de- |
scribed the Cuban capital as a)
city of fear and suspicion. It said
ja new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jjails and living conditions were
jdescribed as growimg worse. |
| The New York Times quoted a
jdiplomatic source in Washington
jas saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
lone of Castro’s top aides, was
‘seriously wounded in the head
jearlier this week. The Times said
ithe information reached Washing-
tor. from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vincia] hospital where Guevara al-
ilegedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
i« Cuha’s economic ovar.
_ The government radio network
‘said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
junseen in public for almost a
| week. was personally directing)
_mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow:
this pro-Communist regime.
| A Havana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
‘big “Castro Day” victory celebra-
‘tions with a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles.
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
e!| leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
his force was defeated and his
operation ended in failure.
The rebel leader's son said on
Havana television that he had
been wel] treated since his cap-
ture. All his comments were in
the form of answers to his inter-
rogators. |
| “Then it is not just to say that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man beasts?’’ Miro Torres was
asked.
“Absolutely not,’’ he replied be-
fore the cameras.
| When asked by the panel of in-
iterviewers what he and his men
‘expected to find when they land-
ed, Miro Torres said;
“We thought the militia and the
army would join us.”
“That is what you were told. But
what did you find?”
PB aoe 4 —_ us very hard and
wThen "you were defeated”
“no” when asked if any appre
ciable number of invaders had
escaped.
Some of the other prisoners on
the show seemed to give com-
pliant answers, but one talked
back defiantly to his accusers.
| AP correspondent Bem Price
reported from Cuba that an un-
derground source there com-
plained bitterly over what he saw
as the reasons for the failure of
last weekend's invasion attempt.
The source said the rebels neglect-
ed to seize radio stations for ral-
lying the masses and did not fur-
nish themselves with proper aefi-
al support.
Demonstrations for and against
‘Castro continued in the rest of
ithe world. Some Asian editorial
‘comment backed Washington.
| The latest and biggest pro-Cas-
TO Tany Was ih Mexico City,
where police used clubs, tear gas
and fire hoses to disperse a mob
of 10,000. Injuries were reported
as minor. Police moved in as the
crowd was about to burn an
American flag and a 10-foot ef-
figy of Kennedy hanging from a
lamp post.
A rally in Union Square, fa-
mous as a park .or public oratory
‘in New York City, denounced the
United States over Cuba. The Fair
‘Play for Cuba Committee spon-
sored the rally. Pro-Castro speak-
| President Ramon Vilieda Mor-
ales of Honduras teld a crowd in
Tegucigalpa he would break re-
lations with Cuba. The crowd
backed his announcement with
‘shouted slogans.
The Uruguayan government re
jected a demand by the Soviet
ambassador in Montevideo that
|Uruguay condemn the United
States for so-called “aggression”
‘in Cuba. The ruling council met
iin special session and said the
\United Nations is competent te
‘handle the Cuban situation,
| An anti-Casiro radio broadcast
from an islend off Central Amer-
ica today told twe rebel battalions
apparently fighting en Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not io surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a2 few hours after the
Casire government put before
Havana iclevision cameras some
prisoners capiured after last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said noi
many icbels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
Jed them.
The Swan island broadcast.
minotored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fle. also re-
peaied troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night.
Claim New Landings
it had told earlier of new smai]
Tandings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say.
however, that between 500 and
4.500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault
A dispaich from Havana de
scribed the Cuban capital as a
citv of fear and suspicion. It said
a new Wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jaiis and living conditions were
described as growimg worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesio Guevara,
ene of Casiro’s top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
See—CUBA—Page $
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SPY SUNITA Sh. By
BERLIN, GERMANY (Pp — At
jone minute past midnight Thurs-
day flag-bedecked traffic will end
ithe epic of biockaded Berlin.
| That's 4:01 p.m. C. 8S. T., Wed-
.nesday.
-NO HITCH YET
| So far there hasn't been a hitch
in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikoy, Soviet
commander in Germany, and
the western powers both have
ordered that. transport, trade
and commynication services
between their zones resume
at that time.
| Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
te open. The Soviet’s won’t-——or at
least say they won't--demand
travel permits. They also say
they’l! not try to search allied bag-
Berlin ....... See Page 6
| Traffic Will Be Resumed Between Berlin And Western
Germany At 12:01 A. M. Thursday—No Hitches
Develop In Final Arrangements, With Soviet And
Western Nation Representatives Ordering Normal
Operation Of Transport And Communications
BERLIN, May 10. (AP)—At one minute past midnight Thursday
flag-bedecked traffic will end the epic of blockaded Berlin,
That’s 5:01 p. m., EST, Wednesday.
So far there hasn’t been a hitch in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany, and the Western
powers both have ordered that transport, trade and communication ser-
vices between their zones resume at that time.
Things will revert back to the way they were on March 1, 1948, when
the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviets won't—or at least say they won't—demand travel
permits. They also say they'll not try to search Allied baggage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin's Mayor Ernest Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flax of the new West German republic be flown on street cars and
buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped over other buses which will speed
to the West German cities of Hanover, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The first day, ten trainloads of coal and six others of fresh potatoes
and consumer goods are scheduled to move into the city, which has been
suppliec by the air lift for ten months,
Twelve thousand tons of supplies are to ro into the city daily—
just about the same figure the air lift reached on its best day,
While most of the world hailed the end of the blockade as a Soviet
diplomatic defeat, the official Soviet army newspaper, Taegliche Rund-
schau, today called it an “unquestionable success of the policy of unity
which was always pursued by the Soviet Union and the progressive forces
of Germany.”
The paper said that now that the Berlin blockade was ending, “war-
mongers” would make new efforts to split Germany—and claimed ap-
proval of the new West German democratic constitution marked such
an attempt.
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ABOARD USS: TICONDEROGA
(AP) — Skylab’s astronauts came
safely home from man’s longest
space journey today, splashing down
with pinpoint precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 million
miles in orbit.
Just 39 minutes after touchdown,
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P.
Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz were
hoisted onto the deck of the recovery
carrier, U.S.S. Ticonderoga still in-
side their Apollo ferry ship.
“We're all in good shape. Every-
thing's OK." commander Conrad
radioed as the spacecraft descended.
Ten minutes later they climbed
through the hatch, smiled and waved
as the ship's band played ‘Anchors
Aweigh’ for the all-Navy Skylab
crew.
They walked unsteadily toward a
mobile medical laboratory, showing
some effects from the four weeks’
exposure to weightlessness.
How well thev fared in the weight-
less world will determine if man can
function efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the two
56-day Skylab missions is scheduled
for launch July 27.
The astronauts almostwere held
over in orbit today to try to repair a
refrigeration problem in their space
station. But Mission Control decided
there was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz executed
a series of maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere above
Thailand for the fiery descent.
The Apollo craft under three huge
parachutes hit the calm blue waters
at 8:50 a.m. Waukesha time about
830 miles southwest of San Diego,
Calif.
The Ticonderoga quickly steamed
alongside the three-ton Apollo and
tossed a line to frogmen in the water.
A crane then lifted the craft and the
astronauts.
Hundreds of white-clad sailors on
deck and millions watching televi-
sion around the world again had a
ringside seat to a U.S. man-in-space
landing.
The Ticonderoga reported the as-
tronauts had landed 6'2» miles from
the ship and that the ship was 6!»
miles from the target point, in-
dicating a perfect touchdown.
The landing completed an historic
space mission that lasted 28 days
ATID AUP TE Uihdt Ce Ue SspaCemen
circled the earth 395 times.
Along the way, the crew set a
record for a single manned space
mission, breaking a mark of 23 days,
18 hours, 22 minutes set in 1971 by
three Russian cosmonauts. That
flight ended tragically when the cos-
monauts died during re-entry be-
cause of faulty hatch seal.
| ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA
(AP) — Skylab’s astronauts came
safely home from man’s longest space
journey today, splashing down with
pinpoint precision in the Pacific Ocean
after 28 days and 11 million miles in
orbit.
Just 39 minutes after touchdown,
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P.
Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz were hoisted
onto the deck of this recovery carrier,
still inside their Apollo ferry ship.
“We're all in good shape. Every-
thing’s OK,” commander Conrad ra-
dioed as the spacecraft descended
through the clouds and landed within
view of USS Ticonderoga, just 614
miles away. That indicated the astro-
nauts had suffered no adverse physi-
cal reactions on returning to earth’s
gravity after a record four weeks’ ex-
posure lo space weightlessness.
Jen minutes later they climbed
through the hatch, smiled and waved
as the ship's band played “Anchors
Aweigh” tor the all- Navy Skylab
crew.
They walked unsteadily toward a
mobile medical laboratory, showing
some effects from the four weeks’ ex-
posure to weightlessness.
The astronauts almost were held
over in orbit to try to repair a retrig-
eration problem in their space station
But Mission Control decided there was
nothing the astronauts could do and
told them to come home.
So, 10 minutes behind schedule. Con-
rad, Kerwin and Weitz undocked their
Apollo ferry ship from the station and
executed a series of maneuvers that
sent them slamming into the atmos-
phere above Thailand for a fiery de-
scent
The Apollo craft hit the calm Pacific
waters at 9:50 a.m. (EDT) about 830
miles southwest of San Diego, Calif .
within sight of the main recovery ship
It was just after dawn off the West
Coast.
Hundreds of white - clad sailors on
deck and millions watching television
around the world again had a ringside
seat to a U.S. man - in - space landing
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WASHINGTON” (AP }Presideni
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
Jidenl Dwighl D. isenhower to
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for criti-
tal steps which he may consider
neeessary to deat with the
creasingly dangerous Cuban crt-
sis.
A White House annmamcement
of ihe session at Camp Davitt,
Md. emphasized Cuba as the
topic for lhe conference. But it
did not rule out the prospeel that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
lensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviel Union.
| WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Ktnnedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Easenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for eriti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
| greommnaniy to discuss posible
/ future moves against the pro-
| Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report.
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the de‘eat
of the rebel invasion © attemp'
|which began last weekend with
‘the United States’ moral suppor’
| —and, it was generally st ee
here, with some backing of U.
| money and arms.
| The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
| authorities caly-d a failure to cal.
' culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fide
| Castro’s military reaction to the
| rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence,
| White House news secretary
Piere Salinger disclosed Friday
/night that Kennedy and Eisen.
| hower would meet at Camp Da.
‘vid, the Catoctin Mountain re.
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
| Bisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
‘luncheon session in a telephone
‘call to Eisenhower Friday morn
ing. The former chie! executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
| Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believin:
that ‘‘as leader of the Republi.
‘can party and as former presi.
‘dent he should know what the sit
“uation is.
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|
' PASADENA _(AP)—Larry K.
‘Page, 4, brought back to life after
he had stopped breathing 10 min-
ufes, is holding his own, although
in a critical condition, hospital
attendants said Tuesday.
The youngster, who suffered
probable skull fractures when
struck by a car Saturday, was
given artificial respiration by doc-
tors who refused to concede he
was dead. The treatment plus in-
jection of a heart stimulant
started him breathing again.
Physicians explained that he
stopped breathing because of ex-
treme shock and fast embolism
escaping ng from bone marrow. They
added that it has been unsafe to
move him for X-rays.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fran-
cis Page Mojave, Calif. have
ane at his bedside constantly,
| PASADENA, Calif., May 10. UG)
Larry K. Page, four, “brought
back to life” after he had stopped
breathing 10 minutes, is holding
his own, although critical, hospital
attendants said today.
The youngster, who suffered
probable skull fractures when
struck by a car Saturday, was
given artificial respiration by doc-
tors who refused to concede the
child was dead. The treatment
plus injection of a heart stimu-
lant started him breathing again.
Physicians explained the boy
stopped breathing because of ex-
treme shock and fat ebolism es-
caping from bone marrow. They
added it has been unsafe to move
him for X-rays. His parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Mack Page of
Mojave, Calif., have been at his
bedside constantly.
AUGE CHOP FORECAST
WASHINGTON, May 10 Wi—
The agriculture department today
forecast this year’s winter wheat
crop at 1,021,476,000 bushels-as-of
May 1.
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ALGIERS (AP)~A military jun-
ta of retired generals backed by
tough paratroops seized power in
Algiers iv defiance af President
‘Charles de Ganlle today and
‘claimed control over the vast ler
ritory.
The bloodless coup was carried
out hetween midnight and dawt.
I sent a chill ronning through
metropolitan Franee and caused
cansternation in Tunisia where
the Algerian nationalisis who
have been in revall against
France for almost seven years
were preparing for peace talks.
It was not immediately clear
how tight a hold the insurgents
had on Algeria and De Gaulle
sent one of his top licttenants,
Algerian Affairs Minister Louis
Joxe, by jel plane [rom Paris to
find out.
The insurgent leaders took over
the government buildings of -Al-
gicrs ard in a broadeast over Al-
giers Radin claimed teadership
over all of Algeria and the Sa-
hara,
Although the rebels fed by Gen,
Maurice Challe, farmer French
commander in chief in Algeria,
claimed to contral the whole
territory this was disputed by the
Ne Gawle government in Paris,
It said loyal soldiers were in con-
trol outside the City of Algiers
Premier Michel Debre said Lhe
rising was “a premeditaler ars
undisciplined act” by retired gen-
erals. He said they had seized
the’ government buildings in Ab
giers bul “in all the rest of the
terrilory the situation is normal
in every respect. ‘The government
is taking all necessary measures
to insure that force resis with the
jaw.”
Alone wilh Challe the rebe'
communique broadcast by Algier
) Radio was also sigued hy Para
troop Gen. Raoul: Salar, © whe
"!playad a2 prominent rele in the
1958 rising in Algeria that brough'
(| De Gaulle back to power.
.; Salan recently has exiled him
self in Spain, i. was not believed
that he had arrived on Algeriar
soil but he was expected momen
turily.
The rebel communique — sait
24"The powers held by the civi
.{authorities have entirely passer
-ito military autharities.”
.| French officers who have fough
-ithe Algerian nationalists in’ th
6%-year rebellion have — bec
1;among the bitterest opponents o
,/De Gaulle’s — self-determinatio:
,| Policy for Algeria.
»{| Other generals who joined th
revoll were Air Force Gen. Bd
p mond Jouhaud and Army Gen
.\ilenri Acher.
1) After the communique, Algier
.) Radiu said, “the individuals bay
ing participated directly in th
atlempl to abandon Algeria ane
the Sahara will be placed unde
arrest and brought before a mili
tary tribunal.”
The radio declared a “slate o
seige’ in Algeria bul promisec
*ythat all ‘Yurdamental libertic
i and guarantees assured by th
constitution are entirely main
| tained.”
The first reaction among Euro
peans in the city was one of ela
tion. Cars streamed through th
streets blasting their horns in thy
three-two cadence that = mear
“Algerie, Fruncaisu (Algeria i
* | French},
How many troops were involve
{lin the sudden coup was unknown
n' Nor was it clear yet whether th
army claim ty control of all Al
',|#eria was true,
-| There was no violence in th
oo: weeeecccdecanape: cance
| _— ee ee EE ae lC COU Oe
“An anti-Castro radio broadcast |
from an isiand off Central Amer-
‘ica today told two rebel battalions
‘apparently fighting on Cuban soil
ithat help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island!
‘was made a few hours after the
‘Castro government put before!
‘Havana television cameras some,
‘prisoners captured after last!
‘weekend's invasion. One admitted)
their mission failed and said not
‘many rebeis had escaped. Others'
said propaganda from Swan Is-
led them.
The Swan Island broadcast,
monitored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
jions it had sent out during the
night.
It had told earlier of new small
‘landings made in Cuba, but no
‘other source confirmed this. Some
jrebel sources in Miami did say,
jhowever, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
| Cuba for a new invasion assault.
|| A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
‘a new wave of arrests and deten-
|tions reached into almost every
‘family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
‘described as growing worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara.
‘one of Castro's top aides, was
‘seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
_ the information reached Washing.
\ton from a diplomatic source in
|Havana,
' The diplomatic source said a
} neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
. vincial hospital where Guevara al-
_ legedly was taken, Guevara, 32,
’ is Cuba’s economic czar.
1, The government radio network
, said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
;unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
,, against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
, his pro-Communist regime.
>| A Havana television station Fri-
, day night prepared the people for
5 ig “Castro Day” victory celebra.
* tions with a five-hour live inter-
‘view of prisoners the government
s claims it captured during the
i abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles.
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| WASHINGTON (AP)—~President
‘Kennedy today appointed Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army
chief of staff, to make a special
‘survey of U.S, capabilities in the
field of “nonconventional’ war-
fare such as guerrilla activity,
Taylor immediately went on the
job. He attended a meeting this
‘morning of the National Security
‘Council—one of the few sessions
of that major defense group since
Kennedy took office.
| Pierre Salinger, White House
‘press secretary, said that ‘‘non-
conventional” warfare in this case
is not used in the usual sense of
nuclear warfare but of tactical
‘operations,
| Salinger said Kennedy decided
within the last few days that such
a survey is necessary and asked
Taylor Friday to conduct it,
The study clearly was inspired
iby events of the past week in
iCuba,
| WASHINGTON (AP)—President
‘Kennedy today appointed Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army
chief of staff, to make a special
survey of U.S. capabilities in the
field of “nonconventional" war-
fare such as guerrilla activity.
