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Hoffa Attacked
With Pellet Gun
In Courtroom
NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP) — A
Washington. D.C., laborer, who
said he “had a vision" that told
him to shoot Teamster President
James Hoffa dashed into U S. Dis
trict Court today and fired several
pellets from an air pistol at the
stocky labor leader.
Hoffa, being tried on a $1 mil
lion conspiracy charge, suffered
only pellet marks on the back and
left arm.
U.S. Marshal Elmer Disspayne
identified the gunman as Warren
Swanson, a laborer from Washing
ton who arrived here only yester
day. Disspayne said Swanson told
h:m he did not know Hoffa but
added:
i uiui vjMun a inniun agu
that told me to do it.”
Swanson, bruised and bloody
from the mauling he received from
Marshals and Teamster Union
spectators, was taken to a hospital
for treatment.
His condition was undetermined
immediately.
The outburst spread excitement
in the courtroom.
Hoffa was not injured.
“I saw the gain.” Hoffa said. “I
knocked him down.”
Hoffa said he saw the tall
slender man approaching and the
man was aiming a pellet gun at
him.
“I ducked,” Hoffa said. “I saw
it was coming and I'm all right
and I’m not hurt.
“It was some jerk with a pellet
gun.”
The incident occurred while
U.S. Dist. Judge Wm. Miller was
on the bench but while the jury
was out of the room. The gunman
came through the rear door of the
small walnut-paneled courtroom,
and walked down the aisle to a
swinging gate separating spectators
from lawyers and principals in the
trial
He lunged through the gate,
pulled the weapon from beneath
his coat and headed toward Hoffa,
seated at the defense table.
Hoffa ducked, then lunged at the
man and knocked him to the floor.
Several Marshals piled on top of
the assailant and several specta
tors ran through the swinging gate
and started kicking the man.
The spectators withdrew at
Hoffa’s insistence.
Guantanamo Evacuees
Will Return by Christmas
WASHINGTON l/P — Secretary
of the Navy Fred Korth an
nounced today that a majority of
Navy and Marine Corps wives and
children evacuated from the U.S.
Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba,
at the outset of the missiles-and
bombers crisis will be allowed to
return before Christmas.
About 1.400 of the more than
2,800 military dependents and
families of civilian workers who
were pulled out on short notice
Oct. 22 are expected to return by
first available transportation, the
Navy said.
Some are expected to leave bv
air from Norfolk, Va., on Friday.
Most will move by military air
transport or surface ship starting
Dec. 11.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Fair tonight with little change
in temperature. In the last 24
hours: High of -14, low of -21.
Sunrise at 9:36 a.m., sunset at
2:09 p.m.
Nehru Talks Wi*h Troops
facing Chinese Invaders
TEZPUR, India <d>' — Prime
Minister Nehru flew to this city
in northeast India today for talks
with Indian army commanders and
troops facing the Chinese Com
munists.
The Prime Minister went di
rectly to army headquarters before
inspecting units in the forward
areas.
Nehru told newsmen he had no
late information on Chinese posi
tions in the area. Peking has an
nounced the Communist troops are
withdrawing from territory they
overran. Military sources here
lid there was evidence of some
Chinese troop movements, but the
precise position of the Red units
was not reported.
Nehru appeared particularly in
terested in the wounded Indian
prisoners the Chinese had prom
ised to release. On alighting from
his plane, the Prime Minister
asked newsmen whether they had
any word of the Red Cross team
which went to Bomdila to pick up
prisoners.
Gen. LeMay States “No
Overflights of Southeastern
U.S. hy Soviet Aircraft”
WASHINGTON UPV—Gen. Curtis
LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff,
said today “there have been nc
overflights of southeast United
States territory by either Soviel
or Cuban air force aircraft.”
LeMay’s statement followed a
similar denial by White House
press secretary Pierre Salinger.
However, one of the newspapers
which reported such flights dis
puted the White House denial.
“The only aircraft from Cuba
which have appeared over U.S.
territory have been small aircraft
flow by defectors who landed in
the United tates,” LeMay said in
a statement.
Salinger was asked about over
flights by Communist planes.
“I am saying no such flights
have taken place, period,” Salinger
told a news conference.
But the Washington Daily News,
which with other Scripps-Howard
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a report of such flights, stuck by
its story.
It summed up the dispute in
this headline: ‘‘Red Planes Over
U.S.? No! Says Salinger. Yes! We
say again.”
And, in a statement, Walker
Stone, editor in chief of the
Scripps-Howard newspapers, de
clared that “what we publish is
true.”
