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Liiam Lett [Nearly
Helpless By
Typhoon Karen
HONOLULU UP — Typhoon
Karen — described as the worst
tropical storm in Guam’s history
— has rendered the island nearly
helpless, leaving hundreds injured,
at least one dead and an estimated
$100 million in damage.
Karen ripped the tiny island—
hub of the United States Pacific
defense ring- late Sunday night
and early Monday with winds es
timated at 150 knots.
The Navy's Pacific Fleet Head
quarters at Pearl Harbor said a
three-dav warning of the big blow
“saved countless lives.’’
Guamians and U. S. military
personnel and their dependents
began digging out of the battered
island.
Guam’s acting governor Manuel
Guerrero said 95 per cent of the
island’s civilian community, in
cluding government employe
housing, was useles or destroyed.
Pacific Fleet Headquarters said
four of every five civilian homes
had their roofs blown off.
The Navy’s tracking center at
Guam guaged sustained winds of
135 knots before personnel were
forced to run for shelters. Mes
sages received in Japan said winds
gusted to 147 knots before mea
suring devices broke down.
The island, just a dot on the
map, is 30 mile long and four to
nine miles wide.
Refugees in Guantanamo
Report Castro No Longer
Trusts His Militia Army
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba UP>
—This U.S. Naval Base is a little
mine of information about the
grim life outside in Fidel Castro’s
Cuba.
Fifty refugees from Castro are
here now, although U.S. officials
do not admit this. The Cubans tell
of hunger, a shortage of doctors,
police-state rule, and disaffection
even amonp the nnnnlo’c militio
They say the militia, the bul
wark of Castro’s military position,
was disgruntled when it was put
on short rice rations after being
called up because of fear of a U.S.
invasion.
Western intelligence experts es
timate Castro has 200,000 men and
women in the militia, and a reg
ular army of 80,000 equipped with
modern Soviet weapons.
Castro appears now to distrust
the militia, refugees say. They re
port militiamen no longer can keep
their rifles and maehineguns while
off duty and must account for all
ammunition issued.
A wokrer employed on the base
for 20 years said the people were
overjoyed when it appeared last
month President Kennedy was
about to crack down on Castro.
But now he said the people are
disappointed and downhearted.
Munz Plane Followed
On Flight from Gambell
Pilot Don Mackay of Munz
Northern Airways made an emer
gency flight to Gambell yesterday
to bring back a patient for the
MMM Hospital.
On the return flight, it is re
ported, a plane was tracked by
radar, following the Munz air
craft, and when reported to the
pilot, he was able to see it.
The nurse accompanying the
patient was Barbara Wilson.
Nehru Asks For Planes
From U.S. to Fight
Undeclared Border War
NEW DELHI (jP—Hostilities be
tween Indian and Communist Chi
nese troops are picking up again
around Walong in their undeclar
ed border war. An Indian spokes
man said today there were three
weekend clashes in that area just
west of Burma border.
The report from the front came
as Prime Minister Nehru, striving
to put the nation on guard against
all eventualities, told newsmen he
has asked the United States for
planes. He did not say what kind
of planes, but India evidently
could use additional transports.
Workers Quit
Construction Jobs
In Central Siberia
By PRESTON GROVER
MOSCOW (#>—Report from cen
tral Siberia: Some 47,000 dis
gruntled workers have quit their
jobs in the first six months of
this year and construction of a
model industrial center is year be
hind schedule.
The report was published Sun
day in the Soviet newspaper So
vetskaya Rossiya.
“Whole .groups of workers are
leaving, displeased by confusion
and low salaries,” the newspaper
said.
The story appeared as the Su
preme Soviet, the Soviet Union’s
parliament, was called into ses
sion Dec. 10 to ratify recommen
dations on speeding up and im
proving industrial and farm pro
duction. The Communist party
central committee meets next
Monday to outline an action pro
gram.
The newspaper, reporting on a
special study in the Kemerovo
area of central Siberia, accused
construction leaders of concentrat
ing on such little jobs as build
ing greenhouses and making re
pairs while neglecting major tasks
so they could report overfulfill
ment of construction quotas.
Adenauer Doubts
Russians Remove All
Missiles From Cuba
BONN, Germany UD—West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
voiced great skepticism today
about reports the Soviets are re
moving their missiles from Cuba.