Taylor immediately went on the
job. He attended a meeting this
morning of the National Security
Council—one of the few sessions
of that major defense group since
ennedy took office.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secrelary, said that ‘'non-
conventional’* warfare in this case
is not used in the usual sense of
nuclear warfare but of tactical
operations.
Salinger said Kennedy decided
within the last few days that such
a survey is necessary and asked
Taylor Friday to conduct it.
The study clearly was inspired
by events of the past week in
Cuha,
Pressed by newsmen for the
purpose Kennedy had in mind jin
designating ‘Taylor to conduct -a
study of a specialized phase of
Military operations, Salinger cited
the last paragraph of Kennedy’s
speech two days ago before a
group of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
“We intend to profit from this
lesson. We intend to re-examine
and re-orient our forces of all
kinds—our tactics and other insti-
tvtions here in this community.
We intend to intensify our efforts
for a struggle in many ways more
difficult than war, where disap-
pointment will often accompany
us.’
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THE HAGUE (AP) — The In-
ternational Court of Justice
called on France today to re-
frain from nuclear testing in
the South Pacific pending a fi-
nal decision on the legality of
the test series.
By an 8-6 vote, the court
ruled that Australia and France
should not take any action in
the meantime ‘‘which might ex-
tend the dispute or prejudice
the final decision of the court.”
The court’s ruling followed
applications last month by Aus-
tralia and New Zeland seeking
an injunction against the
French test series.
The court said it would
schedule further hearings in
September and December. It
did not say if France, which
boycotted last month’s hear-
ings, would be represented at
the forthcoming sessions.
In their pleadings before the
court, representatives of both
the Australian and New Zea-
land governments said further
nuclear tests in the South Pa-
cific would present unaccep-
table health and environmental
dangers to the population of
the areas concerned.
The Australian attorney gen-
eral, Lionel Murphy, said the
forthcoming series might be of
“a size and yield hitherto un-
equalled.”’
The people of the southern
hemisphere ‘‘will pay with their
lives for the French decision to
go ahead with their spring test
program,” he added.
France so far has refused to
give any information as to the
nature and yield of the devices
which it proposes to explode.
The only indication so far
that the tests are imminent
were reports last Saturday
from Tahiti saying six French
navy vessels, known to be con-
nected with the tests, left there
last week bound for the Mu-
ruroa Atoll.
French opposition leader
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
said in the Tahitian capital of
Papeete Thursday the French
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| -
THE HAGUE AP: -. The In
ternationa: Court of .hustve
caued oo France today le re
frain from nuclear testing in,
the South Pacifu pending a fi-
nal decision on the legality of
the test seriey
Bi un @4 vote. the court
ruled that Australia and France
sheuki et faxe anv achon in
the nwartine “which might ex.
tend the Juspute or prejudice
the fina! decision of the court”
Tne courts ruling followed
appivations last month Sy Aus-
trana and New Zeland seeking
ar 6 thjunction a@gaingt the
breach test series
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schedule further Searngs in
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the forth: ofan sexstons
In ther piraditats befare the
representatives of both
the Austraiwin and New Zea..
land givernmients said further
nuclear tests in the South- Pac
cic wonld present unaccep-
lable Health and environmental
daruers ie The population af
areas concerned
Vhe Australian attorney gen-
fai. Taone] Murphy, said the
fan ‘Uheoninng series taught be af
“a sige and vield hitherto un
equaded
The peuple of the southern,
herusphere will pay with their
ives for the French decision to
go ahead with their spring teat
programy,” he added.
France sc far has refused i
mive any information as te the
nature and yield of the devices,
which it proposes to explode.
The only indication go ‘far
see TESTS on page}
aed
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|. WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy today appointed Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army
chief of staff, to make a special
survey of U.S. capabilities in the
field of ‘‘nonconventional’ war-
fare such as guerrilla activity.
Taylor immediately went on the
job. He attended a meeting this
morning of the National Security
Council—one of the few sessions
of that major defense group since
Kennedy took office.
K Warns Kennedy
MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev told President
Kennedy today the invagion of
Cuba is “a crime which has re-
volted the whole world.”
“It has been established incon-
trovertibly that it was the United
States that prepared the interven-
tion, financed, armed and trans-
ported the mercenary bands
which invaded Cuba,’ Khrush-
chev said in a message to Presi-
dent Kennedy, handed to E. L.
Freers, U.S. charge d'affaires.
Khrushchev was replying to a
communication several days ago
from Kennedy.
As distributed by Tass, the Sovi-
et news agency, the Khrushchev
statement referred to a Kennedy
‘statement that rockets that might
be used against the United States
could be stationed in Cuba, with
the inference that this posed prob-
lems for the United States in rela-
tion to the whole Western hemi-
sphere.
“Mr. President, you are follow-
ing a very dangerous path,”
Khrushchev said. ‘Ponder that.”
‘Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said that ‘‘non-
conventional’ warfare in this case
is not used in the usual sense of
nuclear warfare but of tactical
operations.
Salinger said Kennedy decided
within the last few days that such
a survey is necessary and asked
Taylor Friday to conduct it.
The study clearly was inspired
by events of the past week in
Cuba
Pressed by newsmen for the
Sfitautiunecaa am Danae &€ fta? -@)
| WASHINGTON (AP)—President Kennedy today appointed Gen. Maxwell D. :
Taylor, former Army chief of staff, to make a special survey of U.S, capabilities in
the field of “nonconventional” warfare such as guerrilla activity.
Taylor immediately went on the job. He attended a meeting this morning of
the National Security Council—one of the few sessions of that major defense
om since ane took office. i
ierre Salinger, White House press secretary, said that “nonconventional”
warfare in this case is not used in the usual sense of nuclear warfare but of tactical .
Operauons,
Salinger said Kennedy decided
within the last few days that such
4 survey is necessary and asked
lor Friday to conduct it.
Pressed by newsmen for the
purpose Kennedy had in mind in
designating Taylor to conduct a
study of a specialized phase of
military operations, Salinger cited
the last paragraph of Kennedy's
speech two days ago before a
group of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
In that Kennedy said: “Let me
then make clear as your presi-
dent that I am determined upon
our system's survival and success,
regardless of the cost and regard-
less of the peril.”
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came safely home from
man’s longest space journey to-
day, splashing down with pin-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 mil-
lion miles in orbit.
Just 39 minutes after touch-
down, Charles Conrad Jr., Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz were hoisted onto the
deck of this recovery carrier,
still inside their Apollo ferry
ship.
“We're all in good shape. Ev-
erything’s OK,’" commander
Conrad radioed as the space-
craft descended through the
clouds and landed within view
of USS Ticonderoga, just 6'z
miles away. That indicated the
astronauts had suffered no ad-
verse physical reactions on re-
turning to earth's gravity after
a record four weeks' exposure
to space weightlessness.
Ten minutes later they
climbed + through the hatch,
lem that caused the 10-minute
delay in the astronauts’ depar-
ture from the orbiting labora-
tory.
“We're free,’ Conrad report-
ed seconds after the control
center flashed the go-ahead for
undocking from the 128-foot-
long laboratory.
They left behind a space sta-
tion which they had salvaged
with some daring, difficult and
often ingenious repair tasks
after it was damaged during
launching May 14.
After the undocking, the as-
lronauts made a 45-minute fly-
around inspection of the sta-
lion, televising pictures of the
odd-looking space vehicle to
mission contro! for evaluation
by experts.
Then, in quick succession,
they triggered the engine fir-
ings that gradually dropped
them closer to earth from their
original orbital altitude of 275
miles.
| PARIS (UPI) — Rebel
generals supported by
Foreign Legion paratroops
seized Algiers today and
claimed the army had
taken over Algeria and the
Sahara Desert from Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle’s
government.
The insurgents announced over
Algiers radio that they had pro-
claimed a “state of siege”
throughout Algeria. The generals
appealed to the army, navy, air
force and police to join them.
The French government imme-
diately canceled all military
leaves.
The bloodless coup d'etat ap
parently was led by Gen. Raoul
Salan, a former French com
mander in Algeria. The Africar
territory was reported calm in the
‘early hours of the revolt.
| At least 2,000 and perhaps a:
'many as 6,000 troops of the For
‘eign Legion's Ist Paratroop Regi
/ment were said to be involved ir
the seizure of Algiers. The rebel:
also claimed the support of troop:
in southeastern Algeria.
In Paris, however, informatio:
Minister Louis Terrenoire said th
insurgents controlled only Algier:
He said the generals commandin
the garrisons of Oran and Cor
| stantine, Algeria's other princips
cities, were loyal to De Gaulle
Communications Cut
UPI's Algiers corresponden
Alan Raymond telephoned Pari
just before the government cu
off communications with Algiers
He said paratroops seized th
official residence of Delegate Ger
eral Jean Morin, De Gaulle’
|chief civilian representative in A
geria.
Morin was taken prisoner, alon
with Public Works Minister Rol
ert Buron, who had just arrive
_|from France, and Gen, Fernan
2] Gambiez, the French militar
commander in Algeria.
Raymond said Algiers was cal
early today, with Europeans an
Arabs going about their busines
as usual. The only sign that an
thing had happened was the u
usual number of troops in tk
is | streets.
mn} The French government cut o
t-| (Continued on Page 3, Col. 6)
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it
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By Assoclated Presa.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.~Over the wire
into the Cragin police station early
today came these words:
“May God have mercy an me, 1] have
Just killed my son. Come here.”
Folice squads sped to the home of
Arthur F. Falk, Northwest Park com-
missioner, where they found Falk
kneeling in prayer on the floor of a
front reom. Nenrby his wife and
daughter wept hysterically. ,
Upstairs, in a bedroom, police
found the body of Eldred Falk, 22, his
head almost severad from the body
bs shotgun bullets.
A disconnected story as told by
Falk, his wife and daughter, was that
a dispute arose between father and
son during which the youth announe-
ed he was going to leave the house.
“You'll only leave here dead,” was
what police say Falk senior replied.
The son then dared his father to
shoot, acenrding te the story told poa-
Hee. Fatk got his shotgun and the
, teat .
Beare epee ere ti
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. (AP)
_What will the senate do is the
pevestion which interests Wash-
gnton, now that the Kellogg-Bri-
and peace treaty has been signed.
The answer to it at this time
is that there appears to be no rea-
son why the pact should not be
ratified promptly but this view
is qualified by the admonition
that many things can happen in
international and domertle affairs
before next winter to change the
current outlook.
Fortified by an undeniable pub-
lic will toward international pacts
that will make armed conflict less
likely and still absolve the United
States from foreign entanglements,
the administration is expected to
put the full force of its prestige
behind the treaty when It is pre-
sented to the senate. The capital
view is that there undoubtedly
will be opposition from some quar-
ters but, on the other hand, that
the treaty will have many import-
ant friends.
In the light of facts as they now
stand, Senator Borah seems cer.
tain to be in the latter group. As
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, he will be 8
key man in President Coolidge’s
request for ratification. The Sen.
ator is credited with having beer
for the treaty were iu f
and thus to have been given th
opportunity to present any objec
tions he may have had. His ful
support, therefore, Is counted upot
by the administration,
* What serious objections, If any
fie members of the Senate woul
bring up to block the consen
which is necessary to make th
treaty binding upon the Unite
Siates, is at this time not alto
gether clear since few senator
have expressed themselves upo!
the subject.
The simple language in whic’
the treaty is phrased, the succes
of Secretary Kellogg in barrin
provisions likely to be objectior
able to the American isolationis
and the fact that the treaty 4]
pears to impose no obligation uy)
on this country other than to r
nounce war as an instrument ¢
national policy, are held in Was!
ington to be factors arguing f
Senate approval. In addition, bot
major political sparties have = hi
dorsed efforts to bring peaceful a
judication of international di
putes to fulfillment,
Among the interesting specul
tions is whether the opponents |
the administration's naval buildir
program will use the Kellogg pa
to reinforce their argumen
There is evidence that Washingt
officials are experiencing sor
uneasiness over their task in 1
_conciling the, treaty with the !
quest for more ships but the ho
is that the country can be ma
to understand that the additior
armament is asked merely
maintain an adequate defense.
Other Countries Lining Up
PARIS, Aug. 28. (AP).—The |
fect of the signing of the Kelloj
Briand War Renunciation tres
was apparent today. Netions
various parts of the world had :
mounced their desire to beco
parties to the pact.
The original signatures w
still wet when telegrams and |
bles of adherence by other co’
tries began to pour into Paris. 7
governments of Denmark, Ju
Slavia, Roumania and Peru
among those having expressed t
wish.
The compact now is open
adherence by all civilized nat
An official invitation to join in
‘ pledge has been handed by
French ambassador.to Maxim —
vinoff, Russian Soviet cemmis
for foreign affairs, at Moleow,
It is expected that at leas
bag will elapse before the tre
been finally ratified by
al signatory countries wt
ures must pass on it,
tulations still were »be
d by M. Briand today w
isians in general, including
inconsiderable element of |
on furnished by Anerican
other tourists, celebrated the
with appropriate calm and de
um, :
ah g boulevards and the 5
walk tables of the cafes \
eroy untit a late ‘hotr
alsbusal
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MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev ‘told President
Kennedy today the invasion of
Cuba is ‘a crime which has re-
volted the whole world.”
“It has been established incon-
trovertibly that it was the United
States that prepared the interven-
tion, financed, armed and trans-
ported the mercenary bands
which invaded Cuba,’ Khrush-
chev said in a message to Presi-
dent Kennedy, handed to E. L.
Freers, U.S. charge d'affaires.
- Khrushchev was replying to a
communication several days ago
from Kennedy.
As distributed by Tass, the Sovi-
et news agency, the Khrushchev
statement referred to a Kennedy
statement that rockets that might
be Bed;
could be stationed in Cuba, with
the inference that this posed prob-
lems for the United States in rela-
tion to the whole Western hemi-
sphere.
‘“‘Mr. President, you are follow-
ing a very dangerous path,”
Khrushchev said. ‘Ponder that.’
The Soviet premier went on to
mention the situation in the Far
East. He contended the United
States had seized Formosa, and
said this started the United States
“on the road of plunder.”
He said the United States
threatens war in case Communist
China moves for unity with Fors
mosa.
“And this is being done by a
nation which has officially recog-
nized that Taiwan (Formosa) be-
longs to China,”” Khrushchev said.
The premier continued:
* You may, of course, express
your sympathies for the imperial-
ist and colonialist countries, and
this will not surprise anyone. For
instance, you vote with them in
the United Nations.
“This is a matter of your
morality. But what has been done
against Cuba is no longer
morality. This is terism.”’ .
Rerusheae said the. United Na-
awit the © me : mem
considers itself er take
such measures against Cuba as it
has been resorting to of late, the
U.S. president must recognize
that other countries have no less-
er reasons to act in a similar way
with regard to states on whose
territory preparations are indeed
being made which constitute a
threat to the security of the Se-
viet Union,” he said.
| “We, for our part, do not hold
such views.”’ he continued.
| MOSCOW (AP)—Sovict Premier
Nikita Khrushehey told President
Kennedy today the invasion af
Cuba is “a oxime which has re-
volied the whale warld.”*
“It has been established {ncon-
troverlibly that it was the United
States that prepared the inlerven-
lion, financed, armed and tran:
ported the mercenary bands which
invaded Cuba," Khrushchev sald
in a message lo President Kennedy,
handed. to E. L, Freers, . U.S
charge d'affaires.
Khrushehey was replying to a
communication several days ago
from Kennedy.
As distributed by Tass, the Soviet
news agency, the Khrushchev state-
ment refered to 4 Kennedy state-
ment that rockets that might be
used against the Uniled Stales
could be stationed in Cuba, with the
inference that (his posed problems
for the United States in relatian to
the whole Western hemisphere.
“Mr, Presideal, you are follaw-
ing a very dangerous path,"
Khrushchey said. “Ponder (hat.”
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| BERLIN, (AP) — At one min-
‘ute past midnight Thursday flag.
bedecked traffic will end the
ie of blockaded Berlin.
That’s 6:01 . Mm. DST
Wednesday
| So far there hasn’t been a
ihitch in final arrangements,
Gen. V.I. Chuikov, Soviet com
mander in Germany, and the
|western powers both have order-
ed that transport, trade and
|communication services between
‘their zones resume at that time
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 194%,
when the blockade began,
16 Trains Daily
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways
will be open. The Soviet’s won't
—or at least say they won’t—
demand trave] permits. They
,also say they’ll not try to search
jallied baggage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin’s Mayor Er-
nest Reuter ordered the black
red and gold flag of the new
West German republic be flowr
on street cars and buses.
| The Berlin flag will be drapec
over other buses which will
‘speed to the west German cities
, of Hanover, Hamburg and Frank.
|furt.
| BERLIN, May 10—(4?)—-At one
minute past midnight Thursday
flag-bedecked traffic will end the
epic of blockaded Berlin.
That's 5:01 i ES.T,, Wed-
hesday. :
So far there hasnt’ been a hiteh
in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet com-
mander in Germany, and_ the
western powers both have order-
ed that transport, trade and com-
munication services between their
zones resume at that time.