“When, again, Russian planes
overfly the southeastern United
States and we learn about it,”
Stone added, “we'll publish the
news, in the belief the American
people are entitled to know what
is happening.”
There have been rumors for
weeks about such overflights and
these rumors have been brought
into the open by some members
of Congress, among them Sens.
Strom Tnurmond, (D-S.C9, and
John Tower, (R-Tex.). The Defense
Department has denied there have
been such flights.
4,268,326 Babies Born in '61
WASHINGTON UP -- There were
4,268,326 babies born in the United
States during 1961, the Public
Health Service said yesterday in
reporting final figures for last
year.
The birth rate for 1961 was 23.3
per thousand population, down
from 23.7 in 1960.
Great Britain Is
iBlanketed With
j Sulphurous Smog
LONDON {JPi — Smog blanketed !
most of Britain today, forming a
sulphurous hazard to life and i
traffic, and weathermen said it j
might remain for 48 hours.
Police said 32 persons had col
lapsed and died in the foggy streets
of London. The choking fumes
were blamed also for the deaths
i of many others in homes and hos
pitals.
As commuter trains crawled j
toward t' e heart of the city, j
health authorities warned that !
bal ics and old people should be j
kept at home.
“The situation is potentially j
serious,’* said a spokesman for the j
Medical Research Council. “Smog ;
narticularly affects the very young,
the very old and people with weak
London's last great exposure to |
smog was in 1957 when 1,000
neople died from chest and heart
ailments during a three-dav siege. |
Ten years ago the toll from an j
eight-day smog was at least 4,000,!
and by some estimates 12,000.
The capital’s great airport was
still idle after some 30 hours of
inactivity. Shipping was tied up
on the River Thames and cars
were abandoned across the whole
I metropolitan area. Rail schedules
had been discarded.
Fog blanketed much of the rest
of England and spread into the
south of Scotland.
In London, the sulphur dioxide
content in the atmosphere was six
time normal and the smoke con
centration nine times its usual
level.
Recount Fails to Change
20-20 Deadlock in House
JUNEAU (TP* — A recount of
four election districts has failed
to break the 20-20 deadlock in
the Alaska House of Representa
tives.
A check of the ballots in the
Fairbanks-Ft. Yukon District com
pleted today has left the lineup
of five Republicans and two De
mocrats intact in that area. Earlier
recounts of the Juneau, Anchorage,
and Kenai Distrirts bad failed tn
upset the results of the official
canvass, although most totals were
smaller when the ballots them
selves were re-examined.
Last of Alaska's Three
Ferries Is Launched Today
SEATTLE — The 325-foot
Matanuska, the last of three Alas
ka ferries to be launched at Puget
Sound Bridge & Dry Dock Co. here, !
slid gently out of her graving dock
today.
This followed christening by i
Mrs. B. E. Lewellen wife of the:
j Alaska Marine Transportation Di- j
I vision Director.
| The 3,585-ton ship, along with ;
j her sisterships, the Taku and j
i Malaspina, will serve a 500-mile j
route between Prince Rupert, B.C., i
and Skagway, Alaska.
The Malaspina, first of the fer
ries to be launched, will be de
livered next month. Delivery of
t e Matanuska will be next April
30.
George Hayes, Alaska Atty.
, General, the principal speak, r at
! the launching, said the ferry route
I would drawn heavier tourist trade
I to Southeastern Alaska and link
' together several sections of the
j state not now connected by direct
I highway.
Italy's Red Party
Condemns Red China
ROME UP — Italy's Communist
party, the biggest in W- .-■cm Eu
rope, bluntly condemned Peking
today and pledged solidarity with
Moscow.
Giancarlo Pajetta, one of Italy's
top Reds, turned to a Chinese
delegation at the Italian Com
munist Congress here and said his
party unanimously “condemns your
unjust position."
The 900 delegates rose to their
feet in a cheering ovation that left
no doubt where Italy’s Commu
nist party stands in the Moseow
Peking ideological dispute. The
men from Peking remained ated,
silently scribbling on a pad.
Pajetta's speech was the sharp
est and most open denunciation of
the Chinese since the Congress
opened Sunday.
9-Year-Old Girl Flung
To Death From Tall
Apartment House Roof
NEW YORK UP) — A 9-year-old
g:rl was raped and flung to her
death yesterday from the roof of
a tall apartment house in Brook
lyn as police were enroute to
check a report than another child
| had been molested half an hour
! earlier.
I The dead girl, Lourdes Bass,
: had been home for lunch and had
I started back to parochial schoo'
1 hist 10 minutes before her dealt
I plunge.