Speaking to reporters on the
eve of Washington conferences
with President Kennedy, he de
clared the Cuban crisis is far from
over and inquires: How does any
one know the rockets are gone?
He said 40 to 60 missiles had
been taken to the island and
added as far as he is concerned
no clear evidence has been pre
sented they are being removed.
Soviet ships have been photo
graphed leaving Cuba with long,
covered tubes on deck but that I
proves nothing, Adenauer main
tained. He said he cannot believe
the Soviets would secretly trans
port missiles and nuclear war
heads to Cuba and then quietly re
move them again.
Adenauer said the Cuba crisis
was a drastic lesson for those
Washington circles who have been
believing that one could negoti
ate. The Chancellor had been re
peatedly reporting as fearing the
Kennedy administration was un
derestimating the danger and aims
of world Communism.
JFK and Advisers
Sleet but Slake No I
Change in Policy
WASHINGTON Ws—President
Kennedy met for nearly two hours
today with his top foreign policy
advisers ranged over all current
issues obstructing a final settle
ment of the Cuban crisis.
The White House declined to
specify exactly what the President
discussed with U. N. Amassador
Adlai Stevenson; Charles D Yost.
Stevenson’s Security Council de
puty; John J. HIt'Cloy, Stevenson’s
special adviser for U.N. delibera
tions on Cuba, and the Executive
Committee of the National Secur
ity Council.
A newcomer to the conference
was Edward R. Murrov. director
of the U.S. Information Agency.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
called it an “across the board” re
view. He said he did not expect
any new policy pronouncements
to come from the session. There
has been no change in U.S. policy,
he said.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Roswell L. Gilpatric confirmed
Sunday the United States has
counted 42 Russian missiles on
ships steaming away from Cuba.
He stressed that without on-site
inspection the United States can
not be certain whether the 42
were all Moscow sent in.
Among other matters apparent
ly still unresolved are:
Inspection of Cuba and other
ships entering Cuba.
Disposition of a score or more
Ilyushin-28 medium jet bombers in
Cuba which Kennedy included in
the category of offensive weapons
that had to be withdrawn.
Russian Trawler Fleet
Seen 36 Miles Off Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (JPi — Cap
tains of two local fishing draggers
said Saturday they spotted a fleet
of 16 Russian fishing trawlers, a
supply ship and a huge “mother
ship operating on the fishing
grounds at New Ledge, about 36
miles south-southeast of Portland
Lightship.
This is the closest the Soviet
craft have come to the Maine coast
since they first arrived on the At
lantic coast fishing grounds al
most two years ago. Until this lat
est sighting, the Russian fishing
fleet had been concentrating its
operations in the Georges Bank
area, some 60 miles off the Massa
chusetts coast.
Capt. Waldo E. Tuttle of the
Kennebec said he could also see
another fleet a few miles to the
south.
Tuttle said the Russians were
apparently fishing for herring. He
said the mother ship was equipped
with at least two radar scanning
screens, but he didn’t see any
other unusual devices.
PREVIEW OF THE MOON
SAN JOSE, Calif., UP—What as
tronauts will some day see when
they are 300 miles from the moon
has been revealed in remarkably
clear photographs released by the
Lick Observatory on nearby Mt.
Hamilton.
The photos show high, rugged
mountains, gaping valleys, mys
terious seas that may be dust or
lightweight rock, cracks and crat
ers, some of which have moun
tain ranges within their peri
meters.
$50,000 Worth Rare Coins
Are Stolen From The
Harry Truman Library
INDEPENDENCE. Mo. A
collection of rare coins worth at |
least $50,000 was stolen today from ;
the Harry Truman Library.
The library houses the personal
papers and mementoes of former
President Harry Truman.
In New York City, Truman do- 1
cided to cut short his trip here
after learning of the burglary. 11-■
and Mrs. Truman arranged to
leave. They went there last week j
for Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's j
funeral at Hyde Park.
Truman, who talked with the j
library by phone after learning of ;
the burglary, said the collection !
had a value “way over $100,000." j
Others placed the value at $50,000.
Burglars entered the library by :
drilling the lock off a rear door.
They carried away 33 display
boards containing 444 coins.
The collection contained regu- ;
lar and commemorative coins from
the administration of every Presi- !
dent. It was loaned to the library j
by John W. Snyder, former Sec- j
rotary of the Treasury.