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviets won't-—or at
least say they won't —- demand
travel permits. They also say
they'll not try to search allied
baggace.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin's Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West Ger-
man republic be flown on street
cars and buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped
over other buses which will speed
to the west German cities of Han-
over, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten months.
Twelve thousand tons of sup-
plies are to go into the city daily
-—just about the same figure the
air lift reached on its Dest day.
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a
Soviet diplomatic defeat, the offi-
cial Soviet army newspaper, Taeg-
liche Rundschau, today called it
an “unquestionable success of the
policy of unity which was always
pursued by the Soviet Union and
the progressive forces of Ger-
many.”
The paper said that now that
the Berlin blockade was ending,
“war mongers’ would make new
efforts to split Germany-—and
claimed approval of the new West
German democratic constitution
marked such an attempt.
' But throughout the border area
there was excitement in the air
as willing workers installed radio
‘and telephone equipment, repaint-
'ed border signs and clipped weeds
beside the long-neglected high-
Ways.
| The British expected to have
, the first train into the city.
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ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astronauts
came safely home from man’s longest space journey today,
splashing down with pinpoint precision in the Pacific Ocean after 28
days and 11 million miles in orbit.
Just 39 minutes after touchdown, Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph
P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz were hoisted onto the deck of this
recovery carrier, still inside their Apollo ferry ship.
‘We're all in good shape. Everything’s OK,”” commander Conrad
radioed as the spacecraft descended through the clouds and landed
within view of USS Ticonderoga, just 6%2 miles away. That in-
dicated the astronauts had suffered no adverse physical reactions
on returning to earth’s gravity after a record four weeks’ exposure
to space weightlessness.
Ten minutes later they climbed through the hatch, smiled and
waved as the ship’s band played ‘“‘Anchors Aweigh”’ for the all-
Navy Skylab crew.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz fared in the weightless world
will plav a maior role in determining if man can function efficiently
in future long-duration flights. The first of the two 56-day Skylab
missions is scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were held over in orbit today to try to
repair a refrigeration problem in their space station. But Mission
Control decided there was nothing the astronauts could do and told
them to come home.
Ten minutes behind schedule, Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship and executed a series of maneuvers
that sent them slamming into the atmosphere above Thailand for
the fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm blue waters at 9:50 a.m. EDT about
830 miles southwest of San Diego, Calif. It was just after dawn off
the West Coast.
The 42,000-ton Ticonderoga quickly steamed alongside the three-
ton Apollo and tossed a line to frogmen in the water. A crane then
lifted the craft and the astronauts to an elevator for a ride to the
hangar deck.
Hundreds of white-clad sailors on deck and millions watching
television around the world again had a ringside seat to a U.S. man-
in-space landing as the Apollo craft floated down through low-
hanging clouds and dangling under three huge orange and white
parachutes.
‘““Everyone’s in super shape,’’ Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to secure the spacecraft with flotation
collars.
The Ticonderoga reported the astronauts had landed 6% miles
from the ship and that the ship was 642 miles from the target point,
indicating a perfect touchdown.
The Ticonderoga steamed to pick up the Apollo capsule with the
astronauts still inside, in contrast to most earlier U.S. flights when
the spacemen were lifted to the carrier by helicopter.
Medical requirements dictated the pick up method today.
Medical experts were not certain how the astronauts would react
after returning to earth’s gravity following record exposure to
space weightlessness so they decided the astronauts should be
subjected to as little activity as possible until they can be examined
in mobile medical laboratories aboard the Ticonderoga.
The landing completed an historic space mission that lasted 28
days and 50 minutes. During that time the spacemen circled the
earth 395 times.
| WAGELINU LUN TAR tend Rone
Kennedy meets with former Pres
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to
day in an evident bid to ralls
strong national support for crits
ca! steps which he may consider
necessary to deal wilh the 1.
creasingly dangerous Cuban cr.
sis.
A Winte House announcement
of the session—at Camp David.
Md — emphasived Cuba as the
tape for the conference Bul it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifving cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union,
Asks Full Study
Before fhing to Camp David
hy helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Counc
presumably to discuss possible
future moves agamst the pro-
;Communst government of Cubs
in the wake of this “week's abor
{tive’ anti-Casira inyasion.
In the midst of these develop
ments, the President was report
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which hepan fast weekend with
the Umted States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here. with some backing of US
money and aims.
The President was understood
to he concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castros military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence
White Tlouse nevis secretary
[Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
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THE HAGUE (AP) .— The In-
ternational Court of Justice
called on France today to re-
frain from nuclear testing in
the South Pacific pending a fi-
nal decision on the legality of
the test series.
By an 86 vote, the court
ruled that Australia and France
should not take any action in
the meantime ‘which might ex-
tend the dispute or prejudice
the final decision of the court.’
The,. court’s ruling followed
applications last month by Aus-
tralia and New Zeland seeking
an injunction against the
French test series.
The court said it would
schedule further hearings in
September: and December. It
did not say if France, which
boycotted last month's hear-
ings, would be represented at
the forthcoming sessions.
2nd add: sessions. 170
In their pleadings before the
court, representatives of both
the Australian and New Zea-
land governments said further
nuclear tests in the South Pa-
cifie would present wunaccep-
table health -and environmental
dangers to the population of the
areas concerned.
The Australian attorney gen-
eral, Lionel Murphy, said the
forthcoming series might be of
“a size and yield hitherto un-
equalled.”
The people of the southern
hemisphere ‘‘will pay with their
lives for the French decision to
go ahead with their spring test
program,” he added.
France so far has refused to
give any information as to the
nature and yield-of the devices
which it proposes to explode.
The only indication so far
that the tests are imminent
were reports last Saturday
from Tahiti saying six French
navy vessels, known to be con-
nected with the tests, left there
last week bound for the Mu-
ruroa Atoll.
The Mururoa test atoll lies
750 miles Southeast of Tahiti.
French opposition leader
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
said in the Tahitian capitai of
Papeete Thursday the French
government plans six or eight
nuclear atmospheric tests in
the South Pacific this year, anc
must start them by the end oa:
July.
The Radical party leader saic
the tests originally were set fol
early June, but were postponec
twice. He said the high altitude
winds needed for the tests are
favorable only until the end o
| August.
| a2 seen tate FF Fee
Chicago, Aug. 28.—Over the wire
into the Cragin police station today
‘ame these words: “May God have
smerey on me, | have killed my son.
Come here.”
Police squads sped to the home of
Arthur F. Falk, northwest park
commissioner, where they found
Falk knecling in prayer on the floor
of a front room. Nearby his wife
and daughter wept hysterically; up-
stairs in a bedroom police found
the body of Eldred Falk, 22, his head
almost severed from the body by a
shotgun charge. ‘
A disconnected story as told by
Falk his wife and daughter, was
that a dispute rose between father
and son during which the youth an-
nouneed he was going to leave the
house,
“You'll only leave here dead,” was
what police said Falk, sr., replied.
The son then dared his father to
shoot, according to the story told
police. Falk got his shotgun and the
chanting followed.
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ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (UPI)
— Skylab’s astronauts landed in “‘super
shape” in the Pacific Ocean today and
walked shakily a few minutes later to the
doctors’ office to see how well they had
withstood a record 28 days in space.
The bullseye splashdown and quick
recovery by this veteran aircraft carrier
marked a flawless end to a mission that
started with failure. The flight took a
major step toward giving man a place in
space. ,
Charles “Pete” Conrad, Joseph P.
Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz returned in the
Apollo command ship in which they were
launched May 25. The big space station
remained in earth-orbit, ready for its next
crew in five weeks.
President Nixon quickly sent a telegram
to the men who had just completed an 11.5
million mile journey and invited them to
visit him at San Clemente, Calif., Sunday.
“You have given conclusive evidence
that even with the most advanced
scientific and technological support in the
world, the courage and resourcefulness of
good men are still central to the success of
the human adventure,” the President
said.
Conrad, commander of the nation’s first
space station mission, reassured recovery
forces several times that he and his
crewmen were all right after the
strenuous re-entry which quickly built up
deceleration forces 314 times the force of
gravity.
“Everybody’s in super shape,” Conrad
radioed after three orange and white
striped parachutes eased the command
module into the gently rolling seas of the
Pacific 834 miles southwest of San Diego.
The splashdown drama was captured by
television cameras and beamed back by.
* Kerwin and Weitz reported some diz-
ziness after splashdown and Kerwin in-
flated a pair of pressure pants to keep his
blood pressure from dropping to the point
where he might faint. This temporary
effect was expected because of the ten-
dency of astronauts’ blood to pool in their
legs, away from the brain, as a result of
heart laziness induced by long exposure to
the lack of gravity.
Dr. Lawrehce Dietlein, a NASA
physician, said the astronauts looked in
“quite good” health, “far better from
what I personally expected. a
The spacecraft was hoisted aboard this
ship with the pilots still inside, a switch
from past procedures made to keep the
astronauts’ exertion to a minimum.
Medics were ready to carry Conrad,
Kerwin and Weitz on stretchers, if neces-
sary, from their scorched capsule to the
blue mobite medical laboratories 66 feet
away.
But the astronauts, smiling and waving,
climbed out of the Apollo under their own
power. They stood on a wooden platform
briefly, chatting with Dr. Charles Ross,
the flight surgeon, and then carefully
made their way down some steps and to
the special Skylab clinic.
Conrad, who has been in space more
than anyone, appeared the most relaxed.
Weitz and especially Kerwin “walked a
little bowlegged and slightly hunched
over.
But the fact that they were able to walk
as well as they did was significant. It
meant the three Americans were in better
shape after spending 28 days in space than
two Russian cosmonauts were at the end
of an 18-day flight in 1970. They had to be
carried from their spacecraft.
The primary objective of the Skylab
marathon was to see how well men fare
for long periods of weightlessness and
then adjust to the rigors of gravity back on
earth.
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz were un-
dergoing long and detailed medical tests
within an hour after their 9:50 a.m. EDT
splashdown. Doctors said the first results
would not be known until late in the day.
The fate of two planned 56-day flights
aboard Skylab hinged on the findings of
the doctors. The next launch is scheduled
July 27 for Skylab 2 astronauts Alan L.
Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R.
Lousma.
The only problem of the day developed
just as the three Skylab 1 astronauts were
preparing to leave the space station in
orbit 274 miles above earth. The
refrigeration system that runs the.
station’s food and biological sample
freezers failed. ,
The nature of the trouble was not known,
and flight director Neil Hutchinson said it
may be possible for ground controllers to
fix it by doctoring the system by remote
control from earth.
If the trouble could not be fixed, Hut-
chinson said about 15 per cent of the food
aboard Skylab could spoil. But he said this
would not seriously affect the next two
missions.
The Apollo command ship was loaded
with a wealth of information about the sun
and earth’s natural resources as well as
medical data.
Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA ad-
ministrator, praised recovery forces for
their unusually smooth pickup of the
astronauts and said all major objectives of
the flight were completed.
| NEW YORK (AP)—Two Am-
erican correspondents of The
Associated Press at Havana are
presumably under arrest today.
They are Harold K. Milks,
chief of the AP's Caribbean
services and Robért Berrellez.
Both have been assigned to Cu-
ba since 1959.
There have been various re-
ports since Monday that Berrel-
lez was in custody. For two
days the best available infor-
mation indicated Milks was
free. A message said: ‘*Tell our
families we are OK.” But sub-
sequent investigation showed
this message was sent Tuesday.
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EDWARDS AIR FORC® BASE,
Calif. (AP) — A test pilot coolly
describes as ‘‘just routine’’ a trou-
ble-plagued flight in the X15 rock-
et plane that set a new controlled
flight speed record of 3,140 miles
an hour.
Air Force Maj. Bob White
zoomed more than 50 miles a
minute to an altitude of 103,000
feet Friday. thus breaking the
old record of 2,905 m.p.h. he had
set last March 7.
There were tense moments dur-
ing the 11-minute flight—-when the
engine quit temporarily and mo-
ments later when the swept-wing
Dart'’s pressurized cabin sprang
a leak.
White later brushed aside the
miscues, saying, “We expect
some unusual things to show up
im an experimental program.”
- Seconds after the X15 dropped
from its B52 mother plane at 45,-
00G feet, its rocket engine quit.
The X15 dropped 7.000 feet while
White frantically tried to re-start
the engine. At 37.000 feet the
rocket engine's 57.000 pounds of
thrust came on at full throttle,
slamming White back in the
cockpit seat with a force three
times that of gravity. Over the
radio came White's unemotional:
“That was quite a boost.”
White pulled the X15 into a
climbing angle of 30 degrees and
the rocket plane shot like a bullet
on its first full power run. At
80,000 feet, White had his record
and shut off the engine.
His momentum carried him still
higher. At 90,000 feet, the cabin
sprang a leak and White com-
pensated by inflating his space-
type flying suit. At 103,000 feet
the X15 reached the top of its
flight and White eased the plane's
nose gently into a glide back to a
landing on a nearby dry lake.
| EDWARDS AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. (AP)—Maj. Bob
White flew the X15 rocket
plane to a new controlled
flight speed record of 3,140
miles an hour Friday, despite
engine trouble and a leak in
his pressurized cabin.
The new mark is 235 m.p.h.
faster than White’s previous
record of 2,905 m. p. h. last
March 7, but the Air Force
officer said he felt no sensa-
tion of greater speed.
The engine trouble came a
split second after the X15
dropped away from its
mother ship 140 miles east of
here above Hidden Hills, :
Calif.
The engine ignited briefly,
then cut out. For the ‘next. 30.
seconds, while the X15 fell
helplessly from 45,000 feet to
37,000 feet, White labored
sawrrameag to get the engine
restarted
Finally he succeeded. The
engine’s 57,000 pounds of
He driving him back inh his
ry in h is,
peat with a force three time
that of normal gravity.
White zoomed to 80,000 feet,
the altitude at which he
reached the new speed rec-
ord, then shut off his engine.
At 90,000 feet his pressur-
ized cabin sprang a leak. In-
stantly and automatically, his
spacetype flying suit inflated
to compensate for the loss of
pressure in the cabin.
“T was still able to function
normally,’’ White said, s0 he
conse the flight.
Momentum carried him on
to 103,000 feet, close to the
ag peak for the flight.
en came the long glide
back. to base.
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MOSCOW, April 22 (AP)
| —Soviet Premier Khrushchev
told President Kennedy today
the invasion of Cuba is “a
crime which has revolted the
whole world.”
“It has been established in-
controvertibly that it was the
United States that prepared
the intervention, financed,
armed and transported the
mercenary bands which in-
vaded Cuba,” Khrushchev
said in a message to President
Kennedy, handed to E, lL
Freers, U.S. charge d'affaires.
Khrushchev was replying to a
‘communication several days ago
from Kennedy,
| As distributed by Tass, the So-
viet news agency, the Khrushchev
‘Statement referred to a Kennedy
‘Statement that rockets that might
be used against the United States
could be stationed in Cuba, with
the inference that this posed prob-
lems for the United States in re-
lation to the whole western hemis-
phere.
“Mr. President, you are follow-
ing a very dangerous path,’’ Khru-
shchev said. ‘‘Ponder that.”
The Soviet premier went on
to mention the situation in the
Far East. He contended the
United States had seized For-
mosa, and said this started the
United States “on the road of
plunder.”
He said the United States
threatens war in case Com-
munist China moves for unity
with Formosa.
“And this is being done by a
nation which has officially recog-
nized that Taiwan (Formosa) be-
longs to China,’’ Khrushchev said.
The premier continued:
“You may, of course, express
your sympathies for the imperialist
and colonialist countries, and this
will not surprise anyone. For in-
stance, you vote with them in the
United Nations.
“This is a matter of your moral-
ity. But what has been done
against Cuba is no longer moral-
ity, This is gangsterism.”’
Khrushchev said the United Na-
tions must denounce these ac-
tions.
| MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev told President
Kennedy loday the invasion of
Cuba is ‘a crime which has re-
volted the whole world.”
“It has been established incon-
trovertibly that it was ihe United
States that prepared the interven-
tion, financed, armed and trans-
‘ported the mercenary bands
which invaded Cuba,” Khrush-
chev said in a message to Presi-
dent Kennedy, handed to E.-L,
Freers, U.S, charge d'affaires. .
Khrushchev was replying to a
communication several days ago
from Kennedy.
Refers To Rockets
As distributed by Tass, the Savi.
et news agency, the Khrushchev
statement referred to a Kennedy
statement thal rockets that might
be used against the United States
could be stationed in Cuba, with
the inference that this posed prob-
lems for the United States in rela-
tion to the whole Western hemi-
sphere.
“Mr. President, you are follow-
‘ing a very dangerous path,”
Khrushchev said. “Ponder that.”
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WASHINGTON, March 6.—(#)—
President Wonvor today acopted the
resignation of Alexander Legge of
Chicago, as chanman of .the fed-
era! farm bourd, and appointed
James C. Stone, of Kentucky to suc-
cecd him.
In .amaking the announcement
President Lioover said he knew he
reflected “the view ot the agrleul-
tural community when I express in-
tense regret upon the retirement of
Me. Legge.”
The vacancy, President Hoover
sald, created by the elevation of
Stone to the chalrmanship will not
Le filled for two or threes weoks.