Mrs. Mattie Arnold, a tenant,
| happened to be looking out a win
dow' when a blurred form flashed
by, followed immediately by a
crash.
In the courtyard below, Mrs.
Arnold and other residents found
the girl’s body, nude except for
shoes and socks.
Almost every bone in her body !
was broken in the fall, an autopsy |
showed.
The girl’s clothing was found
in a heap in a stairwell just be
low the roof.
She lived in a city housing
project. Farragut Houses in the
Brooklyn Navy yard section, with
her father, Carlos, a porter; her
mother, Margaret, and six brothers
and sisters.
Sonny Liston Says
Championship Sports Will
Not Promote Future Fights j
CHICAGO (.?' — Heavyweight !
champion Sonny Liston has moved
into his three-storv mansion sur
rounded by a wrought iron fence!
and announced C' h a m p i o n ship
Sports Inc., will not promote any i
of his future matches.
Liston, who won the title by
kayoing Patterson in two minutes
and six seconds of the first round
in Comiskey Park last Sept. 25,
said, "If I meet Patterson again it
will have to Ire under a different
promotion, and Baltimore stands
a good chance of pc.t'uv it.”
Liston, who recently left Phil
adelphia in favor of Chicago, said
if dethroned champion Floyd
Patterson insists on that group as
promoters of a return match, tneie
will be no fight.
One of the reasons Liston wants
no part of Championship Sports
Inca, is because of the money. The
champion explained the group gave
him $25,000 for training expenses
and $5,000 after the fight. But
there remains a matter of $280,000
owed to him, which the govern- ;
ment has tied up.
Airborne Troops
Here for ()peration
Arctic Sliorc III
Yesterday three C-124s brought
in the aggressor force for Opera
tion Arctic- Shore III from the 1st
Battle Group, 9th Infantry, out of
Fort Wainwright, with Lt. Col.
O ■ Tge Lundberg in charge of the
combined infantry and artillery
operation and Mai. Samuel Foster
as executive officer. T. e group set.
up headquarters north of th air
field undaunted by the minus 2')
dc roe w( ath< i. as they h iv ! een
e.vj;eri< rcing much colder weather
in the Fairbanks area.
Teday the C. S forces arrived
fv Fort Wainwright to s" are
Nome and the Nome Airport, to
make up a total of 225 men in the
area for the sub-zero operation.
In addition to the troops, several
W icles were brought in by air
included two Nodwells. M-76
Otters, M-29 Weasels, M-38 Jeeps,
md also a M-151 Jeep is being
used for the first time in this type
of maneuver by the Yukon Com
mand.
Also arriving by C-124 was a
j helicopter which will take about
j two hours to assemble after its
j arrival.
I The aggressor is supported by
j heavy mortar weapons. This group
j is under the leadership of Cupt.
.Joe Woodard.
j The U.S. forces arriving today
; are headed by Capt. Glenn
Rhoades and their howitzer sec
I tions is lead bv Capt. Carr. They
i will remain until Sunday.
j First Lady Brought
I Into the Question of
Expense Account Abuses
WASHINGTON UP — Should
Mrs. John F. Kennedy pay for
her own meal at White House din
ners honoring foreign dignitaries
or is this a legitimate business ex
pense of the President of the
United States?
This question was raised yes
terday by a St. Paul. Minn., busi
nessman who challenged tax regu
lations proposed by the Internal
Revenue Service to implement a
new law designed to curb expense
account abuses.
Testifying at public hearings on
the suggested rules, Henry Fous
sard, president of the St. Paul
area Chamber of Commerce,
argued that wives attending busi
ness dinners have as much right
to eat on the expense account as
does the First Lady and wives of
American ambassadors.
President Kennedy and U.S. am
bassadors are given special funds
to help finance official entertain
ment.
Wesley Chandler, a St. Paul
manufacturer of burial vaults, pre
dicted dire results if a new tax
law is interpreted as prohibiting
• xpense deductions for the cost
i of having wives attend business
| entertainment functions.
! "1 do not think it was the in
j tention of our lawmakers to cre
! ate a situation whereby they en
couraged a sales representative to
go. out for the evening with his
ustemer without their wive- T is
ecu', i be an aidi: factor t the
'cor.:l decay of our o untrv."
C: andlcr said.
j Other witnesses challenged the
| detailed record-keeping that would
j impose ,m impossible burden and
j discourage business patronage of
i hotels, restaurants and taverns,
with adverse effects on the na
tional economy and federal reve