The burglars took only the coin
collection. They carried the boards
outside the library, stripped them
of the coins and tossed away the '
boards.
Americans Must
Risk Everything
To Save Anything
WASHINGTON — Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara
says that unless Americans are
willing to risk everything — even
nuclear war—“we cannot hope to
save anything from disaster.”
“We must be resolute enough to
commit ourselves to the ultimate
test, if our adversaries put us to
that test,” he declared Sunday in
Veterans Day ceremonies at Ar
lington National Cemetery where
he nl a r*oH thn nrnc i H I i -a 1 urrnn+U
on the Tomb of the Unknowns.
McNamara quoted President
Kennedy’s words at the ceremony
last year—“That there is no way
to maintain the frontiers of free
dom without cost and commitment
and risk”—and he added in ref
erence to the Cuban crisis: “The
hard truth of his remarks has been
demonstrated for all of us by the
events of the last few weeks.”
“The men and women, living
and dead, whom we honor here
today learned that truth through
their own experience," said the
Defense Secretary.
U.S.P.H.S. Starts Study
On Lung Cancer, Smoking
WASHINGTON — A govern
ment advisory committee has
started an extensive study aimed
at finding whether smoking is a
cause of lung cancer.
The Public Health Service said
Sunday the Surgeon General’s Ad
visory Committe on Smoking and
Health was starting a broad re
view of “the scientific literature
and basic studies on all aspects of
the use of tobacco and smoking
habits, as well as possible contri
buting factors such as air pollu
tion, industrial exposure, radiation
and alcohol,”
The recently appointed 10-mem
ber committee expects to take I
about six to eight months to com- I
plete its report. '
Storm of Protest
Meets A. Hiss on
Mini About Nixon
NEW YORK aP' — A televised
appearance of Alger Hiss on a
program entitled "The Political
Obituary of Richard M. Nixon”
as met Sundav night by a flood
of phoned and telegraphed pro
tests. cancellations of the pr ram
bv several stations and picketing
of network studios.
American Broadcasting Co. said
the taped program gave an honest
summary of Nixon’.- career, in
cluding comments from parsons
applauding him.
N i x o n could not be reached
immediately for comment.
Nixon, as a U.S. Representative
from California, started a 1948
congressional investigation of Hiss,
then a high official in the State
Department. The probe centered
about charges by the 'ale Whit
taker Chambers that II As had
been a member of a Communist
underground cell.
Hiss later was convicted of
jury for denying lie passed infor
mation to the Russians. Now out
of prison, he is a New York City
printing salesman.
ARC commentator Howard K.
Smith taped the television pro
gram after Nixon's defeat in the
California gubernatorial election
last Tuesday.
Hiss said on the program that
Nixon was a congressional inves
tigator who was “less interested
in developing the facts objectively
than in seeking ways of making a
pre-concieved plan appear plaus
ible.”
Hiss denied he held “any feel
ings of hostility” toward Nixon,
but made it clear that “I don’t
have any feelings of great per
sonal warmth or affection.”
ABC said 80 or more stations
carried the half-hour program,
aired on the 58th birthday of Hiss.
An ABC spokesman said the
tenor of calls after the program
changed somewhat from those re
ceived in advance of it, but re
mained predominantly against.
Cubans Say Missiles Are
Hidden In Caves
MIAMI, Fla. i/P> — The Cuban
Revolutionary Council said today
that there may be missiles in
caves throughout Cuba and urged
international inspection.
Council President Jose Miro
Cardona showed a map on tele
vision program Sunday night pin
pointing a dozen caverns he said
were capable of hiding rockets.
Caves near Santiago de las Ve
gas, Cardona said, “have been
dried, covered inside with con
crete, and equipped with railroad
tracks.”
Three caves in Oriente Pro
vince, he added, ring the U. S.
Naval Base at Guantanamo.
Stop and Go at Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba W
— Marines on the defense peri
meter of this U.S. naval base have
been sending in reports for days
about mysterious lights being
beamed in toward the base.
Brig. Gen. William R. Collins
said today he became intrigued by
the reports, especially since all
indicated a consistent pattern of
red, yellow and green flashes.
After due investigation, he added:
“We finally concluded it was the
traffic light at Caimanera.”
The town of Caimanera, half a
mile north of the fence line, has
one traffic light.