“Chairman Legge has been urged
by every farm organization in the
United States to continue his work,”
the president said, “and ££ have
urged him with all the force I could
command. He, however, feels that
he must go back to his business.”
The rettving farm board chairman
came into office nearly two years
ago and has been a storm center
since the Hoover agricultural policy
was put into operation, On numer-
ous occasions he has become in-
lvolyed in controvorzies.
| By Associated Preag.
WASHINGTON, March 6.—President Hoover today 4
| cepted ihe resignation of Alexander Legge of Chicagy as chai!
swan of the federal farm buard, and appointed James C. Stone
lot Kentuely 4p guceeed Win.
fn making the announcement,
President Hoover sald he knew ho
refleted “the view of the agrieul-
tural community whtn I oxpresa In-
lenan regret upon the retirement
of Mr, Legge.”
Services Are Urged.
The vacancy, President Haover
said, created by tha elevation of
Storie to the chairmanship will not
he filled for twe or three weeks,
“Chairman Legge has been urged
by every farm organization in tho
United "States {to continue bly
work,” the prealdent sald, "and I
have urged him with all the force
I could command, - is, however,
fecls that he must go back to his
business."
The reliring farm board chair.
man eamo Into office nearly two
yeare ago and has been a atorm
center Since the Hoaver agricul
ture! poles war put info operation.
On numerous occasions he has he-
come involved in controversies,
Hoover Stttement.
Jn on sintement at the farm
board abaut the ume the president
named id successor Large ex
pressed “greater confidence in the
ultimate success of the agrleul-
tural marketing act than when he
undertook the work. “
The chairman termed his reslz-
nation a6 “a ntere formullt
"AS a matter of fact,” the slate-
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ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (AP)
— Skylab’s astronauts came home safely
from man’s longest space journey today
and despite some early dizziness and
lightheadedness, they were pronounced in
excellent physical conditon.
Charles Conrad Jr.. Dr. Joseph P.
Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz shunned
stretchers to walk somewhat unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery carrier
The wobbly 60 steps from the Apollo
ferry ship to a medical laboratory indicated
the astronauts had suffered some initial
effects in gravity after a record four weeks’
exposure to space weightlessness.
But commander Conrad reported as the
Apollo parachuted toward a_ pinpoint
landing in the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘We're all in good shape.
Everything's OK.”’
Dr. Royce Hawkins, the astronauts’
chief physician, confirmed this after
consulting with doctors on the carrier. He
told newsmen at the Houston Space
Center
“They look quite good. They appear far
better than I expected. They're excellent.”’
Hawkins said Conrad, a veteran of three
previous space flights, was in the best
condition, with normal blood pressure
and pulse and only slight lightheadedness.
He said both Kerwin and Weitz suffered
from dizziness and lightheadedness and
that Weitz’ blood pressure at first was on
the low side.
After splashdown Kerwin blew up an
inflatable suit over the lower part of his
body to help increase blood circulation,
Hawkins said.
The astronauts splashed down right on
target, just 6'2 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later, still inside
the Apollo, they were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how they might
react to earth's gravity after their long
weightless exposure, were prepared to lift
them out on litters.
But, after consultation with doctors,
Kerwin, a physician, said they could walk
to the medical trailer where they began six
hours of extensive medical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from the hatch
and saluted as the ship's band struck up
‘Anchors Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant steps at
first but gradually picked up steam as he
reached the medical lab door. Kerwin was
slightly stooped and both he and Weitz
were somewhat unsteady in their steps.
‘Doctors assisted both Kerwin and Weitz
by holding onto one arm of each.
Experts immediately began removing
thousands of feet of film and tape and
equipment from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments that may tell
a a Sk een eee) PR ee ee
| ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
hauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin
and Paul J. Weitz had suffered
some effects from a record four
weeks’ exposure to space
weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in the
Pacifie after an 11-million-mile
journey: “We're all in good
shape. Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later, still
inside the Apollo, they were on
the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how they
might react to earth’s gravity
after their long weightless ex-
posure, were prepared to lift
them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they began
six hours of extensive medical
debriefing.
They emerged smiling from the
hatch and saluted as the chip’s
band struck up “Anchors
Aweigh’ for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually picked
up steam as he reached the
medical lab door, Kerwin was
slightly stooped and both he and
Weitz were somewhat unsteady in
their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments that
may tell man much about his
earth, his sun and his physical
being. .
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can function
efficiently in future long-dura-
tion flights. The first of the two
’ §6-day Skylab missions is schedu-
led for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try tc
repair a refrigeration problem ir
their space station, But Mission
Control decided there was
nothing the astronauts could do
and told them to come home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
seent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 am. EDT
about 830 miles southwest of San
Diego, Calif. It was just after
dawn off the West Coast.
The 42,000-ton Ticonderoga
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed a line
to frogmen in the water, A crane
then lifted the craft and the
astronauts to an elevator for a
ride to the hangar deck.
Hundreds of white-clad sailors
on deck and millions watching
television around the world agair
had a ringside seat to a U.S. man:
inspace landing as the Apoll
- eraft floated down through low
| hanging clouds and danglin;
under three huge orange anc
white parachutes.
. “Everyone’s in super shape,’
. Conrad said as the spacecraf
| bobbed on the water awaitin;
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to secure
the spacecraft with flotation
collars,
The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauts had landed 6% miles
from the ship and that the ship
was 6% miles from the target
point, indicating a perfect
touchdown.
The Ticonderoga steamed to
pick up the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts still inside, in
contrast to most earlier U.S.
flights when the spacemen were
lifted to the carrier by helicopter.
Medica! requirements dictated
the pick up method today.
Medical experts were not cer-
tain how the astronauts would
react after returning to earth's
- gravity following record ex-
posure to space weightlessness so
they decided the astronauts
| should be subjected to as little
activity as possible until they can
. be examined in mobilet medical
. laboratories aboard the
» Ticonderoga.
The landing completed ar
; historic space mission that lastec
| 28 days and 50 minutes. During
that time the spacemen circle
' the earth 395 times.
t Misson Control was kept it
‘ suspense for most of the final 7
minutes of the flight — a period
when the Apoilo ship was out of
radio contact with ground
stations, ‘
The Ticonderoga’s radar
picked up the streaking craft at a
distance of 188 miles, 10 minutes
before landing.
While out of radio contact, at
9:11 a.m., the astronauts con-
ducted the critical retrorocket
burn that slowed their 17,100
mile-an-hour speed by 130 miles,
allowing earth’s gravity to tug
the spacecraft out of orbit and
start the long glide through the
atmosphere to the eastern
Pacific.
The refrigeration trouble
caused considerable concern. A
maneuver intended to correct it
caused a brief gyroscope prob-
lem that caused the 10-minute
delay in the astronauts’ depar-.
| ture from the orbiting laboratory.
| We're free,” Conrad reported
| seconds after the control center
» flashed the go-ahead fo:
undocking from the 118-foot-long
1 laboratory.
1 They left behind a space statiot
s which they had salvaged witl
| some daring, difficult and ofte:
ingenious repair tasks after i
) was damaged during launchiny
- Mav 14.
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Fey FtPEe OME, | PRENSA
WASHINGTON (*—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid t rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis.
A White Hotise announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
/Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
| Before flying to Camp David
| by helicopter Kennedy met with
_the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive antiCastro invasion,
| In the midst of these develop-
iments, the President was report-
'ed to have ordered a thorough
‘study of freasons for the defeat
(of the rebel invasion attempt
| which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
;~and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. 58.
money and arms.
| The President was understood
|to be concerned about what some
| authorities called a failure to cal-
|culate accurately in advance the
‘strength of Prime Minister Fidel
| Castro's military reaction to the
‘rebel assault as well as possible
[errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa.. which
Eisenhower used for conferences
'with foreign leaders.
| The President arranged the
,luncheon session tn a telephone
'eall to. Eisenhower Friday morn-
\ing. The former chief executive
, Was at his Gettysburg farm.
| Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
icreasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
isis.
| A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
'Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
‘topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
‘Kennedy could discuss with his
ipredecessor a broad range of in-
jtensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
_ Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met wit
‘the National Security Council
presumably to discuss possible
| future moves against the pro
Communist government of Cubs
tin the wake of this week's abor:
tive anti-Castro invasion.
| Seeks Cause of Failure
In the midst of these develop
iments, the President was report
‘ed to have ordered a thorougt
istudy of reasons for the defea’
‘of the rebel invasion attemp
wich began last weekend wit!
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SAN JOS, Cusla mica ss. -rhe
inter-American peace commission
scheduled an urgent flight back to
Washington today for new talks
with its parent Organization of
American States Council on the
“grave’’ Costa Rican-Nicaraguan
ituation.
* Chairman Luis Quintanilla of
Mexico announced he would lay
before the 21-nation council tomor-
row a new request from Costa
Rica and also “various urgent
aspects of the problem with which
we are. presented.”.
Quintanilla refused to give any
clue to the nature of Costa Rica's
request. ‘There was speculation
President Jose Figueres is sceking
more military ald to counter the
superior air force his longtime
enemy Nicaraguan President An-
astasio Somoza {is assembling in
Manacua,.
The Costa Rican request and the
commission’s action followed So-
moza’s statement that abolition of
the neutral zone at the west end
of the Costa Rican-Nicataguan
border — ordered for 6 a.m. today
— raised the threat of war between
his forces and Costa Rica's.
Somoza said he was rushing re-
inforcements up to the border anc
the shedding of ‘any drop of
Nicaraguans’' blood will mear
war.” -
The five-nation peace group de:
cided on the hurried return at ¢
meeting with Figueres and hi:
_ Cabinet which began after the com
mission returned from Managu
yesterday afternoon and lasted int
the carly hours this morning.
Costa Rica appealed to the OAS
for aid at the start of the rebellior
against Figueres two weeks ago
The Costa Ricans charged Somoz:
had trained and equipped th
rebels in Nicaragua. a charg
Somoza_ denied.
The OAS sent aerial observer
and the peace commission and th
United States sent Costa Rica fou
fighter planes with OAS approval
Somota last week received 25 Mus
tang fighters purchased — fror
Sweden. He announced last nigh
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</s> | SAN JOSE, Costa Rica #—The
‘Washington for new talks
with its parent
‘American States Council on the
Managua.
' The Costa Rican request and the
commission's action follewed Se-
statement
tang = fighters
Sweden He annousced ast
in that four of the
i, ~ armed.” took the air
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ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (PB —
Skylab’s astronauts came home safely from
man’s langest space journey today and de-
spite some early dizziness and
lightheadedness, they were pronounced in
excellent physical condition.
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr; Joseph P. Kerwin
and Paul J. Weitz shunned stretchers to walk
smartly but unsteadily across the deck of this
recovery carrier.
_The wobbly 60 steps from the Apollo ferry
ship to a medical laboratoty indicated the
astronauts had suffered some initial effects
in gravity after a record four weeks’ expo-
sure to space weightlessness.
But commander Conrad reported as the
Apollo parachuted toward a pinpoint landing
in the Pacifie after an 11-million-mile jour-
ney: ‘We're all in good shape. Everything’s
OK.”
DR. ROYCE HAWKINS, the astronauts’ chief
physician, confirmed this alter consulting with doctors
on the carrier. He told newsmen at the Houston Space
Center:
“They look quite good. They appear far better than I
expected. They're excellent.”
Hawkins said Conrad, a veteran of three previous
space flights, was in the best condition, with normal
blood pressure and pulse and = only © slight
lightheadedness.
He said both Kerwin and Weitz suffered from
dizziness and lightheadedness and that Weitz’ blood
pressure at first was on the low side.
After splashdawn Kerwin blew up an inflatable suit
over the lower part of his body to help inerease blood
eireulation, Hawkins said.
The astronauts splashed down right on target, just
6% miles from the Tieanderoga.
Thirty-nine minules later, still inside the Apollo,
thoy wore nn tha parriar daele
DOCTORS, nat knowing
how they might react to
earth's gravity after their
long weightless expasure,
were prepared to lift them
out on litters.
But, after consultation
with doctors, Kerwin, a
physician, said they could
walk to the medical trail-
er where they began six
hours of extensive
medical debriefing.
They emerged smiling
from the hatch and sa-
luted as the ship's band
struck up Anchors
Aweigh’ for the all-Navy
crew.
Tee
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Nixon wel-
comed' the Skylah astro-
nauts back to earth teday
and invited them to visit
him Sunday al San Cle-
mente.
Conrad walked = with
hesitant. steps at first but
gradually picked up
steam as he reached the
medical lah door. Kerwin
was Slightly stooped and
both he and Weitz were
somewhat unsteady in
their sleps.
Doctors assisted hath
Kerwin and Weitz by hold-
ing onto one arm of each.
EXPERTS immediately
began removing thau-
sands of feet of film and
tape and equipment from
medical, carth resources
and astronomy experi
ments that may tell man
much about his earth, his
sin and his physical
heing.
How well Conrad,
Kerwin and Weitz fared in
the weightless world will
play a major role in
determining if man can
function efficiently in fu
ture long-duration flights.
The first of the lwo 56-day
(Turn to A-t, Cal. 1)
| ABOARD USS — TICONDE.-
ROGA (AP) = Skylab's astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
Space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint _—- in
the Pacific after an 11-million
mile journey: “We're all in
good shape. Everything's OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6% miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth's
gravity after their long weigh
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a ysician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck up ‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz wi holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will we! a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of the
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a_ series of
maneuvers that sent them
slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m.
| different | train |
Rambouitiet, France, Aug. 28.—
{A.P.)—Dorls, Stevens, American
feminist leader, and three others of
@ group of feminists who tried to
“crash the gates” of the presidential
chatéau today In behalf of the equal
righta movement, were held .io cus-
tedy, at the police commi{asariat for
several hours for failure to have thelr
ddentlly papers.
They were released this after:
‘aiteeyall of the statesmen whe
iwith Frealdent Daumer-
guet-had-goné. | The women hac
_pouight a-féq! minutes audiedce with
the/ president's guests’ who yester:
oy eigned the Kellogg-Briand : re:
Hunelation of war irealy. The plar
of the feminists was to dlucuss with
them a-project Tor an intarndtiona
“treaty establishing equal rights, f01
men: and: women. ‘
‘Thoseheld. over, the noon bow!
with Mlsa(Steyens wero Mrs. Lorin;
Plekeriag; Funoy Bernard of Franc
and Mrs. jetty Gram Swing. for
‘-merly. of .Rortland, Ore, and nov
wits of Meh nawepaper man
The wo! ‘ail left for Parks,
| WASHINGLION (AP)—President
Kennedy met with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
‘strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri.
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David.
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
‘topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro.
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week’s abor.
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop.
ments, the President was report
ed to have ordered a_ thorougt
|study of reasons for the defea'
‘of the rebel invasion attemp
‘which began last weekend wit!
the United States’ moral suppor
|—and, it was generally believec
here, with some backing of U. S
|}money and arms.
| The President was understooc
to be concerned about what some
| authorities called a failure to cal
culate accurately in advance the
| strength of Prime Minister Fide
Castro’s military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen
hower would meet at Camp Da
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., whicl
| Eisenhower used for conference:
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged th
‘luncheon session in a telephon
'! call to Eisenhower Friday morn
‘ling. The former chief executiv
was at his Gettysburg farm.
‘| Salinger said Kennedy wante
‘to bring Eisenhower up to dat
‘on the Cuban situation, believin:
‘ithat ‘‘as leader of the Republi
‘|can party and as former pres!
| See KENNEDY, Page
| different | train |
WASHINGTON, May 10—(4)—
The Navy announced today 10,000
workers will be laid off in 11
naval -shipyards in the United
States and Hawaii between now
and June 30, 1950.
About 7,500 employes will have
dropped by July 1, 1949.
| Washington—Same 10,000 work-
ors at Navy shipyurds are going
to be laid off, most of them by
iPuly, 1. The iJayoffs. are being
made because the Navy has: less
money for the new businesn yenr,
| same | train |
WASHINGTON (AP)-~President
Kennedy today appointed Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, former
chief of staff, to make a special
survey of U.S. capabilities in the
field of “nonconventional’ war-
fare such as guerrilla activity.
Taylor immediately went on the
job. He attended a meeting this
morning of the National Security
Council—one of the few sessions
of that major defense group since
Kennedy took office.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said that ‘‘non-
conventional” warfare in this case
is not used in the usual sense of
nuclear warfare but of tactical
operations,
Salinger said Kennedy decided
within the last few days that such
a survey is necessary and asked
Taylor Friday to conduct it.
The study clearly was inspired
by events of the past weck in
Cuba.
Pressed by newsmen for the
purpose Kennedy had in mind in
designating Taylor to conduct a
study of a specialized phase of
military operations, Salinger cited
the last paragraph of Kennedy’s
speech two days ago before a
group of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
In that Kennedy said: ‘‘Let me
then make clear as your presi-
dent that IT am determined upon
our system’s survival and success,
regardless of the cost and regard-
less of the peril.”
| WASHINGTON. (/) ~ Presi-
dent Kennedy today appointed
Gen, Maxwell D. Taylor, for-
mer Army chief of staff, to
make a special survey of U. 8S.
capabilities in the field of “non-
conventional’ warfare such as
guerrilla activity.
Taylor immediately went on
the job. He attended a meet-
ing this morning of the Na-
tional Security Council — one
of the few sessions of that
major defense group. since
Kennedy took office.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said that ‘‘non-
conventional” warfare in this
case is not used in the usual
sense of nuclear warfare but
of tactical operations, |
Salinger said Kennedy de-
cided within the last few days
that such a survey ig necessary
and asked Taylor Friday to
conduct it.
The study clearly was in-|
spired by events of the past)
week in Cuba.
| same | train |
WASHINGTON (AP)—Presiderit
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But ii
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week’s abor:
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a _ thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
,of the rebel invasion attempt
|which began last weekend with
ithe United States’ moral support
|—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S.
money and arms.
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro’s military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a_ telephone
call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that ‘‘as leader of the Republi-
|Can party and as former presi-
-|dent he should know what the sit-
-|uation is.’
| Salinger also. disclosed that
Kennedy had been in indirect con-
tact with Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
|feller of New York, another Re.
.| publican leader, and that he had
conferred Friday with Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz.
The contacts with Republicans
followed Kennedy’s meeting at the
White House Thursday with for-
mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, his Republican opponent
for the presidency last year,
Nixon said in New York Friday
night that he had told Kennedy
he would support him “even to
the commitment of American
armed forces.”
Nixon said that as a private
citizen he would back Kennedy
in such a move if Kennedy con-
sidered it necessary to ‘“‘stop the
buildup of the Communist beach-
head in Cuba.”
Both Kennedy and Eisenhower
arranged to fly to Camp David
by helicopter, Kennedy going di-
rectly from the White House and
Eisenhower from his farm. They
last met on inauguration day.
Jan. 20, when Kennedy took over
the reins of government.
| | BY JORN MM. HIGRIUW ER
--WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for ¢riti-
cal steps which he may eonsider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis.
A White House announceme
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this weeks abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a_ thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United States moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. §.
money and arms.
The President was «understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
"astros military reaction to the
‘ebel assault as well as possible
arrors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
ight that Kennedy and Bisen-
10wer would meet at Camp Da-
yid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
reat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
‘isenhower used for conferences
vith foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
uncheon session in a_ telephone
all to Eisenhower Friday morni-
ng. The former chief executive
vas at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
> bring Eisenhower up to date
n the Cuban situation, believing
hat “as leader of the Republi-
an party and as former presi-
ent he should know what the sit-
ation is.
Salinger also disclosed that
ennedy had been in indirect con-
ict with Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
ler of New York, another Re-
ublican leader, and that he had
onferred Friday with Sen. Barry
oldwater, R-Ariz.
alked With Nixon
The contacts with Republicans
lowed Kennedys meeting at the
hite House Thursday with for
ler Vice President Richard M.
ixon, his Republican opponent
mn the presidency last year,
Nixon said in New York Friday
ight that he had told Kennedy
e would support him “‘even to
’e commitment of American
rmed forces. :
Nixon said that as a private
itizen he would back Kennedy
1 such a move if Kennedy com
dered it necessary to “stop the
uildup of the Communist beach
cad in Cuba. A
Both Kennedy and Eisenhower
ranged to fly to Camp David |
y helicopter, Kennedy going di
-ctly from the White House and
isenhower from his farm, Tiw
ist met .on inauguration day,
an. 20, when Kennedy. took: ove |
mM reins of government,
&
4
| same | train |
Berlin, May 10-(P)-At one min-
ute past midnight Thursday flag-
bedecked traffic will end the epic
of blockaded Beriin. That's 4:01
p. m., C. S. T., Wednesday. So far
there hasn't been a hitch in final
arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet com-
mander in Germany. and the west-
ern powers both have ordered that
transport, trade and communica-
tion services between their zones
resume at that time. Things will
revert back to the way they were
on March 1, 1948, when the block-
ade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviet’s won't--or at
least say they won't—demand
travel permits. They also say
they'l! not try to search allied bag-
gage. Mail service wil! be resumed.
Western Berlin’: Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West German
republic be flown on street cars
and buses. The Berlin flag will
be draped over other buses which
will speed to the West German
cities of Hannover, Hamburg and
Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
eoal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes and. consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten ronths. Twelve
thousand tons of supplies are to
go into the city ¢.ily—just about
the same figure the airlift reached
on its best day,
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a Soviet
diplomatic defeat, the official
Soviet Army newspaper, Taegliche
Rundschau, today called it an “un-
questionable success of the policy
of unity which was always pursued
by the Soviet Union ‘and the pro-
gressive forces of Germany.”
The paper said that now that
the Berlin bleekade was ending,
“warmongers” would make new
efforts to split Germany--and
“claimed approval of the new West
German Democratic constitution
marked such an attempt.
But throughout ‘he border area
there was excitement in the air as
willing workers installed radio and
telephone equipment, repainted
berder signs and clipped weeds
beside the ‘ong-negiected high-
ways. The British expected to have
the first train into the city.
a Senne
| BERLIN—(AP)—At one minute past midnight Thursday
flag-bedecked traffic will end the epic of blockaded Berlin.
| That's 5:01 p. m., EST, Wednesday.
| So far there hasn't been a
‘hitch in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I, Chuikov, Soviet
‘commander in Germany, and
‘the Western Powers both have
ordered that transport, trade
and communication services be-
tween their zones resume at that
i time.
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
'when the blockade began.
| Sixteen freight trains will
move into the city daily. High-
ways will be open. The Soviet’s
'won't—or at least say they won't
—demand travel permits. They
‘also say they'll not try to search
‘Allied baggage.
Mail service will be resumed,
Western Berlin's Mayo r
‘Ernest Router ordered | the
black, red and gold flag of the |
new West German Republic be)
flown on street cars and buses.
‘The Berlin flag will be draped.
over other buses which will
speed to the West German cities
of Hanover, Hamburg and
Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six. others of fresh po-'
tatoes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,)
which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten months.
* Twelve thousand tons of pe
plies are to go into the city
daily —- just about the same fig-|
ure the air lift reached on its|
While most of the “world hail-|
ed the end of the blockade as a.
Soviet diplomatic defeat, the of-)
ficial Soviet Army newspaper, |
Taegliche Rundschau, today
called it an “unquestionable suc-
cess of the policy of unity which |
was always pursued by the So-)
viet Union and the Progressive
forces of Germany.’
The paper said that now that!
the Berlin blockade was ending, |
“warmongers’’ would make new)
efforts to split Germany — and.
claimed approval of the new)
West German Democratic con-
stitution marked such an at-)
tempt.
But throughout the border
area there was excitement in
the air as willing workers in-|
stalled radio and_ telephone
equipment, repainted border |
signs and clipped weeds beside
the long-neglected highways.
The British expected to oe
the first train into the city.
monomer
| same | train |
WASHINGTON (AB)—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
2 =e
‘strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may cosider
necessary to deal with the in-
ee dangerous Cuban cri-
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference, But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad of in-
tensifying cold war with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss —_
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
Orders Invasion Study
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report- :
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last wormend: wah
the United States’ moral support
and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. &.
The President ‘was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fide!
PO Sse ee ES gee) ees
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
— that Kennedy and Eisen
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa.. which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
‘call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that “as leader of the Republi-
ean party and as former presi-
‘Tare to Page 18. Pieasey
| WASHINGTON (AP) — President Kennedy meets with
former President Dwight D. Eisenhower today in an evident
bid to rally strong national support for critical steps which he
may consider necessary to deal with the increasingly danger-
Wie Ww Ub wi fatas
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Discuss Future Moves
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possibile
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these deveiop-
ments. the President was report-
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S.
money and arms.
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
Meet at Camp Dayid
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Elisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that ‘“‘as leader of the Republi-
can party and as former presi-
dent he should know what the sit-
uation is.”
Salinger also disclosed that
Kennedy had been in indirect con-
tact with Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
feller of New York, another Re-
publican leader, and that he had
conferred Friday with Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz.
The contacts with Republicans
followed Kennedy's meeting at the
White House Thursday with for-
mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, his Republican opponent
for the presidency last year.
Full Support From Nixon
Nixon said in New York Friday
night that he had told Kennedy
he would support him ‘“‘even to
the commitment of American
armed forces.”
Nixon said that as a private
citizen he would back Kennedy
in such a move if Kennedy con-
sidered it necessary to ‘‘stop the
buildup of the Communist beach-
head in Cuba.”
Both Kennedy and Eisenhower
arranged to fly to Camp David
by helicopter, Kennedy going di-
rectly from the White House and
E1senhower from his farm. They
Jast met on inauguration day,
Jan. 20, when Kennedy took over
the reins of government.
| same | train |
ue WN PIPst bay
Berlin, May 10—i(4)—At one
minute past midnight Thursday
flagbedecked traffice will end the
epic of blockaded Berlin.
That's 4:01 p. m. Central Stan-
dard, Time, Wednesday.
So far there hasn't been a hitch
in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet com-
mander in Germany, and the
western powers both have ordered
that transport, trade and com-
munication services between their
zones resume at that time.
Things will revert to the way
they were on March 1, 1948, when
the blockade began.
Searches to End
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviet’s won't—or
at least say they won’t—demand
travel permits. They also say
they'll not try to search allied
baggage. Mail service will be
resumed.
Western Berlin’s Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new west German
republic to be flown on _ street
cars and buses.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh pota-
toes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten months
Twelve thousand tons of sup-
plies are to go into the city daily—
just about the same figure the
air lift reached on its best day.
Excitement In Air
Restrictions on movements be-
tween the Soviet and western
sectors of Berlin are to be re-
moved at the same hour that the
blockade ends.
Until then, search and seizure
continue to be the rule for eastern
and western sector police enfore-
ing regulations. But Thursday the
Berliner can go where he pleases
and carry whatever he wishes,
without interference or fear of
confiscation of his goods or cur-
rency.
Throughout the border area
there was excitement in the air
as willing workers installed radio
and telephone equipment, repaint-
ed border signs and clipped weeds
beside the long-neglected high-
ways.
The British expected to have
| the first train into the city.
| BERLIN, May 10—(4?)—-At one
minute past midnight Thursday
flag-bedecked traffic will end the
epic of blockaded Berlin.
That's 5:01 i ES.T,, Wed-
hesday. :
So far there hasnt’ been a hiteh
in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet com-
mander in Germany, and_ the
western powers both have order-
ed that transport, trade and com-
munication services between their
zones resume at that time.
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviets won't-—or at
least say they won't —- demand
travel permits. They also say
they'll not try to search allied
baggace.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin's Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West Ger-
man republic be flown on street
cars and buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped
over other buses which will speed
to the west German cities of Han-
over, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten months.
Twelve thousand tons of sup-
plies are to go into the city daily
-—just about the same figure the
air lift reached on its Dest day.
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a
Soviet diplomatic defeat, the offi-
cial Soviet army newspaper, Taeg-
liche Rundschau, today called it
an “unquestionable success of the
policy of unity which was always
pursued by the Soviet Union and
the progressive forces of Ger-
many.”
The paper said that now that
the Berlin blockade was ending,
“war mongers’ would make new
efforts to split Germany-—and
claimed approval of the new West
German democratic constitution
marked such an attempt.
' But throughout the border area
there was excitement in the air
as willing workers installed radio
‘and telephone equipment, repaint-
'ed border signs and clipped weeds
beside the long-neglected high-
Ways.
| The British expected to have
, the first train into the city.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
leaders of the world’s two nu-
clear superpowers pledged in a
landmark agreement today to
regulate their relations in a
way to reduce the risk of nucle-
ar war.
President Nixon and Soviet
Communist party Secretary
Leonid I. Brezhnev reached the
accord in the fifth day of their
summit talks and prepared to
sign it at the White House be-
fore heading for California
where they will conclude their
meetings Sunday.
In addition to its application
to US.-Soviet relations, the
agreement applies also to the
relations of either party with
other countries. In this way, al-
though technically bilateral, the
agreement has multilateral im-
plications,
The two leaders declared in
the agreement that they were
“conscious that nuclear war
would have devastating con-
sequences for mankind’ and
said they wanted “to bring
about conditions in which the
danger of an outbreak of nucle-
ar war anywhere in the world
would be reduced and ultimate-
ly eliminated.”
They pledged their countries
to “act in such a way as to pre-
vent the development of situ-
ations capable of causing a
dangerous exacerbation of their
relations, as to avoid military
confrontations, and as to ex-
clude the outbreak of nuclear
war between them and between
either of the parties and other
countries.”
Nixon and Brezhnev also
agreed that their countries
“will refrain from the threat or
the use of force against the oth-
er party, against the allies of
the other party and against oth-
er countries, in circumstances
which may endanger _inter-
national peace and security.”
The agreement was reached
as the two leaders looked ahead
to a reunion summit in Moscow
in 1974—the target date for for-
mally limiting the atomic arse.
nals of the two countries.
|
ce OEE ee
An anti-Casiro radio bro-
adeast fram an island off
Central America today told
two rebel battalions appar.
ently fighting on Cuban soil
thal help was on the way
and urged them nol to sur-
render,
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
j Castro Eovernment put befare
Havana television caucras some
‘prisoners captured alter — last
I woekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed amd said no
many yebcls had escaped. Othe:
said propaganda from Swan
{and amt North America had ny
jled them.
The Swan tsland hrnadeast
monilared by The Associaler
Press in Miami, Fla, also re
peated troop mavement instruc
Bons it had sent aut during the
palahl,
Wt bad lold earlier af new smal
landings made iu Cuba, bub an
other source confirmed this. Same
rebel sources in Miami did say
however, thal between 580 ane
1,500 guerrillas were headend fa
Cuba for a new invasion assault
A dispateh from Ilavana de
|seribed the Cuban capilal as;
city of fear and suspicion. I sai
anew wave of ar and deten
tions reveled into almost eve
‘| family. Suspects jammed swalle
| jails and living conditions wer:
described as prowing warse,
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Ry The Assoctated Press
Washington, March 6 ~President
Hoover accepted the resignation
of Alexander Legge of Chicago. as
chairman of the federal farm
board, and appointed James C
Stone of Kentucky to succeed him
today
In making the announcement,
President Hoover said he knew he
reflected “the view of the agrict!-
tural community when I express
intense regret upon the retirement
of Mr. Legge.”
The vacancy, President Hoover
said, created by the elevation of
Stone to the chairmanship will not
be filled for two or three weeks
“Chairman Legge has been urged
by every farm organization in the
United States to continue his
work.’ the president said, “and I
have urged him with all the force
I could conimand He, however
feels that he must gu back to his
business”
The retiring fartn board chair
man came into offlce nearly two
years ago? and haa been a storm
center since the Hoover agrieul-
tural policy was put into operation
On numerous ocramgions he haw be-
come involved in controversies.
In a watement at the farm board
about the time the president named
his successor, Legge expressed
“wreater conficence in the ultimate
success’ of the agricultural mar-
keting act than when he unter
took the work 7
The chairman termed his resig-
nation ag “a mere formality
“Ag a matter of fact.” the sate
ment continued “I have heen work
ing on overtime for nearly eight
montha |t being clearly understood
when ! accepted the position that
it was for a one year period in
heiping to get the organization set
up and the work started
‘The program has progreamed to
a point where the organization may
he safely claswified as a geing con
cern I sincerely believe the plan
of operation to be sound and that
the test of time will prove thie to
the satiefaction of all interested
The new chairman of the board
has had many yeara experience in
cooperative tmmarketing, the funda-
mental principle on which the farm
board works
He organized and was genera!
manager for a number of years of
the Burley Tobaceo Cooperative A»
fociatien of Kentucky, his native
atate
He has been a member of the
farm board epince {ts organization
ang has been active particularly in
organiaing cotton and tobacco co-
operatives financed and directed by
stabilization corporations under
the direction of the farni board
| An anti- Castro ‘radio broadcast from an island off Cen-
tral America today told two rebel battalions apparently
fighting on Cuban soil that help was on the way and urged
them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island was made a few’hours after
the Castro government put before Havana television cameras
some prisoners captured after last weekend's invasion. One
admitted their mission failed and said not many rebels had
escaped. Others said propaganda from Swan Island and
Warth Ameries had misled them.
The Swan Island broad-
cast, monitored by The As-
sociated Press in Miami, Fla.,
also repeated troop move-
ment instructions it had sent
out during the night.
It had told earlier of new small
jJandings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a@ new wave of atrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described as growing worse.
The New York Times quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro's top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
Havana.
The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vinetal hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken. Guevara, 32,
is Cuba's economic czar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
mop-up operations in the interior
against the surviving rebel invad-
ers who are trying to overthrow
his pro-Communist regime.
A Havana television station Fri-
day night prepared the people for
big ‘Castro Day" victory celebra-
tions wiih a five-hour live inter-
view of prisoners the government
claims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban:
exiles. |
One prisoner was Jose Miro.
Torres, son of the tap Cuban reb-
el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his hp and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
ns force was defeated and his
operauon ended in failure.
The rebet leader’s son said on
Havana television that he had)
been well treated since his cap.
qure. All his comments were in,
the form of answers to his inter- |
rogators
“Then it is not just to sav that,
Cuban militiamen hehase tke hu.
man beasts?" Miro Torres was,
asked. ;
“Absolutely not.” he replied be-.
fore the cameras,
When asked by the panel of in-!
terviewere what he and bis men,
expected to find when they land
ed. Mire Torres said: |
“We thought the militia and the,
army would join os” i
“That is what yeu were told But’
what did you find?" i
“They foucht us very hard and!
defeated us” '
“Then sou were defeated?”";
Mire Terres was asked. ;
“Yes,” he answered. t
Miro Torres also responded |
“no when asked uf any appre-|
clable number of invaders had
escaped.
Some af the other prisoners oni
the shaw seemed to give com-|
pliant answers, but one talked}
back defiantly to his accusers, ;'
Jose Miro Cardona appealed
from his New York headquarters
to Pope John XXII, asking the
pontiff's intercession to halt fir-
ing squad executions of captured
rebels. A Havana dispatch Fri-
day said the number shot had
reached 29 in three days
Miro Cardona said in his cable
to the Vatican that the Pope’s
voice, “exemplifying Christian
charity, could save the lives of
many idealistic men” by interced-
ing through the International Red
Cross. Miro Cardona also mes-
saged the presidents of 11 Latin
American nations, asking them to
“act promptly’ te prevent more
executions.
AP Correspondent Bem Price
reported from Cuba that an un-
derground source there com-
plained bitterly over what he saw
as the reasons for the failure of
last weekend’s invasion attempt.
The source said the rebels neglect-
ed to seize radio stations for ral-
lying the masses and did not fur-
nish themselves with proper aerial
support. .
The U.N. General Assembly
adopted 59-13 a mild resolution
asking all nations to ‘take what-
ever peaceful steps they can to
remove existing tension between
the United States and Cuba.
The assembly killed a provision
|
to aSsign a peacemaker role to
Latin American nations, reversing
the U.N. Political Committee.
Demonstrations for and against
Castro contmued in the rest of
the world. Some Asian editorial
comment backed Washington.
The latest and biggest pro-Cas-
tro rally was in Mexico City,
where police used clubs, tear gas
and fire hoses to disperse a mob
of 10,000. Injuries were reported
as minor Police moved in as the
crowd was about to burn an
American flag and a 10-foot ef-
figy of Kennedy hanging from a
jamp post.
A rally in Union Square. fam-
ous as a park for public oratory
in New York City, denounced the
United States over Cuba. The Fair
| Play for Cuba Committee spon-
sored the rally. Pro-Castro speak-
ers worked a crowd of 2.500 .into
noisy excitement that drowned
out anti-Castra hecklers.
President Ramon Villeda Mor-
ales of Honduras told a crowd in
Tegucigalpa he would break re-
lations with Cuba. The crowd
backed his announcement with
shouted slogans.
The Uruguayan government re-
jected a demand by ihe Soviet
ambassador in Montevideo that
Uruguay condemn the United
States for so-called “aggression”
in Cuba. The ruling council met
in special] session and said the
United Nations is competent to
handle the Cuban situation.
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By Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Aug.
28.—Four men are dead and
one other wounded as the
result of what police described
as a shooting orgy here by 2
man insanely jealous of his
estranged wife.
Terey T. Barnes, 35, a railroad cm-
ploy, was under ae
The dead were Charles E. Curtis
and Charles Klein, brothers-in-law of
Barnes, and Len Gearhardt, his
cousin by tnarrage, and Clarence
Maney, 65, whe died teday in a hos-
pital, ;
Mo. Larkin, president of the Lar-
kin Transportation company of Sacra-
mento, was wounded.
Polive attribated the tripte slaying
ta Barnes’ jealousy of his wife and
his desire to regain custody of their
four-year-old child.
Barnes, who was captured at Stock-
ton iast night, when grilled this
morning by officers. named an alleg-
ed accomplice. L. Ro Cohifrn, 26, 1
fellow employe in the Southern Paci.
fig shops here, as responsible for the
shooting of three.
| DPNLIAN, say einige ing EA
Russian authorities began |
lifting the Berlin blockade 40 |
hours before the deadline to-|
day when they restored elec-|
tric power to parts of the
WwW estern sectors.
The Soviet action gave
American sector housewives
unrationed electricity in the
middle of the morning for the
first time since power ra-
‘tioning. was foreed upon
‘Western Berlin by the Soviet
blockade last July 9.
| Radios .played and electric
i stoves glowed as the power flowed
| into American sector lines from
‘the Soviet sector. All of Berlin's
/maj power generating stations
are in the Soviet sector.
German Electric power author-
ities said the restoration of elec-
tricity to the western sectors would
take place gradually.
Full service, such as existed be-
fore the Russians cut off the
power during the first weeks of
their blockade, will not be effected
juntil some time Thursday, they
said,
| Restoration of power was start-
ed 40 hours before the official time
set for ending the blockade-——12:01
a. m. Thursday ‘6:01 p. m. EDT
'Wednesday?.
At that minute the first of 16
|Allied trains a day will begin to
‘roll into Berlin for the first time
since the Russians cut off all sur-
| face transportation 11 months ago.
| Western authorities meanwhile
instructed Lord Mayor Ernst Reu-
‘ter to lift Allied counter-blockade
measures against the Soviet zone
‘at the same time.
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. oe.
By THE ASSOCISTED PRESS
An anti-Castro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal. from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after last
weekend's invasion. One admitted
their mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
Said propaganda from Swan Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
The Swan. Island broadcast,
minotored by The _ Associated
Press in Miami, Fla. also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night. |
It had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and.
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispatch from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family, Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
described aS growing worse.
The New York Times quated a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro's top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
ton from a diplomatic source in
| HAMDGUIUIeL, MTANCe, A1UR. 2h
—Doris Stevens, American fem-
inist leader, was taken into cus-
tody by the police today when
she and several other feminists
itried to “crash the gate” at the
presidential chateau here to pre-
sent an equal rights petition to
President Doumergue.
Stage Demonstration
In addition to Miss Stevens, the
polica detained one other woman.
The group staged a demonstration
outside the big iron gate leading to
the chateau, where the plenipotentia-
rles who yesterday signed the Kelloge-
Briand patt, were at lunch with the
President.
Miss Stevens is chairman of tha
commitiees on.international action of
the National. Woman's. Pariy..of,the
United States.
The wonlen unfurled a. banner bear-
ing the inscription. “we demand a
treaty giving women their rights,’
they also waved American and French
flags.
Halted By Guards
They tried to march through the
gebeway to the Chateau, but were
stipped by officers of the Chateau
guards who offered to take their pe-
titlan to the Chateau.
The feminists insisted they wanted
to present the petition and as the agi-
talon continued the afficers demanded
that Miss Stevens and her most active
companion show their identification
"papers.
The guards with the afd of police
then confiscated the banuers and Miss
Stevens and.her. companion were tak-
en to the police commissariat.
Miss Stevens and her companion
were detained in a locked room at the
commissariat because they had left
their identity cards in Paris. Two of
their companions stayed.to keep them
company.
Appeal for Food.
The four “prisoners” who took up
residence in the police station at noon
soon appealed through the window to
friends for sandwiches and mineral
water which was passed.to them.
They were released at 3:30 o'clock
this afternoon after all of the states-
men who had lunch with President;
Doumergue had gone.
Those held over the noon hour with
Miss Stevens were Mrs, Loring Pick-
ering, Fanny Bernard of France and
Mrs, Betty Gram Swing, formerly of
Portland, Oregon, and now wife of an
English correspondent. The women
all left for Paris, .
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab's astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space
journey and shunned stret-
chers to walk smartly but
unsteadily across the deck of
this recovery carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from
the Apollo ferry ship to a
medical laboratory indicated
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz had suffered some effec-
ts from a record four weeks’
exposure to space
weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo
parachuted toward a pinpoint
landing in the Pacific after an
11-millionmile journey:
“We're all in good shape.
Everything’s OK."”
They splashed down right on
target, just 62 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doetors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weigh-
less exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive
medical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck up
“Anchors Aweigh” for the
all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Ker-
win and Weitz by holding onto
one arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his
physical being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin
and Weitz fared in the
weightless world will play a
major role in determining if
man can function efficiently in
future longduration flights.
The first of the two 56-day
Skylab missions is scheduled
for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to
come home.
Ten minutes behind
schedule, Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz undocked their Apollo
ferry ship and executed a
series of maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the
atrmosphere above Thailand
for the fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. EDT
about 830 miles southwest of
San Diego. Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The 42,000-ton Ticonderoga
quickly sleamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed a
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft and
the astronauts to an elevator
for aride tothe hangar deck.
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and millions wat-
ching television around the
world again had a ringside
seat to a U.S. man-in-space
landing as the Apollo craft
floated down through
low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes.
“Everyone's in super
shape,’’ Conrad said as the
spacecraft bobbed on the
water awaiting pickup. Frog-
men immediately leaped from
helicopters (o secure the
spacecraft with flotation
collars.
The Ticonderoga reported
the astronauts had landed 61%
miles from the ship and that
the ship was 6% miles from
the target point, indicating a
perfect touchdown.
The Ticonderoga steamed to
pick up the Apollo capsule
with the astronauts still
inside, in contrast to most
earlier U.S. flights when the
spacemen were lifted to the
carrier by helicopter.
Medical requirements dic-
tated the pick up method
today.
Medical experts were not
certain how the astronauts
wocld react after returning to
earth's gravily following
record exposure to space
weightlessness so they
decided the astronauts should
be subjected to as little
activity as possible until they
can be examined in mobilet
medical laboratories aboard
the Ticonderoga.
The landing completed an
historic space mission that
lasted 28 days and 50 minutes.
During that time the
spacemen circled the earth
395 times.
Misson Control was kept in
suspense for most of the final
76 minutes of the flight —a pe-
ried when the Apollo ship was
out of radio contact with
ground stations.
The Ticonderoga’s radar
picked up the streaking craft
at a distance of 188 miles, 10
minutes before landing.
While out of radio contact,
at 9:11 a.m., the astronauts
conducted the critical
retrorocket burn that slowed
their 17,100 mile-an-hour
speed by 130 miles, allowing
earth’s gravity to tug the
spacecraft out of orbit and
start the long glide through
the atmosphere to the eastern
Pacific.
The refrigeration trouble
caused considerable concern.
A maneuver intended to
correct it caused a brief.
gyroscope problem that
caused the 10-minute delay in
the astronauts’ departure
from the orbiting laboratory.
“We're free,’’. Conrad
reported seconds. after the
eontrol center flashed the
go-ahead for undocking frorn
the 118-footiong laboratory.
They left behind a space sta-
tion which they had salvaged
with some daring, difficult
and often ingenious repair
tasks after it was damaged
during launching May 14.
After the undocking, the as-
tronauts made a 45-minute fly-
around inspection of the sta-
tion, televising pictures of the
odd-looking space vehicle to
mission control for evaluation
by experts.
Speed in retrieving the
astronauts is essential
because doctors are keenly
interested in their initial reac-
tion to earth gravity after four
weeks’ exposure to
waoichi lnacesnacc
| ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this
recovery carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weite had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo
parachuted toward a pinpoint
landing in the Pacific after an
ti-millionmile journey:
“We're all in good shape.
Everything's OK ”
They splashed down right on
target, just 6'2 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing ae
they. might react to earth’
gravity after their long weig &
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they
began six hours of extensive
medical debriefing.
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship's band struck up ‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps
i
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each. :
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments
that may tell man much about
his earth. his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin
“and Weitz fared in the
weightless world will play a
major role in determining if
man can function efficiently in
future long-duration flights.
The first of the two 36-day
Skylab missions is scheduled
for launch July 27.
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try to
repair a refrigeration problem
in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
bome.
Ten minutes behind
schedule, Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz undocked their Apollo
ferry ship and executed a
series of maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the at
mosphere above Thailand for
the fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. ED17
about 830 miles southwest oi
San Diego, Calif. It was jusi
after dawn off the West Coast
The 42,000-ton Ticonderogz
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed z
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft anc
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck,
Hundreds of white-clad sail
ors on deck and millions
watching television arouna the
world again had a ringside seat
to a U.S. man-in-space landing
as the Apollo craft floatec
down through low-hanging
clouds and dangling under
three huge orange and white
parachutes.
“Everyone’s in supet
shape,’ Conrad said as the
spacecraft bobbed on the water
awaiting pickup. Frogmer
immediately leaped from
helicopters to secure the
spacecraft with flotation
collars. :
The Ticonderoga reportec
the astronauts had landed 6):
miles from the ship and that
the ship was 6'z miles from the
target point. indicating a
perfect touchdown.,
The Ticonderoga steamed to
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WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres.
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban eri:
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md, — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion,
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
led to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
‘the United States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S.
‘money and arms.
_ The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence,
- White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that ‘‘as leader of the Republi-
can party and as former presi-
dent he should know what the sit-
uation is.”
Salinger also disclosed that
Kennedy had been in indirect con-
tact with Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
feller of New York, another Re-
publican leader, and that he had
conferred Friday with Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz. |
The contacts with Republicans
followed Kennedy's meeting at the
White House Thursday with for-
mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, his Republican opponent
or the presidency last year,
| Nixon said in New York Friday
night that he had told Kennedy
‘he would support him “‘even tc
the commitment of American
‘armed forces.”’
_ Nixon said that as a private
citizen he would back Kennedy
in such a move if Kennedy con.
‘sidered it necessary to “‘stop the
buildup of the Communist beach-
head in Cuba.”
_ Both Kennedy and Eisenhower
arranged to fly to Camp David
by helicopter, Kennedy going di-
‘rectly from the White House and
‘Eisenhower from his farm. They
last met on inauguration day,
‘Jan. 20, when Kennedy took over
‘the reins of government,
_ Salinger was asked whether
‘Kennedy considered the Cuban
situation grave. He said the Pres-
‘ident had expressed his own esti-
mates of that crisis twice in the
last two days and Salinger had
‘nothing to add.
Actually, the President had lit.
tle to say about Cuba at his news
conference Friday apart from
confirming that the United States
‘was in consultation with its Latin
American allies. These consulta:
tions are believed to aim at joint
‘Allied action against the Castre
regime — provided enough Latin
American governments will sup-
‘port such action.
| But in a aks to the Ameri-
can Society of Newspaper Editors
on Thursday Kennedy served no-
‘tice to the American people and
‘the world that if U. S. security
were threatened his administra-
‘tion would not hesitate to act
lalone to meet “its primary ob-
ligations” to protect the United
‘States.
Whether the President is now
considering direct U, S. interven-
tion if the situation continues to
get worse has not been disclosed
by him or the White House. Ad-
‘ministration officials generally.
have taken the line in private
talks with newsmen that they do
‘not contemplate any emergency.
steps but prefer to work in co-
operation with Allies if possible.
_ However, available ttiemntin
from authorities here leaves no
doubt that Castro's defeat of the
rebel invasion was a severe blow.
to Washington’s hopes that the in-
vasion woulé put an end to Com-
munist influegce in Cuba and the’
‘use of the island as a base for
Communist military power. Cas-|
tro is reported to have received
very heavy deliveries of Soviet|
arms, and in his speech Thurs-
day Kennedy spoke of the use of;
“Communist tanks’ in crushing
‘the invasion.
| The post mortem examination
of U. S. government connections,
with the invasion operation and.
what went wrong is in full swing
here and promises to continue for.
many weeks, A point at issue is
whether the administration acted
wisely in letting the Cuban Rev-
olutionary Council proceed with
its plan, |
| é
Adrabiliteption informants told
newsmen privately that there was
complete concurrence among the
President, Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, as well as other palicy-|
makers in the National Security
Council, that the United States
should not veto the operation. |
These informants said the Cuban
cevolutionary leaders were anx-
ious to go ahead with their plan
last weekend and that they con-
fidently expected it woould set off,
defections in Castro’s armed
forces and result in popular up-
risings. Those anticipated results
did not develop.
Well telscned eatin now|
say privately that one almost cer-
tain reason they did not develop
is that Castro had too powerful
a control over the whole country
—that his military forces and his
security system made defections|
and uprisings impossible. |
The uprisings inside Cuba were|
vital to the success of the plan,
according to information in offi-|
cial quarters here, because the
invading force is said to have,
numbered little more than 1,200,
men, a group much too small to,
undertake a major military oper-|
ation to overthrow Castro,
A decisive factor in the timing
of the rebel assault was reported
to be a decision by the govern-
ment of Guatemala to end the
training of anti-Castro rebel,
forces there. Reports, not official-|
ly confirmed, have been current, .
for many months that such train-'.
ing was under way in Guatemala. |
The Cuban rebel leaders were)
said to have been confronted with’
a situation in which they either
had to act about the time they
did or shortly find themselves
without a base of operations.
| eee teen a Sires yes ate
WASIHNGTON (AP}—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evkient bid fo rall
stvong national support for o
eal steps which he may consider
necessary (o deal with the in-
ercasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp Davi,
Md, — emphasized Cuba as the
topie for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss wilh his
predecessor’a braad range of in.
fensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp Pavid
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National Security Council,
presumably. io discuss passible
future moves against the pro:
Communist goverutrent of Cubz
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the Presiient was repart-
ed to have ordered a {harough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attemp'
which began last weekend with
the United States’ maral support
—and, il was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S
money and arms.
‘The President was understoo
to be concerned about what same
authorilies called a failure ta cal
culate accurately in advanfe the
strength of Prime Minister Fite
Castro’s military reaction ta th
rebel assault as well as possibl
errors in intelligence.
White House news secretar:
|Picrre Salinger disclosed Frida:
jnight that Kennedy and Fisen
hower would meet at Camp Da
|vid, the Catoctin Mountain re
|treat near Geltysbucg, Ba., whic!
Eisenhower used for conference
with foreien leaders,
The President arranged th
‘iJuncheon session in a telephon
"|call to Eisenhower Friday mon
ing. ‘The former chief exceutiy
“twas at his Gettyshurg farm.
"| Salinger said Kennedy wante
*/to bring Eisenhawer up to dat
lon the Cuban situation, believin
y)that “as leader of the Repuh!
tlean party and as former preg
5) dent he should know what the si
uation is,’”
y{ Salinger alse disclased fh
ae
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with.
the United States ean make “prac-
tical agreements"’ sad ease world
tensions, _—
He also says ” ihoninu crisis:
can be settled if Red China will
renounce the use of force to eap-
ture Nationalist-held islands.
Diplomats noted that the secre-
tary's speech last night to the For-
eign Policy Assn. in New York
was calm and peaceful] in tone but
firm against spread of commu-
nism in any important new areas
of Asia, |
Dulles apparentiy took inis tone
deliberately in contrast to recent
warlike speeches by Soviet For-
eign Minister V. M. Molotov and
Red Chinese Foreign Minister
Chou Eielai. Molotoy denounced
the United States. Chou threatened,
as Dulles put it, to use “all the
forees at his command” to cap-
ture Formosa,
May Defend Islands.
s for the Formosa problem,
Dulles said the United States “has
no commitment and no purpose”
to defend such islands as Que-
may and the Matsus “as such.”
But he made clear that it might
well fight over Quermoy and Matsu
if any Communist attack on them
was aimed at the conquest of Chi-
amg Kai<chek’s Formosa.
Dulles appealed to the Chinese
Reds to reconsider a United Na-
tions Security Couneil bid to dis-
cuss a Formosa cease-fire.
“Tt is hardly to be expected,”
he said, “that the Chinese Com-
munists will renounce their ambi-
tiens. However. might they not re-
nounce their efforts tu realize their
goals by force?”
Discussing the Russian situation,
he said a distinction must always
be made between the Soviet gov-
ernment and the Communist party.
“The time may come—I believe
it wil] come,”” he said, “when Rus-
siams of stature wil] patriotically
put first their national security and
the welfare of their
“They will be unwilling to have
that security and that welfare suo
ordinated to the worldwide am
bitions of interna tional commu
nism,
“If their pomt of view shoulc
prevail, then indeed there couk
be a basis for worthwhile nego
tiation and practical agreement be
tween the United States and thi
new Russia.”
The secretary did not speculat
within what period of time ‘Rus
sians of stature™ might seize pow
er from those whose first dedica
tion, he said, is to “internationa
communism.”
Dulles said the demotion a
Georgi Malenkov as premier 1}
days ago and the clevation of Nike
lai Bulganin to succeed him pre
vided “an extraordinary demor
stration of despotic disarray.”
“The Prime Minister of the S<
viet state.” he said, was pre
emptorily summoned to a hig
Soviet session in the Kremlin an
subjected to the public humiliatio
of hearing another read his resis
nation | and his confession of ‘m
guilt.’
The full significance of what hay
pe ned is stil obscure, Dulles saic
and “perhaps the last act of th
drama has not yet been played.”
</s> | Baal
WASHINGTON. :#—Secretary of
State Dulles says “a power strug-
gle in Moscow eventually will pro-
duce Russian leaders with whom
.the United States can make “prac:
tical agreements”? to ease world
tensions..
_ He also says the Formosa crisis
-can be settled if Red China will
; renounce the use of force to cap-
ture Nationalist-held islands.,
Diplomats noted that the secre-
lary's speech last night to the For-
eign Policy Assn. in New York
was calm and peaceful in tone but
firm against spread of commu-
nivm in any important new areas
of Asia.
Deliberate Contrast
Dulles apparently took this tone
deliberately in contrast to recent
warlike speeches by Soviet For-
cign Minister V. M. Molotov and
Red Chinese Foreign Minister
;Chou En-lai:, Molotov denounced
the United States. Chou threatened,
us Dulles put it, to use ‘all the
forces at his command” to cap-
tule Formosa.
; «As for the Formd&a_ problem,
Dulles said the United States “has
no commitment and no purpose"
tu defend such islands as Que-
moy and the Matsus ‘as ‘such.’
But he made clear that it might
well fight over Quemoy and Matsu
if any Communist attack on them
was aimed at the conquest of Chi-
ang Kai-shek’s Formosa.
Dulles appealed to the Chinese
Reds to reconsider a United Na-
tions Security Council bid to dis-
cuss g Formosa cease-fire.
Distinction Made
“It is hardly to be expected,”
he said, ‘that the Chinese Cum-
munists will renounce their ambi-
tions. However, might they not re-
nounce their efforts‘to realize their
goals by force?” ; ;
Biseissiny the Russian situation,
he said a distinction must always
be made between the Soviet gov-
ernment and the Communist party.
“The time may come—lI believe
it will come,"’ he said, ‘‘when Rus-
sians of stature will patriotically
put first their national security and
the welfare of their people.
“They will be unwilling to have
that security and that welfare sub-
ordinated to the worldwide am-
bitions of international commu-
nism."
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Berlin —(AP)— At one minute
past midnight Thursday flagbe-
decked traffic will end the epic of
blockaded Berlin.
That's 4:01 p.m. CST., Wednes-
day.
So far there hasn't been a hitch
in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet cor-
mander in Germany, and the west-
ern powers both have ordered that
transport, trade and communica-
tio. services between their zones
resume at that time.
Things will revert back to the
way they were on March 1, 1948,
when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviets won't-—or
at least say they won't—demand
travel permits. They also say
they'll not try to search alied
baggage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin's mayor, Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new west German
republic be flown on street cars
and buses.
| BERLIN, (AP)— At one minute past midnight Thurs-
day flag-bedecked’ traffic will end the epic of blockaded
Berlin.
That's 6:01 p. m. (Massillon time) Wednesday,
So far there hasn’t been a hitch in final arrangements.
_ Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany,
and the western powers both have ordered transport, trade
and communication services between their zones resumed
at that time.
Things will revert back to the way they were on March,
1, 1948, when the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move into the city daily.
Highways will be open. The Soviets won't—or at least say
they won’t—demand travel permits. They also say they'll
not try to search Allied baggage.
Mail service will be resumed.
Western Berlin’s Mayor Ernest Reuter ordered the
black, red and gold flag of the new West German repub-
lic be flown on street cars and buses. °
The first day, 10 trainloads of coal and six others of
fresh potatoes and consumer goods are scheduled to move
into the city, which has been supplied by the air lift for
10 months.
Twelve thousand tons of supplies are'to go into the city
daily—just about the same figure the air lift reached on
its best day,
While most of the world hailed the end of the blockade
‘as a Soviet diplomatic defeat, the official Soviet army
newspaper, Taegliche Rundschau, today called it an “un-
questionable success of the policy of unity which was al-
‘ways pursued by the Soviet Union and the progressive
forces of Germany.” .
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MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev told President:
Kennedy today the invasion of
‘Cuba is ‘a crime which has re-
volted the whole world.”
“It has been established imcon-
trovertibly that it was the United
States that prepared the interven-
tion, financed, armed and _trans-
ported the mercenary bands
which invaded Cuba,” Khrush-
chev said in a-message to Presi-
dent Kennedy, handed to E. L.
Freers, U.S, charge d'affaires. -
Khrushchev was replying to a
communication several days ago
from Kennedy.
As distributed by Tass, the Sov!-
et news agency, the Khrushchev
statement referred to a Kennedy
statement that rockets that might
be used against the United States
could be stationed in Cuba, with
the inference that this posed preh-
lems for the Unnted States in rela-
tion to the whole Western hemi-
sphere.
{ “\f- President. you are follow-
| ing a very danzerous path,”
'hrushchev said. ‘‘Ponder that.”
| MUSPOM, Ait 22 7OPh ==
iPremigr Nikiia oS. Nhrustiehey
warned President Kennedy today
lihat an Amer
an attack on Cuba
might be followed by u Soviet at-
tuck against U.
foreign bases
[which he said threaten Russia's
| security.
| He
following “a slippery and danger.
jous road which ean lead the world
Htu a new world war.”
| Khrushchev said he had incon
il the United Stites was
|frovertible proof the United States
ion of Cu
“Mr, President.
a very dangerm
and
j prepared the in
|
said
you are adup'-
path, Ponder
He said Neunedy had displayed
la) morality of gangsterisem toward
!Cuba. He said he had proof the
‘United States prepared, financed.
armed and transported the ‘“mer-
j cenary bands" which invaded Cuga.
(The White Mouse had wo im-
;mediate comment an the Khrush-
jehev message.)
! He said the colonial system is
erambling and becoming a thing
of the past and “for its part the
Soviet Union is doing everything
to expedite the process.”
So MAnd of thal we are prow
Khrushchev said.
Khrushchev's statement
made in a note handed tod
LULS. charge d'affaires L, Freers
,in Moscow in reply te a Kennedy
letter of April 18. The text was re-
‘leased by the Tass news apeney,
I Khrushchev said the atta
Cuba was “a crime whiell bh
{volted the entire world.”
“This case of an attemet ap
the part af the United States gav-
Termment to reestablish in Cuba
such oa kind of ‘freedom!’ ander
which the conntry would dance to
[uhe tune of more powes
neighbor and foreign monopolies
wuld again be ahle to plunder
mnatnral wealth of Cuba, (o fatten
jon the sweat and blood of the
‘Cuban peapte,” he suid
"Our govermment seeks no advan
luges or Ieges im Cub
Khrushehey said. “We hive ne
bases in Cuha. nor do we intend to
ablish them.
on
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ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (UPT)
— Skylab’s astronauts landed in “super
shape” in the Pacific Ocean today and
walked shakily a few minutes later to the
doctors’ office to see how well they had
withstood a record 28 days in space.
The bullseye splashdown and quick
recovery by this veteran aircraft carrier
marked a flawless end to a mission that
started with failure. The flight took a
major step toward giving man a place in
space.
Charles “Pete” Conrad, Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz returned in the
Apollo command ship in which they were
launched May 25. The big space station
remained in earth-orbit, ready for its
next crew in five weeks. .
President Nixon quickly sent a tele-
gram to the men who had just completed
an 11.5 million mile journey and invited
them to visit him at San Clemente, Calif,
Sunday.
“You have given conclusive evidence
that even with the most advanced scien-
tific and technological support in the
world, the courage and resourcefulness
of good men are still central to the suc-
cess of the human adventure,” the Presi-
dent said.
Conrad, commander of the nation’s
first space station mission, reassured
recovery forces several times that he
and his crewmen were all right after the
strenuous re-entry which quickly built up
deceleration forces 314 times the force of
gravity.
“Everybody’s in super shape,” Conrad
radioed after three orange and white
striped parachutes eased the command
module into the gently rolling seas of the
Pacific 834 miles southwest of San Diego.
The spacecraft was hoisted aboard this
ship with the pilots still inside, a switch
from past procedures made to keep the
astronauts’ exertion to a minimum.
Medics were ready to carry Conrad, Ker-
win. and Weitz on stretchers, if neces-
sary, from their scorched capsule to the
blue mobile medical aboratories 66 feet
away.
But the astronauts, smiling and wav-
ing, climbed out of the Apollo under their
own power. They stood on a wooden plat-
form briefly, chatting with Dr. Charles
Ross, the flight surgeon, and then care-
see Skylab—page 2
| astronauts landed on target in
the Pacific Ocean today and
reported they were in ‘super
shape” after a fiery, strenuous
return to earth from a record
28 day spaceflight.
It was a flawless end to a
mission that started with a
failure, and the flight took a
forward leap toward giving man
a place in space.
Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad, Jo-
seph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz came back in the Apo!lo
command ship they took off in
four weeks ago. Their space
station remained in orbit, ready
for its next crew in five weeks.
Anxious Wait
Recovery forces and controll-
ers back at Houston’s mission
control waited anxiously for
more than a half hour between
the time the ship’s main
braking rocket fired and
Conrad reported, ‘‘everything’s
okay,” while the ship was still
in the air.
The capsule’s small drogue
parachutes and then its three
orange and white striped main
canopies blossomed out on
schedule and eased the as-
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Berlin, May 10-(P)-At one min-
ute past midnight Thursday flag-
bedecked traffic will end the epic
of blockaded Beriin. That's 4:01
p. m., C. S. T., Wednesday. So far
there hasn't been a hitch in final
arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikov, Soviet com-
mander in Germany. and the west-
ern powers both have ordered that
transport, trade and communica-
tion services between their zones
resume at that time. Things will
revert back to the way they were
on March 1, 1948, when the block-
ade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviet’s won't--or at
least say they won't—demand
travel permits. They also say
they'l! not try to search allied bag-
gage. Mail service wil! be resumed.
Western Berlin’: Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West German
republic be flown on street cars
and buses. The Berlin flag will
be draped over other buses which
will speed to the West German
cities of Hannover, Hamburg and
Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
eoal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes and. consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
which has been supplied by the
air lift for ten ronths. Twelve
thousand tons of supplies are to
go into the city ¢.ily—just about
the same figure the airlift reached
on its best day,
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a Soviet
diplomatic defeat, the official
Soviet Army newspaper, Taegliche
Rundschau, today called it an “un-
questionable success of the policy
of unity which was always pursued
by the Soviet Union ‘and the pro-
gressive forces of Germany.”
The paper said that now that
the Berlin bleekade was ending,
“warmongers” would make new
efforts to split Germany--and
“claimed approval of the new West
German Democratic constitution
marked such an attempt.
But throughout ‘he border area
there was excitement in the air as
willing workers installed radio and
telephone equipment, repainted
berder signs and clipped weeds
beside the ‘ong-negiected high-
ways. The British expected to have
the first train into the city.
a Senne
| | BRIAN, A) —- &— oe oe
past midnight Thursday flag-be-
decked traffic will end the epic of
blockaded Berlin.
‘"That’s 4:01 p.m., CST, Wednes-
day.
So far there hasn’t been a hitch
in final arrangements.
Gen. V. I. Chuikev, Soviet com-
mander in Germany, and the
Western powers both have order-
ed that transport, trade and com-
munication services between their
zones resume at that time.
Resume Normal Traffic
Things will revert to the way
they were on March 1, 1948, when
the blockade began.
Sixteen freight trains will move
into the city daily. Highways will
be open. The Soviet’s won’t—or at
least say they won't — demand
travel permits. They also say they
will not try to search allied bag-
gage.
Mall service will be resumed.
Fiy New Fiag
Western Berlin's Mayor Ernest
Reuter ordered the black, red and
gold flag of the new West German
republic be flown on street cars
and buses.
The Berlin flag will be draped
over other buses which will speed
to the west German cities of Han-
over, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The first day, 10 trainloads of
coal and six others of fresh po-
tatoes and consumer goods are
scheduled to move into the city,
Lange has been supplied by the air
lift for ten months.
| Twelve thousand tons of supplies
are to go into the city daily—just
about the same figure the air lift
reached on its best day.
Views On Ending Differ
While most of the world hailed
the end of the blockade as a Soviet
diplomatic defeat, the official So-
viet army newspaper, Taegliche
Rundschau, today called it an “un-
questionable success of the policy
of unity which was always pursued
by the Soviet union and the pro-
Germany.”
‘there was excitement in the air as
willing workers installed radio and
telephone - equipment, repainted
border signs and clipped weeds
beside the long-negiected high-
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An anti-Castre radio broadcast from an island off Cen-
tral America today tald two rebel baitalions apparenily fight-
ing on Cuban soil that help: was on the way and urged them
not to surrender, ‘
The appeal from Swan Island was made a few heurs
‘after the Castro government put before Havana television
cameras some prisoners captured after last weekend’s in-
vasion, One admitted their mission failed and said not many
rebels had escaped. Qthers said propaganda from Swan Is-
1GNnG GNG UNO” America naa
misled them.
The Swan Island broadcast,
monitored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent ‘out during the
night. !
It had told earlier of new small
landings made in Cuba. but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebel sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 500 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion, assault.
A. dispatch from Havana de-
seribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
a new, wave of arrests and deten-
tions reached into almost every
family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and. living conditions were
described as growing worse.
The New York Times, quoted a
diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj, Ernesto Guevara,
one of Castro's top ‘aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing.
ton frpm a diplomatic source in
Havana.
‘The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vincial hospital where Guevara al-
legedly was taken, Guevara, 32
is Cuba's economic czar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for -almost a
Continued on Page ‘42, Column 8
| An antiCastro radio broadcast
from an island off Central Amer-
ica today told two rebel battalions
apparently fighting on Cuban soil
that help was on the way and
urged them not to surrender.
The appeal from Swan Island
was made a few hours after the
Castro government put before
Havana television cameras some
prisoners captured after last
weekend’s invasion. One admitted
ltheir mission failed and said not
many rebels had escaped. Others
said propaganda from Swan _ Is-
land and North America had mis-
led them.
Tne Swan Island broadcast.
monitored by The Associated
Press in Miami, Fla., also re-
peated troop movement instruc-
tions it had sent out during the
night.
It had told earlier of new small
landings made ip, Cuba, but no
other source confirmed this. Some
rebe] sources in Miami did say,
however, that between 510 and
1,500 guerrillas were headed for
Cuba for a new invasion assault.
A dispateh from Havana de-
scribed the Cuban capital as a
city of fear and suspicion. It said
| new wave of arrests and deten-
‘tions reached into almost every
| family. Suspects jammed swollen
jails and living conditions were
descrived as growing worse.
Tne New York Times quoted a
|diplomatic source in Washington
as saying Maj. Ernesio Guevara,
one of Castro's top aides, was
seriously wounded in the head
earlier this week. The Times said
the information reached Washing-
lton from a diplomatic source in
‘Havana.
The diplomatic source said a
neurosurgeon was sent to a pro-
vincial hospital where Guevara al-
| legedly was taken. Guevara. 32,
lig Cuba’s economic ezar.
The government radio network
said Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
unseen in public for almost a
week, was personally directing
imop-up operations in the interior
iagainst the surviving rebel invad-
'ers who are trying to overthrow
‘hs proCommunist regime.
I A Havana television station Fri-
i:day night prepared the people for
ibig ‘Castro Day" victory celebra-
; tions with a five-hour iive inter-
View of prisoners the government
‘elaims it captured during the
abortive invasion by Cuban
exiles.
One prisoner was Jose Miro
Torres, son of the top Cuban reb-
el leader Jose Miro Cardona.
Miro Torres bit his lip and rocked
in his chair as he admitted that
his force was defeated and his
operation ended in failure.
The rebe] leader’s son said on
Havana televisién that he had
been well treated since his cap-
ture. All his comments were in
+the form of answers to his inter-
, rogators.
| “Then it is not just to say that
Cuban militiamen behave like hu-
man beasts?’ Miro Torres was
asked.
“Absolutely not,’ he replied be-
‘fore the cameras.
When asked by the panel of in-
terviewers what he and his men
expected to find when they land-
ed, Miro Torres said:
“We thought the militia and the
parmay would join us.”
“That is woat you were told. But
jwhat did you find?"
| “They fougnt us very hard and
defeated us.”
- “Then -you were defeated?”
‘Miro Torres was asked.
“Yes.” he answered.
i Miro Torres also responded
ino" when asked if any appre-
, ciable number of invaders had
lescaped,
Jose Miro Cardona appealed
from his New York headquariers
to Pope John XXUI, asking the
pontiff’s intercession to halt fir-
ing ssuad executions of captured
rebels. A Havana dispatch Fri-
day said the number shot had
reached 29 in three days.
Miro Cardona said in his cable
to the Vatican that the Pope’s
voice, “exemplifying Christian
charity, could save the lives of
many idealistic men” by interced-
ing through the International Rud
Cross. Miro Cardona also mes-
saged the presidents of 11 Latin
American nations. asking them to
“aet promptly” to prevent more
executions. ,
President Kennedy was to meet
today with former President Et
senhower at Camp David, Md..
to discuss at funch the recent
events in Cuba. The wvo have rot
imet since Kennedy tovk office.
The U.N. General Assembiy
adopted 59-13 a mud = resotuden
asking all* nations to take what-
ever peaceful stops trey can fp to
remove existing tension betuveen
the United States and Cuba.
| The assembly kiled a provision
to assign a peacemaker rete to
Latin American nations, reversing
the U.N. Political Committee.
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely from
man’s longest. space journey to-
day and despite some early diz-
ziness and lightheadedness,
they were pronounced in ex-
cellent, physical conditon.
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr. Jo-
seph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz shunned stretchers to
walk somewhat unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
The wobbly 60 steps from the
Apollo ferry ship to a medical
laboratory indicated the astro-
nauts had suffered some initial
(effects in gravity after a record
four weeks’ exposure to space
weightlessness.
But commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: ‘‘We’re all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”
Dr. Royce Hawkins, the as-
tronauts’ chief physician, ‘con-
firmed this after consulting
with doctors on the carrier. He
told newsmen at the Houston
Space Center:
“They look quite good. They
|appear far better than I ex:
| pected. They’re excellent,”
Hawkins said Conrad, a vet-
eran of three previous space
| flights,. was in the best condi.
Hon, with. normal blood pres
sure. and. pulse and. only slight
3 lightueadedness.
He said both Kerwin and
Weitz suffered from dizziness
and lightheadedness and that
Weitz’ blocd pressure at first
was on the low side.
After splashdown Kerwin
blew up an inflatable suit over
the lower part ef his body to
help increase blood circulation;
Hawkins said.
The astronauts splashed down
Tight on target, just 6% miles
from the Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weigh-
tless exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters. —
But, after. consultation: with
doctors, Reve, a_ physician,
See SKYLAB: Pabe 2
| ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
nauts came home safely today
from man’s longest space jour-
ney and shunned stretchers to
walk smartly but unsteadily
across the deck of this recovery
carrier.
EXPOSURE
The wobbly 69 steps from the
Apollo ferry ships to a medical
laboratory indicated Charles
Conrad Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Paul J. Weitz had suf-
fered some effects from a
record four weeks’ exposure to
space weightlessness.
But Commander Conrad re-
ported as the Apollo parachuted
toward a pinpoint landing in
the Pacific after an 11-million-
mile journey: “We're all in
good shape. Everything’s OK.”
They splashed down right on
target, just 614 miles from the
Ticonderoga.
Thirty-nine minutes later,
still inside the Apollo, they
were on the carrier deck.
Doctors, not knowing how
they might react to earth’s
gravity after their long weight-
less exposure, were prepared
to lift them out on litters.
But, after consultation with
doctors, Kerwin, a physician,
said they could walk to the
medical trailer where they be-
gan six hours of extensive med-
ical debriefing.
UNSTEADY
They emerged smiling from
the hatch and saluted as the
ship’s band struck up ‘‘Anchors
Aweigh” for the all-Navy crew.
Conrad walked with hesitant
steps at first but gradually
picked up steam as he reached
the medical lab door. Kerwin
was slightly stooped and both
he and Weitz were somewhat
unsteady in their steps.
Doctors assisted both Kerwin
and Weitz by holding onto one
arm of each.
Experts immediately began
removing thousands of feet of
film and tape and equipment
from medical, earth resources
and astronomy experiments.
that may tell man much about
his earth, his sun and his physi-
cal being.
How well Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz fared in the weightless
world will play a major role in
determining if man can func-
tion efficiently in future long-
duration flights. The first of ‘he
two 56-day Skylab missions is
scheduled for launch July 27.
FIERY DESCENT
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit today to try
to repair a refrigeration prob-
lem in their space station. But
Mission Control decided there
was nothing the astronauts
could do and told them to come
home.
Ten minutes behind schedule,
Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
and executed a_ series of
maneuvers that sent them
Slamming into the atmosphere
above Thailand for the fiery de-
scent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
blue waters at 9:50 a.m. EDT
about 830 miles southwest of
San Diego, Calif. It was just
after dawn off the West Coast.
The 42,000-on Ticonderoga
quickly steamed alongside the
three-ton Apollo and tossed a
line to frogmen in the water. A
crane then lifted the craft and
the astronauts to an elevator
for a ride to the hangar deck.
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-
ing television around the world
again had a ringside seat to a
U.S. man-in-space landing as
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachutes.
““Everyone’s in super shape,”
Conrad said as the spacecraft
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. n immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
cure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars.
TOUCHDOWN
The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauts had landed 614 miles
from the ship and that the ship
was 64 miles from the target
point, indicating a _ perfect
touchdown.
The Ticonderoga steamed to
pick up the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts still inside, in
contrast to most earlier U.S.
flights when the spacemen
were lifted to the carrier by
helicopter.
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ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s
astronauts came safely
home from man’s longest
space journey today,
splashing down with pin-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11
million miles in orbit.
Charles Conrad Jr., Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul
J. Weitz ended their 28-day
journey when their Apollo
ferry ship parachuted into
the water.
The main recovery ship,
the aircraft carrier
Ticonderoga, was in the
prime recovery area about
830 miles southwest of San
Diego, Calif., ready to hoist
the astronauts aboard for a
series of vital medical tests
to determine how well they
withstood their record
exposure to space weight-
lessness.
_ Earlier, Mission Control
considered holding Conrad,
Kerwin and Weitz in orbit
longer to troubleshoot a
refrigeration problem.
But controilers decided
there was nothing the
astronauts could do and
gave them the green light to
start the homeward voyage.
They had separated their
Apollo ferry ship from the
118-foot-long laboratory.
Hundreds of white-clad
sailors on deck and millions
watching television around
the world again had a
ringside seat to a U.S. man-
-in-space landing as the
Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds
and dangling under three
huge orange and white
parachutes.
“Everyone’s in super
shape,’’ Conrad said as the
spacecraft bobbed on the
water awaiting pickup.
Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to
secure the spacecraft with
flotation collars.
The Ticonderoga reported
the astronauts had landed
6% miles from the ship and
that the ship was 6'2 miles
from the target point, in-
dicating a perfect touch-
down.
The Ticonderoga steamed
to pick up the Apollo capsule
with the astronauts still
inside, in contrast to most
earlier U.S. flights when the
spacemen were lifted to the
carrier. by helicopter.
Medical requirements
dictated the pick up method
today.
Medical experts were not
certain how the astronauts
would react after returning
to earth’s gravity following
record exposure to space
weightlessness so_ they
decided the astronauts
should be subjected to as
little activity as possible
until they can be examined
in mobile medical labora-
tories aboard the Ticonde-
| roga.
The landing completed an
historic space mission that
lasted 28 days and 50
minutes. During that time
the spacemen circled the
earth 395 times.
Mission Control was kept
in suspense for most of the
final 76 minutes of the flight
— a period when the Apollo
ship was out of radio contact
with ground stations.
The Ticonderoga’s radar
picked up the streaking
craft at a distance of 188
miles, 10 minutes before
landing.
While out of radio contact,
at 9:11 a.m., the astronauts
conducted the critical
retrorocket burn that
slowed their 17,100 mile-an-
hour speed by 130 miles,
allowing earth's gravity to
tug the spacecraft out of or-
bit and start the long glide
through the atmosphere to
the eastern Pacific.
| ABOARD USS TICONDE-
ROGA (AP) — Skylab’s astro-
pauts came safely home from
man’s longest space joumey to-
day, splashing down with pln-
point precision in the Pacific
Ocean after 28 days and 11 mil-
ion miles in orbit.
“We're all in good shape,”
Commander Charles Conrad dr.
reported as the spacecraft de-
scended. “Everything's OK."
The astronauts almost were
held over in orbit to try to re-
pair a refrigeration problem in
thelr space station. But Mission
Control decided there was noth-
ing the astronauts could do and
told them to come home.
So, 10 minutes behind sched-
ule, Conrad, Dr. Joseph P. Ker-
win and Faul J, Weitz un-
docked their Apollo ferry ship
from the stalion and executed a
series af maneuvers that sent
them slamming into the atmos-
phere above Thailand for a
fiery descent.
The Apollo craft hit the calm
Pacific waters at 9:50 a.m.
EDT about 830 miles southwest
of San Diego, Calif. within
sight of the main recovery ship,
the USS Ticonderoga. [t was
just after dawn off the West
Coast.
Hundreds of white-clad sail-
ors on deck and millions watch-
ing (television around (he world
again had a ringside seat to 4
U.S. maninspace Janding as
the Apollo craft floated down
through low-hanging clouds and
dangling under three huge or-
ange and white parachules.
“Everyone's in super shape,”
Conrad said as the spacecrafl
bobbed on the water awaiting
pickup. Frogmen immediately
leaped from helicopters to se-
eure the spacecraft with flota-
tion collars.
The Ticonderoga reported the
astronauls hadlanded 6 1/2miles
fram the ship and that the ship
was @ 1/2 miles from the Larget
point, indicating a perfect
touchdown,
The Ticonderoga steamed to
Pick up the Apollo capsule with
the astronauts still inside, in
contrast to most earlier U.S.
flights when the spacemen
were lifted to the carzier by
helicopter.
Medical requirements dic-
tated the pick up method today.
Medical experts were not cer-
tain how the astronauts would
Teact alter returning to earth’s
gravity following record ex-
posure to space weightlessness
so they decided the astronauts
should be subjected to as litte
activity as possible until they
can be examined in mobile
medical laboratories uboard the
Ticonderoga.
The landing completed an
historic space mission that Last-
ed 28 days and 50 minutes. Dur-
ing that time the spacemen cir-
led the earth 395 times,
Misson Control was kept in
suspense for most of the final
16 minutes of the flight ~a pe-
tiod when the Apollo ship was
out of radio contact with
ground stations.
The Ticonderoga’s radar
picked up the streaking craft at
a distance of 188 miles, 10 min-
utes before landing.
While out of radio contact, at
9:11 a.m., the astronauts con-
ducted the critical retrorocket
bum that slowed their 17,100
mile-an-hour speed by 140
miles, allowing earth’s gravity
to tug the spacecraft out of or-
bit and start the tong glide
through the atmosphere to the
eastern Pacific.
‘The refrigeration trouble
caused considerable concern. A
maneuver intended to correvt it
caused a brief gyroscope prob-
lem tat caused the 10-minute
delay in the astronauts’ depar-
ture fram the orbiting labora-
tory.
“We're free,” Conrad report.
ed secands after the control
center flashed the go-ahead for
undocking from the 118-foot.
long labaratory.
They left behind a space sta.
tion which they had salvaged
with some daring, diffiewl and
often ingenious repair tasks
after it was damaged during
launching May 14.
After the undocking, the as-
tronauts made a 45-minute fty-
around inspection of the sla-
tion, televising pictures of the
addtooking space vehicle to
-mission control for evaluation
Dy experts.
Then, in quick succession,
they triggered the engine fir-
ings that gradually dronped
them closer to earth from their
original orbital altitude af 275
miles.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban cri-
sis. |
A White House annoyncement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter Kennedy met with
the National urity Council,
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week's abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
WILL STUDY DEFEAT
in the midst of these develop
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U, 8.
money and arms.
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
White House news secretary
night that Kennedy and Eisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
| treat near Gettysburg, Pa., which
|} Eisenhower used for conferences
with foreign leaders.
|LUNCHEON SESSION ;
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a telephone
| WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy meets with former Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower to-
day in an evident bid to rally
strong national support for criti-
cal steps which he may consider
necessary to deal with the in-
creasingly dangerous Cuban eri-
sis.
A White House announcement
of the session—at Camp David,
Md. — emphasized Cuba as the
topic for the conference. But it
did not rule out the prospect that
Kennedy could discuss with his
predecessor a broad range of in-
tensifying cold war conflicts with
the Soviet Union.
Possible Future Moves
Before flying to Camp David
by helicopter, Kennedy met with
the National Security Council
presumably to discuss possible
future moves against the pro-
Communist government of Cuba
in the wake of this week’s abor-
tive anti-Castro invasion.
In the midst of these develop-
ments, the President was report-
ed to have ordered a thorough
study of reasons for the defeat
of the rebel invasion attempt
which began last weekend with
the United States’ moral support
—and, it was generally believed
here, with some backing of U. S.
money and arms.
The President was understood
to be concerned about what some
authorities called a failure to cal-
culate accurately in advance the
strength of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro’s military reaction to the
rebel assault as well as possible
errors in intelligence.
Camp David Site
White House news secretary
Pierre Salinger disclosed Friday
night that Kennedy and Bisen-
hower would meet at Camp Da-
vid, the Catoctin Mountain re-
treat near Gettysburg, Pa., whith
Eisenhower used for conferenoé#
with foreign leaders.
The President arranged the
luncheon session in a_ telephoné
call to Eisenhower Friday morn-
ing. The former chief executive
was at his Gettysburg farm.
Salinger said Kennedy wanted
to bring Eisenhower up to date
on the Cuban situation, believing
that “as leader of the Republi-
can party and as former presi-
dent he should know what the sit-
uation is.”
Salinger also disclosed that
Kennedy had been in indirect con
tact with Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller of New York, another Re
publican leader, and that he had
conferred Friday with Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz.
Met With Nixon
The contacts with Republicans
followed Kennedy's meeting at the
White House Thursday with for
mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, his Republican opponent
for the presidency last year.
Nixon said in New York Friday
night that he had told Kennedy
he would support him “even te
the commitment of American
armed forces.”
Nixon said that as a private
itizen he would back Kennedy
in such a.move if Kennedy con
sidered it necessary to “stop the
nuildup of the Communist beach
nead in Cuba.”
Both Kennedy and Eisenhower
arranged to fly & Camp David
»y helicopter, Kennedy going di
rectly from the White House and
“isenhower from his tarm. They
ast met on inauguration day.
Jan, 20, when Kennedy took over
be reins of government.
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